Arizona republican., 1899-06-19


 letter.-Preseott Courier.
 Supervisor Dumas is in from Oak creek. He se.gs that a few days ago he met two A'rAche Indians on the trail of white man who had stolen their pony Later he met the Indians, both mouIted and leading a horse, and Tna 1ing the pony thief walk in front toEamp Verde-Prescott Courier.
 Mrs. Dave Goldberg Of Phoenix, who has been wishing her parents in SoI- omonyille, Nr, and Mrs. I. E. Solomon, will arrive ln Tucson in the morning and will be the guest of the Drachmans until Sunday, when she will return to the capital city.-Tucson Citizen.
 The Las Vegas Optic says: ''Gov- ernor N o. Murphy of Arizona has teiegraphed Manager Nicodemus of the Hotel Cestaneda to reserve for aim suite of rooms during the re- union. From this it is evident that the governor and his staff intend to assist in honoring the Rough Riders"
 Thursday night last two jovial drum imers who had seen Prescott by electric light were sauntering up Calamity row just west Of the Red Onion. A man was leaning against one of the posts Sf 3. hole in the wall. and as he showed S shining little pistol at one of their Dread baskets, saying, Hold on!" This drummer handed the pistol man S2. The pistol man told him to move on," and sstd, Hold oni" to the other drummer, who donated s. The pistol man again said, Move on." and the drummers moved. This is the first and last chapter of Thursday nights hoid-up, up to date.-Prescott Courier
 The Southern Pacific company has just issued a sweeping order which for h:ds the sale of liquor at restaurants connected with the depots where such restaurants are rented from the rail road company. As nearly every res taurant along the road is rented from the Railroad company the order has a Wide scope. The main purpose of the innovation is to prevent the train men from drinking while on duty. At the same time the order will cut off large portion of the revenue of the railroad company, for at the many stations along the road rents for restaurants have largely increased after the pro prietors have obtained licenses to sell liquors.
 H. A. Fry, E. L. Tustin and c. E. Coloney, Philadelphia capitalists, who are interested in. mining near Globe,
  building of a railroad between Globe and Phoenix, have been at Castle creek hot springs for day or two in consul tation with President F. M. Murphy of the S. F. P. & P. railroad, and will ar rive tnj Prescott on tonight's north bound train They are en roul-e to Cal i ttornia. An invitation has been ex- tended to them to stop off in Prescott | and special train has been placed at their disposal to carry them to Ash | Fork in time to connect with tomor- ! rows westoound train on the Santa Fe | Miner.
 tA a meeting of the stockholders Of 1 the King of Arizona Mining company, l the following directors were elected: | Epes Randolph, J. D. Payne, Charles | E. Eichelberger, s. P. Womsley, H. B. f Gleason and Eugene $. Ives. At a | meeting of the directors Colonel Epes ! Randolph was elected president and | treasurer and J. D. Payne secretary. | A 1O0-stamp mill will be ready for op- eration at the mine by July 21 At | present 100 men are employed but this force will be increased largely as soon as the mill is In operation. There is an abundance of ore in sight and | everything is now on a practical busi- ness ibasGs, like everything else with which Colonel Randolph is connected. The mining property of the company is proving to be one of the best in the territory by reason of the high grade of ore.-Tucson Star.
 The front steps of Tom Davis's drug store appears to be the popular even ng lounging place in Stafford and good story can be picked up there e. ,asionally. The other evening Walter f. Scott or Apache county was telling now a gentleman who is now a promi- lent citizen of Holbrook, was given a bottle of castor oil by his employer and sent out to grease the family buggy. when he was tenderfoot fresh from he Fatherland. He took the bottle, md after spending about two hours in he barn returned ard said he had used ID all the oil and only succeeded in the top of the buggy. This story then brought on a discussion as Q what tenderfoot really is, and MT. 2. T. Hams said a tenderfoot in this country is a fellow who shoots rim-fire cartridges in his pistol and eats white 'eans.-Safford Arizonian.
 Frcm civil engineer who certainly inoWs what he is talking about we earn that sufficient water power is go- ng to waste in Eagle creek canyon to uH inc machinery or an electric plant apable of developing 2,000 horse DOW T. This force would be found amply ufident to furnish all the power re- uired to run an electric railroad from 1orenci to SOlOmonville, and at much mailer operating expenses than would i e necessary to run an ordinary steam 2llroad cL ths same capacity. One | reat advantage an electric road would ] ave over steam read would be that 1 he heavy grades encountered would | rovs less serious obstacles to over | ome. This IS an enterprise that z night well be investigated. It is not s enerally known but it is a fact never heless, that double the amount of i reight is hauled into Morenci each { 1onth than is taken into the big min l lg camp of Globe.-The Arizonian. 2 At Minas Prietas one day last week man named Emilio Moreno fell down z