Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-08-20

Dr. Dodge has returned from Mis- sissippi and may decide to perman- ently locate in Prescott.
 A. A. Johns took Mike Fagin to the asylum last night and returned | home on this mornings train.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hugo Richards en- tertained large party of their friends last evening at Dougherty hall.
 Mrs. H. D. Ross and sons left this morning to camp on Beaver creek, where they will remain two weeks.
 J. H. Clinkscales returned yester- day from trip to the Verde valley | adjusting the loss of E. w. Hawkins.
 The county republican central committee held a meeting this after noon to arrange for the coming cam paign.
 Mrs. J. c. Herndon and daughter Miss Florence, and Mrs. F. L.Wright will leave on Monday for California for visit.
 Julius Jacoby has sold his barber shop to W. s. Conner and John H. Mills, according to bill of sale filed for record.
 Mrs. W. c. Campbell, who has been spending the summer at Terminal | Island, California, is expected home on this evenings train.
 Upwards of 600 or 500 men have left Jerome since the closing down of the mine, according to reports of parties who have visited there re- gently.
 A fight on Montezuma street last evening attracted large crowd. The belligerents were not in the best form to put up good scrap and but little damage was done.
 While digging in the debris of the wrecked and burned freight train at Raton mountain, workmen found | two skeletons, the flesh all burned from the bones. They are supposed to have been tramps.
 J. D. Wakely returned today from trip into the mining camps. MT. Wakely is making an active canvass for the nomination for district attor- ney and is meeting with good en- couragement from voters.
 Another fire alarm was sounded a little after noon today. The fire was in the wood pile of the Prescott | Electric company and was extin- I guished before it had made much | headway or had done much damage. 1 L. B. Bell of the Verde Valley, was in town today with lot of fine peaches of his own raising. He found | a ready sale for them as Yavapai | county peaches are far superior in 7 flavor and otherwise to any imported | peaches.
 The territorial tax levy has been reduced this year from SLY to Sl.131 | on the hundred dollars If the board of supervisors of this county could manage a reduction of about | one per cent, tax payers would breathe easier.
 J Mrs. F. P. Cruice and Mrs. Grace Cruice Hills, sister of Mir. Cruice, ! will return on tonight's train from a l visit to California. Mir. Cruice went | up on this mornings train to meet them at Ash Fork and will return |. with them tonight. Charles Holborn came up yester- day from Pinal county where he has | been employed securing. the right of way for the Phenix and Eastern rail | road. He will return south tomor- row evening. He says that Hon. R. E. Morrison is the only republican | mentioned in that section for dele | gate to congress.
 Last Wednesday H.. Tovrea and Charles Dixon were out hunting in | the Buckeye country. They were standing close together when the shotgun carried by Dixon and from which he was attempting to extract a | shell, was accidentally discharged. The charge of shot struck MT. Tovrea | in the foot The shot was very fine, : and caused very painful but it is not thought dangerous wound.-En- terprise, Mrs. Annie White, who has been trying to secure damages for several years from the government, told an Fl Paso paper recently that she in- l tends going to New York on General Chaffee's return and will "shoot him as dead as door nail" if he does not give her satisfaction. A few years ago Mrs. White, while on a visit to
 Prescott, threatened to shoot Mark Smith if he would not secure a settle ment of her claims.
 Those who are interested in rheu matism will be interested in the case of William Sniveley, Pennsylvania farmer. Sniveley was so badly crip- I pied by rheumatism that when swarm of bees attacked him he could not get away. A few days later the swelling caused by the stings disap peared and the rheumatism with it. The remedy seems heroic but the l real rheumatism patient is usually \ desperate enough to try anything. -Ex.
 Mrs. Moves today signed a contract
 for the erection of two story brick
 building on the site of the present boarding house of Mrs. c. B. Linn.
 Mrs. Linn has already taken lease !, on the building when completed. f The present building will be moved l on an adjacent lot and occupied as . boarding house during the time the 2 new building is being constructed.
 Work will be commenced at once. t Mrs. Abbie Condron, one of the r pioneer women of Yavapai county, e was in town today from her home in r. Walnut Grove. She says that for o the first time in the twenty-five years j. she has resided in that section she a was short of water for irrigation this |? year. She was compelled to sink Y wells to secure sufficient water for e her cattle. She also states that cat r. tie have been dying in that section e for lack of feed, but since the late e rains grass has commenced to grow e and cattle are picking up in flesh. :" From nonday's Daily.
 Editor Shultz is of on his vacation. ,e w. A. Clark is in town from Fools d gulch.
 )r ID RarthOldi came over from ,Jer-