Arizona republican., 1898-05-10
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 William Steele has resigned from Engineer Burns force at Williams and left yesterday for Prescott, where he will reside.
 !. E. Millet left Globe last week for the Klondyke. He will probably take passage at San Francisco for Dawson City. via St. Michaels.
 The board of supervisors awarded the contact for the court house ana iaiI building to be built at Holbrook to Kennedy & Grim of Flagstaff. The consideration is $12,00O.
 The good showers which fell during the past week, although two months late, will nevertheless be of much ben eft to the ranges. On the morning or May 1, the summit of Pinal mountain was covered by fresh fall of snow
 Tucson has over four hundred of it's most determined citizens organized as minute men and can be ready for business in ten minutes after the sig nal is given Tucson is never behind when patriotic duty calls her people Star.
 An employe of the smelter at Will Hams all but created a lynching bee yesterday by indulging in unpatriotic remarks. He was prmptly suppressed and warned tisat repetition of the of fense would result disastrously, if not fatally.
 Col. Randolph says the war has not as yet begun to affect eight business, oI.l do long, The heaviest blow will prob ably be in the cessation of the ship ment of sugar from the Hawaiian islands.
 Jack Stelzer and Henry Baker, the preliminary pugilists in the recent fistic event in San Francisco, tried to appear in Williams few months ago but the audience failed to materializa. They were billed as Young Jack Dow ney and the Stock Yards Giant of Chi eago.
 The Arizona Gazette reports that five inches of snow fell in Prescott last Tuesday night. About one-fourth of an inch of snow covered the ground on that date and only early risers caught a glimpse of it-fve inches is a heavy snowfall for Prescott in the dead of winter.-Courier.
 Small boys with big irrigation scheme in mind damned the river above Saginaw and when the dam broke yesterday morning and over flowed the principal streets the sui ferers damned the boys. No serious damage was done, but the boys have gone out of the irrigation business Williams News
 Engineer Bert Norcross of the N. M. & A. railway is all smiles now adays. The artesian we'll he has had sunk on his ranch near St. Davids, Cochise county, has turned out a gusher and he now has water galore. The supply of artesian water along the San Pedro seems practically mex haustible.
 The board of supervisors of Pima county has let the contract for paint ing the interior of the court house. J. B. Dufton of Phoenix got the contract at $675. Edward Hale, one the un- successful bidders, was employed by the board to superintend the work, but MT. Hale has declined the job, with thanks. Such a position would not be very agreeable one, either for him or for MT. Dufton
 At Morenci, Graham county, a Span ish barber put on his building some signs which were to the effect that he was hurrahing for Spain, and wanted the Americans put down, and any one who didn't like his opinions had the privilege of doing something vile. The Mexicans who read the signs were hot and proposed hanging him. It was only by quick work that he was taken to Clifton and locked up in the tunnel charged with using indecent language Florence Tribune.
 Mr. c. A. Fowler, principal owner in the Globe Gold Mining and Milling company, left for his home in New York on Wednesday, after a two weeks visit at Globe. His son, North rop Fowler, remains to look after hi: fathers interests. Sinking and drift ing on the company's claims is being prosecuted under the direction of JohI Kasser, who will superintend the de velopment work. The company own! valuable gold claims, which if properl. handled should prove remunerative.