Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-05-25

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Elk lodge meets tonight.
First class job work at the Journal
Miner Office.
The Eagles band Will give a picnic
about June 10.
Try the Prescott steam laundry with
your flanuels lxl3xtf
W. Spray, father of Mrs. Charles
Keller, died in Los Angeles last week.
Good work at living prices is the
motto of the Journal Miner job office.
Give US a trial.
The journal Miner is now better
prepared than ever to turn out job
work promptly.
The public schools of the city are
having their annual examination pre-
paratory to the close of the schools.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
J NJ. Contreras died in West Prescott
on Sunday and was buried on Monday
afternoon.
Samples of good job work can be
seen at the Journal Miner office. The
same kind of work can be procured
here.
FOR RENT A neat cottage of six
rooms aud bath, on Alarcon street.
Call at this Office for particulars.
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The weather has been very cloudy
and threatening for several days with
some rain reported in the mountains
but none has fallen in Prescott.
A quartette of priests from Pitts
burg are in this section on mining
business. One of them occupied the
pulpit of the Catholic church on Sun
day last.
PheniN papers announce the birth
Of an eleven and a quarter pound girl
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Randall.
NJ. Randall formerly resided in Pres
colt.
Jerry Banton, an old time resident
of this county, is in a Tucson hos
pital, suffering from a stroke of par
alysis, and his recovery is considered
doubtful.
The high school and eighth grade
base ball teams last Saturday had
their closing game OF ball for the sea
SOD. The game was won by the
eighth grade by a score of 10 to Z.
The pillars to the entrance of the
EIks theater are very massive affairs,
being built of immense blocks of
granite. One block alone used in one
of these pillars weighs over seven
tons.
The drawing for Frank Fosters au-
tomobiIe took place on Saturday even
ing, the machine being drawn by
Frank Strowbridge, a travelling man,
who had just invested 500 in tickets
during the day.
The two Mexican boys who we're
feceHtly caught in the act of commit
ting a daylight burglary we're COM
mitted to the industrial school at
Benson. These boys hoboed to Pres
colt from Ell Paso.
On the principle that the early bird
catches the worm, probably, four po-
litical announcements have already
appeared in the democratic paper
There is nothing like one making his
wants known early in the game.
2. Kesrney, who has just returned
from his trip to the Bradshaw noun
tains, says it will take three months
to complete the wagon road, connect
ing Crown King with the Orc Bella
Mining camp.
A committee of Santa Fe boiler
makers visited Los Angeles last week
to confer with General Manager Wells
but failed to come to any agreement,
so that all of the boiler makers Oh
the road west of Albuquerque went
on a strike.
Jos. Bright, of the firm. of Bright,
Crandall 4 Drew, contractors, was in
town recently looking for lsborers.
The above firm was the one which ex-
cavated the oil tanks recently for the
Santa Fe company and now have
contract for large amount of work
for the S. F. P. & P. railroad.
A man while drunk last week took
header through E. A. Kastner &
Co. s plate glass window. Result a
big hole punched in the glass and a
head somewhat cut, with big flow of
blood. The injured piece of glass was
about five or six feet square ana
worth $3.50.
Bids opened at Whipple for the
construction of a sewer system fol-
low: O'Neill Company, of Denver,
$40, 600; r. C. Mattingly, of San
Francisco, So, 40; Whiting Com
psny, of Albuquerque, s7sIO. rs; j.
H. Mulrein, of Prescott, sIl, $40; FL
field Il Gallagher, of Phenix, s9763.
The Eagles hand gave another of
their popular concerts on Sunday
evening. On account of the ElIery
band concert at Granite DelIs they
changed the hour from four O'Clock
to seven and they had as large an au-
dience as the Ellery band. While they
do not claim yet TO be the equal of
he latter they are improving very
rapidly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson and their band
of workers held their farewell services
at Prescott Mission, DAD s. Montezuma
street, last Sunday afternoon and
evening. Mrs. Nelson and Mr.. Luns-
trum left for Los Angeles on Tuesday
to attend the annual conference of the
| Free Methodist church. The meetings
at the Mission have been discontinued
for the present, but the Sunday school
will be kept up.
The following is the list of bishops
elected by the Methodist conference