Weekly journal-miner., 1920-02-04
City NeUs In Brief

(From Thursdays Dally.D
 Official Business
 |. s. Marshal J. ?. Dillon arrived from Phoenix on Tuesday night, re- turning yesterday morning on the early train, urgent official business calling him there.
 Mining Man Returns
 C. E. Baton, a principal of the Peck Consolidated Mines, returned yesterday from West Virginia in con sulting with co-owners, and leaves later for the camp in the Bradshaws to look over copditions.
 Land Deal
 Charles s. Wilson and wife have sold to J. s. Sessions a small tract of land on Cherry creek, with a DOT ton of the St. Louis mining claim included, the decd being recorded yesterday for a nominal sum.
 Conditional Mine Deal
 K. Humphrey of Milwaukee, Wis, has sold to J. s. Sessions of Cherry creek the Prize mining claim for $500, conditioned on the seller re deeming the property in three years for the sum of S7l0. The buyer ac- quiesces in the deal closed.
 Comes to Reside
 Mrs. Fred Spencer of Somerville, Mass, is a recent arrival in the citp and contemplates to make her home here. Later she will be joined by her husband, who is superintendent of the Winton Motor company. one of the largest concerns of its kind in Massachusetts. Condition Improves
 There are many friends in the city of Miss Grace McCracken who will be pleased to learn that she is i'm proving at Mercy hospital, after hay ing been i'll for over week with ton silitis, contracted while returning from Minneapolis, where she had been visiting for a month with rela- tives. Brief Visit
 In the city yesterday between trains was Lincoln s. Carroll, who was re- turning home to Albuquerque, after a trip into the Wickenburg country ! on electrical business at a mining camp where his brother is employed. 1 He was employede here in 1900 by | the Prescott Electrical company and i is still following that vocation. Will Recover
 Mrs. R. K. Acuff, who was brought | from Camp Verde to this city last week and placed in Mercy hospital critically i'll with appendicitis, was operated upon yesterday morning, and her condition last night was stated to be favorable for recovery. She is the wife of Rev. Acuff and . has many friends in Verde valley and elsewhere who will be pleased to learn of the change for the better. Likes the Navy
 Passing through yesterday from Newport, Rhode Island, was George K. Judson, who is granted a 20-day furlough from the navy, and will visit with relatives in Blue Tanks district. His physical appqeai ance has changed since enlisting nearly two years ago at Phoenix, and from l39 pounds he has tipped the beam at l72 pounds He said, There Is no alkali dust or powder smoke to inhale in that for nation and guess I'll stick to the sea"
 Beginning Over
 George F. Watts, m the city from Clemenceau en route to his home at Glendale, states the passing of Verde to the new name by the postal de- partment is occasioning a wide pro- test. The proper way to pronounce the place, also the spelling, will re- quire a French tutor to get the aver age Arizonan next to himself. The visitor suggests ther are quite num- Der of buddys in the city of Clemen- ceau detailed for this special duty that is if they can remember the ar 1 ticulation in high and low gears and are still conversant with the gestures of the French.