Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20
Claude A. Thompson of the Jerome Reporter is in town.

Sandy Donohue is out for sheriff of Coconino county again.
 Charley Holborn will return to Phenix on tonight's train.
 The Chloride Arrow is running a socialist department in its columns.
 Early risers were greeted this morn ing with the sight of a very heavy frost.
 J. D. Moynahan of the Home Run mine has gone east on mining busi- ness.
 Did you ever hear Of a poor man getting killed by riding in an auto mobile?
 Governor R. c. Powers will leave tomorrow for Los Angeles for stay of month or two.
 Mrs. i. c. Wilson arrived in Pres colt few days since from Chloride to join her husband.
 Prof. A. J. Matthews left last night for Tempe to arrange for the opening of the normal school there in Sep tember.
 Shelton Bechtel, whose wife died recently in Prescott, has returned to his former home in the state of Washington. -
 Rev. McCloud of the Free Metho- dist missions has erected tent in the vacant lot north of the Prescott hotel, in which meetings are being held each evening.
 A man in Atchison. Kansas, had a bust of Demosthenes. It became dis gracefully dirty, says the Globe, so he painted it black, and now he calls it Booker Washington.
 Walter T. Gregory, a rough rider and ex-soldier from the Philippines and we'll known newspaper reporter of Phenix, was married on Sunday to Miss Frances Russell of the capital city.
 George Thomas, lad about four teen years old, broke both bones in his leg between the knee and ankle yesterday. He with other boys were jumping near the depot vixen the ac- cident occurred.
 The board of supervisors are in session today as board of equaliza- tion for the final adjudication of the assessment roll and to fix the tax rate for the year. Supervisor Schuer- mann is absent.
 Charley Hooker of Jerome pub fishes a card to the effect that he is making the canvass for sheriff in his own interests alone and has not pledged his support to any other candidate in case he fails in the nomination.
 Sundays Phenix Republican con tained the Journal-Miner's writeup of the Merchants Mining company's property without any credit whatever. As news thief-that is for publish ing news from its exchanges without credit-the Republican occupies the highest limb on the perch.
 At the meeting of the county repub- lican central committee on Saturday; the president was authorized to issue a call for a county convention to nom mate county officers, and to elect del egates to the territorial republican convention, on September 15. The primaries will be held September 6.
 At recent meeting of the Jerome miners union it was decided that the union should take an active interest in county politics. As starter the union endorsed it's president, T. J. Morrison, for the legislature, and the members pledge themselves to use their influence to secure the demo- cratic nomination for him.
 A telegram from Solomonyille says: Mrs. l.. NJ. Mcdonald left her ranch house, near Duncan, and went on a side hill and was looking through a spy-glass at Duncan. Her husband came out of the house, saw something in the bushes on the hillside, thought it was hawk, got his gun and fired, shooting his wife through the back. She will die. Both husband and wife are very old people.
 Mrs. Minerva Allen, relict of the late John Allen, a we'll known valley stockman, left this morning for Pres colt. The leave taking is all the more interesting because the lady was accompanied by Mir Kehoe, the popular mixologist of the Arizona. ! It is surmised that their destination ) is not farther than the probate judges office.-Jerome Reporter. The couple had not reached the probate judges office at noon today.
 Robert J. Paul; son of the late , Robert Paul of Tucson died last week of an abscess of the lungs About four or five years ago shot, gun was accidentally discharged and he received the full charge in the , breast. It was impossible to remove all of the small shot from his body and 1t is thought that one of the little , lead pellets worked its way up into : the lung cavity, where it formed the abscess which caused his death. The elder Paul was formerly United States marshal of the territory and later sheriff of Pima county. The board of supervisors today fixed the tax rate at S4.00 on the Sl00 the same as last year. Prescott will ;; be called upon to pay 24 cents addi tional as special school tax, being { raise of 9 cents over last year to pro 3 vide an interest fund for the new '. school house bonds. The old levy O 15 cents on the hundred provides in a terest and sinking fund on the ole school bonds.
 q Globe had a big fire last Frida, r night. The fire started in the req s of Dan McDonald's saloon. I'm e origin was unknown. The loss nearl, $ Sl5,000. The losses were as follows k Charles Hinman, 5000; Dan Me r Donald, S1, 800; J. B. Henry and J : s. Towle, S1,200; P. J. Breslin q Sl, 200; J. Warren Young, S4,000; w e J. Roberts, S3,000; Van Slack ( V Myers, S1, 1000; Hop Lee and Tong
 $500; J. S. Towle, Sl50; other losses
 about $500.
 The Golden Gate Revival brigad i' of the Salvation army will have s grand time Wednesday evening
 August 20, at their hall on West Gun ley street. > This will be the farewel