Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-02-08

worth in Prescott. He is so much in
love with Arizona that he has about
concluded to locate some place in the
territory.
Between twenty and thirty citizens
of Jerome came over on last evening"
train to attend the funeral of the late
Jerry Harrington, which will be held
this morning at 500 o'clock from the
Catholic church. Mr.. Harrington
leaves wife and brother to mourn his
loss.
Word was received in Prescott yes
terday afternoon that Jack Mellineaux,
in the employ of the United Verde
Copper company. had become insane.
1t was stated that be had lost con-
siderable sleep from watching with
the sick, and it was hoped that the
trouble win be only temporary.
The rain storm. which commenced on
Thursday, has continued with but
very slight interruption at occasional
intervals up to late hour last night.
At I O'Clock on Thursday evening DR..
W. E. Day, official weather observer.
reported the precipitation at SO of an
inch. He measured up again twice
on Thursday, the last time at : O'Clock
in the evening and added LAG inches
to the record. making a total for the
storm up to that hour of 2:45 inches.
Festive Indiana boys; found casu-
al can kicking around near a gas
we'll; tied it on a dogs tail, as Indi
ana humor dictates shall be done in
such cases; canine set off on the wild
rush customary under the circuu-
stances; bad head-on collision with
child in a crib; can, which had nj
troglycerine antecedents, went off
with great deal of vim and enthu-
sism; baby badly injured; house
smashed up; humor comes high but
1 Indiana must have Tx.
The visitor to the Falkland isles
sees scattered here and there singular
shaped blocks of what appear to be
weather beaten and moss covered
boulders in various sizes. Attempt to
turn one of these boulders over and
( you will meet with a real surprise, be-
cause the stone is actually anchored
by roots of great strength; in fact.
you will find that you are trifiing with
one of the native trees. No other
country in the world has such pecu-
liar forest" growth. London Tit
Bits.
Thursday was TIE traditional ground
] hog day. AccordiIe 90 the ground
hog sign, winter Is a an end. The
tradition is that this a4ia al comes out
on the second of Febru' and if the
sun is shining so he ca, see his shad-
ow he retirei to his ,iuter quarters
for a period of six weeks, as winter
will last that much longer. If on the
contrary the sun is hidden by clouds
Mr. Ground Hog construes it to mean
/ that winter is over and he commences
J his spring work. No ground hog in
Arizona could see his shadow on
Thursday, hence, if his philosophy is
correct there will be no more winter
Mayo Simpson and John Brown had
their trial yesterday before Justice
Talbot, on charge of stealing money
from saloon and the former was SEN
fenced to the reform school and
Brown was acquitted. The actual
theft was committed by Simpson and
the only part that Brown took in it
was to engage in wrestling bout with
another boy in front of the saloon to
attract the attention of the proprietor
while the Simpson boy entered the
place from the rear to commit the
theft. The Simpson boy has been in
numerous scrapes before, while this is
the first time that the Brown boy has
been arrested and he is big enough TO
/ heed the lesson he mas had from it.