Arizona republican., 1900-07-13
THE NEWS or
 PRESCOTT

1 N spondence of The Republican.)-An alarm of fire late last evening and an -other this afternoon made a lively move on the part of our fire department, but they both proved to be incipient fires .eXtinguished almost as soon as discov- Tered. The one of yesterday was caused by lamp explosion in the vicinity of liGranite and Union streets. and the lat ter by a gasoline stove at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Munds.
 Forest fires are in progress out a lit- tie beyond the Senator mine, and an other smaller one near Thorbeck' S ranch on Banning creek.
 A quotation from an "ad'' in today's local paper reads as follows: owing to the financial success of the Fourth of July celebration at Granite Dells, the management has decided to take trip to Paris, and offers his lease of five years at a bargain. Everything goes! BUrhaus 6 Son." As the manage ment" is understood to consist of vari- ous and sundry persons more or less interested in the Granite Dells under taking we are at loss to be able to tell
 
 through the success of the Fourth of July celebration to take in" Paris Burhaus. his son or the whole push?
 Max Alwens and his wife are in the city today appearing in the preliminary hearing of their case against Sam Den his, who last week shot at MT. Alwens several times with a revolver with in tent to make Mrs. Alwens a widow. Dennis (whose real name back east used to be Dougherty) and whose name would indeed have been Dennis if Mrs. Alwens had been allowed to retail ate for the mans dastardly attempt, was held under bonds to answer the inquiry of the next grand jury.
 Mir. E. J. F. Horne of the firm of Martindell G Horne returned yesterday from his California trip, looking finer than silk" MT. Martindell last week met with a slight accident to his foot, spraining his ankle and causing swell ing with erysipelas complications. all resulting from a hole in the floor in a shedback of their office. He found he had put his foot in it'' that time.
 Rather a novel sight was witnessed by your correspondent yesterday on a trip from here over the hills to the Walker camp in the vicinity of Lynx creek. That was a small lad of some eight or ten years of age placer mining at a little well by the side of the road. while his mother attended to the house. hold and ranch duties. The boy at tended strictly to his business, which occupation he plies regularly day in and day out, sometimes washing sev- eral dollars out in a day.
 In that vicinity some gold can be found almost anywhere-only it re- quires some judgment to know just what portion of the ground to take for washing, little pockets occurring at in- tervals in the dry bed of the wash near by. This place was about seven miles out of town and the youthful miners name is Berry. He seemed to be quite an adept in the industry and showed us the bright specks of gold he was wash ing out so laboriously in his gold pan by drawing up bucket after bucket from the well.
 The Epworth league of the M. E. church north are to give a musical and literary entertainment at the k. of P. hall on the 20th of this month, a: which cooling beverages and refreshments  will be served.
 Miss Emily Muzick, sister of Mrs. Henry Brinkmbeyer, was married this evening to MT. Frank Hummer. a con- tractor and builder of this city. Mir Hummer has just completed the erec- tion of the residence intended as gift to his bride, on Marina street, south, next door to the Bones mansion.
 It's hot here, and no mistake; never before for a goodly number of years has the thermometer climbed so high to perch continuously. as 1t has this sum- mer. The only really cool retreats we have seen are the cooling rooms at Smiths market (where, if one stays awhile they may congeal, and get the marble heart, at the uniform tempera- ture of from 30 to 3S degrees), and the swimming baths at Granite Dells. which are now at a premium. owing to the scarcity of water elsewhere.
 MRS. GEO. WOOSTER.