Arizona republican., 1899-12-21

Howard Legge, superintendent of th' Monte Cristo mine, will spend the holi days in California.
 A big building will go up on the Banl of Arizona corner which it is said vii cover both the Bank of Arizona anC Yavapai pharmacy ground.-COurier.
 MT. and Mrs. R. B. Burmister have moved into their new residence 1T Prescott. It is a handsome home ant is provided with all the latest moderT conveniences for comfort.
 Married, in Prescott, December T. 1899, at the parsonage of the Methodis Episcopal chu:ch south, Ed Shumate and Mrs. Nora B. Stephens, Rev. Levi: f1ciating.-Prescott Courier.
 J. E. Hunt. clerk in J. J. Wragovich's office in Prescott, has resigned his DO. sition and goes to St. Joseph, Mo, tC take position with the St. Joseph & Grind Island railroad.
 Next spring will see a building boon inaugurated in Prescott before un- known in northern Arizona. The build ings will be of a character which vii do credit to any city.-Courier.
 J. H. Morrison of Prescott will leave in a day or two for a visit to Massa- chusetts. He is the inventor and pat entee of O new brace adapted for bor- ing into iron or wood and goes east to arrange for their manufacture.
 The Methodist church of Prescott has established a Chinese mission and night school. It meets every evening in the week except Thursday and Sun day and Is attended by about twenty Chinese residents. On Sunday evenings services are held in the Chinese Ian guaF. F.e.-Journal-Miner.
 The Woodmen lodge is the first of the secret societies in Prescott to make a donation to the Prescott library, and it has made a very generous one of $50. says the Journal-Miner. The example set by this lodge will no doubt be fol- lowed by others, and if every lodge in the city contributes as liberally it will add a snug little sum to the fund.
 G. W. Phelps has resigned his posi- ton as trainmaster for the Southern Pacific at this point and the vacancy has been filled by the appointment of R. J. Duncan, who has been for sev- eral years past trainmaster at Yuma Mir. Phelps is not in town now, but it is rumored that he has accepted re- sponsi5le position with the Santa Fe system.
 The Santa Monica Outlook says: George T. Martin, late company ser geant company B. Second California cavalry, admitted to the soldiers home from Yuma April, 1895. died December 1, at the age Of 60 years. Deceased was at one time local agent for Wells Fargo at Tucson and for some years before his health failed was secretary Of the Mohawk Canal company
 The Santa Fe Pacific railroad is hay ing trouble on account of a scarcity of water on the division between Selig- man and Winslow. The $. F. P & P. says a Prescott paper, is running a water train between Del Rio and Ash Fork which supplies the former road with eighteen carloads of water per day. but even that is not sufficient to meet the demand and they now want thirty carloads per day.
 Station Agent Burkhalter was auth orized today to employ a night watch man for the s. P. depot, says the Tue son Citizen. Mir. Burkhalter made an urgent requisition for a night watch man last Saturday. being spurred to take immediate action Of that nature by the incendarisn of the night before. As soon as MT. Burkhalter received aU- thority to employ a night watchrnan he gave the position to George Oakes.
 Peter White, the lion hunter, on a hunting trip in Yavapai county, says he returned with fifteen scalps and the supervisors of that county were afraid he would bankrupt the county and they reduced the bounty. This made him go to Mohave county. The Mineral Wealth says he has been telling the tenderfeet all summer that he had a lot of lions staked out in the mountains waiting for the hair on their belts to get in good shape before he killed them.
 We are informed the railroad shops at Needles, Cal, are to be shut down and the force at present employed in them will be divided. one-half coming to this, place, the other half going to Los Angeles, says the Winslow Mail. Our business men are registering no kick at the change. The greater the pay roll the greater the circulating medium each month. People must eat must have a roof to shelter them, and custom demands they wear some clothing. All these things cost money.
 There are all sorts of building runors afioat. One is that the Office Row buildings are to be moved into Goose Flat and that a, big hotel will go Vp on the site from which they were moved. Another report is that in the spring a big two or three story brick will go up on the site of the stores now occupied