Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-09
tTHE LOCAL NEWS...... $ ......QTY AND COUNTY

From Wednesdays Daily.
 Concert at Opera house.
 Mercy Hospital benefit tonight.
 Dugan is tuning up his calliope
 Dake's opera house. Concert to night.
 Fourth of July decoration ha commenced.
 The plaza dancing platform is al most completed.
 Phenix had 1.2 of an inch of rail on Monday morning.
 The wind still keeps up its lick which does not bode well for rair soon.
 An American eagle adorns tn, show window of Geo. H. Cooks jew. ehy store.
 Miss Donna Wilson, daughter ot Col. J. F. Wilson, has returned from attending school in the east.
 There has been a very marked de- cline in mercury during the past few days, relieving the pressure on ther- mometer bulbs.
 Jehn Kirkpatrick, formerly oi Kingman, arrived in Prescott last evening, to take a position with the B.-B. Company.
 John Kinney, brought his daugh- ter, Miss Mollie Kinney, in to the Mercy hospital yesterday. The young lady has typhoid fever.
 Tom Blakof was tried this morn ing in the district court on a charge of robbery and was acquitted by the jury. He was charged with break ing into box car at Ash Fork.
 A Chinaman drew out S2,4OO last evening from one of the lottery insti- tutions running in the town from a s ticket. The S3 inverted had pre- viously y been won at the same game.
 In response to telegram sent by Mayor Burmister to Gen. Frederick Funston, extending an official invita- tion for him to visit Prescott on the Fourth of July, a telegram vas re- ceived last evening stating that he would not arrive here until Sunday afternoon, July 6.
 A. J. Head commenced yesterday 'excavating for the foundation of his fine three-story brick building which he will erect on the lot just north of his residence. Work will be rushed as rapidly as possible towards com pletion, as a wholesale firm has already taken three years lease on the ground floor of the building and are anxious to occupy it just as soon as possible.
 A dog which took a hand last night in the O. Ks practice for the Fourth of July, caused an accident resulting in severe injuries to several of the team. The boys were flying down the track at a record breaking speed, when the dog, without any malicious intent, joined in the race, but unfortunately got under the feet of the "spike" in front, throwing the man to the ground. Several others piled on top of him and three or four of them were more or less bruised, but none were seriously in jured.
 The week just closed has broken all heat records since 1893 through out all the southwest. In Albuquer- que the 100 mark was reached for the first time in many years. In Las Vegas the maximum was 99, and even in Santa Fe the mercury climbed to 96. From the more southerly towns come reports of woeful heat. PheniX, 1l5; Tucson, 112; Fl Paso, no; Socorro, 106, are some of the readings The absolute dryness of the air has kept the heat from being uncomfortable. The summer is the dryest known since meteorological records have been kept.-Albuquer- que Democrat.
 Billy Spear of the Phenix Repub- lican, has discovered an ideal democratic candidate for dele gate to congress in the person of Hi Eldred, whom he describes as all wool and a yard wide, with the fol- lowing additional information as to his pedigree: religiously Mir. Eldred is Kentucky Quaker, and is the soul of honor, never mixing his own drinks or anybody else's. Politically, be is an Elk and travels with the herd. He likes good browse and never wanders far from the feeding grounds. He began voting the democratic ticket here in the days when that was the only ticket the authorities would allow circulated and he had to vote something or lose caste. He has been voting it ever since, owing to the evil influence of Joe Monihan. He joined the Eagles recently and is getting so he can fly pretty high.
 From Tuesdays Daily.
 G. P. Harrington is in town from Crowned King.
 Dr. G. W. Vickers is in town on his periodical visit.
 Duggan will toot tomorrow. He got another whistle today.
 Col. D. N. Hood has returned from a business trip to Denver.
 James O'Hara is in town from the Cash mine for the Fourth.
 MT. and Mrs. D. N. Bartholdi are over from Jerome for the Fourth.
 Wm. Lawler came in yesterday from Hillside to help celebrate the Fourth.
 A delegation of Juniper citizens ar rived in town yesterday for the Fourth.
 Oil was discovered in Naco by MeIicans who were engaged in sink ing a well.
 Ex-Governor N. O. Murphy came up from Phenix today to spend the Fourth of July.
 The lawn fete at NIT. and Mrs. J. W. Walkers on Tuesday evening netted the free library S54.
 Furnished room for rent over the Fourth. Apply J. K. Miller House, north.!of electric light plant.
 c. W. French returned last even ing from San Francisco where he underwent surgical operation.