Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-07-01
The LOCAL NEWS.
......CITY And COUNTY
From Wednesdays Daily.


II Walter Bennett returned to his hon
in Phenix last evening.
F. NJ. Czarnowski of Martinez, wa
in Prescott yesterday.
Geo. B. Scammell went to Pheni
i on last evenings train.
H. H. Mcneil of Phenix. came il
on this mornings train.
R. E. Smith of Jerome has been ap
pointed a notary public.
A. C. Mcqueen came up from Phe
nix on this mornings train.
Raymond Belcher has returned from
attending school in Los Angeles.
W. &. Barney left this morning fol
visit to Mohave county on mining
business.
Prof. A. J. Matthews came in OIL
this mornings train for a visit of g
few days.
A. W. Edwards returned this morn
ing from visit to Castle Creek hot
springs.
Phenix BARRIERS will close their
shops at p. m. from June % to Sep
TENDER 30.
Dennis Drophy, a mining man of
Denver, is visiting this section on
mining business.
The W. c. T. U. will give their
Fourth of July picnic at grove on
Dukes ranch.
Clarence Spaulding left on this
mornings train after successful bus
mess visit to Prescott.
District Attorney E. S. Clark left
this morning for brief business trip
to Flagstaff on professional business.
VIM. English, assistant secretary of
the territory, came up from Phenix
yesterday returning again on last
evenings train.
Miss Mary Duke and her little sis
ter Fern, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Duke, went up to Ash Fork to-
day for a brief visit.
The Colorado river now registers &c
feet inches at the Southern Pacific
bridge, the highest point reached this
year.-Yuma Sun.
Charles S. Haywood, an old resident
of this county, died at the county
hospital yesterday aged GO years.
He was-a veteran the civil war
A Lower Verde constable brought
an Indian into the county Jail who
had shot a fellow red man in the
neck. The bullet barely missed the
jugular vein.
DR.. and Mrs. G. W Vickers we're
passengers on this mornings north
bound train. Mrs. Vickers was en-
route east and the doctor accompanied
her as far as Ash Fork.
Justin Head and Jim Ketchem,
two Indians from the Verde valley,
are in town today in connection with
the recent killing of an Indian by |
another Indian recently.
1T ,,;ob&,- 4,,;r f,;IoI - ,,.oIxo
any connections either from the east /
or west. The Colorado river at Need
les is on a rampage and the Rio
Srande is causing trouble near Albu-
Iuerque.
Thomas King, jr., called at the
Journal Miner office this morning to
say that it was his brother Charley
and not himself who received a broken
leg by being kicked by horse. The
break is quite pad one but the
young man is getting along nicely.
S. A. d. jackson, of Walnut Grove,
is in Prescott, having arrived in the
city last night. He recently sold a |
car load of horses to Kansas firm,
and the stock was loaded for shipment
yesterday and passed through here to-
day for that market.
Theodore Romero, the eleven year
old son of Antonio Romero, met with
a horrible death yesterday afternoon
about four o'clock. by being literally
ground into pulp beneath the wheels
of freight train on Madison avenue
in front of Abe Franks residence
Yuma Sun.
The Spinsters' Convention held at
Masonic hall last evening by the East
ern Star chapter was we'll attended
and furnished no end of amusement
to all who attended. Prof. Make
overs machine proved a perfect sue
cess and by it an old maid was trans
formed in the twinkling of an eye to
a handsome and charming young lady.
While engaged in fixing up some
vines against the side of his house
yesterday afternoon County Treasurer
J. P. Storm fell from a ladder on
which he was working and sustained
painful if not serious injuries. He
was unconscious for several minutes
after the accident He is reported
better today.
When the freight train pulled out |
of Ash Fork this morning no trains
bad arrived there from either the east |
or the west The east bound trains /
were held at Needles by washouts
caused by the Colorado river. The |
loaction of the trouble to the west 4
bound trains were not known. West |
bound trains were expected to arrive
there about 9 O'Clock this morning.
The municipal water system is not |
paying running expenses. The bills |
for the month of May do not foot up |
quite sl4O0, which is several hundred |
dollars short of the actual expense of |
maintaining the system.
The plaza fountain was given a |
thorough cleaning out this afternoon. |
Out of the fifty gold fish that were
placed in the fountain last fall only
about twenty five are now alive, while
not one of the ninety trout is alive.
In the district court this afternoon