Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-04-29

\ ing properties in Arizona.
 , J. P. Storm will leave on Friday for
 trip to the Colorado river at Park
 CT. At Yarnell he will be joined by E D. G. Sinclair who will make the trip
 with him. The object of their visit n is to look over the desert in the vii
 cinity of Parker with the view of To- . eating some land to bring under cul- ' tivation. Mir. storm, who has been
 to that section, says that there is
 plenty of as fine land there as can be # found any place and that water for ir e rigation can be pumped from the Col
 orado river. If they find conditions a favorable they will probably make , some desert land entries.
 The new street lights are ''just what | I the doctor ordered" to use slangy but expressive phrase. In addition
 to their lighting up new portions of the streets they cast their welcome and brilliant rays into hooks and corners of the town not dreamed of. | <1S Ol IhC uhCAPCSbCo efits derived from it the back yards of residents on Mt. Vernon street as we'll as some on Pleasant street are illum- mated from the one on the corner of Alarcon and Willis street, a block and a half away. The new lights are cer- tainly all right and could not be i'm proved upon.
 Sheriff Roberts is now able to take his arm out of the sling where he has been carrying it ever since the acci dent at Bisbee, but the fingers of that hand are practically useless as the leaders in the wrist were entirely sev- cred and in joining them again the wrist had to be opened for nearly two inches so the ends of the leaders might be drawn together. When the |. wound healed up it seemed to grow fast to the leaders and MT. Roberts is unable to move the fingers at all. He is thinking of going to San Francisco to see if specialists there can do any thing to relieve the sad condition.
 Some time ago Prof. Billinghurst adopted a plan which he thought would reduce the tardiness in the city schools, and the results of the plan prove the wisdom of it. Tardiness had become so common among the pupils that some months the number f of cases would run up into the hun { dreds The plan adopted was to I give the room having no cases of tardi- ( ness for month a half holiday. AS z soon as the plan was adopted the { tardiness began to decrease very z rapidly and the month just closed has been a record breaker for all time past, there only being one case of tardiness reported out of an enroll ment of nearly 800 pupils. Prescott l, schools are all right and are in the hands of first class people. From Thursdays Daily.
 c. B. Genunig is in town from Weaver. ( l from Kirkland valley. I
 Judge R. E. Sloan is expected home :. | from Kingman tonight. ,,
 c. E. NJ. BeaIl, superintendent of | the Peck mine is in town. (
 The Eagles picnic May 24 promises to be the picnic of the season.
 Dr. o. L. Geer, of Martinez, came up on this mornings train.
 Lute Wilson is in town from Crook 1. Canyon, where he is engaged in min ing. ,
 The City Improvement company is a at work today cleaning out the Cortez V street gutter. (
 G. A. Bays condition is greatly i'm proved and he will be able to go to work soon again.
 John Mars, the we'll known old timer and stock man of Agua Fria is in town today.
 Lantry Bros. have nearly 5000 men |, at work on the Belen cut off of the T Santa Fe road. (
 Ex-Sheriff J. l.. Munds came over ( from Jerome yesterday. His father ' is getting better.
 The Head block'' ball players and the court house club had prac ! tice game yesterday.
 Sam Dunlap, representing the De t Mund Lumber company, came up from Phenix this morning.
 The anti-slot machine law is being I enforced in Phenix. One arrest has { been made under it. Councilmen J. W. Wilson and W. J. Mulvenon were out today on tour of inspection oyer the city.
 Seventeen buildings are being ad , vertised for sale at Whipple, the sale { commencing next Thursday, April 30. ,
 David Grubb, the mining magnate from the head of the Hassayampa, has returned from visit to California.
 Paul Johns, superintendent of the Braganza Mining company's property, returned this morning from his visit ( east.
 Banker T. E Pollock, of Flagstaff, passed through Prescott on this morn- ing's train en route home from visit to PheniX.
 There will be work in the third de- gree at the meeting of the Masonic lodge tomorrow night. Members are requested to attend.
 The court house ball club has se- cured John H. Robinson's terrapin as their mascott. It will be painted green. which is the clubs color.
 Applications have been received by the city council to extend the city limits by adding to them both in East Prescott and West Prescott.
 Mrs. A. V. kautz and the party she chaperoned to McCabe and the Gopher mine, returned yesterday and report bod o x-arx- hIa tirna