Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-03-08
LOCAL BRIEFS.
From Sundays Daily.


ing company is in town on bushes
visit.
The case Of the japanese girl wa
not decided yesterday by Judg
Sloan.
The Yavapsi club will give its mex
regular dance on Tuesday, Marcl
I4th, at $50 p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. NJ. Gibbes, of Je
rome, are in town the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Ross.
Lon D. Hall left on last night
train for Mexico to put in some of hi
ore sizers for mining company there
Attorney General E. S. Clark came
up on yesterdays train from Phoenix
but will return to the capital agair
this evening, as his presence will bt
required there from now until the
close of the legislature.
Edward B. O'Dnnnell, a Chicago
mining man, is in this section on
mining business. He has made trip
out to Cherry creek on this business.
Mr.. O'Donnell is heavily interested
in mining in Idaho.
The railroad officials received ad
vices yesterday afternoon that the
damage from washouts to the Santa
IL -oo1 raor K;nrD,.p ba1 baap ra
paired so that trains could run. At
II O'Clock last night the south bound
train was reported six hours late on
account of waiting for western con-
nections.
S. L. Mcdonald, representing the
Standard Stamping company of st.
Louis is visiting Prescott. He has
been travelling through the southwest
for number of years but this is the
first time that he has made Prescott on
his trips and he is we'll pleased with
the town and with the trade that he
received here and expects to make the
town regularly hereafter.
Parties who have had occasion lately
to travel the road west of town say
that Miller lane is practically impas-
sable. The ditch on the west or
SOUTHWEST side of the road was filled
in some time since and it damned the
water up on that side of the road and
it crossed the highway washing it out
badly. A gentleman who came in from
there yesterday says that it was all he
could do to get along it on horseback.
Mrs. A. V. Kautz who has been alb
sent from Prescott over year, re-
turned again on Friday night and ex-
poets to remain here for a a few weeks
on business matters. She reports her
daughters as being both we'll. Mrs. A.
c. Read is living at Baton Rouge,
La, where her husband, Captain Read,
is instructor in military science in
the university of Louisiana. Miss
Navarro Kautz is visiting her brother,
Captain Kautz, commander of the
United States warship, Potomac, at
Suan Juan, Porto Rico.
Yesterday was another day of rain.
it commenced falling about II O'Clock
in the morning and did not come
down in gentle little showers, but
simply poured for a time. Other
smaller showers occurred during the
day, and again in the evening there
was a heavy downpour for several
minutes. During the morning rain
there was considerable thunder and
Lightning to the north of Prescott.
Parties who were Ell route to Chino
valley and who we're caught in the
thunder storm say that it was just like
one of our summer thunder storms.
The rain in the mountains west of
town was very heavy causing a big
flood to come down Miller creek.
The Samuel Hill Hardware company
has just completed the manufacture
of $500 feet of six inch pipe to be used
as air pipe at the Senator tunnel.
This amount Of pipe Indicates that
there will be something doing out
there in the near future and for some
time to come. The same firm has also
completed a very handsome cornice
for the Scopel building. 1t is made
out of galvanized iron and Isl the first
piece of work done here on as extern
sive scale as this. The company a
short time ago put in machinery spec
tally adapted to this class of work, and
this initial work of it is certainly very
creditable.
A very bright light was seen for
few minutes last night about 10 O'Clock
on the top of Thumb Butte. How
long it had been there before the par
ties happened to notice it of course
could not be known, nor cause of such
light there at that time of night, aud
Of such night as last night was could
not be even cOnjectured. 1t would
seem impossible that any parties
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