Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-05-31
From Saturdays Daily.

] Mrs. Park, of Williams, has arrived in Prescott to join her husband. Masonic lodge meets tonight and a good attendance is requested. ! Mrs. J. D. Bethune has gone to California for a brief visit for the benefit of her health.
 Dr. Matthews, a physician and sur geon, late of Jerome, has arrived and will locate in Prescott.
 John A. Black. q prominent bus mess man of Tucson, came up on this mornings train from the south. T. H. Sutton. the jolly represent ative of Bishop & Co. Los Angeles, arrived on last nights train on his periodical visit.
 Bishop Kendrick came up from Pbenix on this mornings train and will preach at the Episcopal church tomorrow.
 MT. aud Mrs. F. NJ. Murphy left on last nights delayed train for the Castle creek hot springs tO spend a week or ten days.
 Miss Emma Dutcher aud Miss Teresa Fredericks returned On this afternson's train from attending school at Mills Seminary ID CalifOr- mia.
 Miss Edna Martin returned last night from attending school at Irving institute, San Francesca. hay ing completed the course at that school.
 R. D. Holabird and A. w Ballard of San Frsnclsco, R O Winger and Geo D. Stateson of Chicago, are among the recent arrivals al Hotel Burke.
 Yavapai county has an expansion problem unmistsbly before 1t in the shape of jail accommodations, there being thir,y-three prisoners down below and room for no more.
 Van Fl. Brooks. the Salt Lake mining man, returned on last nights train to Prescott On mining business after n absence of seven or eight mont hs He expects to remain ID this section for some time.
 All members of Barrett Post, G. 1. K, are requested to meet at their post room at 7:30 p. n., Sunday evening. May 18th, to attend memor- ial service al the Methodist church. All confederate veterans, civil war and Spani h. American war veterans are respectfully requested to join in on this yecasioa.
 Have yJur measure taken and your truss made to order for com fort and perfect it. Old trusses re- paired and made as good as new, or exchanged for new. Surgical appli- ances of all kinds made to order Surgical elastic hosery, etc. W. W. Sweeney, manufacturer, B. C. Burt, agent and expert truss filter. Office l5l CorteZ street, next door to Odd Fellows hall, telephone l3S.
 The meeting last night to arrange for a Fourth of July celebration was well attended and action was taken to observe the day. 4 soliciting committee was appointed and pro- gramme to cover three days was agreed upon. The matter has been generally discussed and DO doubt We will have as glorious an event as il the past.
 all members of Barrett Post G. 4. R. are requested to meet at their Post room on Tuesday, May 30, Decoration day, at 9:30 8. m. sharp, to march to the Citizens cemetery and hold memorial services over the graves of departed comrades. All e1-confedeTate veterans of the civil war aud Spanish-American war vet erans are cordially invited to join.
 The delay to yesterday afternoons train was caused by serious wreck on the Santa Fe road, near Gallup. Just ss the west bound passenger train was pulling out from that sta ton at 3:30 o'clock Friday morning, 1t came into collision with some loaded coal cars which had gotten away from the switch and were on the main line. The engine was badly wrecked and the engineer re- oeived wounds which 1t was thought would prove fatal. A tramp riding a brakebeam on the car next to the engine was badly msngled and died shortly after the accident. The ac- cident caused delay of about eight hours.
 Among the prominent arrivals in this city this week is that of A. H. Trua1, who was formerly United States Senator from Minnesota. MT. Truax is now permanently identified with the mining interests of this sec tion, being a member of the Coop erative Development and Mining Company. He speaks of that fnan cial wave of prosperity that IS strik- ing the east generally as unmIstaka- ble in its effects, so much so that never before iu the history of his state has there been such a general demand for labor and that the wa ter mark in wages Is higher than ever before. NIT. Truax also speaks of the desire of capital to become identified with western mining, es- pecially in Arizona, and predicts for this section s great amount of capi- tai and consequent activity. Some of the Filipino cslsmityites should bump up against Mir. Truax.
 In the development work of the BingkamptOn mine, now going on, in A qua Fria district, remarkable exploration has been made in the property. which Is causing some comment and a great deal of inter est. IL Is the discovery of what seems to have been a combination fort and residence, in which the eX- istence Of seventeen rooms are clear ly shown. In the outside rooms are a series of port holes. while further into the mountain the arrangement and decorations indicate place Of abode. All are connected by means Of narrow passages, and numberless stone axes, metats, ollss, and other Aztec implements are seen. The To- cation of the ruin is high up on peak, and bears such a strategic and commanding position that it must have been impregnable in its day. Nothing in the line of human re- mains has as yet been found how ever. These wonderful ruins are To- cated but twenty miles from Pres cott.
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