Arizona republican., 1898-02-21
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The Odd Fellows of Jerome vii give a grand ball tonight.
 Chief Engineer Burns paid off S0' tunnel employees a few days ago.
 The famous timber suit against tn, Copper Queen is set for May 25th a Tucson.
 The Stafford Trailer man has had { bad spell on since he started tha paper.
 Indications are that Prescott will have quite building boom this spring.
 The Santa Fe people have with drawn their town lots from the market in Williams.
 A movement to organize in NOgales lodge of Foresters to work in Span is taking shape.
 ". M. Ross is building a 3Ox40 livery and feed stable near the Grand Can yon hotel in Williams.
 The Southern Pacific company is putting in additional side tracks in the yards at Tucson.
 Frank O'Donnell left last week for his old home in Boston. He does not expect to return to Bisbee.
 w. O. Secor, who was down ill the Salt River valley of Arizona on busi- ness, has returned to Albuquerque.
 Articles of incorporation of the ers-Tritle-Brown Abstract com pany of Prescott have been filed for record.
 Dr. J. w. Hamilton Of Mount Yer non, Illinois, brother-in-law of w. H. Webb, will locate in Williams about the last of the month.
 Smith & Morris the Stafford brick makers will ask MT. Garland to put in a spur to their yard as they are getting large outside orders for brick.
 The time and place of holding exam nations for the railway mail service in this division, for the first six months of 1898 will be at Tucson, April 15.
 The brick are being piled on the ground for the erection of George Ruffner's mammoth horse hotel on the southwest corner of the plaza at Pres colt.
 MT. D. B. Mccullough is closing out his interests in Nogales and with his family will return east to reside. They expect to leave shortly after March first.
 There is a heavy business being done in the Tucson postofflce. The present fiscal year will far outrun any previous year in receipts and general business.
 The crops look fine near the San Xa- vier mission in Pima county. Wheat is away up and growing fine. The Indians know few things about till ing the soil.
 F. M Mckay has received his hand some furnishings for 'The Senator" This will be the name for his new re- freshment parlors in the building op- posite the Queen hotel at Bisbee.
 A crew of men are working toward Benson from Charleston and work this way on the railroad replacing heavy rails on the A. & s. E.. Several miles o ftrack have already been laid from Bisbee.
 On or about March 1st MT. and Mrs. Harry L. Hunt will leave Tucson for Olewin, Iowa, where they expect to make their permanent home. For the past year Mr. Hunt has been city edi- tor on the Citizen.
 Billy Fay. well known to the old time sports of Tombstone, died short time ago at G1enwood Springs, Colo.
 A grand masquerade ball is to be given at the opera house in Bisbee on the Fist of this month.
 Col H. c. Hooker of the Cochise county Sierra Bonita ranch reports that his Colorado bulls are showing a remarkable growth. MT. Hooker seems to be about the only stockman in the country who has fat beeves for sale.
 Word comes from Casa Grande that the farmers in that vicinity are jubi- lant over prospective crops. The only thing that ever stands in their way of a bountiful harvest is lack of water, but with full reservoir an abundance for all purposes is assured.
 The buds and blossoms of returning spring are everywhere in evidence. The young leaves are breaking on the cottonwoods and the bird migration north is already under way. If the present warm weather continues for two more weeks the great mesas to the south will be mass Of green and gold Tucson Citizen.
 Old timers of fifteen and twenty years ago will remember I. s. Fried He was the first secretary of the Tue son Gas company. Fortune smiled on him in his business ventures and he returned to Germany. MT. Thomas Wilson is in receipt of a letter saying that Fried died of heart failure in Vi enna Austria on Dec. g. MT. Wilson has been appointed to administer tc his property.
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