Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-09-03
THE LOCAL NEWS...... < ......CITY AND COUNTY
From Wednesdays Daily.

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 Frank Murphy is expected hom on Saturday evening.
 Mrs. Harry Oberbeck will leav within day or two for her home il Tempe.
 Judge W. c. Campbell left on to days train for brief trip to Los An geles on professional business.
 Mrs. F. R. Ward entertained number of ladies very pleasantly yesterday afternoon at her residence
 Hugh Matthewson, the cyanid, man, was drowned last night whil, bathing ina cyanide tank on Groom creek.
 Just watch the democratic legisla- tive nomination smoke and see if ii strikes some of the incompetents as piring to nominations.
 R. E. Morrison will leave tomorrow for Denver to place his daughter in school. He will stop in Santa Fe on his return trip to visit his parents,
 NIT. Wetherly, a mining man of Wickenburg, passed through on to- days train en route to Los Angeles on business trip.
 Mrs. De Mars, mother of Mrs. N. E. Morin, is expected here within a day or two for a protracted visit to Prescott. She resides in Jersey City, New Jersey.
 Car Ninety-Eight was sent up to Ash Fork today to meet Mrs. w. A. Drake and her daughter, Mrs. Me Clung. who are returning from a visit to Pueblo.
 The body of the late Charles But Ter did not reach here as expected to- day. It will arrive tomorrow and the funeral will take place at 2 o'clock D. m. tomorrow.
 The circle of republican candidates for sheriff is widening daily. Today we hear of the following good ma terial for the convention to select from: J. W. Smith, Jos. Roberts and Robert DeLarge.
 w. 4. Bolton. agent for the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, came up on this mornings train and has been the guest of F. G. Dodson.
 S. s. Acker, familiarly known as Boss" Acker all over -Coconino county, announces his candidacy for the office of probate judge of that county, subject to the action of the democratic primaries.
 s. D. Gardom, an old-time Tomb stone miner. but for the past year resident of the Wickenburg country, is paying his rfst visit to Prescott to- day. He expresses himself well pleased with this section.
 Miss Roper, of Santa Ana, Cali fornia, sister of Dr. Roper, who came to Prescott recently with Mrs. Roper. on her return from visit to Santa Ana, will leave in a few days for her home.
 The United States civil cOmmis- sion announces that on September 30, 1902. an examination will be held at the usual places for the position of instrument maker in the Philippine service.
 W. R. Humphries took his large picture of Prescott to Ash Fork today to place it on exhibition in the Har- vey eating house there. The photos which surround the big picture were taken by 4. E. Suppiger.
 P. Mohn & Co, the new undertak- ing firm, today shipped the body of Albert Stokes to Waltham, Massachu- setts. for burial. The widow and their two children left on the same train. Mrs. Stokes has had unusual afflictions of late. as she lost her only son about five months ago, and two days ago her husband was also claimed by the grim reaper.
 A careful poll of Groom Creek shows up twenty-seven democratic voters. At the election last Saturday forty-one votes were polleo and man said to be from another precinct was elected by order of the bosses. ! The will Of the democrats of tine dis trict was overridden, 1t Is claimed, by the imported voters from other pre- cincts. No tally sheet or record of those voting was taken or kept. Such is the report sent us by a resident of the precinct who is democrat.
 The human stomach Is not a cop per kettle nor an iron bound oaken cask, and yet great many people in this town attempt to make 1t do the valorous duty of these vessels con- bined. If ali the cheap and mixed drinks that are drank each day in this city were emptied into a copper kettle and then poured into the oaken cask there would be mighty little left of either. Yet the stomach manages to hold up bravely year after year under the imposition and will probably continue to do so, much to the mystificatiOn of modern doctors.-Ex. From Thursdays Daily.
 ". P. Covillaud has been appointed agent for the Los Angeles Herald.
 Geo. T. Milner and wife came in on this mornings train from the south.
 The board Of equalization will meet tomorrow for its final session.
 T. II. Earnhart came tip from Kirkland this morning.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hugo Richards left today for San Francisco.
 Fred J. Morrison. the Kingman at torney, left for home today.
 Sig. Simons is in town on his pc riodical visit.
 Charles keeler returned yesterday from his trip to California.
 MT. and Mrs. Cecil G. Fennell went to the Grand Canyon today.
 Delegates to the Democratic con vention are commencing to arrive, and are being buttonholed by candidates.
 Miss Alma Thorbekc returned last evening from Los Angeles. where she has been for the past two years.
 Bentley Piper, son of Mir. and Mrs. J. \. Piper, left today for San Jose to attend school.
 J. R. Beatson came up today to at- tend fine SaS-ina qf thp hoard of