Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-05-27
THE LOCAL NEWS.
( ......CITY And COUNTY
From Wednesdays Daily.

this morning.
Chas. G. Abbott and wife arrives
last night from Nacozan, Wis.
j. r. Liston is in town from tn
Bradshaw mountains
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. H. Cook hav
returned from a visit to Phenix.
Ask G. A. Bray to explain that new
game of solitaire which he has jus
been learning.
Louis Gruss, a resident of De
Moines, Iowa, is visiting Prescott OF
a pleasure and sight seeing trip.
Otto Lind, an employe at the Bodi,
mine, is spending day or two in tn,
city.
Mrs. F. J. Hesse who has been quite
sick for over two months is able to be
out again.
Mrs. W. J. Wilsey and her two chill
dren returned this morning from a
visit to Phenix.
A heavy fall of snow is reported to
have occurred in the San Francisco
mountain region last Sunday.
n. c. Webster is now joint agent for
the Phenix and Eastern railroad COM
paGy, and Grant Brothers, at Mesa.
4 E. d. TreadwelI and wife came in
from the Treadwell smelter last even
ing and returned to Mayer today.
The recent cold snap is reported to
have done great damage to fruit and
other crops in various parts of the
country.
Miss Stella Rodolf, of Sacramento,
sister of Mrs F. j. Hesse, has been
Visiting the latter for the past two or
three weeks.
DR.. R. ]. Roper has commenced the
foundation for new residence in
Otis addition just east of Mr.. Pratt's
residence.
A. 5. Bowman, of the Rainbow Min
ing company, which is operating
property in the Bradshaw mountains.
is in town.
j. H. Alexander, miner from the
Mayer country, is in the city pur-
chasing supplies for a prospecting
trip.
Frank Foster, of the Samuel Hill
Hardware company, has purchased a
lot in Otis addition, and will shortly
commence the erection of a residence
on it.
W. W. Platt, son of the editor
of the Colorado Springs, Colorado,
Gazette, left for home this morning
after a visit of several weeks in Ari-
IONA.
VIM. Bogart,a former proprietor of
the Hoffman bar, left this morning
for San Francisco, where he resides.
He shipped the remains of his dead
brother to New York on Monday.
Deputy Sheriff Mobiles brought two
Mexicans in from Ash Fork yesterday
to serve six months sentences for as
sault and battery. He returned to [
Ash Fork this morning.
W. F. Staunton, superintendent of .
the Consolidated Mines company, at |
Tombstone, came up from the south |
last night on the special train with F. |
NJ. Murphy.
Nogales has her committees all APP
pointed for Fourth of July ceIebra-
ton. What does Prescott intend to /
do about celebration? 1t is time to |
make a move now if we will celebrate. |
Harry Van Allen returned to Ash |
Fork this morning. Mrs. Van Allen
will remain in Prescott a few days
longer, when she will leave for a visit |
with relatives in Oakland.
F. NJ. Murphy and party returned |
to Prescott by special train last !
night arriving here about 1890 /!
o'clock. They extended their trip |
down into Mexico.
Mrs. Phillips picture of Thumb
Butte, and of the California limited |
Santa Fe train has been boxed ready |
for shipment to Chicago to be placed |
in some prominent place, as an adver-
tising card.
The city council were inspecting the |
initial work of the street car company +.
this afternoon. They report that the .
ties and some steel are on the ground |
and the work of laying them will be-
gin in day or two.
A. J. hubert who went to Aqua Ca
liente Springs three months ago for the |
benefit of his health has returned. He /
says he received great benefit from
the springs and his health is now ex-
cellent again.
P. S. Bagnell, who was killed by an
explosion in tunnel on the Phenix
and Eastern railroad near Florence
recently was we'll known in this sec
ton having formerly been foreman of
a gang on the Crowned King grade
The jerome Miners union has is
sued warming circular asking miners
to keep away from this county. The |
circular intimates that trouble is an
ticipated in the labor market about /
June l when the eight hour law goes
into effect.
John Stocks has returned to Pres
colt after a five months absence,
which he spent in the Republic of |
Mexico. After visiting many of the
mining districts in our neighbor re-
public he has come to the conclusion +.
that Arizona is pretty good place to
live and do business in.
A short time since it looked as
though Prescott would have an opera
house on every prominent corner in 1
the town. At present there is not a
single opera house looming up and |
present indications are that there will |
be a dearth of play houses in Prescott |
next season.
II. A. SuttIe the well known min |