Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-12
Do not fail to see the performance at the opera house this evening.

I
 Prescott Dancing Club dance to-
 morrow night. Mir. and Mrs. Patter-
 son, chaperon.
 Workmen commenced today build ing the addition to Tilton's mechan- ical hospital. The addition will be
 used as a machine shop.
 Program will commenced at 8 o'clock sharp tonight at opera house on ac- count of many youngsters in the entertainment. Don't fail to be on
 hand.
 Tickets are selling we'll for the fun niest show ever given by local talent. Go tonight and hear the new gags and have a good laugh. You won't recognize your best girl in this show.
 Tickets for the meeting of the Lime Kiln Club and Mother Goose's Christmas party at the opera house tonight on sale at Ross drug store and Webster's stationery store.
 The Valentine ball that was to have been given by the United Moderns on Feb. IA, has been postponed on account of that date being in Lent. | The ball will be given on May 1st instead.
 The regular monthly meeting of O. K. Hose company will be held this evening at 8 o'clock. All members of the fire department are cordially invited to be present. Refreshments will be served and a good time is assured.
 Father Bennett of the Episcopal church is expected to return from the hot springs tomorrow and will offici- ate at the commencement of Lent at 10:3O o'clock a. m. on Ash Wednes- day.
 W. A. Rule, cashier of the Bank of Commerce of Kansas City, arrived in Prescott yesterday from California in his private car, accompanied by his wife and family. Mir. Rule has been visiting in California for some time, and decided to make visit to Ari- zona. He was very favorably i'm pressed by his visit with the climate, the people and the business of this section. They left on today's north bound train.
 It is claimed that the double header trains will. soon become a thing of the past on the Santa Fe, as it is explained that these heavy trains are responsible for large majority of the wrecks on the road. It is con- tended that the rails are too light to sustain the immense weight of these big trains and in consequence the roadbed is being wrecked.-Kingman Miner.
 The railroad company has had force of surveyors at work in the Kingman yards all this week laying out larger yard. Two main lines of track will be completed through the yards and the other tracks will be heightened and car capacity doubled. Kingman is being recog- nized as one of the largest business points on the line of the road and the | company is getting ready to accom- modate the rapidly increasing busi- ness.
 In firing with petroleum, if the fire should go out, as it sometimes does when water is mixed with it, the oil | continues to spray onto the hot furn- ace, generating a gas. If you attempt | to light the fire the gas will explode with violence. First shut of the flow of oil, then blow the gas up the smokestack, then you can light the fire with safety. Never venture near a barrel or other vessel which has the petroleum in it, with naked | light, as it is liable to have gas in it, and is more dangerous than when full of petroleum.-Ex.
 J. A. Lamport, civil engineer in | the employ of the Santa Fe Pacific | railroad, came up from Bill Williams Fork country few days ago. We understand that the proposition of | damming the Bill Williams was the errand which took Mir. Lamport to the south part of the county. Work on the dam will be commenced with in the next six months. When com pleted enough water will be em- pounded to not only irrigate thou sands of acres of the richest lands in the world, but to also generate power and furnish water to work the large extent of placer fields below the dam. .-Mohave Miner.
 The best fire extinguishing liquid | is aqua-ammonia. Its power is mar velous. Several tons of burning cot tonseed, the interior almost a solid body of live coal, were extinguished with half a gallon of ammonia. In France, the vapors of a fifty-gallon gasoline tank caught firein laundry. The room was instantly a mass of flames, but gallon and half of ammonia thrown into it completely extinguished the fire. The liquid had been in a glass demijohn in a drug store next door and was thrown in as an experiment.-Ex.
 W. G. Wingfeld and his son, c. P. who live on the Verde, near Camp Verde, have taken hold of the Globe, Payson and Camp Verde mail route and stage line, beginning yesterday morning. MT. W. G. Wingfeld has been in town this week, and states that he has been indirectly informed that he was awarded the mail con- tract on this route for the next four years from July l, and that they will be prepared to run the line in as near irst-class style as possible. The Wingfeld's are old settlers on the Verde and are highly respected. They know the country we'll and realize what they will have to con- tend with in carrying out this con- tract, which with all the rest, will in- sure the people of the northern part of this county that they will have good service.-Silver Belt.
 Attorney Aultman has written letter saying that he does not intend to return to Prescott. Among the last acts which he did prior to leaving here was to borrow money from his friends and get some drafts cashed which were afterwards repudiated by the parties on whom they were drawn and his friends who cashed them were mulcted for the full amount. Aultman bore splendid reputation in his former home in Texas as we'll as here during the time he resided here, and his actions are complete surDrise t0 all The cause of his ac-