Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-30
THE LOCAL NEWS...... OF THE 5 ......CITY AND COUNTY
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From Saturdays Daily.
 Ed Stephens came in last evening from Los Angeles.
 Mrs. Will Robinson left for Los An geles this morning.
 E. W. Stephens came in from Los Angeles last evening.
 Harry Hall, a we'll known hard ware drummer is in town.
 Sam Bettman, the we'll known com mercial man, is in town.
 W. G. Reese returned this morning from his visit to Phenix.
 Will R. Hill, representing a Kansas City shoe house, is in town.
 The five year old girl of Mir. and Mrs. l.. x. Bailey is quite sick.
 E. s. Clark returned last night from attending court in Flagstaff.
 A new glass is being placed in the Commercial Trust company's building today.
 There was more thunder and light ming and light shower of rain last evening.
 c. E. NJ. Beall left on this morn- ing's train for a short business visit in the east.
 Bishop Kendrick of the Episcopal church, came in on this mornings train from the south.
 Ed Shumate will have closing programme of his Granite Dells pie nic resort on Sunday, October 1.
 Mrs. D. E. Donovan will leave on tonight's train for Phenix, where she expects to engage in Ebusiness.
 "Major Delmar' trotted a mile in two minutes in New York yesterday thus tying the record with Lou Dil- lon.
 c. H. B. Carter is on the street to- day after being confined to his room for about three weeks with an attack of typhoid fever.
 E. R. Mcdowell left for Los An geles this morning on mining busi- ness expecting to be absent about two weeks.
 Mrs. R. J. Roper and her two child ren left this morning for Santa Ana, California, for a two months visit with relatives.
 F. M. Manheimer, representing a Louisville whisky house is in town on his periodical visit. He is accom- panied by his wife.
 J. S. Smith, superintendent of the Jerome Canyon Copper company left this morning for Los Angeles for a two weeks business trip.
 Yesterdays ball game at Flagstaff was won by the Flagstaff nine by a score of six to three. 4 good game was played as will be seen by tEe score.
 Engines numbered one, two three, five and nine, five in all, are now equipped with oil burning attach ments It takes about two weeks to change from coal to oil burners.
 A Phenix paper announces that the Prescott & Eastern railroad company will suspend grading for a short time until the track laying catches Up nearer with the grading. The ex- pense of hauling supplies over the desert Is too great to continue the work.
 If you are morose, moody, or des pondent; if you have habit of wor- rying or fretting about things, or any other fault which flinders your growth or progress, think consistently of the opposite virtue and practice it until it is yours by force of habit O. s. Marden, in Success. I"
 The city we'll north Of town has re- gently been cleaned out and the wa ter sweetened by a large amount of lime being thrown into it and char coal filter placed in it and while work is in progress on the repair of the pipe line, water is being pumped from it into the reservoir. This will only last for a few days There was gross neglect in putting the Del Rio pipe line in as the joints Of the pipe were not properly leaded and Superintend- ent Glass has found it necessity to go over a very large portion of the line and relead the joints.
 For the benefit of a correspondent at Stoddard signing himself "Cow boy'' the Journal Miner will state that min. j6 l-2 seconds added to 3 min. 54 seconds, makes min 90 I-2 seconds, instead of 6 min. IOl sec Onds as he figures it. He uses the decimal method of addition instead of computing it on the basis of 60 sec onds to the minute. The above is in reply to a communication received at this office, in which the writer failed to give his real name, signing it "Cow boy.''
 \. c. Webster, the we'll known railroad contractor, returned last night from his trip to California. Mir. Webster lives in Phenix at present. and as he only intends stopping in Prescott one day, he thought be would leave his baggage at the depot. When he appeared at the hotel he usually stops at, his appearance had changed so much during his two months ab- sence that the clerk did not recognize him, and having no baggage, when be was about to retire, he was called upon to advance the price of days | room rent. He showed his apprecia- l tion of the joke, and the good busi- ness qualities of the clerk by pungling without a kick, as many man would | have done. From rlonday's Daily.
 Frank Ruiz has resigned as deputy '. sheriff. W. o. Harrell came in this morning from Poland. c. D. Bunker came up from the Sul- l