Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-01-15
From Wednesdays Daily. Elks lodge tonight.

GAhs iOOSo tOAiSns.
 Aztlan lodge, F. & A. M., meets t,
 night.
 Examination by the civil servic
 commission will be held February 1
 for hull drsftsman.
 MT. Waring will speak at tn
 union evangelistic meeting at tn
 Baptist church tonight. : Miss Mollie Kennedy, a gram daughter of Mir. and Mrs. J. R. Slacl
 died on Groom Creek recently o
 scarlet fever.
 R. B. Burmister of the Bank of Ari
 zona, went over to Jerome today t,
 take charge of the branch there dur
 ing the absence of Manager Smith.
 The Phenix Gazette, in its accoun of the murder of Geo. Bryan, says i is generally believed that Connors in tended to kill Ben Swuinger too if b, had found hlm.
 Wesley Merritt, nephew of Genera
 Wesley Merritt, has been appointed industrial agent of the Santa Fe rail road, vice James A. Davis, who re signed.
 By stipulation between District Attorney Ling and Attorney General Ainsworth, the Yavapai county bond case has gone over until March 14, in the United States supreme court.
 Word was received here today an nouncing that the funeral services of the late Mrs E. B. Gage will be held in San Francisco tomorrow, and that interment will take place there.
 Mark Force, fireman on the Chloride railroad. in Mohave county, while repairing telegraph wire, re- gently fell from the top of a pole to the ground, sustaining serious though it is not considered fatal injuries.
 S. E. Brethertou has wired the Val Verde Copper company that he is un- avoidably detained in Colorado. Rather than delay placing their plant in operation indefinitely, the com pany has engaged the services of MT. D. G. Jewett (who successfully ran the Boggs smelter) to place the Py- ritic furnace and hot blast stove in operation during the coming week, pending MT. Bretherton's arrival. Mir. Bretherton is expected in Febru- ary.
 The Phenix city council has legis- lated all perambulating restaurants and Hotel de Moonlights" of the streets.
 Prof. McCowan of the Pheni1 h. dian school left Phenix today for Chilocco, Oklahoma, to take charge of the Indian school at that place. The professor has quite extensive in terests in the Salt river valley.
 Special Agent A. F. Leach of the interior department left today for Trinidad, Colorado, to appear as a witness in government case.
 The county is publishing its usual advertisement for bids for its annual supplies. They will be opened Feb ruary at ? o'clock p. m.
 J. H. Clinkscales, formerly of Los Angeles, has purchased an interest in the insurance agency of Martindell & Horne and the firm is now Martin dell, Horn & Co. MT. Clinkscales owns extensive interests in Jerome, and has been appointed insurance ad- Juster for Arizona, of fifteen insurance companies.
 Satelio Duarte, a Mexican wood l chopper of Mohave county, whom Special Agent Leach got after re- gently for unlawful cutting of timber | on government land has been sent to the Phenix insane asylum. It takes a man of pretty strong nerves to keep out of the asylum or peniten- tiary with Leach camping on his trail.
 It is reported that Judge Kimball of Chicago will be in Phenix early in February and deliver one or more lee lures on Christian Science He is a member of the board of lecturers of the Mother church and is said to be a most interesting speaker. It is prob able that Prescott scientists will se- cure Judge Kimball to deliver one or more lectures in Prescott, also during his visit to Arizona.
 There is strong talk of a branch | railroad being built into the Gold i Road country. The rumor has it that ! the old grade of the Santa Fe will be used to below the point of mountain, where it formerly y ran down to the old wooden bridge, near Powell Slough; thence northerly around the mountain to the mesa country below Fort Mohave, where the road will run into the mountain on an easy grade With road into the mines of that country, ores of very low grade can be easily worked Mohave Miner.
 Judge Reese NJ. Ling returned to- day from a professional visit into Mexico including in it visit to the celebrated Cananea copper mines. He says the growth of that place has heen most remarkable, having grown from practically nothing to city of . 1000 or 5000 people within a year. Geo. Mitchell has resigned his posi- tion as general manager of the com pany and Robert Mitchell his brother will take his place The former re- gently purchased d handsome resi- dence in Los Angeles and will divide l his time between residing there and | travelling.
 All the machinery is installed and | connected up for the concentrating mill of the Standard Smelling and | Refining company. As soon as the fuel oil is received for same. trial | run will be made of the machinery upon ores received from Douglas, | Lacey & Cos mines. and everything | got in perfect order for traasdcting a | custom milling business.
 Up to noon today there had been 1 filed for record in the county record | CTS office 25l instruments as against 1lS for the same time last vear For the year 1901 there were fled for record 50S7 instruments as against 4572 for 1900, showing a steady in- crease in the business of therecorder's office So for this year it surpasses all previous records.
 The following officers were install ed at the meeting of the K. of P. Monday night: Nj. of w.. Geo Wing; C. C., E. C. Averyt; V. C., E. E. Osenburg; Prel.. |. O. Lewis; NJ. ofE., J. H. Robinson: M of r, H. D. Aitken: K. of lt. and $, W. J. Craft; NJ. at A., W. W. Gnash; J. G., Jos. Melhinch; o. G., Frank Littler.