Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1903-03-04
THE LOCAL NEWS...... OF THE $ ......CITY AND COUNTY
From Saturdays Daily.


 From Saturdays Daily.
 Pastor Smale has been granted an indefinite vacation by his cOngre- gation in Los Angeles.
 Capt. Hatch, who has been in Tue son for several days on business. re- turned to Whipple today.
 Attorney E. M. Doe of Flagstaff. is in attendance at the Bright Angel trail hearing before Judge Sloan to- day.
 The dog piosoner is at work in Pres colt, and up to noon today no less than fourteen dead dogs had been found in different parts of the city.
 The Eagles initiated four new mem bers at its meeting on Thursday night. Having passed the 200 mark. they are now soaring towards the 800 mark for their aerie.
 J. B. Monnette, general manager of the Federal Investment and Trust company, returned today from very successful business trip in the south ern part of the county.
 l. 0- lNOITlS WAS dDi6 iO Etthlu 10 Prescott this morning from PheniN. Mrs. Norris had not recovered sufii- ciently to return home today but will very likely come up in day or two.
 Geo. Retzer. who has been employed in the mercantile establishment of J. 1. Gardiner. has accepted a position with the street car company in Los Angeles and left for that city today to enter upon his new duties.
 The United States civil service com mission announces that on March 2l. 1903, an examination will be held at the usual places for the position of in terpreter in the Turkish, Arabic. He brew, Spanish, French and Italian languages.
 Mrs. Robert Linvell. and two little girls, who has been visiting her sister. Mrs. B. V. Weaver, in Prescott for several days, leaves this evening for Phenix, where she will visit her par snts few days before returning to
 IF home in Naco.
 E. Wagoner is in town today from 0agoner, on the raging Hassayampa He is accompanied by Fred Borders. a brother of Mrs Wagoner who is a re cent arrival in this section from Wi namac, Indiana. MT. Borders may conclude to remain here
 Work on the new shcool house is progressing nicely. The first coat of clustering has been almost finished. and but for the extremely cold wea- ther the past few weeks the plasterinC for the entire building would have been completed. It has been neces- sary to keep hot fires going all night in the building ever since the work ol plastering was begun.
 T J. Nieman, who has been spend ing couple of days in Prescott on businesS and chatting with his friends, lefs today for his mining prH bsr Hillside. MT. Neiman
 1tation in that section is N 91nth later than usual owing to the &Vere winter, but everybody is rejoicing oyer the fact that there will be an abulsdance of water on ac- count of the heavy snow fall in the mountains
 Joe Mayer is erecting a fine new brick store room at Mayer which which would be credit to a city of several thousand inhabitants. The building is across the street and lit tie south of his present store. IL is about eighty feet deep and has a large gallery running clear around the sides and ends which makes it almost equal to two story building. The front will be large plate glass and all the fixtures will be up to date, while the stock of general merchandise will be full and complete.
 Hon. J. W. Benham. who is well all over Arizona. having
 Ced the county of Maricopa in the
 keenth legislative assembly. and
 Seral years was pr roprietor of the
 lat PheniX an stablishmc--,.
 in curiOs and relics of Arr
 and which became very popular
 eastern visitors to that city.
 "a through Prescott today on his
 to New York City at which place 1e is the manager for the Hyde EX- ploring Expedition. Mr Benham had been spending few days in PheniX on business and pleasure.
 During 1903. the Santa Fe will lay about 350 miles of main line track on its line east of Albuquerque with new eighty five pound rails It k eV- pected that 300 miles of equally heavy rails will be spiked down on its lines in Arizona, California and Texas This will about complete the work be gun in 1901, whereby the seventy five pound rail is to be the minimum of weight for Santa Fe system main tracks. Millions of dollars have al- ready been expended in cutting down grades, raising fills. putting in iron bridges and straightening curves.
 4 new story by Owen Kildare will be leading feature of the April" Sue cess. MT. Kildare's true story of hisifffe..-s'My Rise from the Sums to Manhood, :" which was published in the February Success, ' called forth nearly five thousand letters from all parts of the country. The Dew story is true one, and is. in a way. a se- quel to the first. It is entitled My Good Old Pal. ' and tells of the devO- tion of a dog whom Mir. Kildare calls 'Ehis best friend. :" Ii tingles with human interest and shows what won derful intelligence some dogs possess. Owen Kildare Is the newest star in the literary Armament, and his work is very true to nature.
 From Honday's Daily.