Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-05-14

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 T. R. Darnell is in town from Hill side.
 Captain A. F. Brown, the powder man, Is in town on his periodical visit
 Fred Liebe, a prominent merchant of San Francisco, is visiting Prescott on business and pleasure combined The strike of the mechanics al Csnanea is now said to be in a fail way to be settled.
 D. C. Martin, manager of the Postal Telegraph company, is able tc be around again, but has not resumed work at the keys.
 P T. Hurley is fitting up the room recently vacated under the Burke ho tel and will occupy it with his whole sale meat market and cold storage plant.
 Teachers, preachers, professional men and women hear free lecture al court house, Saturday evening, May 10th, at s o'clock.
 Mir. Darrah was the first Union soldier from Iowa to lose a limb in the War of the rebellion. All old comrades should hear him on May 10th. in the court house, at p. m.
 Otto Miller has been held by a Phenix justice to answer to the grand jury on a charge of rape. 4 small bond was required, which he promptly gave and was released ffom custody
 4 carload of ostriches passed through Prescott yesterday, another one today, and another is due tomor- TOW, making three carloads in all or over I20 birds. This will increase the number of ostriches at the farm in PheniX to over l,0OO.
 Frank s. Davis, who lives one mile and 8 half northwest of the city, made a startling discovery Tuesday of this week In his yard he found a bed of tarantulas, and he at once made a raid. Before he had concluded his war of extermination there were twenty-one tarantulas dead on tbe field. This is a fact, and any one who does not believe 1t can visit the home of Alr. Davis and see for them selves.-Gazette.
 Miss Margaret Levy, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Levy, celebrated her seventh birthday yes terday. She is a pupil of the Kinder gartea, and invited a number of her little friends from that institution to assist her, and entertained them with games, and then treated them to a bountiful supply of ice cream and other delicacies.
 4 fatal six-shoOter accident hap pened at the Poland mine and hap pened in a very peculiar manner. A man went into a Chinese restaurant and ate a meal, refusing to pay for it. After leaving the restaurant, he went into an ad joining saloon, and the Chipaman followed him and reported to the proprietor of the saloon the treatment he had received. The sa- loon man undertook to collect the amount due and analtercation ensued, iu which he hit the delinquent on the head with a siX-shooter. The weapon was discharged and he bullet pierced he abdomen of the Chinaman, caus- ing a fatal wound.
 From Saturdays Daily.
 "The Furniture of the Soul' will be the evening theme in the Methodist Episcopal church, Marina street.
 Groom Creek Miners Union give a bali tonight at Groom City, and a pleasant time is assured all who go. Many from Prescott will attend.
 Sandy Donahue has been elected chief of the Flagstaff fire department, receiving this honor for the second time. It is useless to state that Sandy is uN an expert in the han ding of water.
 Companies E and F of the 12th regiment passed through here last night en route for Ft. Apache. They had just returned from the Philip pines.-Flagstaff Gem.
 The merry-go-round will run this evening and tomorrow,when It will be discontinued. Take ride on the living Jennie and hear the music by Blind Tom.
 There is an interesting coincidence in that the number of women con fined in the penetentiaries of New Mexico and Arizona are the same six in each.
 Governor Brodie is said to have re- ceived 444 applications for fl posi- tioBs allotted to him, in a political stSse. It Is useless to say that 443 were from R. R.
 MT. Smith, the city hall ground gardener of Phenix, has been visiting Prescott for a few days. Whether he is here on pleasure or to take point CTS on our plaza system of adornment we do not know
 A Phenix dispatch says: It is cur rently reported here that pressure is being brought to bear on Brodie to appoint Ben Daniels superintendent of the territorial prison when the for mer assumes the gOvernorship.
 Dr. Day as health officer is the right man in the right place. As a "hiker' among the back alleys and as an observant official, having deep regard for the municipal health, he is not only tireless but nevertheless fair and fearless.
 Another car load of ostriches ar rived today for the hot alfalfa regions below. The seemed to on to their job from the way they rubber necked' at the pine trees here and wanted to get of and go into camp in the only nice climate on earth. We can't blame them.
 J. il. and F. B. Mulrein are enter taining their father, David Mulrein, who has arrived on a visit to our city. The senior Mulreih Is fine type of the Irish gentleman, and thinks of To- eating to grow up" with the country.
 Rev. E. B. Taft will preach tomor- row morning in the Baptist church on Good News in Time of Famine ' Special reference will be made to the religious condition in Arizona. The subject of the sermon in the evening will be Mt. Sinai the first in d series on "Mountain Scenes in the Bible
 Prescott is assuredly assuming a