Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-05
From Saturdays Daily.


 The Rybon family, which has be, down with small pox in Phenix a : recovering.
 Ed. Lit, W. S. Goldsworthy ar : E.. A. Kastner and their brides are e pected home tomorrow evening.
 The theme for the morning serviC
 at the Congregational church of D Long tomorrow will be Snow"
 The meeting of the Camera Gu
 called for Monday night has bee
 postponed until Wednesday evening
 An insane man who attempted { cut his throat at Ash Fork wa
 brought in to the county jail yestel day.
 The sentate yesterday confrme the nomination of B. F. Daniels a United States marshal of this terri tory.
 Mrs. Hope, the wife of the VIC president of the BIB Co.,, will leav tomorrow for New York City on al extended visit.
 MT. and Mrs. William Taylor, wht have been in Prescott for some time returned to their home in Sydney Australia, this morning.
 Coconino county sheep men are re joicing over the recent order permit ting the grazing of sheep on the San Francisco mountain forest reserve.
 Mrs. L. c. Parrish has opened a millinery store on the east side of the plaza in the room formerly occupied by Mrs. Pratt. Mrs. Parrish is ar experienced milliner and her stock i. right up to date.
 MT. and Mrs. Breden, of Portland, Oregon, father and mother of Mrs. H. c. Burmister, arrived ID Prescott last evening and will spend several days visiting with their daughter.
 A telegram from Washington says that the president will in a few dsys appoint James H. McClintock as postmaster at Phenix to succeed J. c. Adams whose term expires March 4.
 Prof. Tyndall was greeted with a good audience at the opera house last evening and the entertainment seem- ed highly satisfactory. He performed some wonderful feats. He will ap- pear at Jerome this evening.
 There will be a formal opening of the free reading room on Monday evening. There will be appropriate exercises for the occasion.
 Russ Kistler, one of the veteran newspaper men of New Mexico, who has been connected with the Las Vegas Optic since 1883, has severed his connection with that paper to take position on an Fl Paso news paper.
 D. D. Mcdonald is h ere frem Ari- zona looking for blue rock match and claims to have $250 that he wants to put up as side bet. He uses a pump" gun and candidly says he likes it for trap shooting.-Los. Ange- les Herald.
 Ward Thomas, printer who few years ago worked on the Williams News and who was we'll known in Flagstaff, died suddenly of heart dis ease one day last week at Springer, N. M. MT. Thomas had much ability as a musician.-Flagstaff Gem.
 Billie Edward and family will leave for Ely, Nevada, this week; MT. Ed wards is to take charge of a property owned by Superintendent J. L. Gi roux. Billie has had charge of the work on the Iron King for about two years and is competent miner.-Re- porter.
 Mrs. Reno, who has charge of the weather bureau at this place, reports the snow fall in Flagstaff for January at three feet and thirty y-sevenths one hundredth of a foot. It is estimated by old residents that the snow fall on the San Francisco peaks above town is six or seven feet.-Flagstaff Gem.
 "A question We must each answer" will be the morning theme at the Methodist Episcopal church, Marina street. A great union service of the Methodist Episcopal South congrega- tion, Baptist and Methodist Episco- pal congregation, addressed by Evan gelist Webber will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church Sunday evening.
 The annual election of officers of Mechanics Hook and Ladder Co. will take place this evening at s o'clock. All members are earnestly requested to attend. Refreshments will be served. Walter Fields assis- tant foreman.
 The Prescott Free Reading room, in the lower room of the Bank of Ari zona, will be formally opened Mon day evening at 8 o'clock with an en- tertainment. No admission fee. There will be selections by the orchestra, an address by the president, M. B. Hazeltine, a violin solo by Miss Vera Greenwood and a cornet solo by MT. Barkley.
 A great subject and an eloquent speaker insure an interesting evening to those who attend the meeting in the Baptist church on Monday eve, o'clock, Feb. 8, when Quincy Lee Morrow, national prohibition evange- list, will deliver a gospel temperance sermon. The York, Pa, Daily, said: "Mr. Morrow handled his subject with master hand and delivered one of the finest lectures ever heard in our city. Admission free and every body invited.
 A peculiar case is receiving the at tention of Dr. Cassels of this city. In August last Massillio Mondragon, liv- ing in the outskirts of this city was seized with hiccoughs. He did not call in physician until the other day, when his malady prevented the opera ton of the bowels for twelve days in succession and his body had become terribly emaciated. Dr. Cassels was the doctor summoned and he succeed ed after time in stopping the mans hiccoughs and inducing tho patients bowels to perform their natural func- tion. Mondragon, who is a man of family and very poor is now on the high road to recovery.-Deming Headlight.
 There are whole lot of people in every small town who like to crack pale and emaciated jokes about their home paper. They like to ridicule it and laugh at it and hold it up for