Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-05-06
THE LOCAL NEWS.
......QTY And COUNTY
From Wednesdays Daily.

E. j. Bennett came up from Pheni
on this mornings train.
W. H. Smith, the we'll known sheep
man, went to Seligman today.
Ex-Governor n. o. Murphy came u
from Phenix on this mornings train
Mrs. Dave Amber came up iron
Phenix this morning to join her hus
band.
E. E. Ellinwood left on this morn
ing's train for professional visit t,
Kingman.
Judge Reese NJ. Ling returned thii
morning from his visit to Bisbee anC
Douglas.
J. S. Acker returned yesterday
from Bisbee, where he went on min
ing business.
Herman Voge has been confined tc
his room for several days with a Sc.
we're attack of rheumatism.
Thomas Sutton, the enterprising
commercial man, representing Bishop
& Co., is in town on his periodical
visit.
DIR. Wilbur, one of the prominen
citizens of the Verde valley, is shak-
ing hands with friends in Prescott to-
day.
l. Salinger, father of Victor Sal
niger, of the Victor mine, on Lynx
creek, has been visiting his son for
several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Close and Messrs.
Saeger left early this morning for
Phenix, expecting to make the trip
clear through there today.
1t is expected that the Mudhole
mine will start up in few days with
about 100 men. The work of clearing
the mine of water has been nearly
completed.
John O'Connell is in town from
Mayer. He has been at work for the
past six months developing some fine
and promising mining properties own
ed by him in the Black Canyon coun-
try.
Harold Cheverton, a young Chicago
banker, arrived in Prescott few days
since to spend his vacation. Mr..
Cheverton has been here several times
before.
Miss Mona Rhines, the trained
nurse, who arrived in Prescott few
days ago has decided to remain here.
She has an announcement in this is
sue to which attention is called.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Goddard expect
to leave in few days for California
where they may decide to remain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goddard have a host of
warm friends in this city who will
regret very much to have them trans
fer their residence from Prescott.
Captain W. F. Meek, superintend-
ent of the United Gold and Platinum
Mines company which is operating in
he Grand Canyon, left this morning
or Seligman en- route to his camp in
Canyon, near the Supai vii
age after a visit of several days in
Prescott.
The Journal Miner is informed that
,y the installation of oil as fuel at
he pumping station at Del Rio, the
,ity will save at least $500 per month.
It will enable the city to dispense
With two firemen at a salary of 81 per
week each and the cost of fuel will be
between 500 and $500 per month.
There is a report in the city that
the war department intends to station
a portion of the second infantry,
which has been doing service in the
for the past two years,
but which will soon arrive in the
United States, at Whipple. The order
has not been made yet but it is prac-
tically settled to that effect.
A through Pullman car will be run
from Phenix to Los Angeles next
tuesday, May 5, being the first Cali
fornia excursion of the season. The
regular excursion season will last un-
til September, the days on which
rates will be in effect being Tuesday,
and Saturday of each week.
Quite a number of people seem to
be afraid, for some reason, to give in
their names and addresses for the new
city directory. They should under
stand that to correctly answer these
questions will in no way injure them
and will make good showing for the
city and will tend to make the direct
DRY that much more valuable.
CARPENTERS and painters have been
busy for a few days fixing up fine
office room in the wholesale liquor
store of Herman Voge. The Office is
just to the left as one enters the store
and is we'll lighted, being constructed
largely of glass, and is very handy for
those having business with the office
and makes a splendid office room for
the bookkeeper and business manager.
A representative of new oil burner
is in town demonstrating its value as
a fuel saver and has installed one in
each of several places where oil is
used in generating steam. He has
gone out to Del Rio to put one in the
city's water pumping plant. He
hopes to install these burners perman-
emily by demonstrating their value to
the parties where they are being
placed.
The Santa Fe company will shortly
extend its oil burning service to Win
slow. Oil for fuel is now used on all
points of the road west of Seligman.
The company now consumes 135, 600
barrels per month and the extension
over the division from Seligman to
Winslow will require about 30, 600 bar
reIs more per month. With oil used
for fuel doing away with cinders from
the engines and with the track oiled,
doing away with dust, it is a pleasure
to travel on the Santa Fe road.
c. c. Hutchinson, the we'll known