Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-02
From Wednesdays Daily.

VIII preach tonight.
 Burk Friesleben, representing the Kansas City Paper House, is in town taking orders from his house.
 Mrs. Ralph Dillon, formerly oi Prescott and Jerome, but now resi- dent of New York is in town on 8 visit.
 Dr. w. W. Lewis expects to leave for New York next week on a mining visit. He will be absent for about thirty days.
 Ira PuIIiam has purchased Coy Carey's transfer business and the lat ter will devote his attention to hi; stage line.
 Mrs. J. W. Doris and Mrs. W. H. Robinson, come over this morning from Iron Springs to do a little shop ping.
 J. K Truman, superintendent at the property of the Climax Gold company, came in from Quartz mountain last evening.
 Mesdames Aaron Goldberg and E. lJ. Bennitt came in this morning from Iron Springs to spend the day with friends in Prescott.
 Lloyd Clark, brother of Mrs. J. H. Robinson, left for Los Angeles this morning to live, his parents having moved there about month ago.
 Miss Alice Campbell gave such eX- cellent satisfaction as teacher of the Congress school last year that she has been employed for another year.
 Miss Corinne Smith, one of the high school teachers arrived in Prescott last evening. Miss Smith comes from Cal ifornia and is a graduate of the Stan ford university.
 Geo. Rohpeter, the well known miner and farmer of the Agua Fria section is in town. He reports an ex- celIent corn crop in the Agua Fria valley this year.
 John Bargorra returned day or two ago from trip to the coast, eX- tending his visit as far north as San Francisco. He says he saw lots of Arizona people everywhere he went.
 The Journal Miner was the only Prescott paper which gave an account of the yacht race, as it actually occur red. Imaginary reports of such events differ from the truth more widely than the distance between the Reliance and Shamrock on Tuesday.
 E. F. Cullerton, of Chicago, ar rived in Prescott last evening for brief visit and while here will look over the mining resources of this sec tion. NIT. Cullerton is an old friend of John Kinney, the two having been boys together in Chicago but they had not seen each other for several years.
 The atmosphere yesterday seemed laden with pugilistic bacilli. In ad- dition to the scrap which took place on the northern edge of town, two ne groes had wordy encounter last evening which threatened to end in bloodshed as one of them drew a dan gerous looking knife. The affair blew over however without a tragedy.
 W. E. Murphy has been suspended from the position of chief clerk in the surveyor generals office. The sus- pension is the result of au investiga- tion of the office recently by an in spector from the general land office. He is accused of charging extra for making plats in mining application cases, on the ground of having to work overtime.
 Mayor Burke has appointed himself as a special street improvement com mittee and is constructing d rock bot tom, rock lined gutter on Gurley street along side of Hotel Burke. The former gutter was not of sufficient capacity to carry the water and recent floods have washed out the street un til approach to the hotel from the Gurley street side was impossible.
 Miss Florence Herndon entertained about a dozen of her young girl friends yesterday afternoon. Games were played and conundrums were propounded and very interesting and -enjoyable time was experienced by all present. Miss Genevieve Hubbard won the prize for guessing the great est number of conundrums. The young hostess also served refreshments to her guests.
 The Phenix Republican has the fol lowing complimentary mention of d new Prescott law firm: ''There is a new law firm in Prescott, Hawkins. Ross and Anderson. The members of it are John J. Hawkins. Le Roy An derson and John M Ross. The head of the firm, Judge Hawkins. is one of the best known members of the Ari- zona bar and former member of the supreme bench of the territory"
 In conversation today concerning the operations of the C. P. Collins syndicate in this county. Dr. ". W. Lewis stated that until June of the present year their pay roll had never amounted to less than S'0. OoO per month for the past four years. A present the only property being work ed by them in this county are the De- | tave mines in Weaver district.
 There was a good attendance last night at the tea given by the Home Missionary society, at the resideucC of Mir. and Mrs. R. A Tlabot, and a good time as enjoyed by all Consid erable amounts of funds as received for the treasury of the society. Ar interesting program was rendered, among the numbers being beautiful solo. rendered by Mrs Hathaway, a recitation by Mrs. Dolly and a song by Master Harry Ling.
 The Phenix Democrat of recent date says; Mrs. Clara A. Evans