Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-03-19

grand jurors and forty trial jurors re- a turnable on the above date. From Fridays Daily. g NJ. Goldwater & Bro. are remodel ing their store.
 , Alfred Averyt is able to be around
 again after a severe attack of Pneu- monia,
 l Dr. Film is able sit up now and be r around in the house, but has not yet l ventured out.
 Mrs. Harry Brisley and their little boy have been quite sick but are re , covery now.
 Mrs. J. I. Gardner and children have gone to Kansas City for pro- tracted vist.
 Chief Justice Kent will reach the territory next week to assume the du- ties of his office.
 J. E. Hart has been appointed postmaster at Junction vice G. c. West resigned.
 Judge E. M. Sanford returned last evening through the wind storm from his trip to the country.
 s. w. Higley has large force of men at work up in the Rock Butte section of country taking up the old railroad track. The rails will be used in other work
 Purity Lodge No. 3, Degree of Honor, will have an open meeting in their lodge rooms in l. O. o. F. hall this evening, to which every one in terested is invited, particularly all A. O. W. W. members and relatives, at 9 o'clock.
 R. A. Sweet and Mir. Ohering of the Gold and Copper Consolidated Mining company arrived from the east last evening, and today accom- panied Superintendent Pickerell out to the companys property.
 Wilmot Pentland is down today from Ash Fork and reports that his father, who is in Los Angeles, is suf- fering from a very severe attack of kidney trouble from which he is not expected to recover.
 F. M. Ayres, the cattleman, is in town on cattle purchasing expedi ton. MT. Ayers formerly had his headquarters in Prescott, but has been away from here for several years. He is en route to Mexico to purchase cattle.
 The announcement that boring for oil will shortly be commenced in Min eral Point district has given another impetus of the placer mining location industry. These lands are located under the placer act and locators have been very active of late.
 The engineer who will have charge | of the construction of the derrick in | Lonesome valley, arrived here on Wednesday evening. The machinery | is already on the way and it will not be many days until the sound of the drill is heard clugging into the earth.
 Oil claims are now in demand and | the excitement over recent finds con tinues. Yesterday eleven locations were filed with the county recorder | by Messrs. J. T. Dunlap, J. B. | Daugherty, F. T. Samples, w. R. Norton and c. w. Hunter.
 s. A. D. Jackson came up yester day from Walnut Grove. He states that Mrs. Lavina Campbell, who has been confined to her bed with se- we're attack of pneumonia, is slowly | recovering. and it will be some weeks yet before she will be able to be about.
 After campaigning in Cuba and the 1 Philippine islands, Walter Gregory, the newspaper man formerly of Phe- l nix, has been mustered out of the ser vice in New York and is now in New York city with his brother Will, who is manager of the engagement de- partment of the Actors Society of America.
 R. K. Shoemaker recently purchas- ed lot in West Prescott and has a neat little cottage well on the way un der construction on it now. The cir cumstance is an indication that times are prosperous with Mir. Shoemaker and that he contemplates sharing it with some one, but who the lucky one is has not yet been disclosed.
 A San Francisco paper reports that R. H. Pope, former Stanford stu dent, has been missing since Novem- Der 13. He left the university to seek employment in the city. His effects were found intact in his room there, but no trace of him can be found. He is son of the late Lieutenant Colonel Pope, assistant surgeon gen eral in the army, who recently died in the Philippines and whose wife is now on her way home with the body.
 A Phenix newspaper man has re- ceived a letter from Albert TOzier, president of the National Editorial association, in which it is urged that Arizona send a strong delegation to the next meeting of the association, with the prime object of enlisting the support of the 12,000 newspapers rep resented, in the statehood fight. Mir. Tozier states his belief that much can be accomplished for Arizona by prop CT representation. The meeting is to be held at Hot Springs, Arkansas, April 15.
 Senator Rawlins has introduced bills in the senate interesting Arizona as follows: Ratifying an act of the territorial legislature providing funds ) for the erection of an additional , building at the University of Arizona; for the relief of Navajo county, re-
 funding the outstanding indebted , ness of said county; authorizing an adjustment of the rights of set
 tiers on certain executive order In dian reservations.
 The Santa Fe company Lds re
 stunned the sprinkling of oil along the [ roadbed through western Arizona and l California, where the dust of the des
 ert makes travelling burden during I the summer months. The oii settles . the fine sand along the roadbed and leaves firm path through the desert
 The plan is to be followed more ex- - tensively this year than ever before !. Within the next thirty days the en- ]. tire distance between Bakersfield and