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Only about 2,100 names have been j entered on the great register to date, j A new whistle ba3 been put on j the Tail road shops. It has a regular business sound to it. Try one of those specials, some j thing new every day in soda drinks at the Woman's Exchange. S-Ctf j The Woman's Exchange commenced i on Monday of this week to serve a light breakfast each morning. ! Congress won a ball game over ! Phoenix last Sunday by a score of 16 . to 4. The game was played in Con- j gress. j Parties using city water are advised j to boil it before drinking it. Thisj simple precaution may save a spell of j sickness. The Martinez News-Herald reports ! tho burning of R.- L. Brady's store at j Congress last week. Loss cGCCO, in-1 sirred for 64,700. j The tax rate in Pinal county has been Sxed at S3. 75 on the 3100 valua tion. Thi9 is twenty-flvo cents less than in this county. The advance guard of eighteen special trains has arrived at the Grand Canyon. The above number is due before September 9. Thirteen year old girl assaulted by negro near Cedartown, Georgia. Negro shot, dragged a mile and then cremat ed. This is the gist of a news item of Angost 22. W. W. Elliott, formerly of Pres cott, is now located in Douglas, where be will bave charge of the erection of a big reduction plant for the EI Tigre Alining company. Mrs. Buckley, of Phoenix, has been paid $1,700 by the Phoenix Light and Fuel company foi the death of her husband, who was killed by the Palace saloon explosion April i. Mrs. Buck ley had sued the company for 55,000, SAVE YOURSELF The tronbla of going from one Drnjj Store to another by going to the t, nsiey Brisley'a have by far the largest jind best selected stock of Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines nnd usual Drug Store Supplies. They are very seldom "just out" of the article you want every department is well supplied and constantly replenished with new gotxla io meet the needs of the people. SUPERIOR SERVICE JUST PRICES ooo Is the irresistible combination that is win ning them the largest piitroruge ever enjoy. d by any Prescott dras store. HAfiBYBRBLEY. T.E.UTT. Opposite Both Banks. ggjgS ULIaus&Co. Successor to P. Mohn cc Co. Funeral Directors 3 I 1 u oocr north of Britifcipcycr's Hotel E.;ctric Phone 350 -PRESCOTT. ARIZ. Jj2ISK532233-SHEJ We have, for sale, good properties, large and small, loan money, aud do a general Real Estate and Insurance business. We are agents for the Yost Typewriter, aud Aet na Indemnity Co., and for Otis Addition. I 7 WT 1? O C J, ffL W. ftlOOre & bOIl LALER BLOCK. PHONE 75. D Company 6 -1 ; 35 mmmmmmmmmmmmmpmmfAmmmmmmmmm A flock of curlews were seen north-' east of town on Monday. As their home is on salt water it is not known how they chanced to stray into this mountainous country. Noith St. Louis, on Saturday and St. Paul on Sunday were visited by destructive tornadoes. The loss of life at the former place was twenty and in St. Paul sixteen. Heavy rains fell in and around Prescott on Sunday and Monday. Granite creek, Miller creek, Potts creek and Aspen creek, were at flood tide for a portion of each day. Miss Daisy Dayton, a very popular young lady, of Prescott, was the re cipient of a surprise party last week from her many young friends. The occasion wa3 a very pleant and en joyable one. Cbas. Miller, an old time prcspec- j tor and many years a resident of Pinal and King, attempted suicide iast Tuesday night near Florence while temporarily out of his mind He had been drinking heavily. The Eagles -band gave another open air concert on the plaza on Sunday eveninc. since toe departure or Willis Grander, Ed Wright manipu lates the baton as leader of the band aud it seems to come natural for bim. George-Harris, a Bisbee miner, may have to sustain amputation and may dio from the effects of a bandage satu rated with ammonia applied to a leg wounded by the sting of a scorpion. All the flesh has fallen from tho bone where the ammonia touched. Traffic was tied up on Monday again on tho Santa Fe railroad by the effect of the storms. A washout occurred that afternoon near Peach Springs. Washouts also occurred near King man and west bound trains were all held at Ash Fork on Monday nignt. J. D. Carter, who has been expert- i ing the books of Shreiff Roberts, has been appointed to the position of j under sheriff. The;sheriff j need to lie awake nights will not worrying j over the business of his office, as Mr. uarrer is uoiu competent, aim