Arizona republican., 1898-02-20
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week was a decided success. It rar several evenings.
 Ben Williams and party have return ed to Bisbee from their inspection oi the Nacosari mines.
 Dr. Butcher has filed his statement of births with the Yavapai county re- corder, showing nine.
 The Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias of Kingman will give grand ball and supper on the night of Feb ruary 22.
 and wife of Albuquerque left last week for California. MT. Hall will visit his customers in Arizona.
 Ed Block, the Prescott clothier, has returned from a goods purchasing trip in the east. His family will remain in Denver for a few weeks.
 Invitations are out for the shee, and pillowcase dance to De given at the mining exchange hall in Tomb stone on Washington's birthday.
 W. F. R. Schindler, as administrator of the estate of the late G. w. King man, yesterday sold the freight outfit of the estate of Fred Brecht of Pres cott
 Mrs. T. B. Shipp has repurchased her cattle from Ed and Pulley Bland, and will hereafter assume full charge of the Big Sandy ranches in Mohave county.
 Hon. Robert E. Morrison, who suc- ceeds Hon. E. B. Ellinwood as United States district attorney, has returned from the east, and is at home in Prescott.
 The Tucson banjo club has been or ganized. B. w. Bowers, Dr. Deven- dorf. Steve Brown, Prof. Oman and George Hilsinger, Jr., are the leading spirits in the club.
 O. H. Briggs has contracted his en- tire bunch of cattle to Tom White, who is buying them for the Erie com pany of Cochise county. The cattle are to be delivered in April.
 Ex-Governor Thornton of New Mexico, who is interested in big min ing deal in Mexico, was in town We'd nesday. It is understood the mine upon which the governor and associ- ates have a bond will soon be taken up and the purchase price be paid the owners.-Bisbee COT. Tombstone Pros pectOr.
 Frank Cox, attorney for the South ern Pacific, and J. N. Thacker, special agent of the Wells Fargo Express com pany, accompanied by W. w. Weed, official stenographer of the district court at Tucson, will attend the trial of the Stein's Pass train robbers, who are to be tried at Silver City, N. M., on the 23d inst.
 The work of laying the foundation for the new A. o. U. w. building at Tucson has progressed rapidly since the weather has permitted and already approaches completion. On Tuesday the ceremony of corner stone laying will be performed, when Hon. Frank H. Hereford will deliver an oration. The First regiment band will dis course music.
 When Dr. Warren B. Day read the telegram this morning in regard to the explosion of the war ship Maine it aroused all of his old time war spirit and he said he thought he would telegraph the secretary of war that he was ready to go down to the Dry Tor tugas again for service. He spent three years and a half in Uncle Sams service there.-Journal-M
 The dance given by the young lady bachelors on Wednesday evening was a most happy and enJoyable occasion. The bachelor maids were just too sweet for anything" The dance last ed until quite late. A very enjoyable supper was served and the dimples and smiles of the bachelor maids cap tivated the hearts of the most obdur- ate old bachelors present.-Tucson Citizen.
 Advices from Pearce show that the citizens of that burg are also indul ging in considerable railroad talk regarding the proposed road from Cochise sta tion to Bisbee via Pearce. It would mean much for that camp and sur rounding country, as Pearce, besides being heavy shipper of ore would without question be the leading cattle shipping point in the territory. The town is so situated geographically that nine-tenths of the cattle business of the county would centralize at that point.-Prospector.
 W. B. Frost was in Kingman from his Wallapai Springs ranch last week. He reports the killing of the big loafer wolf that has been doing so much damage to the stock interests of that section of country. A prospector who was camped near the ranch fixed a bait and attached it to the trigger of gun, so that when the bait was dis turbed it would discharge the gun. The wolf was shot in the mouth and instantly killed. MT. Frost paid the prospector the $40 reward. The wolf was an immense animal and during the past year had killed calves and colts to the value of at least s1,000.
 It is given out that w. A. Clark has decided to build a. large hotel in Je- rome, the plans and specifications for which have been accepted It will be built on the ground occupied by the residence of H. J. Allen. It will be four stories and built of iron, stone and brick; will be 75x170 feet and will have 150 sleeping rooms. All modern hotel improvements will be taken ad- vantage of. The building will cost S55, ,000. Work will commence at once, the building to be finished in six hc m