Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-05-07

\ team attached to lumber wagon ran away today, smashing up the wagon pretty badly.
 Two men named Wilson and Me Kay were arrested today, charged with engaging in the traffic of illegal cheeks.
 Read the prize advertisement in this issue of Fen $. Hildreth, and written for him by one of the pupils of the Prescott public school.
 The Phenix Republican says: "James Coughran died yesterday morning at the residence of his son, William H. Coughran. six miles west of Phenix. He was S2 years of age and death resulted from dropsy." Deceased was a former resident of this county, moving to the Salt river valley several years ago.
 T. D. Bennett has been given a yer diet in the district court at Phenix, of B, ,40450 damages against the Phenix Light and Fuel Co. Bennett's home was destroyed by fire one night dur ing an electric storm about one year ago. The company claimed the house was struck by lightning; Ben nett said it was set on fire by the com pany's defective wires.-Democrat.
 The United State civil service commission announce that on June .. 1902, an examination will be held at the usual places for the position of engineer in the United States peni- tentiary service, seamstress in the h. dian service, physician in the Indian service and matron in the Indian ser vice.
 In the United States court vester- day an order was issued by Judge Kent in the suit entitled U. s. of America vs. \. W. Haggard and others. making the Meridian Canal company and the Dominique Claa- boritt parties defendant to the suit. This is the injunction suit the h. dians obtained against several of the west end canals.-Gazette. Tie in corpOrators of the Meridian Oil com pany are residents of Prescott. They have quite number of oil locations near Tempe.
 Judge F. NJ. Doan returned home, unexpected, Monday. Smallpox de- veloped among the prisoners in the Solomonville jai, Saturday, just as the court was ready to take up the leading criminal cases. Under these circumstances 1t would not have been wise to proceed with the criminal bus mess of the court, SO tile Judge ex- cused the trial jury till the 23d of June, and took a recess till Monday next, when he will reopen court to dispose of civil eases in which juries have not been asked for.
 From Fridays Daily.
 Judge L. W. Wells is in Phenix on a business trip.
 J. H. Robinson has purchased the bear hide from C.. \. Ainswortb.
 Allen Austin of Jerome and Mrs. Twalmey of Prescott were married a few days since.
 The assignee Of J. Ernest Walkers business in Phenix has effected d set clement with his creditors for twenty cents on the dollar
 c. o. Scott, special agent for the Insurance Company of North Amer ica, is making his regular periodical visit to Prescott.
 The oil drillers met with their first accident by breaking the stem of their drill. They were compelled to bring it to town 10 be welded.
 4. Phenix paper announces the ser ious illness Of Mrs. Charles H. Akers at her home in that city.
 Mrs. P. L. Kastner and son will leave tomorrow for Canada to spend the summer with AIr. Kastner's rela- tives.
 As the city prisoners were being taken out for walk this morning one of them made a break for liberty and gave the officer a lively chase before he was overtaken and recaptmed.
 AIr. Scopel has men working on his new three-story stone building on the site of the one recently destroyed by fire.
 John Smith. who has resided here for the past five years and has made a living by sharpening scissors and knives, died Wednesday and was buried this morning from the Catbo- lie church.
 The remains of the hte Walter Y. Parkhurst. formerly general agent of Equitable Life Insurance Company. at Albuquerque, were djsiuterred hoW Fairview cemetery Wednesday and shipped to New York, accompanied by Mrs. Parkhurst.
 Captain l.. D. Phillips returned last night from his tup to Los An geles and Lower California. He says that every hotel and lodging house in Los Angeles is full to overfOwing with visitors attending the fiesta and the biennial convention of Women $ clubs.
 PhcniN papers some time since con tained columns of stuff about a wonderful soap spring near Wicken- burg. The Republican this morning starts the story on its rounds again. but has changed the location to some point on the Black Canyon road near Gillett. During a dull time for news . it is awfully nice. doncherknow, for a newspaper to be able to ''sof. soap its readers. and such a thing as a soap spring is mighty handy taing to have stored away for just ~urh emergencies.