Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-02-22
LOCAL BRIEFS.
From Thursdays Daily.


six patients at present.
c. F. Adams and son left yesterday
for Los Angeles.
j. L. Murray came in from Blanch-
ard yesterday.
There are only seven prisoners in the
county Jail at present.
Edgar W. Stephens is in town from
his Williamson valley ranch.
c. ". Herndon has moved his law
office into the Bsshford block.
There has been an oyster famine in
Prescott for the past two days.
VIM. Thomas took charge of the
county hospital again yesterday.
Lester jackson returned yesterday
from a trip into Pima county on min
ing business.
Wallace Willard left last evening
for Yuma, where he expects to remain
for few months.
Attorney T. j. Norton, of the San
ia Fe company returned yesterday
from a professional visit to Phoenix.
WI. Buckingham, representative
of Douglas Lacey & Co., returned to
Prescott yesterday after a brief trip
in the country.
Writing from Maxton, Max j. AL
wens says that heavy snow storm
prevailed all forenoon yesterday in
the vicinity of the Senator.
F. NJ. Murphy returned yesterday
from his visit to Phoenix. He expects
to leave again in few days for the
east on thirty days visit.
S. E. Bretherton came in last even
ing from Val Verde. He states that
affairs are as suming definite shape for
the rebuilding of the smelter at that
place.
The electric light bulbs on the
"Elks'' sign on K. of P. hall seemed
to have an unusual brilIiancy to them
last evening. There was evidently
something doing on the inside of the
hall.
Leroy Anderson introduced his sher-
ifs salary bill in the house yester'
day. In counties of the first class the
salary shall be "a, 600; second class,
So, 800; third class, So, 600; in counties
of all other Glasses, g, 500.
Ben Clay came in last evening from
Huron. He has been quite sick for
about two months, part of the time
in the hospital. He is getting better
now but is kept on an invalid's diet
which is not to his liking.
Mark Murphy, who is in town from
the Orc mine, says that the cause of
shutting down that property was a
scarcity of water. He says that there
is plenty of good ore in the mine, to
keep the mill in operation if a water
supply can be obtained.
Arthur F. Warde, advance agent of
the Florence Roberts company left
on Tuesday evening for Phoenix,
where the company will play next
Tuesday evening. They have engaged
a special train to take them from
Prescott to Phoenix on Tuesday.
". Q. Olden, a civil engineer of
Chicago, is in town looking after the
estate o.. his uncle, the late LIN. Old
en- of Camp Verde, who was accident
ally killed short time ago. He ex-
poets to complete his business today
and return to his eastern home.
The hearing of the contempt cases
against Otto Straub and D. E. Scott
was concluded yesterday and the for
mre was discharged from custody and
the case against Scott was taken under
advisement by Judge Sloan until this
morning at O'Clock when a decision
will be rendered.
''Still has the Gripes'' is the caption
of an article which appeared in the
Courier yesterday. The closing para
graph of the article in question is of
such a nature as to raise the presump-
tion that it is quite serious case of
"gripes'' that our contemporary is
troubled with. a strong solution of
copper might help it out.
Three soldiers are reported to have
deserted from Whipple on Monday
night. One of them was ball player
who went to Phoenix with the Pres
colt team. The score which the Pres
colt boys went up against on Saturday
was enough to make man do almost
anything. IL captured he will probably
introduce that score as a mitigating
circumstance.
Will L. Clark, assistant general
manager of the United Verde copper
mine is in town accompanied by his