Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-21
sTHE LOCAL NEWS......
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From rIOnday's Daily.

Butterfly social Satuday night.
 A. Ryan from Jerome is registered at the Prescott hotel.
 Ben Blanchard left today for the Iron King mine.
 Yavapai county did not get the speaker of the house.
 J. D. Carter returned on this morn ing s train from his tufa quarry situ. ated near Kirkland.
 MT. and Mrs. J. W. Conger and their son Frank were in Phenix yes terday.
 H. M. Meyers, representing Heefe1 and Son, wholesale liquor house of Los Angeles, is in town.
 Ben Clay came in Saturday from Huron where he has been engaged with c. P. Wingtield for some time.
 Late telegrams from Washington state that the friends of statehood are confident of winning their fight. Do not fail to attend the butterfly social at the banquet room of Odd Fellows hall next Saturday evening.
 J. B. Girand returned on this morn ing's train from Williams, where he has been for the past few days on busi- ness.
 Miss Sarah Norton. of Los Angeles is visiting her brother T. J. Norton, attorney for the Santa Fe railroad in Prescott.
 h. P T po,,o,. ,,-,., q, ,,oeeo,,c,a,. ,,, this mornings train for Santa Ana, California, to be gone week or ten days on business.
 Albert Hatz, a young mechanic in B. Tilton's repair shop is at work making a small gasoline motor, to at tach to bicycle.
 Mrs. Tut, who is the promoter and
 heavy investor of the Arizona Power company, arrived on last evening $ train from Los Angeles.
 R. R. Coleman came up from the south on Sundays train. MT. Cole man is busy at present working on his new railroad grading contract.
 Hill c. Moore came in last evening from Lynx Creek where he has been engaged in doing assessment work on a number of claims owned by him.
 The Ladies Guild of the Episcopal church will hold its regular meeting on Wednesday afternoon, January 2l. The meeting will be held in the rec tory.
 Mrs. V. Dalton. milliner at A. Blumberg's store, left on this morn ing's train for St. Louis where she will visit her friends and relatives for a month.
 Chas. W. Herndon left on last nights train for Phenix, where he will spend a week, attending the open ing of the legislature which convened today.
 The editor of the Journal Miner is in receipt, from A. s. Haskell, of a box of the most finely favored apples he has ever sampled. As an apple raiser MT. Haskell is the champion.
 A man by the name of Gum killed himself with pistol the other day in Missouri. Gum was evidently a son of Gum and is reported to have been ''loaded'' as we'll as the pistol.
 Rev. Bonnet preached a very able sermon at yesterdays services in the Episcopal church Fred Kessler also rendered a very beautiful vocal solo, Mir. 'Kessler has very sweet and sym pathetic voice.
 Mrs. R. A. Talbot has gone to Phe- nix to attend the Woman's Suffrage convention which meets there on Wednesday, having been elected delegate to represent the Prescott woman suffrage society.
 Rev. A. M. Gibbons, of the Metho- dist church, is quite sick with an at tack of the grippe. He was unable to occupy the pulpit yesterday and no preaching services were held in the church on account of it.
 Julius Jacoby is wearing a broad smile on his countenance, the reason being that on Saturday afternoon a beautiful eight-pound daughter was presented to him by his wife. Mother and child are doing nicely.
 J. B. Monnette. general manager of the Federal Investment and Trust company, left on this mornings northbound train, for points in north ern Arizona. on business connected with the above company. Mir. Mon nette will return in a week or ten days.
 Rev. F. T. Bonnet has moved into the rectory of the Episcopal church which has recently been completed. It is a very comfortable residence and is convenient to the church There are five rooms and bath, one of the rooms being set aside for the use of the Ladies Guild of the church as a Guild hall.
 The Republican says it is proposed to make two counties of each Navapai, Graham and Cochise. The probabili- ties are that within the next sixty days this will be done for it has hap pened that in the election of members of the assembly and council from these counties the voters seem to have had county division in mind.
 The Illinois Central Railway com pany is experimenting with box car trucks fitted with ball bearing jour nals. One man was able to push car loaded with S0,0O0 pounds of steel castings. If the system of ball bear ings proves practicable, the loads, it is stated. can easily be doubled and hauled with the same power now used, thereby revolutiOnizing freight traffic.
 Le Roy Anderson. of Taylorwille. H., arrived in Prescott on Saturday night for the purpose of locating per manently here. MT Anderson is an attorney who comes very highly rec commended from his home town. On +, before the courts of Arizona he will | be connected with the law firm of Herndon and Norris. Peter La Croix and E. C. Jager. 1 stockholders in the Model Mining | company, and who remained over to l visit PheniX, were passengers on this l mornings train. on their return to 1 Chicago. Messrs. La CroiX and Jager l say that they are more than repaid | for their visit to the territory and to | Prescott, especially, and that they can only speak of our country with the | highest praise to their friends in the east. J. c. Sweeney, president of the I Rainier Brewing and Malt company. i of Seattle, Wash, arrived from Phe- | nix on this mornings train. Presi- | dent Sweeney is looking over the ter ritory in the interest of the above | company with view of establishing . brewery at some point. At present he | was unable to state just what their in tentions are but intimated that they | would eventually place branch brew cry or bottling works here.
 Manager Martin announces the Royal Italian band for two perfor- mances afternoon and night Thurs