uuuusi. The recent floods in Granite creek hire bjaa emroaching on tho prop- 1 erty on its east banks. The earth sur j rounding a well on the rear of the lot of the Chinese mission was washed away and the woll filled up. Several feet of the lot wont down the stream. Word has been' received here that the 1 f 1 T c i uauKiiiK urm ol j. u. ivicueau ct, io.. i of New York has gone into bank 1 ruptcy. This firm was the fiscal i agents for the Crown King Miues j company. What effect the failure j will have upon the latter company is I not known. Clay Mills, un employe of the Plaza stables, reports an attempt being made to rob him on Monday morning last, about 2 o'clock, while he was at work. The would be robber was a Mexican and he attempted to choke 1 him into submission to giving up 3100 1 he had on him at the time. Lane Cornwall had his left band ijadly bitten by a wild burro, one day j iast week. He was running the bnrro j to. lasso it when it fell and his horse ; fell ovor it, horse boy and burro all I in a neap. JJney all came up about the same time and the burro sailed in l on boy and horse. He bit aud struck I at a furious rate, and soon had Lane j by the left hand aud was rapidly 'reducing it to a pulp, when in some mysterious manner he succeeded in extricating himselt and escaping with a badly wounded hand Mohave , Miner. i the bashford-biirmister co., Iheadqearters for everything The heavy rains of Wednesday of last week caused five washouts on the S. F. P. & P. and Prescott and East ern roach Among the number was the carrying away of two bents of the Lynx creek bridge. Repairs were promptly made and the mishaps caused only a few hours delay to traffic. The Grant Brothers. Construction company expect to complete the 1 grade of the Phoenix and Eastern rail road between Kelvin and Dudleyville by September 1. Work on the western extension, which branches from the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix be tween Wikenburg and Congress is be ing pushed with a small force.' Mrs. George Wooster resumed con trol and management of the Woman's Exchange on Tuesday, August 16, and begs to announce to her old patrons that she will endeavor to serve them faithfully, as rormerJy, and solicits a continuance ot the kind patronage of old and new friends of the Exchange. 8-17-tf A movement is on foot to stork Arizona with Chinese pheasants. The birds have been successfully intro duced in the Puget Sound country and it is thought that they will also prove a success in this territory. The birds are of a good size, being fully as' large as a prairie chicken, of a good game flavor, and a game bird in every sense, running swiftly and flying like an arrow. It is a Budapest chemist who origi nates the most scientific .way of mak ing every burglar his own witness. He proposes to pack the hollows in safe doors with a perfectly harmless aniline color in the form of a dry, fluffy powder which blows around on the slightest excuse, and which will stain the nefarious gentleman burglar - izing that safe a beautiful light bine, warranted not to wear off for a month. The Agua Fria and lower Lonesome valley section was visited by a terribly . . 1 1 ,t- j j heavy rain storm luat Wednesday even- a ter sday i ing. A passenger on tne Crown King train said it commenced raining just after the train left Dewey and the water just came aown iu lorrems. aii eaefflittle bridge.the train came to a! man was sent out ahead to examine the track before attempting to crots it. By the time the train reached Yeager station the entire valley was a sheet of water. Orlanddo C. Byrnes and Mis3 Rosa Forsyth, both of this county, were married in Phoenix on Wedresday, Aug. 17, by Rev. A. M. Gibbons. Mr. Byrnes is a resident of Crown King, while Miss Forsyth until her marriage was a resident of Dewey. The copule returned ; to Prescott on Thursday and have gone to Crown King to reside. The groom was a member cf the Rough Riders and afterwards was a scout, under Col. fuuston in the Philippine islands. Two exceedingly unique and amus ing documents can be seen among the rprnrr1.3 in thn nnnrMinnen at Tnmh. stone. One is a comnlalnt eharmiiv? the defeudaut with using vile, abusive and approbrious "pnitanhc" t r.warA I one John Smith. Tho other is a bond given by n Darty to whom a contract was awarded for burying the indigent dead, and starts out as follows: Whereas, I have this day been given a contract; fcy tho board of supervisors of Cochise county, Arizona, for bury