Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20
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From Wednesdays Daily.

son, Kansas, left today for California.
 The will of the late Richard Thom- as, of Agua Fria, was filed for probate today.
 Charles Callaway, of the Verde valley, has returned from visit to his old home in Missouri.
 Mir. and Mrs. c. F. Riblet have moved to West Prescott. They are located on Summit Street.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. c. Adams, of Phe- nix, passed ahrough Prescott on this mornings train en route to Chicago.
 Robert DeLarge has gone out to Turkey Creek to erect a mill for E. D. Seaton on the Cumberland mine.
 The effect of the recent rains is becoming visible through the starLing 2 of the grass in the valleys and on the mountain sides.
 Miss Helen Burmister entertained a number of her lady friends at luncheon this afternoon in honor Of her friend from Pasadena.
 Weather Observer Day reports the rainfall during the tweDty-fOur hours ending at s o'clock this morning at sixteen hundretEs of an inch.
 Prescott had sPeaIiI rain showers this morning and last evening. Our rains this year are coming in splendid shape, as most of it Is being absorbed by the earth.
 E. H. Hooper, vice president of the Development Company of America, and ". F. Stauntop. superintendent of the Congress mines, left on today's train for Denver.
 George Bell and Hattie MOrrell were married yesterday by Probate Judge Hicks. The bride has resided in this vicinity all of her life and the groom is foreman of E. A. Haggot's Chino valley ranches.
 There have been two cases within thepast week of parties issuing worth less checks in Prescott. One of them was an out and out forgery, and the other was a case of issuing a cheek without having funds in the bank to pay it.
 The list of democratic office seek CTS is being daily augmented. Those who want the fat position of sheriff are greatly in the majority. The probabilities are that the nomination will fall to a dark horse, who has not yet made any public announcement.
 Prescott wells are already con- mencing to show the effects of the re cent rains. B. 4. Hussey states that water in one OF Granite street, where heresides, has already creeped upward at least four feet, where heretofore there was nothing but bedrock to be seen.
 The chairman of the county repub- lican central committee issues a call in this issue of the Journal-Miner for a meeting or that body on Saturday, August Is, at 2 o'clock D. m. This meeting will start the movement which will result in victory at the polls in November.
 F. L. Wright has started an engi- neer corps in the field 10 make the preliminary survey for his electric car line between Prescott and Walker via Groom Creek. The initial point for commencing the survey is at the summit of the divide between LynK Creek and Groom Creek near the Midnight Test mine and from this point the lines will be run in both directions.
 When the Journal-Miner represen- tative made his daily call at the sher- ifs office today to obtain the news from there he was unable to gain ad- mission into the inner sanctum, as the door was locked. He was in formed that ex-Sherif Ruifner. Sher- if Munds and the latter's first lieu tenant, A. 4. Johns, were holding Q conference within. the nature of which was not disclosed.
 Judge c. ?. Hicks today per formed the ceremony which united Chris. s. Geldermann, of Orange county, California, and Laura N. Welsh as man and wife, and the couple left on tod lays train for the home of the groom. This makes the second time within six or eight months that the bride has appeared at the matrimonial altar, tine other time R. K. Shoemaker appearing as the groom. The latter secured di- vorce from her only few weeks ago
 Rumors have been current for some time that Geo. c. Ruffner would be a candidate before the democratic convention for the nomination fol sheriff. While no pubic announce ment has been made of his candi dacy. the JourDal-Miner Is informed from an authentic source that such i: the case. With Mir. RutfHer added tl the already long list of aspirants fol this position. there will be some thing doing in the convention, as Ii, is one of Ihe smoothest politicians il the party. The peanut pol;tica methods adopted by some of thu 
 are likely to be knocked out.
 Judge A;nsworth, the Walnut Creek authority on vegetables ana their culture. now makes senli-weekl, trips to Prescott to dispose of his yX cellent uroiueis. Tn speaking of tht late ra.us he says that from Prescott to Juniper the entire country for ; distance of forty-tive miles has beel thoroughly drenched, grass Is alIead. six inches high, and the land as verd ant as it was twenty years ago. Tn rainfall been a general and stead one. and all streams and griches ar running more or less water. some thing that has not heretofore preyailet for years. Western Iavapai seem to have been redeemed. and the Un certainty of ranch and range interest of the near future gives way to buOy ant feelings and prosperous cond tons.
 A cowboy in Tonto Basin was h' by lightning about ten days ago whll riding the range and instantly killed Ills horse escaped without iujIry. peculiar feature of the pranks ( lightning m this case was that th unfortunate man was hjt by the Ia force of the current between tE shoulders on his back which tac traveied down and escaped throug both feet. The heels of both >hC, were cut of, whiie the socks be vol