Arizona republican., 1898-05-11

} day night, the work being incomplete About $3, 900 had so far been expendsa The boxed mirror was saved. On Ma IA the opening was to have take place. MT. Griffin was figuring las } Saturday with Martindell & Horne O placing S1,000 insurance and the dea l was to have been closed today. Akers, Tritle & Browns abstract of
 flee and Seott's transfer office wer flooded after Mir z. o. Brown witt i assistance had cleared the room o everything and carried the propert
 of the firm to a place of safety. The, have returned to the office building. Ed A. Kastner & Co.'S fruit ant
 confectionery store received a drench ing. At the last moment exposed goods were taken out The firm ha:
 resumed business.
 Next to the east was W. H. Smiths
 butcher shop, the finest equipped es. tablishment of it's class in the terri.
 tory. MT. Smith was prepared for a1
 emergency, though the fixed equip
 ment had to go if fire reached the
 buildings.
 1 Billy Vanderbilt's handsomely ap- pointed buffet, the Comet, was exposed l
 safe place
 | Aitken & Robinson had a good part Of their stock removed by transfer 1 wagons. Beyond these mentioned there was no disposition to get a move on.
 The block is 400 feet, facing Cur i ley street, 15O feet on Cortez and 15O | feet on Montezuma street, with alley | to the north of thirty feet in width.
 w. W. Ross drug store is on the
 corner of Cortez street next to the
 postofice and Prescott National bank.
 over which are the law offices of
 United States District Attorney Nor
 rison and brother Joe, Judge J. D. Bethune and T. w. Johnston. Next.
 on the ground floor of the frame build ings, are John DeTr, the tailor. and J. Gundall, shoemaker. To the east
 is the three-story brick building with eighteen-inch wall exposed of the Bashford-Burmister Mercantile com pany. who have warehouses detached.
 There was no danger to this. except from the awnings in front Adjcin- ing is the two-story frame building covered with corrugated iron, occu- pied as the Winsor hotel, bar and res taurant. In the Livingston brick building is Joe Marks liquor house,
 and on the corner is J. W. Wilson's
 gents furnishing house. In the rear of the latter is the Journal-Miner Of fee. The last two mentioned are also in the one-story Livingston building There was no danger to the last five mentioned.
 Levi Bashford, an old timer, now
 of Los Angeles, owned the frames east of Bashford-Burmister, the two burned being uninsured, as were all the oth- CTS. Prescott will gain by the remova of the frame buildings, as they will have to be replaced by brick building being in the fire district.
 George H. Cook left Saturday fol
 Phoenix, a frequent occurrence, h.
 having a branch store there NJ
 Cook occupies the building west Of
 Aitken & Robinson, and carries a
 s30,000 stock of jewelry. Messrs.
 Scholl and Hessler, MT. Cocks assis-
 tants, were in charge at the time ot
 he fire. Barney Smith hastened t6
 the rescue and had everything depas-
 tied in the show cases ready for re-
 moval. Fortunately there was no ca
 on this score.
 Fredericks and Aitken issued poli- cies on Gregory & Smiths stock and fixtures, three and two thousand dol lars respectively.
 At 3:15 this morning the energetic firemen were called to the opera hcus
 building on the "Humpback," Cur
 ley street. Flames were bursting fron
 the stage and it looked like a confla
 grafton, but Billy Mulvenon's pet. were promptly on deck. An hours
 work accomplished excellent results
 The frame attachment to the opera house, the stage, and it's contents wer total loss and the piano in the au- ditorium was badly scorched, besides the ceiling of the room. Mrs. B. H. Smith, who has been rehearsing { number of children for early presenta- tion of Cinderella, lost the costumes she had made besides paraphernalia for the production. The last rehearsal was given on Saturday afternoon Four years ago s. B. Patton completed the opera house and club rooms ir front Of same, at cost of about S10.- 900. Three thousand of this was sub scribed by the Commercial club at S1O per share. The club quit business two years ago, when Charles A. Dake the merchant, acquired possession by transfer of deeds. The loss to the opera house is about S4,000, on which and the three-story club building and fixtures, he carried S3,s50 insurance, $1 $50 with Martindell & Horne and $2, 200 with R. N. Fredericks. As soon as adjustment is made MT. Dake will repair the house for early engage ments
 M. H. Gould, who occupies Lawler's beautiful cottage adjoining west, had most of his furniture removed, as did Frank Stockton, who occupies five rooms in the club building The
 public school building adjoins an the west.
 The express building fire last month
 and those mentioned above all occur ing at night would give color to the l suspicion that fire bugs are abroad ! in Prescott. The pronounced odor of
 coal oil about the stage is in evidence