The herald., 1898-10-19
THE OLIVE INDUSTRY
SISTERS HOSPITAL AT PHOENIX
RETAINED
PRESCOTT MINING NEWS
Cochise County Democrats Nominate.
Manzanita Copper Co. Incorpo-
rated by Angelenos

PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. l.-Colonel A. &
Brodie, the Republican candidate for dele
gate to congress, is expected this week IN
Tucson, where he will meet the chairman o.
the Republican central committee, q. Il
Drake, and on the l4th will open his cam
paign at Holbrook, in Navajo county. Hi.
present intention, though not yet an
nounced, is presumed to be to hold meetings
in northern Arizona towns and then to
visit Phoenix and the towns along the line
OF the Southern Pacific railroad.
The annual meeting of the Arizona Bap'
tist association was held at Mesa on the 9th
and 7th inst. The local Mesa church proved
to be good host to the attending ministers
and laymen. Many interesting addresses
were delivered and much church government
work was done.
The boord of supervisors have realized
$500 from leases of school lands.
Colonel Wilson, Democratic candidate for
delegate to congress, III an open letter to
Chairman Parish, states his position square
ly upon the funding OF the Iavapai county
railroad bonds and declares them to be not
only illegal but iniQuitOus.
The Democrats had grand meeting on the
evening of the Sth, at which Attorney
Frank Cox presided, and Hon. Joseph Camp.
bell and Captain Evans were the principal
speakers. The meeting was enthusiastic
and there was no necessity for borrowing
stereopticon pictures from the Republicans
to draw crowd. All seats were filled and
hundreds of persons were compelled to
stand.
Mrs Murphy, wife of Governor Murphy,
returned to Phoenix Friday evening last.
She will spend the winter here
Owing to the yellow fever quarantine at
New Orleans the epicures of Phoenix have
had to 20 without oysters for the past week,
as no shipments have been allowed from
Southern Louisiana. As a result, the gro
cerymen sold out their stock OF canned
oysters.
About thirty prominent business men of
Phoenix met at Hotel Adams on the 7th to
discuss means of retaining the Sisters OF
Mercy hospital. During about three years
work, the Sisters have accumulated debt OF
$500, mostly incurred for the sake of hui
manity and for the assistance OF physicians.
While the Sisters are of course Catholic by
faith, the hospital is open to all 1t has
been very popular, and even Indispensable
to this valley. In speaking Of the county
hospital, one gentleman voiced the senti-
ment of the people when he said: "As long
as the county hospital is run by contract,
no man in Phoenix would like to see friend
of his there" Many subscriptions were made
at the meeting and annual contributions
promised, and it is believed that the Sisters
pital and dispense charity to the unfortun
ate.
On Sunday last Michael Donohue commit
ted suicide by taking strychnine. He was
found groaning near the Santa Fe freight
depot, and at first was supposed to be in
toxicated He was taken to the hospital
and died in convulsons He was stranger
in the city. Dependency caused by ex-
cessive drink was the cause of his suicide.
Donohue wos unmarried. During the civil
war he served with Clusters command and in
the early seventies moved to Apache
county.
Mr.. Struthers of Mesa has concluded to
remove to Santa Ana, Cal, and on the 10th
sent carload of furniture and household
goods there.
The question of more street paving for
Phoenix is being agitated, and considerable
macadamizing is projected for this winter
When Washington street was graveled last
spring, hardly enough gravel was hauled on
and a good deal of the work will have to be
done over.
From .Bsbee comes the news that the Re-
pubicans of Cochise county have nominated
Warren for council, Wood, Kindred and
Cummings for the assembly, McCabe for
sheriff, Wolcott for treasurer, Swain for
Ben Harwood for assessor, Brady for pro-
bate Judge, and Gervin and Caldwell for
supervisors.
A large force of men has been engaged for
the past week or two in cleaning the weeds
out of the irrigating canals of the valley.
The removal of the weeds will considerably
increase their carrying capacity.
The list of visitors from Los Angeles the
past few days has included r. w. Long, H.
II. Scovel, H. Romer and wife, Alex. Rem
ham, s. f. Eaton and wife, G. J. Griffith
The Consolidated canal, near Mesa, is
being enlarged to width of sixty feet in
the bottom, and will be made four feet
deeper The work is being done with a
large steam dredger. that, under ordinary
conditions will accomplish work at the
rate of 100 feet per day. Each journey Of
over the bank 1t will take the dredger
until June to reach the division gates
The Grand canal, near Phoenix, has also
just been cleaned out. Sixty men and
twenty teams have been working three
weeks. and the job is finished The sedi-
ment brought down by the flood waters OF
last summer partially filled up several of
the canals in the valley.
During the summer several cars of olives
have been shipped east from Phoenix. Sev-
eral more will follow this month. Quite a
number of olive trees are lust coming into
bearing this year in the Salt River valley.
and a new and successful industry has been
inaugurated.
J. Fl. Fleming. banker of Phoenix, and
the owner of the Black Warrior mines in
Cila county. has gone east While there
he will make arrangements to build mar
row-gauge railroad from the United Globe
smelters to Lost Gulch, distance of ten
miles This will enable the copper ores of
the Black Warrior to be smelted Mt Globe
The Jack Rabbit NINE which is about
twenty-five miles south of Casa Grande, is
to have a new ten-stamp mill. The st
Louis company, which purchased the prom
erty some time ago, are said to he well
pleased with it, and quite mining camr
is expected to gpow up around the Jacl,
Rabbit.