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

Superintendent Mansfield of the Empire Mining company, on Groom creek. has gone to Yuma on a busi. ness trip.
 There wlll be baptismal and com munion service at the Baptist church tomorrow morning at which the pas tor will speak on Christ All and In All.
 F.M. Murphy has sold the fifty foot lot adjoining the Prescott National bank on the north to the Masons for S5,000. The lot, only a few years ago, with building on it, was sold for $500.
 NJ. R. Riley is in town from Min nehaha. For the last four times that Mir Riley has visited Prescott, his visit was followed by storm. Hope the spell has not been broken.
 All members of Mechanics Hook and Ladder company are requested to attend the meeting this evening, at s o'clock. Business of importance.
 Lucius R. Barrow, Foreman.
 Wednesdays issue of the Los An geies Herald contains portraits of a group of dozen or so of beautiful young ladies who are participants in the fiesta performance there. In the group is an excellent picture of Miss Mabel Norris of Prescott, who is at tending school in Los Angeles.
 Among the marriage licenses pub lished in the Los Angeles papers, the following appeared in the list of Wednesday, April 30: Commodore P. Owens, aged 40, native of Ten nessee, and a resident of Seligman, Ariz., and Lizzie Barrett, aged 22, a native of Iowa, and a resident of AL buquerque, \. NJ.
 W. H. Moore, representing the Coranado Beach Tent City, came up from Phenix yesterday. MT. Moore says that the prospects are that the Tent City will be fully 50 per cent larger this year than ever before. The business has outgrown the mag nificent large hotel and it has been closed for the season, and an army of workmen are engaged in remodeling it and in building additions to it, which will greatly increase its capac- ity. The company has built large , rooming house, which can be occu- pied during the summer by visitors who prefer living in house to occu- pying a tent.
 James H. Lamon, prominent mer- chant of Chicago, is visiting MT. and Mrs. Robt E. Morrison, old-time Chi cago friends of his. Mir Lamon is a large stockholder in the Baumann Copper company. Yesterday he ac- companied Jules Baumann to the eel ebrated copper properties of the com pany. He expresses great satisfac- ton at the work being done, and is pleased with his investment. In speaking of our city, after having entered our great mercantile estab- lishments, Mr. Lamon said that in all bis travels he had never seen such evidences of prosperity and business success. Being a wholesale merchant himself, he knows what he is talking about.
 President E. P. Ripley is quoted as saying that the Santa Fe railroad will probably not comply with the recent ruling of the interstate commerce commission in the Los Angeles citrus fruit case, in which it was held that the practice of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads of taking into their own hands the matter of selecting the route by which fruit shipments from southern California to the east, is illegal. Our course in regard to the ruling of the interstate commerce commission in the citrus fruit case will depend on what the lawyers advise, said Mir. Ripley. ''I do not expect that we will comply with the ruling, but will let the courts decide if We are right or whether the fruit shippers are right. do not think the ruling of the ship pers is equitable"
 The Manhattan Oil company suc- ceeded in getting the stem of its drill welded at the railroad shops, and sent it out yesterday and resumed drilling again today. Had it not been for the railroad company agree ing tO have the work done in their shops the oil company would have been compelled to send the stem to ! Los Angeles.
 F. NJ. Sanford returned today from his trip to California on professional ! business. He left there yesterday morning when the Fiesta proceedings were at their height. He says that there are 10000 visitors in the city and hotels and lodging houses are crowed to overflowing for ten or twelve blocks from the business cen ter of the city.
 ] West bound trains on the Santa Fe road have been running unusually heavy of late. Thursdays Los An geles train, passing Ash Fork, con sisted of five sections. Fridays Los Angeles train was run in three sec ,ions, and the San Francisco train was also run in three sections. The demand for motive power to keep the ] passenger trains moving was so great as to seriously interfere with the movement of freight, on account of withdrawal of engines used in that . service.
 The Flagstaff grand jury was in session only two days. in which time they examined into six cases and re- turned three indictments-on for murder, one for an assault with in- tent to murder and one for burglary. James Ryan, the one who was in dict7d for burglary, entered bis plea