Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-10-14

City Treasurer Henry Hartin hai
been granted a two weeks leave of alb
sence 10y the city council. Leave will
date from October l..
"Shaving 10 cents is the sign dis
played at a barber shop near the de
pot \ 10 cent shave in Prescott is al
innovation.
Will Smith. son of W. H. Smith. hal
been quite sick for several days al
hi home on the corner .of Mt. Yer
non and Sheldon streets.
}. +. sDaggs accompanied Sheriff
Roberts to Prescott last evening. from
Jerome. a warrant having been issued
for his arrest 10y a man named Garcia
Worthy President Lon Hall of the
Eagles aerie, sent a lot of the left ovel
pies and sandwiches from last night:
social to some poor families in West
! Prescott.
John Rogers. son of the wife of Ed.
itor Z. 4. Rogers of the Courier, left
on this mornings train for Los An.
geles. where he will enter st. Vim.
cents college.
b. Tilton has just employed another
sewing machine salesman to meet the
demands of the business. He has been
doing large trade IN the sewing ma
chine business for the past year.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Cashion have
returned from their visit to Cali
fornia Mr.. Cashion will leave to-
night for Phenix to look after the
grading work on the Phenix d Eastern
railroad. Mrs. Cashion and their
child will remain in Prescott for some
time.
The interior department announces
that bids for the construction of a
telephone line for the Arizona dam,
from Phenix. via Mormon Flat, Salt
River and Fish Creek fifty six miles
to a point near Livingston. will be re-
ceived at the interior department, in
Denver. on November Z.
f. NJ. Murphy is expected home be-
tween the 18th and 10Th of this month.
He is coming via Tombstone and will
be accompanied by ex-Secretary of
War Alger, ex-Secretary of the Inter
Tor Bliss and other prominent eastern
ers. who are coming to the territory
10 look after investments.
The Journal Miner has for years
been advocating the sowing of blue
grass and planting of shade trees in
the plaza. 1t is very highly gratifying
to it now to learn that the board of
supervisors has come to the Journal
Miners way of thinking and will act
upon its suggestion. The ground is
already being prepared for the recep-
tion of blue grass seed.
Dan Hager. a commercial man, who
is visiting Prescott, was an old school
mate of Register Fen S. Hildreth of
the land Office. They had not seen or
heard of each other for about ten or
twelve years. but on meeting acciden-
tally on the street the other day, the
recognition was mutual. and pleas
ant though entirely unexpected.
Superintendent Smith, of the Je-
rome Canyon Copper company, re
ports that all the new machinery is
installed. The working shaft is down
200 feet and will be continued to the
300 foot level when connections will
be made with the old working. At
that time it is the intention of the
company to have plant ready to work
for the treatment of the ore.
The south bound train due in Pres
colt at Z 40 o'clock last night did not
arrive until one o'clock this morning.
The delay was caused by an accident
to the north bound freight. The
trucks of a box car left the track, and
the box car just behind it was broken
in two. blockading the track. A
wrecking train sent from Prescott
cleared the track. No one was injured
and the damage was slight.
Mrs. II. X. Behn. representing the
Mutual Life Insurance company of
New York. has very beautiful and
artistic sign in the window of her
office in the Commercial Trust COM
pany's office. Mrs. Behn is a very
successful life insurance agent. Rep
resenting an excellent company. of
coure makes success more easily &C
hieved. than it could be with a com
pany of less standing and reputation
than the Mutual.
Willis Grander's solo last evening
was on novel instrument. called
l. Ocarina. In plain English it is
called a sweet potato. OH account of
its resemblance to that form of vege-
able and is made from clay. While it
is considered more in the nature of
toy than of a musical instrument.
good musician can obtain very sweet
notes from it as Mr.. Grander did last
night.
f. p. Cruice received telegram to-
day announcing that his wife's moth
er, Mrs. }. E. Holloway. died at her
home in Oklahoma City. this morning
at4 30 o'clock. after brief illness of
about one month. Mrs. Holloway was
taken sick while visiting her daugh-
ter in Prescott and returned to her
home in the hopes of recovering her
health. Deceased was only As years
old and leaves a husband, two sons
and two daughters to mourn her de
mise.
The Journal Miner acknowledges
the receipt of complimentary ticket
to the New Mexico territorial fair
which opens next Monday, in Albu-
querque and continues during the
week. The management has put forth
extra efforts this year to make the fair
a greater success than ever before and
they are being backed up by the rail
roads offering a fare of one and one
half cent per mile so that the exhibit
tion will not only be the best, but
the attendance will ba tba Iarge-t