Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-06-13


 gram today from F. AI Murphy from Lucerne Switzerland. stating that they were having an excellent trip and feeling well.
 An immense boiler. weighing nearly 5000 pounds. was received here q day or two ago for the machinery at the
 Empire mine. and was taken out to the mine yesterday.
 Quite a little water has run into the place where the gold dust was dis covered yesterday in the Lawler base ment This is still another proof of 1 that having been the original creek bed.
 Mir and Mrs. F. w Wells have re- turned home from Nebraska. where they were called to the bedside of Mir. Wells brother. They arrived only Ia few days before the brother died, which was on last Sunday morning.
 At a meeting of the fire company l last night the matter of a Fourth of ] July celebration was discussed. but ! it was decided not to make any effort in that line this year.
 The Crystal Ice Co. is digging an other large well which they will con nectwith the one they already have. but which is not of sufficient flow to supply the company with the required amount of water for making ice.
 The inventory and appra1sement of the estate of Armisted H. Mitchell ! deceased. was filed in the probate court today by Mary E. Mitchell. ad- ministratriX. The estate consists of mines in Red Rock district appraised at S370O
 | The MOderns had rousing meeting again last night. seven new members being initiated and seventeen applica- tions voted upon. There will he an other social given by the lodge next | Thursday night in the Odd Fellows hall
 Chas H. Moore. deputy grand chan cellor. Hi Hooker and J. r. McWil- ] liams of the local lodge of the k. of F.. have returned from Congress. where they assisted in the institution of a lodge of sixty members. The | lodge starts out under the most favor able circumstances. After the institu- ton of the lodge a banquet was held which was of the highest order The treatment accorded the PheniX mem bers was of the best and all are high in praise of Congress hOspitality.-En terpriSe.
 What has become of the public library proposition: We understood some months ago that things were about ready to claim the $4O0O offered con ditionaIly. by Andrew Carnegie. and that by fall the new hall would be ready to occupy. We have heard nOth- ing of it for some time. This impor tant matter should not be allowed to drag out into years before anything iS realized from it.
 The senate on Wednesday passed the house bill allowing Tucson. Arizona. to issue S1OO.OO0 bonds for water works. Tucson will now proceed with the work of municipal improvements in good shape. We rejoice to see our sister town coming to the front and exhibiting this sure show of business enterprise and prosperity.
 T. F. Powell q well known and pOpu- lar knight of the grip. who has travel ed through this territory for long time. k in the city today. interviewing our merchants Mir. Powell is now travelling for Sherwood X Sherwood. of San Francisco and says business throughout the territory is very good indeed for this time of year. He says the ranges in the northern part of Ari zOna are looking splendid.
 The Prescott Social club has intro duced an innovation in it's entertain nents and will hold it's next meeting at Granite Dells. Friday evening. June 1J. Members are requested to reply promptly to notices sent them. in order that the committee may make necessary arrangements for transpor tation. etc large attendance is hoped for and a good time assured. Train will leave at s D. m. and return 11:3O D. III. Further announcement will appear under head of Coming Events. in this paper.
 !. H. Wood. who iS connected with the famous CObre Grande mine. which has had so much newspaper nOtoriety the past few months. arrived from PheniX this morning on a flying busi- ness trip. returning to that place this afternoon Mir Wood says the liti- gatiOn is still in the Mexican courts. where it will have to be settled, all the little side issues that have been coming up in the Arizona courts hay ing no bearing whatever on the merits of the case. and are only the results of petty spite work
 The city is having another tunnel run in connection with the one already in use north of the city. The old one is under bedrock and runs across the bed of the creek. while the new one will be in the sand. above bed rock. and will be for the purpose of gather ing all the water that is in the sand that might otherwise be lost. The tun- mel. or rather cut. as it is now. will follow up the bed of the creek for some 200 or 300 feet and will be about 5x5 feet It will be timbered up and covered over. which will then virtu- ally make it an auxiliary tunnel IL is hoped by this means to greatly in crease the water supply of the city. George W. Brown. of PheniX past grand master Workman for Arizona and New Mexico jurisdiction. \. O. |. w. passed through Prescott this morn ing en route to Sioux Falls. South Da- kota. to attend the grand lodge of that order which meets at that place in few days Mir Brown is one of the oldest and most prominent mem berS of that noble order in the south west having been one of the first members in the territory. more than twenty years ago. and having organ ! ized many of the present lodges in Arizona. He has often been hOnored ] by the members of the order. and when the jurisdiction of Arizona and 1 New Mexico was formed he was elect ed as past grand mastr Workman and delegate to the grand lodge to which he iS now going 10 attend. Mir.
 Brown iS also an old newspaper man of the territory and first class citi- zen in every respect.
 l.. l.. Harmon is up from Tempe.
 Jas. KrossIe- .s in from Crown King.
 c. w. T., en. of Phenix is in the city today.
 Mike Richards is registered at the Prescott house.
 sam HilTs health is rapidly imprOv-
 ing in Los Angeles.
 J. r. Taggart came over from Je-
 rome yesterday evening.
 l.. C. Love. a citizen of Crown King.