Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-01-27
but it is in accordance with schedule.

attendance at these meetings as we'll
as the interest in them is increasing
each evening.
In Wednesdays report of the mus
ical section of the Monday club Miss
Helen Burmister was credited with
rendering a soprano solo entitled,
"My Heart, to Hear Thy Voice" 1t
should have read Miss Marguerite
Gale, instead.
Geo. f. Anderson and bride return
ed this morning from a few days trip
to Florence where Mr.. Anderson
went in connection with his duties as
an assistant to Chief Engineer W. A.
Drake. Mrs. Anderson wanted to see
some of southern Arizona and accom-
panied him on the trip.
Harry LsMontayne, the good ma
tured general manager of the Sultan
mine, came up from the property this
morning for a short visit with his
numerous friends in Prescott. When
he got off the train he was loaded
down with a big string. of quail
which he soon distributed among his
friends.
P. l.. Kastner returned to-day from
his eastern trip. While he went there
on business he was called upon, dur
ing his absence, to assist in the burial
of his mother, who died shortly after
his leaving here. He reports the
weather throughout the east as being
bitterly, and in many places unpre-
cedentedly cold.
The unloading of material for the
new Maricopa & Phenix steel bridge
across Salt river has been completed.
There will be six spans of steel in the
bridge, which will cross all that part
of the river which is filled with water
in time of flood. The work on the
bridge will probably start about the
first of next month. Gazette.
Six meetings, at as many different
places, will be held in Maricopa coun-
ty on Saturday January 30, according
to the Gazette for the purpose of en-
tering protests against the admission
of Arizona and New Mexico as one
state. The meetings will be held as
a result of the action taken by the
Maricopa county board of supervisors. |
Ed Block reports the sale which is
now on as being the most successful |
sale, so far, that he has ever conduct |
ed. Scores of suits of clothes as we'll |
as other articles of mems clothing |
are being sold daily. The fact that |
Mr.. Block does what he says he will
do, and the further fact that people |
have found that out to their satisfac-
ton. makes his advertising valuable
to him, and when he announces a |
special sale people know that they are
going to get exceptional bargains.
Former Mexican Consul Navarro,
of Phenix, is now in the City of Mex
leo, to answer charges preferred |
against him. Concerning these charges
the Mexican Herald says: Zone of the
items is especially amusing, and is to
the effect that the high society of
Phenix is greatly scndalized, because
so it is alleged, the consul presents
each year at the swell social func-
tions of that highly cosmopolitan
burg an entirely new and strange lady
as his wife,
Rainbow seems like a peculiar
name for a mining claim but such
claim exsist in the Bradshaw noun
tains, and a company incorporated in
the same name is operating it. The
claim is located not very far from the
Gladiator mine, on the side of steep
mountain. Its location is such on the
side, that with nearly every
rain storm in that section, a
is produced at the claim,
hence its name. Very few places can
be found where rainbow is visible as
often as at this property.
When j. c. Herndon and family
awoke this morning they we're some
what surprised to find that during the
night they had had a narrow escape
from fire. A portion of the fence on
the south side of the house had been
burned. Investigation developed the
fact that a new cook had thrown some
hot ashes against the fence and during
the night the fence broke into flame.
Ed Paine, who lives across the street,
was awakened shortly after midnight
and discovered the fire and he and
his boys extinguished it without Civ
ing any alarm.
The officers of the PheniX & Eastern
have given out that regular daily
train service will be established be-
tween Phenix and Florence about
Feb. ]. One round trip per day will
be made, leaving Phenix about eight
O'Clock in the morning and returning
in the evening. Though the regular
service has not bsen established, the
company has been taking care of car
load shipments to points along their
line. The passenger service on the
road will be formally opened with an
excursion to Florence on Saturday,
January 81. A round trip rate of 81
will be made, and it is expected a
large number of people will take ad-
vantage of the opportunity to see the
country through which the road |
passes.
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