ing the "indignant" dead, etc. The dead have never" been interviewed in the premhos, but itfis safe to say that they were justly irfdignant if buried by such hands. Prospector. A letter was received from County Assessor Frank Luke, who is at Los Angele3, saying that his brother John, who submitted to a surgical operation there, was improving rapidly and that he would be able to be about within ten days. The disorder requiring, the operation was a rupture with which he bad been tro .bled for a great many years. A curious thing about it is that though the Luke brothers have been almost constantly together for several years the county assessor knew nothing of his brother's affliction until recently. Republican. The announcement of Joseph 1 Roberts appears in this issue as a candidate for sheriff, subject to the action of the republican convention Mr. Roberts was one of two republican candidates elected at the last election, and as he has performed the duties of bis office in a faithful, conscientious manner and as there seems to be an unwritten law in this county that an official who does this is entitled to re-election, Mr. Roberts enters, the campaign under favorable auspices. With the present feeling which exists throughout the county the prospect for the success of the republican ticket at the polls was never better. , The biggest flood ever known in the history of Silver City, N. M., and one which did great damage on Sunday night was the result of a clqudburst in the mountains above that city. No lives were lost, but many narrow escapes were nad and fifty homes were completely washed away. As the flood ca'me early in the evening every one was warned in time to esrape. The Santa Fe railroad wa3 washed out in many places and seveu bridges are out between Silver City and White water. An arroya twenty feet deep and a hundred feet wide runs through the town and this was overflowed. Goods were damaged in many stores. Mrs. Joe Ray, of Groom Creek, at- r , ... , dav evening bv sbooticg herself with J . a revolver during tne aosenco ot ner husband. The motive which prompted ! her to the deed is not definitely known. She placed the muzzle of the - ... to her right temple but instead of passsing directly through her head the bullet was deflected towards tho front of her head and passed back of the right eye destroying it entirely and lodging beneath the left eye. She was brought to Mercy hospital where the bullet was removed. The wound is a very dangerous one nnd(may yet result in the accomplishment of the end intended by her. The story told by the Tucson Star, of Thomas Grindell's trip to Tiburou, differs very materially from the hair raising story published iu the Exam-1 iner and is tame iu comparison to it. 1 Accoriing to the Star, Mr. Grindell : reports the Seri Indians, who inhabit Tibnron, to be a very inferior race j and perfectly harmless. If they havei fish and oorn they are well satisfied. There are about thirty of these In dians on the Island of Tiburon, whose sole occupation is that of fishing. Their only domesticated animal, ac- COnllUg to Mr. LiriUdCll, 13 theinUd tiirMn rhA islnnrl. lift savs. n desolate waste of saun nnd reck with : little or no vegetation and noevid,nceA dd fa honoTS of mineral, notwithstanding tho exag- - . Jl. " gerated reports to the contrary. Tho tales told of the richness of the island . are absolutely false. The west coast has been extremely dry uutil tho past two weeks when ample rains have fallen. First class job work at tho Journal- Miner office. i Mrs. Maybrick, who wa3 recently released from an English prison has arrived irNew York. Mrs. E. W. Dutcber,entertained the senior euchre club last Saturday at her residence on Pleasant street. Lonllall is manufacturing a number of bis pulp sizers, which have been ordered for plants in this vicinity. FOR RENT. A four room furnish ed house, with ail modern con veniences. 