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 Base ball has been revived in Will liams.
 The Hawaiian legislature convened on Wednesday, February 16. Rev. G L. Pearson, formerly pastor of the M B. church at Prescott, was elected chaplain of the senate.
 Fireman Frank Woods, formerly on this line, is now employed on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix road Frank is a fine fellow personally and a good railroad man.-Williams News
 Work on the smelter at Williams is progressing rapidly under the manage ment of J. c. Mcfarland of Lombard Goode &s Go. and Superintendent B. A. Q Haggatt The blacksmith shop has al- ready been completed.
 Three carloads of hay and a carload of bran went through Prescott Satur- day en route from the Salt River val ley to California. Shipping hay and bran from Arizona to California is like shipping ccals to Newcastle. - JournalMiner.
 AIr and Mrs. A. w. Edwards went to Phoenix Saturday afternoon with Mrs H. B. Edwards of California The two Mesdames Edwards will remain there for several days on a visit, while MT. Edwards will return on Monday morning.-Journal-M Miner.
 Miss Alice Rhoades and MT. z. w. Pickrell were united in marriage We'd nesday night at the residence of Mrs c. E. Boyce in Williams. Rev. A. M. Gibbons performed the ceremony. No happier wedding, and none in which there have been more sincere congrat- ulations, has ever occurred in Coco nino county.
 The well known mining prosp actor s. John Sullivan and Mark R. Thurs ton, an electrician, returned to Will Hams from the Grand canyon last week after fortnights visit. Like all visitors to the Ribs of Arizona" they find that there are not enough adjectives in Webster's Unabridged to adequately express the beauty of the canyon.
 Workmen are engaged in clearing away the burned debris of the John son house, preparatory to rebuilding 1t. The Prescott Lumber company has the contract for it's reconstruction D. The house will be completed by May 1 if the weather permits The entire house will be lighted with electricity and no kerosene will be permitted on the premises when the house is re- opened d.-Journal-Miner
 Fowler Bros of Phoenix will plant 15O pounds Of melon seeds this spring. Just how many acres this amount of seed will cover is not known by the Journal-Miner man but it should pro- f+v r1A ofvv,' 0f railroads have made a rate to the FCwlers whereby they expect to ship their melons in carload lots to Denver. San Francisco and Los Angeles and intermediate points. Journal Miner.
 Commodore Gwynne Dennis, general manager of the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon railroad, observed Lent this week by remaining within his cloister at the Grand Canyon hotel and ab- stalnlng from oleaginous substances The abstinence was occasioned by a sudden and severe attack of rheuma- tlsm. Dr. Melick brought him around so that he was able to leave today for Chicago on business trip.-Williams News.
 Our southern neighbors in the Salt river region where the storage of Wa ter for irrigation purposes is a vexa- tlous question of cost and engineerine Q skill, might learn something to their. advantage by an examination of the new steel dam of the Santa Fe Pacific in Johnson canyon a few miles west Of here. The design in the structure is something new in the engineering g line and is proving successful, the dam now holding depth of forty-five feet Of water-a most severe test. It is said that the cost of this style of dam does not reach much more than 9 per cent of one of masonry. same di- mensIons- If this is true, the new fea- lures ln dam construction brought out by the santa Fe engineers should re- suit 1n great benefit to the irrigation portions Of not only our territory but the entire west.-Williams News.
 C. Nick Stark of the Williams News recently visited Jim Parker in the Prescott jail. In a letter to the News he wrote: The Yavapai bastile is par tlcularly interesting at this time be- cause it holds a distinguished prisoner Jim Parker. the alleged train robber and murderer of Norris Parker's es- capades are still fresh in the public memory. He was "at home" to the rSeWs. whom Ja1ier Morgan kindly es corted to the bars. Parker greeted hi: visitor in his characteristic good na tured, off-hand way and inquired fol number of his friends and acquain tances in this section. Tell them Tn looking well and feeling just as good. said he smilingly. 'I hope to get ou of this scrape," he added, but if swing-why, I'll swing like a man. While the prisoner conversed with tn News stalwart guard patroled tn narrow cell. The death watch is ol Parker and his every movement subjected to careful scrutiny. Thi espionage doesn't seem to worry tn prisoner in the least, however. Hi attorneys, Allen and Morrison, ar making a gallant fight for Parker life. They have obtained a stay c execution, and Mr. Allen told the New that he feels hopeful of securing
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