Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-18
Local and Personal.
From Wednesdays Daily.


 C. Nj. Sabin returned last night from three months trip in the east during which he combined business with seeking benefit to his eyes.
 Sheriff Munds left last night foI Yuma with two prisoners. One was life termer, Lewis the Verde valley Indian who murdered Marshal Pete,
 The Santa Fe company is having a monster engine built which will eclipse all the big ones formerly built. It will weigh 422.0OO pounds 2ll tons.
 Spef0 exercises were held vester- day in Miss Heizsr's room, m which the pupils did well. Today Miss Campbells and Miss Beidieman's rooms united in holdiag closing ex- ercises.
 The Ladies, G'-std of the Episcopal Ihurch will -nye a short business mee1,ng LE at Che residence oF Mrs. w ,, " moss Thursday morning at lO:3O cio' z, and it is wished there may be rod attendance of members pres e-ct
 Dr. McNally is expected back in Prescott in few days, and has ren- ted the offices formerly occupied by J. D. Wakeley's law offices. MT. Wakely has taken a more convenient room in the same building just at the head of the stairway.
 The Arizona State Telephone com pany today completed the line to Congress Junction, and Prescott can now talk to Octave, Congress and %Qongress Junction. i he line will be 'pushed on to Wickenburg and Hot Springs just as rapidly as possible.
 Since the completion of the Poland branch of the P. & E. railroad the business of the road has grown so much that two trains day are found necessary to transact it. One train remains at Mayer all night and the other at Prescott, leaving from these places each morning and making a round trip.
 Death has again entered the home of Mir. and Mrs. NJ. A. Perkins of the Verde, this time claiming as its vic tim Katie Annie, their eldest daughter, aged nine years. It is only a few weeks ago that they suffered the loss of another child, in both cases the disease being scarlet fever.
 George F. Willig has been author ized by John Schuchmacher, adjutant general of the Army and Navy Union, with headquarters at 401 Pulaski street, New York, to organize branch of the society in Precott. This is patriotic as well as benev- olent society. All who come under the above head and desire admission v into the order will find Mir. Willig at the Scopel House, where he will be pleased to meet all old comrades and advise them as to the mode of pro scedure.
 Fred Sattes received two letters yesterday from Germany. They were written on the same date in Germany but in different parts of the country and arrived here the same date. One was from brother announcing the death of another brother, and the other was from Fred Schmidt, a for mer resident of Prescott, announcing the death of his wife, who also re sided here formerly and was well known to many of our people.
 One good way to determine what . kind of ads will attract people, is to study the tastes, education, and way of thinking of those who read your local paper. You must be both student of human nature and have sufficient of instinct of the actor to be able to put you uiself in their place." MT Dillon, miner of Southern Ari- zona, was sojourning in Prescott, and ln the course of his preambles (went ~fe) wandered into the Palace, just intime to pick up a Yale class pin valued very highly by Paul Symonds, the owner. Noticing an ad of twenty five dollars reward for its return to this office, MT. Dillon responded i'm mediately and in his own words re- marked: Paul is a prince. I ex- pected some dickering. but he dan ded out the twenty-five without mur- mur, with the pleased remark you'd have got fifty, shorty" Moral: Ad- rertise in the Journal Miner.
 The ladies composing the pablic library committee are under many obligations to Messers. F. M Murphy ;and E B. Gage for enabling them to parchase at nominal price tie ele- .ga1t site which has been at Last SC lee-ed for the public library. The lot, which is on the southwest corner of Marina and Gurley streets, is 50 feet by l25 feet m depth. Mir Murphy paid four thousand dollars for the lot. The building will be turned into a rectory for the Episcopal church. While the generous contributions of MT. Murphy and Mir. Gage have re- duced the price of the lot to one thousand dollars. md it is expected that the efforts cf these gentlemen among their friends vIl enable the committee to pay his without touch ing its present funds. The committee, in thanking the generous donors, con- graduates itself and the Da,ilic that the long delay in the sel,-c5l0n of suitable site has proved So fortunate. The architects are now working on new plans for building, and It is ex- pected that work will begin within the next two months.
 The young democrats. at their meeting last nigEt, elected the fol- ! lowing officers: President. MT. Tal- bot; vice presidents, Fred B. Philpot, C. P. Hicks of Prescott: Ben Miller of Red Rock and Otto Strodhoff of Jerome; secretary, c \. Averyt; assistant secretary. Frank Walker; treasurer, J. B. Hooker: marshal, Wallace Willard; executive com mittee. C. W Herndon, j. P. Jolly, P J. Farley; financial committee, A. A. Johns, NJ. J. Hickey and Howard Burmister. 4 number of the old wheel horses of the party made speeches. among the number being Col. J. F. Wilson. A resolution en- dorsing Col. Wilson's candidacy for delegate was introduced, but was laid away on ice to be voted on after the meeting of the county territOrial" convention. The young democrats are too foxy 10 commit themsel .es in favor of one candidate with the possi- bility of some one else receiving the .nomination. A speech advocating