Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-08-12

a Mrs. Carroll, a granddaughter
J. H. Miles, left this morning for b,
=, home near Jerome.
: A washout between Jerome Junctio
and Granite creek last evening delay
ed the south bound nearly six hour:
Mr.. Hayden, an expert accountan
who has been at work In the railroa
offices for some time, left for Chicag
today.
E. S. Bretherton and family are i
from Val Verde today. They hav
rented their cottage in Prescott an
will remain at Val Verde for severa
months where Mr.. Bretherton ba
charge of the Val Verde smelter.
Lieuts. Raymond S. Pratt and Ed
ward r. Coppock, of the third caval
~, arrived in Prescott from the mort
last night to be present at the cominI
competition. Lieut.. George j. Oden
of the tenth cavalry, also arrived las
evening.
Two men hired horses in Pheni,
last Friday and failed to return will
them. Officers have been put on thei
trail. Some suspicion has been at
tracted to them as to the possibilit!
of their being part of the ESCAPED
convict gang from California.
Henry Louis Binford, an old anC
highly respected citizen of Los An
geles, died at his home in that city
yesterday at the age of 80 years. De
ceased was the father of c. NJ. Bin
hoff, of Prescott, who received the
above information this morning. Be
sides the son in Prescott, he leaves 6
widow, daughter and three other sons.
F. NJ. Clute, deputy great incaho,
ney of the Red Men, who was to have
visited Zuni tribe of the order in this
city last Tuesday, informs the officers
of the tribe that his failure to reach
Prescott was ON account of missing
railroad connections in the southern
part of the territory. He is now in
Jerome and will visit this city in a
short time.
A letter was received by the post
office boys this morning from Matt
Loring stating that he had met with
quite serious though peculiar acct
dent in WASHINGTON recently. He was
in bathing and in diving his head
came in contact with another bather's
knee in such a manner and with such
force that it knocked him unconscious
aud laid him up for repairs for three
or four days.
Judge McLane had big grist of
fighters and common DRINKS to attend
to this morning when he opened po-
lice court. There we're fourteen in
all, the charges being drunkenness and
fighting, and they we're given all the
way from ten to thirty days. The
three Japs who we're arrested last
night for fighting each paid their fines
and were discharged, and the balance
of the grist will linger in the COM
partnership of Steve Prince.
George Henry, the man who at
tempted to hold up the Depot Saloon
a few nights ago, was tried before
Chas. McLane, city recorder, and
fined 300 or 100 days in the county
Jail or at hard work on the cactus
pile. Geo. Hess, the man who was
arrested as an accomplice in the hold
up was tried on another charge, that
of robbing man in the alley back of
Whiskey Row, and he was bound over
to appear before the next grand jury.
A. telephone message was received
here today from Middleton, giving a
brief account of a cloudburst, which
occurred there last night. 1t stated
that a number of the combination
wood and canvas buildings had been
washed away and that wagon roads in
that section had been obliterated
from the maps. The camps of the
railroad graders had also been flood
ed. 1t was said to have been the
heaviest storm experienced there for
years.
The monthly statement of the coun-
ty treasurer, showed a balance on
hand July 81 of So, 630 q as against
balance June 30, of 81, SSH. The
heaviest items of receipts were: Per-
sonal property tax from ID. j. Sulli-
van, $1,000; licenses, Sheriff Roberts,
1851, recorders fees, ,sll2S; 1902
taxes, s39, 474.96. Heavy items of ex-
penditures were: Interest on bonds,
1854. GA; building fund warrants,
school district No. l, s2743. 80; ex-
pense fund warrants, 1926. So.
Lon Morris has just returned from
a trip through the mining camps in
the interest of the Scranton Cores
pondence school, and reports good
success. He has recently been ap-
pointed the agent for the school for
the northern portion of Arizona.
There are now in his territory some
thing like 500 pupils in the different
branches of the study. Flagstaff leads
with 175, Phenix next with 125 and
Prescott with rs. Walker, Mayer,
Val Verde and McCabe together have
about 100.
Several months ago Barney Smith |
made up his mind that he wanted two
arge iron dogs to place at the en-
rance of his yard as ornaments. He |
ried several places in the east to buy
hem but could not find anything
hat he wanted, and then he tried to
ret them cast to order, but the found
Iries wanted small fortune for the
work., so he had reluctantly given up
he idea of having his place guarded
" dogs, when one day Mrs. Smith,
Who is quite an artistic genius, called
i'm out into the wood shed and intro
uced him to two large dogs which
he had made from cement and paint
d black. To say that he was surprised
'ould be to express it mildly, but he
had the dogs placed at
he entrance to the yard where they
ouv stand nc SiIanf Santinolc