Cochise review., 1901-01-12

af line rider and is now county jailor of Santa Cruz county.
 The many friends of J. G. Hopkins, one of the directors of the Arizona Copper Company, will be pleased to learn that She is now on the road to Clifton.
 Tempe is to have national bank. It is reported that the institution has the backing of a syndicate composed of many of the leading financial citizens.
 T. K. Mitchell fell as he alighted from the train at Cochise Wednesday and broke his shoulder blade. He re- turned to Wilcox and Dr. Nicholson set the broken member.
 The heathen Chinese are gradually learning the arts of Saxon civilization. Two Chinese, Moy Quoy and Ton Toy, are figuring in the divorce court at Tucson.
 The Orndorff hotel which has made an assignment to l.. Zeckendorh x Co. is now in the hands of Mir. Brown of the San Xavier hotel who assumed charge yesterday as manager'-Cltlzen - H. J. Simmons, superintendent of the Arizona X New Mexico railway informs the Copper Era that sixteen miles of broad guage track has been laid on the line out from Lordsburg, and that the work all along the line is progress ing most satisfactorily.
 Miss Estelle Frazee, graduate of the Salida, Colo, high school, but late of Bisbee, entered as student in the Tempe Normal yesterday. Her course will be such that she will graduate a year from next June.
 Attorney O. Gibson left Wednesday for Tombstone, where he will reside m the future. MT. Gibson has made numerous friends in these parts during his stay at Wilcox, who will wish him all manner of success in his new loca- tion.-Range News.
 The engagement of Florence Hanny to Harry Crei ghton of Phoenix has been announced. Miss Hanny is we'll known in Tucson society circles. Mr. Creighton is the United States collector of customs at Nogales.
 Richard Humphries of Bisbee, who has been in the valley for several days, returned home last night, taking with him a half-dozen milch cows. He proposes to start a dairy in that fa- nous camp-Republican.
 M. o. Bicknell and B. F. Porter of the Masicopa & Phoenix line, left yes terday at one o'clock in the afternoon on special for Maricopa, the object of their trip being to meet Chas. M. Flaws, president of the Southern Pa cific, who passed through Maricopa westward bound on trip of inspection on his road.
 The petition for the incorporation of the town of Williams was filed with the board of supervisors this week. The hearing of said petition has been set for next Monday. It appears that there is some opposition and warm contest is booked for on the occasion.- Gem.
 Dr. w. H. Fenner the $. P. surgeon came up from Tucson the other day and held consultation over the case of s. H. Benson with Dr. Nicholson. He decidsd that Dr. Nicholson had done everything that medical science could, aud that MT. Benson was on the high road to ecovery.-Range News. / J. c. Page returned Tuesday from Yuma where he went with Sheriff Scott White as a guard with the prison CTS who were sent from Tombstone to Yuma. He characterized the sensa- tional story of Matt Burts' attempt to escape from the officers as purely ficti- tious. Matt Burts made no attempt to escape, but negro waiter in the lunch counter at the depot in Yuma offended Burts and he reached for one of the deputies guns to square accounts with the "colored gentleman. In this he was frustrated by the officers. Hence the sensational story of his at tempted escape.- Range News.
 One of the most valuable of the many sporting books published is the Police Gazette Annual and Pugilistic Record" for 1901. It has just been is- sued for this year in vest pocket size, and contains the most important records which have bearing upon all branches of sport. The pugilistic record includes the battles of every prominent pugilist now before the public, names of his opponents, locality dates and decisions. This is the big gest ten cents worth of information ever given.
 Word has been received in Yuma that w. l.. Hopkins, an aged citizen of that place, had disappeared on the 18th of December and has not been seer since. For some time he has been at a little place called Mesquite, near the desert, attending to the development of some mining claims in which he was interested. On the day of his dis appearance he left the house in the afternoon and started toward the placer grounds mile and half distant. That was the last seen of him alive. The next mording he was tracked as far as there was any soft dirt tn show |