Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-03-25
THE LOCAL NEWS...... OF THE S ......CITY AND COUNTY
From Wednesdays Daily

today for few days visit with her son.
 Dick McNarry came up from the south this afternoon on mining busi- hess.
 The railroad tax exemption bill has passed both branches of the legisla- ture.
 E. E. Ellsworth. J. P. Bosch and Henry Blutchson are over from Jer- ome today.
 NIT. and Mrs. J. B. Cowley left on today's north bound train for few weeks trip to California
 A. Emanuel has been awarded the contract for tinting the room of the new public school building.
 The passenger department of the Santa Fe railroad company has issued some extra fine views of the Grand Canyon.
 Treasurer J. P. storm was able to be down town today for the first time in two weeks on account of an attack of grippe.
 J. T. Kinds and wife returned this afternoon from business trip to Cherry creek. Mr. Hinds says that is bound to be great mining country, | as the country is full of mineral.
 z Grant Brothers, has returned from | visit to the cOmpany's grading camps | on the Phenix and Eastern railroad. | He was taken with a severe case of | grippe while in that section which laid him up for few days.
 A petition was placed in circula- tion yesterday afternoon asking Gov ernor Brodie to veto the woman suffrage blll. Ladies interested in the bill becoming a law, on hearing of it immediately got up a counter petition asking that he approve the bill and they are circulating it today and re- ceiving large number of signatures to it.
 Frank Brown, of the Prescott Title company, went to Jerome today to get smell of sulphur smoke to pre- pare him for the future. Frank has had hankering to ride on that cork screw railroad for long time and Ziba couldn't hold him any longer. If he don't fall over the side of the mountain he will be back in a couple of days.
 Company L of the Eighteenth infan- 1 try, which has been stationed at Whipple for about one year, left this morning to join the regiment at San Francisco from where they will sail for Manila April 1st. They occupied , two coaches and a baggage car, which were attached to the norhtbound ; passenger at Il o'clock and with the / assistance of an extra engine the train pulled out for Ash Fork : The social given last evening by the I Epworth League of the M. E. church at the parsonage was we'll attended |, and proved a very pleasant affair. ' Amusements were furnished those in attendance with games and music. while light refreshments were also = served. The games furnished no end ., of amusements, particularly to the Q younger portion of those in attend ance, and it was an evening of gen uine pleasure to all who attended. F. l.. Tayrrell. who came to Pres 0 colt about two months ago from Chi cago. all broken down in health, left i this morning for his home in Chicago l feeling in good health and very much i in love with Arizona in general and 1 Prescott in particular. He returns by i way of Denver where he will visit a 1 few days before continuing his jour V ney home. During his visit here he has been the guest of Postmaster Roy t Smith and A. P. Smith, all of whom e were school chums in boyhood days. t Colonel B. W. Leavell came up from z Phenix this morning. While his rank in the regular army is that of major, as adjutant general of the Arizona t militia, he has had the rank of briga- c dier general until yesterday. Colonel | Leavell who is a real soldier thought il the rank of brigadier general was a i little top heavy for the position of h adjutant general, and had a bill intro W duced in the house, reducing it to b 4I,& ofa hn 1 some time since and was passed by O the council yesterday. History fur t nishes no other instance of a man il promoting legislation to reduce his a rank. W The editor of the Journal Miner had Ii one of the most pleasant surprises this i, morning that he mas experienced for a s long time It was a call from Judge d and Mrs W. W. Guthrie. of Atchison, ', Kansas, old time friends of his. n Judge Guthrie is one of the most :. prominent attorneys of northern Kan h sas, and he and his wife have been f spending the winter in Phenix, leav ing there last week for a visit to the T Congress mine. and the Grand Can yon. They came in on last evenings train from the latter place and will remain here for day or two. In ad f dition to looking after a large prac- tice as his regular vocation Judge Guthrie has made stock raising his avocation, and has achieved as great success in this line as he has in :. his C regular profession, having succeeded in developing a new breed of cattle, known as the ''polled Herefords. " which has attracted attention of cattle men all over the world.
 From Thursdays Daily. Father Quetu came up on this morn ing's train.
 wells H. Bates came in from the south this morning.
 Deputy Sheriff Nobles left this morning for Ash Fork. h
 F. E. Biles, superintendent of the ( Dividend mine. is in town.
 J. B. Hooker was a passenger ou