117 South Pleasant street. A force of workmen is strung out on Willis street from Montezuma to Alarcon digging a trench for the pipe of the new gas plant. Mrs. R. H. Burmister entertained a number of ladies on Tuesday after noon in honor of Mrs. R. B. Barmis fer of Phoenix, who is spending the summer here. Mrs. Frank Foster entertained a large number of ladies on Tuesday afternoon at her reisdence in Otis addition. The afternoon was spent in playing euchre. M. B. Hazeltine and F. R. Stewart, whose properties on Mt. Vernon ave nue adjoin, are putting in a cement curb and sidewalk in front of their respective residences. Miss Elaine Wooster will dedicate Camp Beauvoir this evening by giv ing a party to her young friends in the pavilion. Card playing and danc ing willbe indulged in. T. L. Harris has written a letter to his wife advising ber to rent their houso iu Prescott and to join him at once in Santa Barbara, where he has decided to locate permanently. George Robpeter has been appointed administrator of the estate of the late John Mars, of the Agua Fria valley. The estate is estimated- to be worth about S2000 and consists mostly cf cattle. k Mr. Sharpneck who owns a stamp mill in Kirkland valley says that twenty-three floods, bave come down that stream thisTear. It washed out bis dam and when be rebuilt it two or three times it met with the samej fate. i While eu route to Prescott on Mon- will preclude the Journal-Miner from day with a load of vegetables, G. A. (assisting to elect bim. Ainswortb "countered a flood which! Dr JohQ Dennettj of Congress, has came into tho bed of his wagon, water j beeQ appolnted admlnjstrator cf the suuuiu u jjmi ui uia iuou, uuiiiioiixii n t utr. 1 3 1 1 mm to throw away a goodly portion 01 it. Wm. White and Jacob Hendrickson, were .brougbtytin; 4. wg.- Jerome last evening and lodged in jail to await the action ot tne grand jury on a CREAM Baking Powder FOREMOSTBAKING POWDER INTHEWORLD v v uixu a ou. tugucai icau U. S. Gov't Chemists. Price Baking Powder Co. CHICAGO. charge of issuing worthless checks. They bad their preliminary examina tion in Jerome. Tom Oberle, an actor, who resided in Phoenix for a year or two for the benefit of bis health, organizing a company there which afterwardr filled an engagement in Prescott, is playing in Los Angeles, where he has been the subject of much favorable com ment from dramatic critics. When the late Archie Anderson was killed he held a life insurace policy in the A. O. U. W. order for 2,000, the policy being made in favor of bis wife and child. In order to collect the amount of the policy for the child, which is a minor, Mis. Ander son has just made application before the probate court to be appointed its guardian. Joe' Rudy, of Kirkland, was quite seriously injured on Monday by his horse rearing and falling backwards on him. Dr. Barrett, who was sum moned remained with bim all night, until he recovered consciousness and appeared to be on the road to recovery and later reports received from there stated that he continues to improve. Alejandro Ruiz was sentenced to ninety days in jail yesterday by Jus tice Talbot. Ruiz was a little short of cash and owed a man Si. He be came possessed of a check amounting to 812, issued by the railroad com pany to Anton Angel, and went to the office of the cashier of the railroad company and representing that he was Angel, in whose favor the - check was issued,succeeded in drawing down that amount and paid his creditor S4 of the money. Ed. S. Wright makes announcement in this issue of his candidacy for county treasurer, subject to the ac tion of the county democratic con vention. Mr. Wrfght has served as deputy treasurer for a number otyeara and is thoroughly familiar with all the duties of the office. He has been courteous and obliging in the position which he ha3 so successfully occupied and there is no doubt of bis com petency. The only weak spot about him is his democracy, which of course estate of the late A. L. Sroor, of The appointment was made Coneres5 at the request of the widow of' de ceased. Dr. Dennett has qualified a.? administrator by riling a 530,000 bond with 1?. M. Murphy and Wallace Fair- bank as sureties. While the estate has not yet been appraised, it is esti mated to be worth from 830,000 to $10,000 or perhaps even higher than the latter figure, of which 815.COO is in cash in a Phoenix bank. Voigtlander, tho fashionable tailor, located in the Wilson block, has just received his fall stock of goods con sisting of tho latest patterns and newest shades for suits and trousers and invites the public to call and ex amine them. Mr. Voigtlander keeps the very latest and best stock of goods in his lino and guarantees a perfect fit and his prices are as reasonable as consistent with the serv ice he renders. F. & A. M. Stated meeting of Aztlan Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., Friday evening, Aug. 2G, 1901, at 7:30 o'clock. Worlc in third degree. All Mister Masons in good standing are fraternally invited to attend. ' By order of C. A. Peter, W.. M. Morris Gold watery Sec'y.