Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-24


 convalescing acording to latest re- ports.
 During the storm last Wednesday morning a dead pine tree at Iron Springs fell across tent occupied by three men. It was almost a miracle that the men escaped death and were not even injured though their tent vas flattened out in ruins.
 J. Q. Stephens, who was in town last week from Williamson valley say: that section ot country has not looked so we'll in twenty years as it does al present. He says he will be able tc cut from 200 to 300 tons of wild hay this year and will store it in his barns.
 II. W. Messenger, a prominent resi- dent of Phoenix, died suddenly of heart disease at Monterey, California, last week. Deceased had lived in Phoenix since 1886 and was connected with the Valley bank for about nine years and served one term as city | treasurer.
 Coy Carey and Miss Anita LazIolo were married on Wednesday, August r by Rev. Hyatt at the South Metho- dist parsonage. Carey was so ''Coy" that his friends thought him immune from matrimonial microbes but then one cannot "almost all the time tell sometimes
 -"Camp Beauvoir'' is the name given by Mrs. Geo. Wooster to a new pleasure resort which she has built among the Pines in West Prescott. It consists of dancing pavilion, which can also be utilized for all kinds of social functions. Tables are provided for serving refreshments.
 s. L. Sherwin, of Windom, Min nesota, took a run down from Ash Fork last week as he was en route to California to make visit to this sec tion, being interested in 8 mining company operating in this county He also visited Jerome to take look at the big copper plant there. 1 Rev. Henry 5. Long, who resigned the pastorate of the Congregational church some time since left last Friday for California where it is said he has a call to the pasatorate of church. Rev. Rogers, of Idaho, has accepted a call to the church here and is expected to arrive in time to hold services on Sunday, September f.
 W. H. Metcalf, a mining man of Los Angeles, was struck by lightning one day last week in Cochise county, near Pearce, and instantly killed. James Walker, who was with Metcalf, seated beside him in wagon, escaped without injury, as did the team. Several head of horses and COWS have been killed in the same vicinity by ! lightning recently.
 A miner employed in the Gillett mine near Camp Verde, had one leg 1 blown off last week by a premature blast. He had put in a round of shots and was igniting the fuse and before he got around to all of them the first one epXloded. Besides losing his leg he was otherwise seriously in- jured. Ed Mahurin, who brought the word to town failed to learn the man s name.
 The doctors who examined Teodore Elias, under sentence of death in Tue son for the murder of Officer KatZen- stein, find that he is subject to hallu- cinations and illusions. In plain English he is too crazy to hang but was not too carzy to commit cold blooded murder. His sanity was never questioned until after the murder was committed nor until every other means was resorted to save his neck.
 Ip a discussion of the proper or biography of certain names in this ter ritory the Phoenix Republican says: 'The government has legalized some misspelled words Tn Arizona, such as using a double l in Wilcox. '" The above town was named after general in the United States army of that name and the Journal Miner has been informed that his name was spelled with the double l, in which event the word is not misspelled as legalized.
 On Sunday last little Johnny Al lender and some companions secured a package marked powder and not being certain as to whether it was tooth, face or gun powder they put light to it to make test. To judge from the results on Johnny's couDten- ance it proved to be face. The doctor was promptly in attendance and sub