Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-08-01

 tended after the fire were certainly most gratifying to our people and it showed generous and philanthropic spirit on the part of the people making them. It was more gratifying that no case of suffering or want existed and that all of the sufferers were able to take care of themselves.
 Ed Harren, who was injured by the fall of wooden awning on office row on the night of the fire remains in critical condition. He has partially re- covered consciousness but still rambIes considerably in his talk. The doctors ! have hopes of pulling him through all right in due course of time, though his recovery will be slow.
 A private letter to friends in this city | from Colonel Alex O. Brodie dated at Pennington, N. J.. July r. says: ''I was deeply grieved yesterday to learn l through the papers of a disastrous fire in Prescott The report was very meager and I should like to know some of the particulars. I desire to extend my sympathy for the town"
 Dr. L. C. Gonzales. the well-known dentist left this afternoon for d trip east on business, and during his ab- sence his office will be closed tempor- arly. The time of his absence will be indefinite. depending upon the time it will require to accomplish the business. He may return within two weeks and it may require three or four months.
 "An International Wheat Corner" by J. D. Whelpley. in August McClure's, gives somewhat startling proposition made not long ago by the Russian gov ernment to the United States. whereby the two nations should control the wheat supplyiof the entire world and fix its price at a uniform rate which should never tluctuate. These details have never before been made public. J. W. Brown has severed his eonnec- tion with the Bashford-Bnmister plumbing department and will in a few days have shop which win be built for him. with full line of plumbing material and complete tin shop, and will be fully prepared to meet promptly all orders with which he is favored. Telephone No. PA. 7-S9-tf Jake Marks left this afternoon for San Francisco to make arrangements for rebuilding on the site formerly oc- cupied by J. W. Wilson, Jake Marks wholesale house and the Journal Miner office. The building will be the same size as the old one. but the rooms will extend the entire distance of the lot back to the alley.
 The first building to go up since the fire is nearing completion. It was start ed last Saturday. Fitzsimmons &, Go. are doing the brick work and Hummer x Burhans the carpenter work. It is located on Cortez street on .the alley back of the former Prescott National bank building and will be used for restaurant.
 United States Attorney R. E. Morri- son and Attorneys Campbell & Job have joined the cliff dwellers. Owing to ffhe unsafe condition of the building in which they are located they now enter and leave their offices by means of lad ders in the rear and climbing over the roof of a coal shed. Their clients are respectfully notified of this mode of in- gress.
 J. c. Sturtevant and Engineer T. ]. Fisher went out Wednesday afternoon to examine a spring from which It is claimed an abundant water supply for the town can be obtained. It is located in the vicinity of Williamson valley twenty-three miles from town and it is claimed the water can be brought to town by gravity. Should this prove correct and should the amount of water claimed exist there it is the most prac- tical proposition yet received.
 "A Prisoner Among the Filipinos" is the title of Commander James C. Gilmore's account of his eX- traordinary experiences in the Philip pines, which begins in the August Me Clure's. Lieutenant Gilmore was cap tured by savage tribes while out in a small boat with a scouting party on the coast of LuZon. He had more than one narrow escape from death. For several months these men travelled ] hundreds of miles through the heart of | Luzon, enduring unspeakable hard t ships, with no prospect of escape from i an awful fate at the hands of blood i thirsty Tagals. The illustrations by | w. R. Leigh after the authors own sketches are marvelously graphic.