Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-15

residence of Mrs. Bagby in the old
 Toby Johnson house in West Prescott.
 Lovers of ice cream and oysters will
 be pleased to know that Shumate G
 Jackson have past master of these
 arts in each of the respective depart
 ments of their store.
 The rainfall during the storm from
 Sunday night at midnight, until its close on Monday, according tc Dr. W.
 E. Days ram gauge amounted to l. 9
 inches, making 3.75 inches for the month of March.
 After a day of floating, drifting clouds the weather cleared up last evening and there was quite a percep- tlble fall in the temperature and the indications are good for clear weather. Do not however construe this as a prediction for clear weather.
 A. E. Suppiger, who arrived here on Sunday night, is en route to Port land to attend the exposition there which opens in few months. He is engaged in taking views for it. He attended the St. Louis exposition last summer having a great many views there both for sale and on exhibition
 George U. Young who was in town yesterday from the Derby mine, says that the rainfall and snow fall at the above mine out on the summit of the Sierra Prieta mountains was much heavier than in Prescott. He says that it is almost impossible to get any supplies in there at present.
 Dr. and Mrs. F. w. Sawyer and Mir. and Mrs. M. Nelson left on Sunday for Los Angeles for brief visit. On Tuesday morning MT. Anewalt receiv- ed a telegram from the doctor saying that they had concluded to stop at Bsrstow for brief time. The stop however was made on account of wash outs on the Santa Fe road beyond Barstow.
 A special train of twelve cars passed through Prescott on Monday evening loaded with cattle en route to Cali fornla. While the local road has a good cattle shipment trade with Phoe- nix, this particular shipment came from the south side of the river and was shipped by this route on account of the washout of the Gila bridge on the M. < P. road. The Santa Fe has been shipping large number of emp ty stock cars to Phoenix during the past few days, indicating that other large shipments are to follow.
 "Frank Wade was simply irresisti- ble," was the remark of those who attended the performance of the Beg gar Prince Opera company last night "The Beggar Prince' was presented to large audience and the people who saw it were highly enthusiastic over the presentation. Mr. Wade is easily the best comedian who ever made this city and is becoming favorite with theatre goers. Last night he played the title role, and he got all the fun there was in the part put of it-simply ladled it out and made the audience laugh until breath iEg was difficult. Jack Spaulding as Rocco, the Farmer" was a good for him. Moines, Iowa, Register.
 A Chinese vegetable peddler yester- lay furnished amusement for several people at the railroad bridge across Granite creek. While attempting to | ross the stream hIs horse and the i ront wheels of his wagon got mired | town in the quicksand. The China | nan got out of his rig into the water lnhitched the horse and hitehed him O the rear of the wagon, sinking into he quioksands himself once or twice Iearly up to his waist, but finally suc- eeded in getting horse and wagon on olid ground. After hitching up his 7agon he waded around in the stream ntil he found solid footing and went n his way rejoicing. The operation 'as witnessed by several people and he Celestial seemed to enjoy the ex- rather than otherwise as he miled as he would go down into the reacherous quicksand and after get ing through took bis rubber boots off nd poured the water out of them as nconcernedly as though it was an very day occurrence.
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