Arizona republican., 1901-01-17
COUNTY DIVISION
And Other Matters Just Now Agitat-
 ing Prescott

Prescott, AriZ., Jan. l5,-(Spoaal cor respond nee of The Republican, Dis cussloa on the proposed attempt at U division of Yavapai county at the con.- ing session of the legislature is ag,- tating our people just now not litll {. doleSation of Jeromeites having come over t1 sec what could be done in the way of an "amicable und' rstanding and agreement" of the matter before bringing 1t up for th7 favorable CT ai- Verse dec!si1n of an august body of legislators, It has net yrt been def nltely known just where the proposed new boundaries would be run. but our learned legal lights smile. shrug their shoulders and say "let Jerome have all she wants. Run line down around Crowned King, up around Ask Fork. taking in all tn teutrry she may want, only leave Us rtlr historic old town Of Prescott, the heart of the finrSti county in the rrHory." With its rev enue' ani mines Jtrome's schools and cost cf criminal Mitigation have been a great drain. Should the division be aa- complished. it will fall rather hard on our sherfr as most of his f. es for criminal business come from our pros perin= sister town of Jerone-cn-the- heights.
 Arrangements for the anticipated "Merchan,s' Carnival" to be given at Dake's opera house on F bruary 22nd next, hy the United Modcyns. which af. fair is under the direction of Mrs. JO- seph E. Morrison. seem tO be progress ing satisfa ctorily to all concerned. Most of the merchants arr to be rep resented al this event hv handsome young ladies Of their choice who will be deck d and clothed at the expense and under tho direction Of the merchant whom she may have the honor to rep resent. This is already creating some wha. of a rivalry among the merchants as prizes fer the b,st. most unique and modern" of the particular line of business engaged in by them are to De awarded There will be ten prizes and some of the costumes already de- signed will be strlkingly elaborate and handsome in the extreme.
 One of the fines; bands ever card on the streets Of Prescott is that which is an adjunct to Gorton's minstrel troupe which axhibit shere this and tomorrow evening. Every seat in the house has already been secured for this evening S programme. as the famn of the compa- ny has proCedJd q them hsre through the columns of The Republican, which most of our citizens take and what is more to the point, read.
 The ladies of the Degree of Honor, auxiliary to GHe A. O. '. w., ara tn give a masked hau at the opera houso on Feb. 1ith next, and as the highly succe ssful affair cs the same kind given on the same dat" last year was also under the auspices of these ladies. We predict as fine an enterrainment this year.
 Prescott Is to have a very modern, up-to-datr opera house, to be begun in the course of the next six weeks. n'he F. P. O. r. are the fathers of this splendid projocH. and the lots upll which the structure are to stand are tho-e belonging to w, c. Basnford. just ,cst of the Pr scott Electric company's offices on Guriey strseS. The Elks have bought two lots. making a frontage of 100 fG2tyby 14S feet in depth, adjoining the alley between Cort and Marina Strerts. The price paid for these lots is $4, 900, and the cost Of ths opera housr building will he between forty and fif-