Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-02
sTHE LOCAL NEWS......
 $ ......CITY AND COUNTY
From 1onday's Daily

DSputy SnerlU Sldnkdru, or Mdrl- copa county, came up on today's train.
 J. c. Fredericks' beautiful five roomed cottage on Pleasant street is nearing completion.
 Governor F. A. Tritle has a beauti- ful specimen of rose amethyst from a property in Mexico.
 Mrs. Ed NJ. Blake is up from Naco with her children visiting her parents, Mir. and Mrs. T. w. Otis.
 The handsome residence of T. c. i Job on Mt. Vernon street is rapidly approaching completion.
 Mir. Cahoon of the agricultural de pertinent, has returned to Prescott MT. Cahoon spent last summer here
 The oath of office as governor will be administered to Col. A. O. Brodie in Phenix tomorrow morning at o'clock.
 J. E. Mccoy has gone to California to spend the summer. He was ac' companied by his wife and daughter and sister-in-law.
 Mrs. W. J. Kirkpatrick, of Tucson, the soprano, who is going to sing at the concert on July 2, is registered at the Prescott hotel.
 It is rumored that a general strike is threatened at Jerome tomorrow No official information could be ob- tained ip reference to it.
 A. 4. Johns has received word that Flagstaff will send a team to Pres colt to compete in the Fourth of July races. The more the merrier.
 The senate has confirmed the nom- nations of Fen s. Hildreth and J. M. w. Moore as register and receiver re- spectively of the Prescott land office.
 A resident of South Montezuma street, in sinking a we'll, struck such flow of water at a depth of fourteen feet that he could not handle it with buckets.
 R. S. Kellogg, connected with the department of agriculture, left yes terday for Fay, Kansas, in response to telegram announcing the serious illness of his mother.
 A jury was empaneled today for the trial of Wm. Connors, who is charged with the murder of George Bryan, stock man, in the southern part of this county some time since.
 John Kinney was in town today from McCabe. His daughter, Miss Mollie Kinney, has been quite seri- ously i'll for about three weeks at the Henrietta mine with typhoid fever.
 Mir. Sparks of the department of agriculture, who has been in this sec tion for some time making measure ments of timber, expects a party to arrive soon who will prosecute this work under his direction. Mir. Sparks will shortly make trip to various sections of Arizona to make investi- gations and report on the advisability of establishing other forest reserves.
 The strike at O'Brien's camp is re- ported to have been declared of and the men have gone back to work at S3.50 for an eight hour day, MT. O'Brien acceding to the demands oi the men.
 Rev. Ii. B. Long preached patriotic sermons yesterday at the Congrega. tional church, both morning and evening, to large audiences. A fea- ture of the services was patriotic music also.
 Mir. ana Mrs. Samuel R. Long will leave tomorrow for California, where they expect to reside. They are com pelled to make the change on account of the altitude here being too high for Mrs. Long.
 Ominous and threatening looking clouds appeared this morning and the day has been quite cloudy, something very unusual for this section at this time of year. It has not resulted 1T any rain though.
 Henry Beard of Prescott and Miss Mary Martin of England, were mar ried last evening at 5 o'clock at the residence of MT. and Mrs. John Gray. The bride arrived in Prescott on Saturday evenings train.
 w. G. Barney of Buffalo, New York, arrived in Prescott last evening for the purpose of locating here. Mir Barney is mining engineer, and ha: been employed by Douglas, Lacey 6 Co. to assist Captain L. D. Phillip: in the examination of mining prop critics
 Elsie W. Kirkpatrick, the soprano who will sing on the evening of July 2, has voice of rare sweetness anc power. She is versatile and has ar extensive repertoire of beautiful songs. Do not fail to hear her anC incidentally help the cause of Mercy hospital.
 Wilmot .Pentland has received a promotion on the s. F. P. & P. rail road. He has been in charge of { switch engine for some time in th' Phenix and later in the Ash Forl yards, and last week was given l; regular run on the road in charge O. a freight engine.
 A gentleman who is in town iron Camp Verde, says the Verde river i lower at the present time than it ha ever been known to be before sine the settlement of the Verde valley At a point near Camp Verde it i practically dry where water ha always been in abundance before.
 Dr. J.B. McNally returned las evening after an absence of severa months, during which he has taken | post graduate course in medicine He has opened his office in the Law Ter building in the room formerl y oc cupied by J. D. Wakely as a lav office and has it fitted up very hand somely.
 Pensions of ,SS per month hav' been granted to Minerva A. Allen o . Cottonwood, H. J. Crum of Provi dence and J. c. Rogers of Congress The pension of J. H. Stocks of Jer ome has been increased to SS pc month, and that of Richard Whitton ton of the same place has been in creased to S6 per month. Concert for Mercy Hospital, ol Wednesday evening, July ?.