Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-02-27
THE CITY
 AND COUNTY

Work is progressing on the new building of Belcher, Smith & Brow.
 Bricklaying has commenced on the Coles A. Bashford building.
 MT and Mrs. E. B. Gage have re- turneo from trip to Chicago.
 Jake Marks is reported on the sick list.
 H. B. Clifford has opened an office in the Lawler block for a number of minin companies, in which he is in- terestS.l
 MT. Philips, mining expert repre- senting Douglas, Lacey & O., of New York, is visiting Prescott to make an axamination of some mining property.
 Mrs II. E. Wagoner has returned from spending the winter with her son, J. E. Wagoner, at the village of Wagoner.
 K. B Gerf e, representing the Oliver Type WIiting company of Chicago, is in town.
 Fleetwood Bell, one of Kingman's prominent young attorneys is in town attending United States court.
 E. E. Ellinwood, the well known Flagstaff attorney, is in town on court business.
 Judge R. E. Sloan left for Phenix today. He will return on tonight's train in time to hold court tomorrow.
 w. c. Flint, who has been on the sick list for several weeks, is able to be around again.
 On account of the special services at the Methodist church, the meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society will not be held tomorrow afternoon as announced.
 Edwin Hill a prominent citizen of the Lower Agua Fria section is in town. It is his first visit here since the big confagration of last summer.
 Prescott Hotel arrivals; Feb. 25 1901: H L Chandler Mesa, Ariz; T Stewart, Winslow; Ed Haskin, King man: P G Taggart, Jerome; F G Der nardi, San Francisco; R Fl Mannis, Flagstaff; W H Thompson, Pittsburg, Pa; F c Stamford, San Francisco; Arthur WLewis, Los Angeles; H H Mccoy, Jerome.
 R. H. Burmister returned this morn ing from Phenix, where he went to attend the capitol dedication exer- cises. He says it was a very success full affair. Reese NJ. Ling responded for Yavapai county in speech and spoke very eloquently on behalf of its people and its resources.
 Both services yesterday in the NJ. E. Church were well attended and a marked interest was noticed in all present. Rev. Smith conducts his special services on different lines from the ordinary evangelist and addresses his sermons to church members, giv- ing them many new thoughts on the subject of religion. Last night he gave a definition of a sinner. Meet ings are held daily at 2:30 and 7:30 p. m and the public is invited to at tend shem.
 "Life Portraits of Queen Victoria" will be feature in the March issue of McClure's Magazine. The series is made up of reproductions from pho tographs and paintings, and it is of notable historical value. They cover the life of the queen from infancy to old age, and are accompanied by de- scriptive text.
 F. c. Stamford, prominent in surance man of San Francisco is in town on his periodical visit. MT. Stamford has general supervision of the agencies of the company he repre- sents and appoints new agencies in desirable fields. He visits this sec ton about once a year, although it has been about fifteen months since his last visit here.
 Che of the legislators from an in terior county was in the lobby of the Hotel Adams last evening where banqueting party of young ladies passed from the dining room to the parlors. About that time twenty young men who were to be escorts for the bevy of girls to the Maricopa Club ball. emerged from the bar room clad in evening dress. "Wbat are all those walters doing in the bar room ?" asked the legislator from the mountain cOunty.-Gazette