Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-03-04

very sick for several weeks is reports d. as decidedly better today.
 Father Quetu went to Jerome tods ii, and will conduct the regular servic, aT in the Catholic church at that plaC VI Sunday.
 is Judge Sloan returned from Pheni 4 this morning where he had been in al
 tendance at short session of the su
 preme court.
 ,e It is reported by those who came u 'e from Phenix today that it was e,
 pected the eight hour bill would b Dr passed by the legislature today.
 Pete Bowman was brought to tow
 from Lynx creek today by John Ber ss rie for medical treatment He ha tt been suffering with la grippe sine
 last Saturday.
 o Joe Scott, who has charge of tn t work of keeping the S. F. P. and P '- road in good repair along the Hillsid
 section, came up to Prescott today t |, see his numerous friends.
 s The United States civil servic, = commission annuonces that on Apri
 :, 1903, an examination will be helC !, at the usual places for the position oi I nurse in the Indian service.
 - Garvin Spence and Flora Macdonald.
 acknowledged by all critics to be the
 greatest Scottish entertainers who
 have ever visited this country will ap-
 pear at the opera house March 1.
 Superintendent J. B. Jolly has just returned from an official visit to the Ns-.A l..
 country. He reports the schools in
 splendid condition wherever he has
 visited them.
 The territorial supreme court which
 has been in session in Phenix ad-
 journed yesterday until March IS. The court will hand down opinion on
 March 20 in the cases heard during
 the January term.
 Today witnessed the running of the
 first passenger train over the Phenix
 and Eastern railroad. It went only
 as far as Tempe, but two trips were
 made, one about midday and the other
 late in the afternoon.
 Alfred Ruiz and family, mention of
 whose arrival from St. Johns was re- gently made in these columns have
 taken house at 419 South Monte
 yuma street, and are very comfortably
 located. They are we'll pleased with l Prescott.
 By virtue of its membership in the i Associated Press and the possession of a Simplex typesetting machine, the Journal Miner is able today to pre- sent to its readers in full ah address | delivered by President Roosevelt in
 New York last evening.
 Drs. Finn and Barrett performed an operation yesterday on the little daughter of MT. and Mrs J. s. Acker. The operation is said to have been success and the little sufferer is getting along nicely. She has had long siege of sickness.
 Mir. and Mrs T. G. Norris, both of whom have been sick in Phenix for several days. have about recovered from their illness and will return to Prescott tomorrow. Herndon Norris, their oldest son, who has been threat ened with an attack of pneumonia here, is now rapidly recovering.
 C.F . Cox reopeled his school at Iaeger this week after having been compelled to keep it closed for three | or four weeks on account of small pox | having broken out among a family | whose children were attending the | school. All the cases have now recov- | cred and no further trouble is ex- pected.
 Several of the territorial papers have | accused Hon. Harry Carpenter of be- | ing in PheniX for the purpose of de- | feating the eight hour bill. Harry | confidentially informed a Democrat | reporter yesterday that his mission here was to sand bag the woman suff- rage bill. The wretch !-Democrat
 John and Archie Stocks of Prescott. Arizona were here this week and out south of Cananea. They have a point in view for opening up a rich mine and they went out with a splendid outfit and capital sufficient for a suc- cessful expedition Herald.
 A fully developed snow storm ap- peared i'll this section on Thursday af- ternoOn in accordance with the wea- ther bureaus schedule but received such cold reception from a bitter north wind which the bureau had not taken into consideration that af- ter few titful spits of snow the storm was dissipated.
 H. A. Jewell. the commission man, left for Los Angeles this morning. He bas succeeded in interesting some of our local people in the proposition of a large wholesale commission house in Prescott, and may return at some 4y, .I l.. l ments for the establishment of such an enterprise.
 The Prescott Hotel bar room has been having a cold weather expert ence. \ couple of days ago the flue ; became so stopped up with soot that , 1t was thought necessary to clean it out and accordingly a brick was put in a sack and lowered by a wire to rub the soOt off the sides of the chimney. ] The brick got caught about half way down and all efforts to loosen it have failed so far. As a consequence the bar room is heated by an oil drum.
 ''The Romance of a French Salon." the first installment of a short serial by Mir. Stuart Henry, appears in the March Criterion. The Salon of the ( Nodiers, in lS40. is taken as the basis , of delicate, fascinating romance of <. the life and times of that period Oliver Evans, the First American Au | is the subject of a very { timely article by William J. Lamp , ton.
 Joe Mayer. whose big heartedness I and public spirit has made him loved ' and hOnored by all who know him, has just placed a fine piano in the !, schools at Mayer. It is only about i year since he built the nice little { school building where the school is |. now conducted, and presented to the district. If the country had more men like Joe Mayer more people would be happy and more public en- f would be built up and sus- , tained.
 Last Friday J. c. Campbell, who f was a renter on a place between Mountain Peak and Mammoth Springs, went to Ava ado. Returning he was seen at the Peak and seemed to be l drinking heavily. A little later his g team came in home and his body was ! dragging on the ground with one of his feet caught under the buggy seat, C life being extinct. One of our ex- S changes attributes his death to heart |, failure but this theory is too thin. A jug and a quart bottle of mean were found in the buggy.- s Venus. Tex. Times. S
 Walter Miller and l.. 4. Hawkins. of Jerome. visited Prescott last even t ing coming from Jerome Junction in