Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-03-27
THURSDAYS DAILY

Storm symptoms are in evidenC
 again.
 Ziba o. Brown has gone to the Agu
 Fria section on 8 businsss trip. Frank Lecklider is in town toda from Providence.
 A. A. Johns has returned from a
 official visit to Castle creek.
 A. W. Edwards is expected hom
 tonight from his visit east.
 Dan Reams was in town today iron
 Providence circulating among hi
 many friends.
 R.R. Coleman is in the southern
 part of inc territory with a view O
 bidding on some railroad work.
 Contractor TLurber has about fou
 miles of the railroad cut of graded
 1t stated work will be commenced
 soon laying rails.
 The Bank of Arizona yesterda1
 started up its steam heater in its new
 building for the first time. It worked
 very satisfactorily.
 Capt. c. \. Sterry, general counsel
 for the Santa Fe Pacific railroad pass
 ed through Prescott on last nights
 train en route to Phenix.
 \ six ton block of granite was drop ] ped today in front of the new Nation al bank building. Two larger blocks than this are vel due to put into the
 building one Of which will weigh ten tons.
 c. P Collins, of the Penn Gold and Octave Mining companies, ar rived in Prescott recently, to look after his various mining interests here. Alr. Collins has extensive min ing interests in Peru from where he has recently returnel.
 Captain Weeks, in charge of the work of putting in the Del Rio pipe line, Is having considerable disap- pointment abont getting pipe, which Is delaying the work somewhat. There are about ten miles of pipe laid now, and the construction camp is located about fifteen miles from Prescott.
 The Bank of Arizona has experi- enced considerable delay in getting its new bank fixtures. While the building is almost completed the fix lures have not yet been shipped and it will probably be May 1 before they will be able to open in their new quar- ters.
 H. B. Clifford went out to the Big Bug country today, with committee from the Los Angeles Mining ex- change to look over various mining properties. The president of the ex- change is one of the number, and the committee is accompanied by an ex- pert.
 4. Borders, who has secured a lease on the lower floor of the Commercial club for his undertaking parlors, has returned from St. Louis, where he pur- chased the furnishings and supplies. He expects to open his establishment on April l.-Albuquerqne Citizen.
 The Tucson land office is doing a regular land office" business since the opecing of the Algodones grant to settlers. The papers for one hun dred and twenty five filings were made out in one day in Yuma before the clerk of the district court and the probate judge, while the land office at Tucson had rush of people all day entries. It was a reminder of the Oklahoma boom days.
 Lawrence NJ. Lowell, formerly agent for Wells Fargo & Co at Prescott Is 1 at present manager of L. H. Manning 1 & Cos business in Los Angeles. Man | ming & Co are the successors of Drake < Norton and furnish supplies to the Southern Pacific employees be- tween Bakersfield and Fl Paso. They have three large stores, one at Los | Angeles, one at Tucson and one at Fl Paso.
 Secretary and Mrs. c. H. Akers and 1 Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Harry R. Tritle, gave a very brilliant reception at the home of the | former in Phenix Tuesday evening. The Republican refers to it as being | one of the most elaborate social func- | tions of the season. The reception room was fitted up with decorations of Indian work. while the other rooms of the house were decorated with . Shamrocks and other decorations in honor of St. Patrick's day.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals, March 20. Frank Woods, Geo Cook, Geo Plum mer, Prescott; F D J Rice. San Fran cisco; 4 B Dorville. New Orleans: Mir and Mrs WerlOp, Congress; Wm R Phenix: R $ Underhill, Mayer; Mrs P A Murdock, Big Bug; R A Thomas. Chas E Nathorst, Jerome; Chas E Brown, Lime Kiln; c F Morgan, San Francisco; J T Walden, c N Hasson. Los Angeles; Dan Reams, Providence: Ed Hall, Hydraulice.
 To several young boys who called on Robert Eitzsimmons to get his ad- vice how to become big and strong. the prize fighter asked, Do you smoke and all answered, 'Yes.' He then gave them a lecture on cigar cite making. telling them that every time they smoked a cigarette they cut a day off their life. Here are a few of his lecture: Suppose YOU smoke a pack of cigarettesa day. That does not seem many to fiend. But if you will only figure it up you will find that you can drop about ten months of your life by smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for every two months you live You don't let it worry you much now because you are the cigarettes at the end of your life while the days are dropping off at the other end. Danger loses it's i terror when it's a long way of. But you must remember that you cannot stay young all your life. And the time when cigarettes hurt you most is when you are young.
 At the Methodist Episcopal parson- lge, Prescott, Arizona, on March 22, 1901, Robert F. Humphrey, of Mor- -istOwn. Arizona. and Mattie W. Loper, 1f Des Noines, Iowa. were united in by Harcourt W. Peck. Miss Loper is from one of the leading fam lies of Des 1Ioines. Iowa, and is a sis ter of Colonel John C. Loper, of the