Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-01-14
STHE LOCAL NEWS......
 OF THE $ .....CITY AND COUNTY
From rIOnday's Daily

Hon. R. E. Morrison has gone t Phenix to attend court.
 J. M. Baker has been quite sick fo some time with inflammatory rheuma tism.
 D. M. F. Weeks, general manager O the B.-B. company, left yesterday ol a business trip east.
 Special evangelistic services will b held this week in the Methodist. Con gregational and Baptist churches.
 Judge R. E. Sloan left on las nights train for Phenix to assist il holding term of the supreme court
 A. J. Bromfield, of the Continenta Trust company, of Denver. left yester day after a couple of days visit {, Prescott on business connected witl the above company.
 N. O. Murphy made a short visi to Prescott yesterday, coming up or the morning train and returning d night.
 c. E. Hart came over from Jerom, yesterday to attend the meeting of tn stockholders of the Pine Forest Gold company.
 J. H. Ashdown, president of tho Pine Forest Gold company, arrived or last nights train to attend the annual meeting of that company.
 Capt. c. A. Weeks, general manager of the Phenfx Construction company of Chicago, left for that city yester. day accompanied by his wife.
 pr. W. s. Smith left on yesterday train for Los Angeles to receive med ical attention for his eyes. He ex, poets to be absent about two weeks.
 John Herman, young chemist. i, given the credit for devising, and car. rying into execution the plan for ex- tinguishing the fire in the United Verde mine at Jerome He is only twenty-one years old.
 John Carter, an experienced res taurauteur, of San Francisco, has taken charge of the Comet restaurant. MT. Carter employs French. cooks, and will make speciality of French dinners, something Prescott has never had before.
 The Bashford- Burmister company commenced 9 per cent special sale today, on ladies and children's jack cts, Monte Carlos, cloth jackets, capes, and ready made suits. Read ad- vertisement in this issue.
 When people have worked them selves up to the dueling stage an ex- change suggests that the best thing to do is to let them fight it out as soon as possible before the police are quietly informed of what is going on
 The Women's Home Missionary so- ciety of the NJ. E. church will give its regular squarterly tea tomorrow, Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Goldsworthy on Alarcon street. at 3 o'clock. All women interested in this work are invited to attend
 Albert Penny, of Los Gatos, Cali fornia, father of Miss Louise Penny. connected with the B.-B. company spent Sunday in Prescott. MT. Penny is travelling man. and visits Prescott about four times a year, and like a great many other travelling men all ways times his visits so he can spend Sunday here.
 4 special to the Phenix Gazette from Yuma says; A sensational at tempt at a wholesale penitentiary de- livery was made at noon today by a life prisoner who has served several years of his term and has now become desperate. Guard Bishop was watch ing gang of men when the prisoner came up to him with big dirk knife and demanded the keys to the peni- tentiary. Bishop immediately drew his revolver and began firing, but he missed his man. The wall guard fired several shots with his Winchester and the prisoner dropped. He is fatally injured. None of the prisoners es- caped during the excitement.
 A restaurant in a neighboring town has the following notices posted up in its dining room: "Any inciviIity or inattentiOn on the part of the en- ployes of this establishment will be considered favor if reported prompt ly to the proprietor. "
 J. E. Jerffies, the invalid printer sent from Prescott to the Printers Home, Colorado Springs, writes W. F. Campbell, secretary of Prescott Union, No. 375, that everything is so comfortable here a man can scarcely help getting well. I am somewhat in doubt about the altitude. This will only be temporary, I think, as I have only been here twenty-four hours. l shall not attempt a descrip- tiOn, suffice that appearances indicate it "a home in reality.''
 Territorial legislature meets next Monday.
 The temperature this morning was fourteen degrees above zero.
 Judge J. J. Hawkins has gone to Phenix to attend supreme court.
 Born, at Santa Ana, California. January 8, to Mr and Mrs. Ed. NJ. Blake, a daughter.
 E. F. Rice, the commercial man from Rochester, N. r., is registered at the Burke.
 [ J. H. Robinson returned from Kirk land this morning where he spent Sunday visiting his parents.
 W. A. Clark. superintendent of the Fools Gulch mine, is confined to his room in the Burke with a touch of in fiammatory rheumatism.
 D- DOA>ah'gs ploHllntuI mining man, who has some fine mining claims in the Bradshaw mountains. is in Prescott on business. F. P. Ward who has the contract for putting up the new brick buildings for Joe Mayer, at Mayer, is a visitor in Prescott today on business.
 
 Geo. H. Cook who has been in