Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-08-28

Dr. L. c. Gonzales, the dentist, ha moved into his new quarters in tn Bashford block.
 W. A. Drake has returned from hi trip east, He is accompanied by hi wife.
 Dr. J. c. Solomon, eye, ear, nos, and throat specialist of Los Angeles Is In town on a professional visit. Dr Solomon is highly recommended fol his chosen specialties.
 B. H. Smith and Tom Shultz re turned today from a prospecting tou in the hills, and it is reported that they discovered and located one oi the biggest bonanzas yet found in the territory.
 Under an act passed by the last legislature Arizona is to have com pany of rangers. It will consist of a captain, seargeant and twelve pri- yates. Bert Mossman has been ap- pointed captain and he will enlist the other members of the com pany. The captain gets S125 per month, the sergeant, S75 and the pri- yates S55. Each man furnishes his own horse.
 The presence in Prescott of a num- Der of railroad contractors is noticed. They have been attracted here by the fact that tomorrow is the day fixed for opening the bids for the construc- tion of the Big Bug branch of the P. x E. railroad. The line will be about eight miles long, but the construction work will be very heavy. It is pro- posed to have the work completed this year.
 w. E. Martin, manager of the Pres colt opera house has had the supervi- sion of both the Prescott and Phenix opera houses placed in his charge. He will continue the management of the Prescott opera house in person and has secured the services of Fred w. Stechan, an experienced theatri- cal man of San Francisco to take the management of the Phenix house. A fine list of attractions for next sea son has been booked for these two houses.
 R. R. Coleman has been given the contract for making the changes in the United Verde and Pacific railroad The work is quite important and very expensive, the contract running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mir. Coleman is an experienced rail road man, being familiar with every detail of the work from making the grade to the operation of the road, and when the work on the above road is completed it will be we'll done.
 On account of a misapprehension of the time limit for filing notices of intention for building railroads under the tax exemption law passed by the last legislature, Arizona is liable to be one railroad short. Parties here who had the railroad fever and who were under the impression that they had until September 1 to file their notices of intention to build, under the law, were surprised yesterday to learn that the time for filing expired on Tuesday night. They will proba- ply not build now.
 MONDAYS DAILY
 Dr. G. W. Vickers spent Sunday in Prescott.
 Wife for Wife" at Dake's opera house tonight.
 Methodist Sunday school picnic at Granite Dells, next Monday.
 Public schools will open a week from tomorrow, on Tuesday, Septem- Der 3.
 Agent Tucker of Wells, Fargo & O., moved his office yesterday into the Lawler block.
 Horace Merrill left for Jerome this morning, after spending several days in Prescott on business.
 Mrs. J. w. Akers has returned from spending her vacation in Cali fornia.
 Charles Gates died yesterday of consumption at his room in the Hilton building. He came here from Michi- gan.
 J. c. Herndon was elected vice president for Arizona of the American Bar association, which recently met at Denver.
 The Congregational Sunday school will give its regular annual picnic next Friday afternoon at Granite Dells.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. $. Smith are in town from Jerome Junction today, buying supplies for their Junction hotel.
 In Java they have bats five feet long, Some of our real nice young fellows measure them by days instead of feet.
 H. R. Wood, F. $. Carlisle and A. B. Nader returned this morning from Hillside, where they have been en- gagged in surveying.
 The Ruble Theater company, con sisting of fourteen people, arrived on Sundays train from Phenix and will appear at Dake's opera house tonight.
 A. c. Barnett, brakeman on the Santa Fe Pacific railroad, was killed at Ash Fork recently by falling from train and being run over.
 Dof NV;II;o,,, Cb,,-4,,. - -: ously if not fatally shot in a Nogales saloon Wednesday night by B. Whiteside, formerly recorder of Pinal county.
 Mrs. G. c. Ruffner and Miss. Der tha Pentland will leave next Thurs day for Los Angeles. Mrs. Ruffner goes for a visit for recreation while Miss Pentland will enter the normal school there.
 s. w. Higley will leave tomorrow morning for Long Beach, California, where his family have been spending the summer He will visit with them for two or three days in Los Angeles, when they will return to Prescott to- gether.
 Captain J. L. B. Alexander of Phe- nix was in town Saturday from Iron Springs. He received a warm and cordial welcome from cur citizens,
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