Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-02-19

c. B. Boyce,- proprietor of the
 Grand Canyon hotel at Williams is il
 town. He says that even during the
 winter months from fifteen to twenty
 people visit the Grand Canyon every day.
 Hahn and Sanford were the win
 ners in last nights pool contest The score stood as follows: First game, Sandford 100; Parsons S2; second game, Hahn 100, Henry 64.
 The motion in the supreme court to affirm the judgment of the Yavapai district court was denied in the case of A. G. and Challotte Nj. Oliver vs. John w. Dougherty. The appellant was granted leave to file a transcript of testimony.
 Geo. Fl. Kelly and his son, W. B. Kelly, have started the publication of newspaper at Morenci, called the Morenci Standard. This new ven ture makes three papers published by the above gentlemen, the Solomon vile Bulletin, the Bisbee Review and the Morenci Standard.
 Dr. Metzgar has just received Nitrous Oxide or laughing gas out fit. This is the ideal agent to use in the extraction of teeth. A few inhala- tions of the gas and the patient knows nothing of pain, the tooth is extracted and almost before the dentist has had time to put his faucets away the patient is ready to leave the chair.
 The business of the recorders office up to date this year is about one third greater than it was for the same period last year, the number of in struments recorded to date being S61 as against GA last year for the same period.
 Work on the extension of the P. & E. railroad to the Bradshaw country was commenced today. The contract was awarded yesterday to Grant Bros. for the construction of the first six teen miles of the road. The contract calls for the completion of this con- tract by June.
 Officers from the sheriff's office. yesterday, captured Phenix burglar about two miles west of town. Mir. Burglar had come up to within few miles of town on freight train, when he dropped of and was footing it. The articles stolen in Phenix were found in yalise carried by the man.
 Mrs. Harriet E. Wilson, of Phenix. manager of the Arizona Mining, Rail road and Hotel News is in town to- day working up business for her paper. The paper has only recently been started in Phenix and is intend ed for circulation on railroad trains for the purpose of advertising the ter ritory.
 Thomas E. Campbell came over from Jerome today and is circulating among his friends in Prescott. It is his first visit here for several months. He says that the United Verde com pany is running larger force at pres ent than ever before in its history and is also making extensive additions to its plant.
 An article which will prove of the widest interest to all those engaged in teaching or who may be interested in education, is one in the January Cosmopolitan by Elisha Benjamin Andrews, ex-president of Brown uni versity, who for the first time, in a leading magazine, has had the cour- age to show the great evils resulting from the private school book system - educational officials corrupted, l school books often the poorest se- lected, and the prices paid by the children themselves of the highest an annual tax going up into the mil lions which could be very easily avoided if the proper organization were brought into this effort.
 President E. P. Ripley of the Santa Fe railroad company, and General McArthur, department commander of this military department, arrived in Prescott this afternoon by special train in the formers private car. President Ripley is making a tour of inspection over the roads owned and controlled by his company, and Gen. McArthur's mission here is to make an official examination of Whipple Barracks with a view of re-establish- ing it as a military post should the conditions be found favorable for the purpose. President F. NJ. Murphy of the s. F. F. & P. railroad company. who has been in Los Angeles, accom- panied the party here. Their visit will be of only brief duration.