Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-04-15
| Spanish and will undoubtedly make a
valuable assistant for the sheriff.


% Prescott this morning ON her way tC
Los Angeles for visit. She was &C.
) companied to Prescott by her sister,
= Miss Maggie, who stopped off here fol
a few days visit with her many young
t friends before returning to her home
: in Wickenburg.
Mrs. H. B. Long entertained the
! teachers of the public schools inform
4 ally at her home last evening, when
she read her paper on American IL
: lustrators," which was recently given
before the Monday club. 1t was il
l Illustrated with about seventy five post
ers, cartoons and pictures.
Police court business has been light
for several days. There we're only two
cases before his honor, Judge McLane,
today, one a case of too much Has
sayampa water which brought forth a
ten spot, the other was a soiled dove
from the bad lands who contributed
ten pesas to the school fund for mis-
conduct.
The fire sale of millinery and ladies'
and children's wear which is going
ON at the old stand of Mrs. Blaine, is
crowded from nine o'clock in the
morning to five o'clock in the even
ing. There are a great many good
bargains on the counters which the
ladies are taking advantage of at
lively rate.
The treasury of a miners union
seems to be quite temptation to the
man in charge of the cash. j. W.
Walker has been arrested charged with
embezzling s133 of the funds of the
Poland union, while it is only a short
time ago that the treasurer of the Je-
rome union fell by the way side from
temptation of similar nature.
| There will be session of court Sat
urday at which time it is thought the
witnesses in the Goddard murder will
all be here and the Mexicans now in
Jail charged with the crime will be ar
raigned. AS they have already been
indicted by the grand jury which met
two weeks ago, it will not be neces-
sary to have preliminary hearing.
Rev. E. B. Taft. Mrs. c. E. Ashley
and Miss Adella Williams will leave
this evening for Mesa to attend the !
annual Baptist convention which will |
open in that city in day or two. On
account of the absence of Rev. Taft |
there will be no preaching services in
the Baptist church next Sunday, but
the regular Sunday school and Young
Peoples meetings will be held as
usual.
The men in the Santa Fe tin shop
at Topeka are organizing what they
call mineral water club. Each man
who joins pledges himself to give so
much toward buying a water cooler
and keeping it stocked through the
summer with ice and mineral water.
Those who do not belong to the club
can not drink. At least not the water
in the cooler.
A meeting was held last night for
the purpose of taking steps to organ
ize brass band. something which
Prescott stands very much in need of.
There seems to be a lively interest
taken in the matter. Prescott has
sufficient material to get up good
band and the instruments used by the
old band are still on hand and can be
used by them.
A. c. Mcqueen came up from Mesa [
this morning and says the recent rains
in the valley have made every thing ,
look fine. The Salt river is still so
high that it cannot be forded at the
Tempe crossing. He says the orchards i
in the valley are so full of fruit that
they have to be thinned out. This is ,
true of the olive trees
which are hanging so full of fruit that
they are almost a solid mass of olives.
The tea given yesterday afternoon
by the Women's Missionary society of
the Baptist church proved a very
pleasant affair. 1t was given at the
residence of Mrs. Mccoy, and Miss {
Adella Williams the missionary to I
the Moqui Indians gave a very in
structive and entertaining talk of her
work among those Indians. The com
pany was also entertained with a vocal
selection by Mrs Corbin, Mrs. Carton
and Miss Woodruff and a piano solo s
by Miss Mccoy. Refreshments were a
also served to the guests.
During the past week the Santa Fe t
has had a.party of workmen C
at the petrified forest, seven d
miles south of Adamana. They are
building an arch under the famous ,
petrified bridge to keep it from fall
ing. The log has been in weak condi-
ton for some time and has been ma
terially weakened by the hands of
vandals who carry off specimens from L
it. The company is to be commended v
for its effort to preserve one of the @
most wonderful natural curiosities of
the west. I
Unique invitations were sent t
out this week, for the Easter /
Book Shower which will be given next
Saturdau oftarDoon ond araDin0 in .
the free reading room. 1t invites each
citizen to donate one or more bound +
books, to help establish a circulating
book department. Although announc-
ed for Saturday the Shower COM t
menced several days ago for many b
good citizens have already responded c
by sending in whole sets of books L
Misses Amy Nelson, Olive Fisher and
Clara Criley will assist Mrs.
Wheeler in the reception of books next
On Saturday last Jim McKenney; t
the outlaw, with posse of officers on
his trail, crossed the Colorado river
at Needles, and it is thought is now
headed for his old haunts at Rands-
burg or Porterville. The outlaw had
with him two horses, bay and gray, !
and if he struck across the lower end
of Death valley he may even now be
in Randsburg, where he has relatives
From Needles to Randsburg is 16O .