Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-01-16

and when fire is once started in the fall it need not ever go out during the winter, but by banking, the room is kept comfortable and the temperature even day and night with only small amount of fuel.
 Samuel H. Garrett has returned from the Philippines to Los Angeles recently for visit with relatives. Mir Garratt was formerly a clerk in the railroad offices in Prescott resigning his position there to join the Rough Riders. After the close of the cam paign in Cuba he went to the Philip pines where he was private secretary to Gen. Joe Wheeler, and where he nearly lost his life from an attack by bolo men.
 On account of a possibility of a coal famine because of the Gallup strike, the freight on the s. F. P. & P. did not go further south today than Pres colt. The hands at the machine shops here have also been put on half time till it is determined how exten- sive the shortage will be. At the pres ent the company has sufficient quan- tity of fuel for two or three weeks, but it was thought best to be prepared for any emergency that might arise.
 The frame work on the buildings being erected on North Montezuma street by Mrs. Crapo, has been com pleted, and the brick layers are at work now putting up the exterior brick walls. This will make a good strong structure, quite handsome and much less liable to fire than frame house. There will be four complete cottages under one roof and surround ed by one continuous wall, which will considerably lessen the expense of building, yet will make very desira- ble and beautiful row of flats for dwelling purposes. More of the same kind of houses should be built, as there has not been enough houses in Prescott to supply the demand for many months.
 Deputy Sheriff Devore was killed on the streets of Yuma Wednesday by hobos. The murderers were placed in the penitentiary to prevent the irate citizens of the city from lynching them.
 The two little colored boys who caused our people no end of amuse- ment some time ago by their nu- merous exhibitions of cake walking, have been placed in the county hos pital by the clerk of the board of supervisors, they having been left in his charge by some colored people in this city, who have been caring for them for some time. Their mother, Rosa French, is working at the Crown Point mine, but has been notified to come to Prescott and make provision for their case. The father is some place in California.
 Another one of those pleasant in formal dances at the K. of P. hall to- night.
 Ed Wagoner, the Walnut Grove sage and politician, is in town.
 John Merwin is up from Walnut Grove.
 There are two cases of smallpox in Mesa City, both in the family of w. J. LeBaron. The county health of ficer has visited them and reports that the disease is of a mild form and the patients are doing nicely. It is un derstood the house is quarantined and all precautions necessary taken to pre- vent its spread It is believed the disease was contracted through the re- ceipt of letter from Salt Lake City, where smallpox is epidemic. c.-Repub- lican.
 James Quinlan, an old settler in Southern Arizona, died at Naco last Monday night.
 Work on the new Bisbee hotel is rapidly progressing. The hotel is S0x90 feet, and four stories in height and contains all told So rooms, 50 of which are bed rooms.
 The Era, of Clifton, states that there are now over one hundred big mines in the Clifton district, and that the value of their output is S22.850 a day.
 John Duke. Harry Clark and J. w. Sullivan have been appointed com mittee to present the needs of the stockmen of this section to the com ing legislature. These are all infiu- ential stock men and having the good of the industry at heart will undoubt- edly make strong effort along that line. The association could have made no better selections.
 A strike of coal miners is on at Gal lup, N. M., involving in the neighbor- hood of 800 miners. This may seri- ously affect the coal supply for this section as it is learned the Santa Fe Pacific will appropriate the coal sup ply intended for this place. The strike promises to spread to other mines.
 Those who enjoy dancing will be pleased to know that the ladies of the Degree of Honor have decided to give a grand masque ball at the opera house on St Valentines day, Febru- ary If. These ladies are noted for doing things up in first class man ner, and an effort will be made to out do all previous events on this occa- sion.