Arizona republican., 1900-07-27
THE NEWS OF
 PRESCOTT

Prescott, July 25.-(special core
 spondence of The Republican, )-Eigh-
 teen or more small apprentices in the
 art Of ''skinning'' brick are employed at
 the ruins of the Hotel Burke building
 laboriously and slowly scraplng away
 the old mortar off the surface of the
 brick at $50 per thousand. One small
 boy has been at work over two days
 and has not completed his thousand yet. and says that when he does so he will strike for a better job. He says that's a deal harder work than selling Republicans like hot cakes for a couple of hours in the afternoon, and he will go back to the latter occupation again.
 He's not the only one who likes selling
 Arizona Republicans A rather large boy. nicknamed ''Sand-piper," asked 10
 be employed or allowed to sell the pa
 per, and when refused by the agent at the instigation of several smaller boys who were regularly on hand as soon as | the papers arrived, he lay in wait out side and attacked the whole force If Republican newsboys. throwing rocks at them, then undertook to throw them ! down and stamp them out of existence. | After this attack he was still blood
 thirsty and went and did likewise with | the whole push working on the Hotel Burke building.
 At the Hotel Burke ruins the carload | or more of coal stored in the cellar at the back is still on fire, making it un- | comfortable for any one to work in the ! immediate vicinity yet.
 1 All the small restaurants hastily put | up on the street between the plaza and | old'"Whiskey Row seem to be doing a rushing business. Some signs are dis ] played which read Meals 8 cents, p extra 50 cents" These are all run ty Chinamen who were burned out and 1 are taking advantage of the scarcity of accommodations to get in the pesos 1 they could not claim or command in { other days.
 1 The little brick restaurant just put up 1 across the street from Office Row. is | having the roof put on today and will | be in readiness for business inside of
 a couple of weeks at the present rate. l This is the first brick building put mp and finished since the fire. Of course | there is no foundation to speak of eX- I ttpt IllOlueT edIll, anu lIle W dllS Hay ! crack asunder when frost strikes it, but
 while the sun shines and the summer ! breeZes blow the proprietors will make i hay"
 | Mr. Coles Bashford is expected here i in the course of a couple of weeks to attend to the putting up of a new brick and stone building 75x135 feet on the old corner drug store site CCortez and i Gurley streets). MT. Bashford is con- valescing at his home in Los Angeles
 from an attack of typhoid fever. Two carloads of building material wagons and implements for excavating 1 and rebuilding the Burke & Hickey 1 hotel, arrived today from Phoenix. and | quite pageant of red and green wag- ons and carts filed up the street from ! the depot, headed by no band wagon nor heralded by drums. but quietly took up their station at the scene of ! their next few months labor
 1 In eXcaVating for the Bank of Ari- 1 zona building last evening a portion of | the foundations of the electric light building adjoining this property on the 1 east gave way and the side and end l walls of the two storied structure were ! cracked and the building on that side 1 commenced to settle perceptibly, and ! today the upstairs front entrance to the | building was labeled "dangerous-keep 1 out, and the attention of most of the i occupants of the building was concen- 1 trated in the conjecture as to whether 1 they were to stand united. or. divided. 1 fall. However. by this evening the | building has been braced up to a state
 -.c. ! of it's collapse Iessened to an appreci- ! able extent.
 MRS. GEO. WOOSTER.