Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-23
STHE LOCAL NEWS...... 3 ......CITY AND COUNTY
From Saturdays Daily.

Bishop Kendrick of the Episcopal church is in town.
 Born, in Prescott, March IS, to MT. and Mrs. Joseph Drew, a son.
 The supreme court of the territory will meet in Phenix next Monday.
 W. F. Armstrong and wife, of Bag. dad, California, are visiting Prescott.
 Deputy Sheriff Chas. Platt went out to the Crazy Basin country this morn ing on business for the sheriff's office.
 Eli s. Perkins, of the Martinez News-Herald, is in town today looking after some business in the land office.
 Deputy Sheriff Geo. Heisler, who has been in Jerome for three or four days, returned to Prescott this morn ing.
 The ball game today between the high school and eighth grade was won by the former by a score of + to II.
 R. E. Morrison returned Thursday evening from his visit to Los Angele: to attend a meeting of the Mitchell Mining company.
 Mrs. Foster, who was examined in the probate court yesterday evening and adjudged insane. was taken to the asylum last night by Sheriff Roberts.
 Governor Brodie has granted a pa role to Harry c. Donleigh, a forty year convict from Navajo county. Donleigh was convicted of murder in 1896.
 Mike Gratz has returned to Prescott after an absence of considerable time. . His la t location was at Penn, Oregon. He is looking around here with a view of locating in Prescott again.
 G. A. Bray has purchased Robert Burmister's beautiful Mt. Vernon street residence property. This is one of the handsomest residences in this city and will make MT. and Mrs Bray a lovely home.
 Charles E. Murphy, son of Simon J. Murphy, the Detroit millionaire, ho is heavily interested in this territory, left this morning for his home in De- troit. He has been spending several days in Prescott looking after busi- ness interests and visiting friends.
 Anyone have old magazines, books or papers that are lying about the house in the way, will do the prison CTS in the county jail a great favor if they will bring them to the sheriff s office for use in the jail. In this way a kindly act can be done and the house cleared of articles that are only in the way.
 The register and receiver of the land office are hearing testimony to- day in a protest of Eli s. Perkins, against the publication of an applica- tion for patent in the Phenix Republi- can. The claims are Ioacted in Mari copa county but Mir. Perkins claims that the jurisdiction of his paper covers the territory of their location.
 The boys of the sixth and seventh grades of the public schools played a game of base ball on Friday after noon. It was all one sided in favor of the seventh grade. Two of the boys indulged in a very warm fist fight during the progress of the game, go- ing away however some distance from the grounds to scrap.
 F. W. Bangs, the popular young man who represents the wholesale drug firm of F. W. Braan & Co.,, and who visits this section periodically arrived on today's train from the south. MT. Bangs enjoys shis trips to Arizona so much, that be brought his wife with him on this trip to help him enjoy the climate and other pleas ures attending the trip.
 Mrs. Scott Haywood arrived in Pres colt on Thursday for the benefit of her health, accompanied by her phys ician, Dr. E. A. Lee. Mrs. Haywood comes from Louisiana. She is not stranger here as she has visited Pres colt before as a member of the Hey wood opera company, of which her husband was one of the proprietors. The company has retired from busi- ness as the Haywood brothers recently made big fortune in oil in Texas and Louisiana.
 D. M. Ferry, the great Detroit seed man, who is also interested very ex- tensively in Arizona enterprises, ar rived in Prescott this morning from the south. He has been visiting Tombstone, where he has large min ing interests, mad the Salt river val ley where he ;s interested in the fruit and ranch business. He is director in the Prescott National Bank and also a large stock holder in the s. F. P. & P. railroad After a short visit here with MT. and Mrs. J. A. Hope. he will leave for his home in Detroit. Michigan.
 The probate court was the scene of another examination on a charge of insanity his afternoon, making the sitxh one so far this month. The per son whose sanity was under consider ation was James Allen, the man who was brought down from Ash Fork couple of days ago. He is apparently about forty years of age and very poorly dressed. He has an imagin- ation that some one is after him trying to harm him aud would fight what he thought were his enemies and pound the wall and tear his clothing until it was necessary to put him where he could not harm himself. Drs. Smith and Yount conducted the examination and be was committed to the asylum in Phenix and will be taken to that place tonight. Territorial Auditor Nichols yester- day submitted to Governor Brodie report of the receipts in his office of