Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-07-27
THE LOCAL NEWS......
 TIE ......CETY AND COUNTY

Phoenix had her first rain fall il nine months last Thursday amounting to .56 of an inch.
 For the first time in several month! Granite creek carried quite a good stream of water last week.
 The Voge Wholesale Liquor com pany are distributors of the best brands of liquors that can be found on the market. 7-l3-tf
 Fl Paso promises to furnish bull fight, the genuine article, to those who attend the irrigation congress there in November.
 The Republican reports the birth in Phoenix of a daughter to MT. and Mrs. J. J. Bishop. MT. Bishop is a cattle man of this county.
 The Parker and Davis, Tee Hearst, club will hold a meeting on Friday evening to make arrangements to ratify Parker's nomination.
 Just wait till Parker is elected and then watch him bust the trusts. He will probably borrow Hearst's trust busting club to smash them with.
 Seven convictions for murder and one for manslaughter have been made in the district court at Tombstone during the present term of court.
 Surveyor F. J. Hesse, and party of nine, left ca Friday last for the Blue river country in the southeastern part of this territory on a surveying tour.
 Mike Hermann, the well known pioneer of this section and veteran of the civil war, is quite sick at the residence of Mrs. NJ. A. Bowen and her son Reese M. Ling.
 A. J. Hansen, of Kyrene, near Tempe, is shipping two car loads of cantaloupes a day. The railroad com pany built spur track from its main line to Hansen's melon patch.
 Mrs. c. J. McNuIty has purchased the Geo. Clark residence on Beach avenue, West Prescott. MT. Clark has gone to California to reside, where he owns considerable property.
 The street car line had its first mis- hap last Thursday during the heavy rain storm, when it ran into pile of sand on the track, which had been washed down the hill and was de- railed.
 Dr. J. R. Walls, assisted by Drs. Thomson and Fitzsimmons, perform ed rather difficult and complicated operation ou patient in Mercy hos pital last week. It proved highly suc- cessful.
 The Snta Fe has carried over sev- enty car loads of cantaloupes thus far this season from the Salt river valley. This is said to represent about one- half of the crop. Each car represents from 10, 900 to F, 900 melons.
 Some good work has been com msnced by the city council along the line of suggestion made some time since by the Journal Miner, in the re- moval of the projecting boulders on Willis street. Let the good work pro- ceed.
 The Miners union, of McCabe has leased Granite Dells from Ed Shumate for Labor Day and propose to get up a monster celebration for that day. All the various trades unions of Prescott will be invited to participate in the celebration. General 4. J. Sampson and wife have arrived at Austinburg, Ashtabula county, Ohio, from Quito where the former has been for about five years as minister to Ecuador. The couple formerly resided in Phoenix and may return to this territory again. "Now is the winter of our discon- tent, made glorious summer by this our sun of Arizona" The sun that burns; the cream that cures sun burns, "Yoette Cold Cream.'' Prepared only by Corbin & Bork, the Burke hotel Druggists. Tel. 217. 4x26xtf Three deaths occurred in Prescott on Friday last. A woman named Ennis, resident of Granite street, who took poison on Sunday with suicidal intent, was. one of the un- fortunates. Wm. Wolf. a miner, was another, and the third was a Mexican whose name was not learned.
 A Mexican boy about twenty-one or twenty two year old broke into the Chinese mission building on Granite street few days ago and stole a coat and some other articles belonging to