Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-13

deeds is Sl ,3S0.o0 and in the latte S1, 1,3SS.70.
 A mortgage or deed of trust wa.
 filed for record today in which tht consideration named was S2,000.000
 The party executing it was the Bacs Land Grant corporation, and the party to whom it was given was the Commercial Trust Company of Gin. clnnati, the property affected being the Baca grant in this county.
 Wales Arnold of the Verde arrived in Prescott last night and gIves any thing but good news as to the amount of water flowing in that stream, say ing that during a residence there of over thirty years never has he seen the water in the Verde as low as it is today. The Verde valley is located i'll one of the greatest water sheds of Northern Arizona, and the limited rains of this season together with the light snows of last winter in adjacent mountains drained by this. valley, is creating some alarm among people in that locality. MT. Arnold says that while crossing the Agua Fria he was astonished to notice the evidences of what must have occurred at the De Large ranch during Mondays rainfall stating that that stream was over 250 yards wide and at least four feet in depth. While there have been daily raius in the vicinity of Prescott the good accomplished seems to have been confined to any but the exten- sive agricultural valleys. From Thursdays Daily.
 A. c. Hardison is in town from the Gladiator.
 3W. T. Hall went to Congress to, day.
 Probate Judge Hicks is quite sick again and is under the care of a train ed nurse.
 There was another gully washer" of storm in Lonesome valley yester- day afternoon.
 On account of the closing down of the smelter at Jerome, T. F. Miller S Co. have discharged ten clerks.
 4 brick and cement reservoir is be- ing built in the plaza, in the center of which it is proposed to place a foun- tain.
 Alfred Averyt is able to sit up. While he is quite weak he says he feels better than he has felt for sever Il years.
 W. A. Cline today sold his saloon .o Hall & McNulty. The saloon is he old Cob Web. one of the old time places of the town.
 4. H. Horton had an operation per 'ormed on him on Sunday for an lbscess which formed as a result of | sprain sustained at the depot.
 c. A. Randall came up from Phenix yesterday. Mir. Randall is at present md has for some months been right ,f way agent for the Phenix and Eastern railroad.
 Governor Brodie has appointed Rev. F. L. Drew. of Tempe, a mem per of the Tempe Normal School board. and J. c. Grim a member of he Flagstaff Normal School board.
 4 Mexican, with one wife, six ,hildren, six dogs and six burros, ap- oiled to the board of supervisors yes erday for relief. His wife was in- ured by being thrown from burro.
 .'Wonder what Rogers will have to ay any way when he gets around to write up of Scammeis announce nent? was a remark overheard yes erday from a democrat on the street. l
 "The Journal-Miner professes to egard Geo. Scammers announce nent for the territorial council as a oke. If George should get the nom- nation the joke would be on the | ther fellow, whom the JIM. would | oot for. ."-Courier. The joke would | ,e on either Scammell or the demo- ratic party, and it is difficult to de- ermiDe which.
 B. H. Weaver has commenced | on the lots opposite the sherman House, on the site of his ormer residence. He has one three partment house of two rooms each | lmost completed, and will build an- ther one. These will be located on he alley, and it is his intention to 'uild six-room apartment house on he front of the lot.
 Prescott today lost, temporarily at | east, a good citizen in the person of | Id. Barthel, who, with his family, eft on today's train for Parachute, Colorado, with the intention of re- laining there. Mir. Barthel has re- ided in Prescott ten years, lacking a ew months, and it is just possible hat after a short residence in Colo ado he may decide to return here. Yearly every one who has ever lived | n Prescott for any great length of ime and then left has returned here gain. Whether Mir. Barthel remains n Colorado or returns again to Ari- ona, he and his family will always | ave the best wishes of Arizonans.
 The rain storm of last Saturday | fight seems to have been unprece- ented along the water shed of the | Igua Fria river. Mir. Kruger says he ever saw a harder rain storm than here was at the Prudential Copper ,ompauy's camp. The water poured | town the Agua Fria river in perfect | orrents and washed the bed of the tTeam from four to eight feet deeper han it was prior to the storm. The | rossing used by the Baumann Cop | ger company was washed several feet | .eeper and will require the making of |
 new road. At the Val Verde smel- | CT where there was a fall of twenty | eet in the river, a water course was | washed around these falls and one an now drive from Bowers ranch | lear down the stream in the river ,ed. rom Fridays Daily.
 John Gray is in town from Poland.
 Mrs. J. L. Munds is on the sick list.
 J. R. Liston came in last evening rom the Bradsbaws.
 Jacob Henkle Is in town from the Bradshaw mountains.
 F. L. Wright went to Phenix last evening on a brief business trip.
 Mrs. Iva Tut left today for Los Angeles to remain until Sept. 1.