Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-31

| damage WdS OOue, DeyOuu IliS hAOOh- ing off of few shingles. The light ming followed the water gutter to the ground.
 The fight between Jefries and Mon roe in San Francisco last Friday night was a very tame affair from prize fight standpoint. The big Butte miner was buffeted around by Jeffries at will and was knocked out in the second round.
 J. H. Lee and Nathan Levy have been awarded the contract to furnish the government with 250, 900 pounds of alfalfa hay and 200,0 pounds of straw at Whipple Barracks. A man from La Junta, Colorado, was the suc- cessful bidder on the grain contract.
 Burt Davis received telegram from his wife, from Ocean Beach on August 9, announcing that she and their baby were both we'll and adding that the baby had won the prize at a baby show held there. Burt, like any loving father might, naturally fells quite proud of the honors award ed his offspring.
 Dr. McNally was called on Thursday last to set some broken bones for Andrew Edger. He met with an ac- cident at the Poland mine in which his left arm was broken in two places, between the shoulder and elbow and between the elbow and wrist. A man named Lane also sustained a scalp wound in the same accident.
 Charles Hof, who acted as the advance agent of the Sunset telephone company in establishing telephone exchanges at Tucson, Phoenix and Prescott and who is secretary and manager of the Tucson street railway company, announces that his people will give the city of Tucson an cleo tIic car servicce in the immediate future.
 A telegram from Douglas. dated August 24, says: Senator Freeze, formrely a member of the Arizona legislature, and one of the best known gamblers of the territory was held up and robbed here last night of g, 100. He was forced to hand over the money at the point of revolver. Officers are endeavoring to capture the thieves, but as yet they have not been taken into custody.
 It is sai1 that 2OOO men will be placed at work next winter between Wickenburg and the Colorado river, on the grade of the Arizona and Cali fornia railroad. The experience which the Santa Fe has had this summer with washouts and floods in Arizona has impressed them with the necessity for haste in completing this line. The grand jury of Cochise county has prevailed upou Sheriff Del Lewis to revoke the commission of deputy sheriff issued to John M. Johnson of Bisbee. Several citizens of Bisbee had signed petition requesting Johnson's withdrawal as a deputy. Johnson is the same man who was badly beaten last week at Bisbee by Ed Prenty. The latter was arrested and released on 5l, 800 bond.
 Joe Archambeau who went out on Thursday for a hunt, was in all the heavy storm, south of town which oc- cured during the afternoon. He went prepared for the storm though and did not get wet. He killed one wild cat. He says that the storm was ac- companied by heavy fali of hail in the mountains. He says that in coming home he found hail two feet deep where it. had been washed down the mountain side by the water.
 One Of those rare but most beautiful sights, rainbow at night, vas wit messed last Wednesday night. The full sent it's rays against rain storm in the west, causing rainbow from the northern to the southern horizon. It was as perfect, though not qu!te so bright as a daylight rainbow, and was witnssed by a great many people. This is the tn ird or fourth phenome- non of this kind that the writer has seen during twenty-two years resi- dence in Prescott.
 In years gone by ferry across the Salt river at Tempe was found neces- sary a great portion of the year. Since the rainfall has decreased so much during the past six or eight years the stream has been fordable with the exception of short periods !, during a flood, which would last only , few hours. The recent continuous rains in the mountain country where