Arizona republican., 1898-03-06


 home to recuperate.
 District Attorney Wiley E. Jones has
 been hobnobbing with Phoenicians Tucsonians and Prescottites, many o1
 whom were of the democratic com
 plexion. MT. Jones will make a gal. lant fight for the highest honors ir the gift of the next territorial con-
 vention. He is very popular in this section and is assured of a solid SUD- i port.
 The parties who have been operating east of Solomonville in expectation o1 striking coal deposits are down 5OC feet. They are working diamond drills. Mr. Reynolds, who is in charge represents California capitalists. Ex- United States Marshal R. H. Paul is connected with the camp in some ca- pac1ty. The work so far has not dis closed any symptoms of coal though tOse in charge have decided opinion that they will find black diamonds be- fore great while.
 Advices from President E. J. Beard eX-superintendent of the Gila Valley. Globe & Northern railway, indicate that work on the Arizona Pacific rail- way will begin within the limit March 20. The gentleman is in the east and it is understood he has means behind him in the proposition. This line has been surveyed from near Deming, N. M., down the Gila valley via Duncan, Solomonville to Geronimo. and it is understood that Florence is to figure on the company's map as a shipping point and Phoenix as a ter minal
 District court is scheduled for April Il, though the term may not begin until week or ten days later.
 trio of fine birds of the order of poultry arrived on Friday for District Court Clerk Frank Dysart and here after it may be expected that the gen. tleman will be recognized as the pos sessor of a crop of high grade fowls. The valley offers fine field for the raising of chickens of any breed, and a fine future is assured in view of in creased mining operations in Graham and Gila counties.
 The first anniversary of the organ- lzatlon of a K. of P. lodge was signal 1Zed by an entertainment and banuuet on Friday evening. The lodge started out With fifteen members and now has thirty knights on the roll of member ship. County Treasurer B. B. Adams l. bership includes George H. Kelly and his son Will, of the Bulletin. a sure guarantee of success.
 Sam Watson remains at his post as mail carrier from the depot, and in the performance of this work conveys pas sengers each way. MT. Watson has been in service behind spanking team for many years.
 Onnia1 io1 George E. Millar, who has been my travelling companion several days, re- gently, and on other occasions in the territory, is doing the valley towns prior to visiting Globe Ne is in re- ceipt of season tickets to the Travel CTS Home fair in progress at Madi- son Square, N. Y, with which Hon. Chaunvey M. Depew is associated as president. The home which is to cost S2O0,000 will be located at Binghamton N. Y. It is to include a school, hos pital and home for the widows and orphans of deceased members of the National Travellers Protective associa- tion as also indigent members of that body, which has a membership of about 1S,000. The association con- trols fine monthly magazine. There are numerous state organizations and MT. Millar is charter member of the California association. Perhaps sixty travellers are now circulating through out Arizona and they make towns of 300 population and upwards. They know good town when they see it and are particularly impressed with those in the Gila valley which Of ne- cessity include Globe, though that growing mining center is on Pinal creek
 Superintendent Jones of the Gila Valley, Globe & Northern informs me that the travel to Globe is beyond ex- pectations at this time and he realizes that the future, taking account of the extension of his road to Globe and the resumption of mining on an extensive scale, means a big business for the G. V. G. & N.
 Peforce I am obliged to limit men, tion this time of Solomonville and vii cinity besides down valley towns, but promise due reference sho1 tly.
 Going down the valley it is observed that the alfalfa fields have assumed greenish tinge, the farmers are busy sowing and the towns appear to be growing. At Matthewsville Mr. Rede- will boarded the train, accompanied by silent caballa. As he oppad of at Fort Thomas he desired me to say: Tell them that you saw me-" and added that his next stop was Tucson The bicycle looked tired-no pun in- tended.
 In my SolOmOnville notes I fo got to say that MT. Garland and wife were at the Hotel Solomon MT Garland, who is in poor health, is improving He is looking after Indian depreda- tlon claims and it is well to mention that the ex-attorney general is his father
 MT. J. " Vickers of Tombstone. president of the Chiricahau Cattle company, whose brand is three C's, came today and was in consu 'tation With Lieut.. Rice, the recently appoint ed Indian agent at San Car.os. The Ch1rlcahau Cattle company supplies the agency, under their contract with the interior department, with 200