Arizona republican., 1899-10-23


railroad is to make some extensive i'm
+ provements. A spur of the track to
! be put i'll and a new freight station
/ bolt. An application for postoilica
| has already been made and as soon az
granted the Helvetia mail will be de-
livered at Wallis. 1t is understood that
the Rose1nont people are also :trranss-
ing for a mail service from VaiTs in
stead of from Pantano as at present.
A stage line is now operated by =. 3.
Finley.
Harry Elliott returned to Prescott
yesterday afternoon after an absence
of fourteen months, says the Journal
Miner He left here quite sick, grew
worse after his arrival east, and for a
time his life was despaired of. He final
~ secured special treatment of an este
opathic physician and returned in fair
ly good health and expects to go 10
/ work soon on the SEP. & P. railroad
as engineer. Harry is the pioneer rail-
road engineer of this section, having
manipulated the throttle of a P & A
c. engine during the existence of that
railroad.
The company's general store and as
say office, at the San Xavier mine, were
completely destroyed by fire, Wednes-
day night. In the store We're 500 lbs of
giant powder and 1000 caps. Luckily
the powder burned and did not explode.
The caps exploded, but not until the
powder had burned. The fire was not
discovered. says the Citizen until it
was well under way and not penny's
worth of goods was saved. The loss
upon the contents of the store alone is
estimated at twelve hundred dollars.
News of the fire was brought to this
city by A. W. Forbes, the manager of
the mine. last evening. Mr.. Forbes
started back to the mine with several
wagon loads of supplies this morning.
Mrs. Chas. Kruder, wife of Mr.. Kru-
der, employed in Cummings butcher
shop, died suddenly early Thursday
morning, says the Prospector, sue
cumbing after a lingering illness from
cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Kruder
had been an invalid for years but hero
ically braved her sufferings until death
came to her relief. The devoted nus
band and willing friends did everything
possible to alleviate her sufferings but
the ravages of the malignant growth
had claimed its victim and she passed
to her reward while sleeping. The de-
ceased was twenty-five years of age
and leaves a Borrowing husband and
brother to mourn her loss to whom the
sympathy of the community is ten
dered. The funeral takes place tomor-
row at 10 a. m. from Tarbelrs under
taking parlors.
The Yuma Elks are getting up in the
world and now have a home of their
own. According to the Sun, the new
Elks' hall was dedicated Wednesday
evening with appropriate and impress
interspersed with vocal and instrument
tai music by the best talent in town.
Attorney c. L. Brown delivered an in
structive and entertaining address, re-
viewing the work and growth of the !
order from its beginning to the present
time. At the conclusion of the dedica- |
ton ceremony a farce comedy, "Initia-
ton to the Order of the Sons of Mars i
was presented by a number of theatre |
cally inclined Elks. The boys were |
warmly applauded by the enthusiastic |
audience and acquitted themselves !
very creditabIy. The evenings fes-
tivities closed with a grand ball, about /
fifty couple tripping the light fantas-
tic to their hearts content.
Yuma is getting ashamed of herself,
has repented and promises to reform.
The Sun says: "A point has been
reached in the history of Yuma when
and lawlessness will no
longer be permitted to cast dark and
shadow upon the fair name
of the city. Yuma has always been
known as a free and easy town, but
it will be so no more. District Attor-
ney c. L. Brown this week served no
tice on the proprietors of disreputable
places on Main street that they must
either reform, discontinue business or !;
move to some other part of the city.
more than four hundred Yards from
the public school house. A map pre-
pared by County Surveyor Elliott
shows that the four hundred yard
limit from the public school house
reaches to the foot of Main street. near
Jones street and covers the bad
lands" completely.
The trial of J. c. Brown for forgery.
S now going on in the district court at
Tucson and it is not unlikely he will
later be held to answer the charge of
murder Reviewing the circumstances
Of the case the Star says: Brown and
another young man by the name of
Derry few months ago were friends
and often seen together in different
parts of the territory. They were last
seen together near Bisbee since which
line Derry has been missing. Shortly
afterwards the body of a man was :
Ound hanging to a tree near NOgales. /
The body was in an advanced stage of
so as to render identifi- l
alton impossible at the time. The body Z
s now at Nogales to be used later as
evidence if necessary. Later Brown /
presented a check at the Consolidated L
,ank of this city for $1,000 payable to (
nan named Derry. He claimed that d
Brown was his right name, that he was
ecently from the Klondike and had U
deposited the money in a California /
'ank under the name of Derry. On =
being raised and a refusal to
ash the check in full, Brown made
very attempt to get out of the city. Il
His actions and the San Francisco "
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