Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-08-26

Il Wlbudl He enJOyeu DIS NlSll. ne VII leave tomorrow for his station il Wyoming going via Denver.
 On account of the failure of thos, interested in the entertainment fol the free reading room, to dispose oi sufficient tickets to warrant them il
 going ahead with the affair, it Ina:
 been decided to postpone it until
 some other date which has not been
 decided upon as yet.
 Henry Pitts was tried today in Jus
 tice TalbOt's court, on the charge of
 carrying concealed weapons, the case
 growing out of the trouble at Walker
 a few days ago. The defendant de-
 handed jury and the case occupied
 most of the day and was attended by
 quite a number of spectators.
 Mir. and Mrs. ". S. Goldsworthy
 invited number of their relatives
 to be present last evening at the chris
 tening of their son George Wilson
 Goldsworthy at their residence. Rev.
 A. M. Gibbons officiated at the Chris
 tening and after the ceremony the
 guests were favored with a number
 of musical selections and refreshments
 were served.
 Superintendent WA. Drake's office
 of the s. F. P& P railroad was yes
 terday notified by the section foreman
 at Peoria that the dead body of man
 had been fuond by his men in the
 wagon road about one hundred feet
 from the railroad track and about one
 mile north of the above town. The
 man had the appearance of being a prospector and the section foreman
 had seen him the day previous hunt
 ing for his burroS, when he complain ed of being sick. Death resulted from natural causes.
 k. H. Elsey has accepted a position with H. E. Armitage as one of his leading machinists at the Old Terrible mine in Cochise county, and will leave for that place the first of next week. Mir. Elsey is one of the best all round machinists in this section, hay ing held responsible positions with some of the largest concerns Cn the coast, who speak of him in highest terms.
 Mining deeds were placed on record today in the county recorders office conveying the mining claims, sixty eight in number, from the Copper Cobre Mining company to John R. Allen, the president of the company, who in turn deeded the entire proper ty to the Bradshaw Mountain Copper Mining and Smelling company. This is the property now being extensively developed by Geo. W. Middleton, in the Crazy Basin country.
 Mrs. c. de Court, mother of Mrs. B. II. Smith, returned last evening from visit of several weeks on Oak creek with the family of Henry SchueI man. She says that heavy rain storms visit ed that section recently and that roads | and irrigation ditches were badly | damaged. Mrs. de Court was accom- panied home by Mrs. Helene Schuer- man, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Henry | Schuerman, who will remain here for a few weeks, the guest of MT. and | Mrs. B. H. Smith. It is the young | lady's first visit to Prescott
 J. B. Tomlinson returned this morn ing from trip to the southern part of the territory. He spent Thursday | in Phenix and says he never suffer- ed from heat in his life as he did there. Phenix papers report the day as being the warmest of the season, the weather bureaus thermometer in a temperature of III. One death occurred from heat being that of Miss Ellen Christ ian a young wo- man twenty two years old. She was perfectly healthy woman, and was stranger in PheniX having been there only about two weeks. Her death occurred about 1 30 o'clock.
 Sheriff F. E. Murphy, of Pima county, came up from the south this on official business. He will return to Tucson tonight He says Tucson, like most other towns in the territory is almost depopulated at present on account of everybody that can scrape few dollars together are trotting off to California to spend them. He is delighted with the weather here and says he can't see why anyone here would want to go to Los Angeles for climate, when it is much more pleasant in Prescott than in that city. This fact is attested to by several parties who have recently from there and report very hot weather.
 A telegram from Flagstaff dated August 20, says: A cloudburst on the San Francisco mountains poured the argest flood into Flagstaff in years. One hundred. families were driven rom their homes but no lives were ost. Little damage was done on ac- ,Ount of the railroad embankment checking the current The Weather ord hotel basement was filled with water. The hotel bar in the base nent and the goods of the Coconino : Grocery company were ruined. food showers fell in the town at i 30 nd there was low temperature, but I; he flood was unexpected. There was 10 electrical demonstration. but a eavy but not significant storm was Oticed in the mountains. The food cached the town at eight D. m. and ubsided at ten. It was a gala night I, nd all Flagstaff turned out. C$2oo 1's;, g, ! i: ::