Williams news., 1904-11-19
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IlC l WCl1tI 4NdtAOhoA 4iiASoNi'tt congress met at Fl Paso on the 14th.
 A wagon load of tunnel rails and other camp supplies were yester. day taken out to the Derby minc- This is the property operated by Geo. U. Young.
 Following the election of Mark Smith, Gov. Brodie has issued his Thanksgiving proclamation. Gov. Brodie generally does the right thing at the right time.-Prescott Courier.
 Two Graham county horse thieves -J. l.. Munroe and Jones-have been apprehended in Utah and Sheriff Parks of that county has gone to bring them back to the scene of their troubles.
 Fire destroyed part of the busi- ness portion of Benson on Nov. II, causing a loss of $50, 900, including the postoMce, Grand Central hotel and five business houses. The Are was of incendiary origin.
 Professor Eller asked this after noon that his thanks be expressed in behalf of the Eaghs' hand for the kind treatment received while in Williams. Eller says that in all his band experience he was not treated better than at Williams.- Prescott Herald.
 Mrs. Eliza A. Otis, wife of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, proprietor and editor of the Los Angeles Times, died in that city last Saturday night of angina pectoris. Mrs. Otis had been in poor health for some time. She was 70 years old and had considerable fame as poetess.
 The sheep from the northern ranges that habitually range in Maricopa and Yavapai counties are now strung out along the way, some just leaving the summer range, while the advance flocks have ar rived at their journey's end. Indi cations are for a most prosperous spring season for the owners of the golden hoofed animals.
 The Kingman Volcanic Tufa Co.,, has been organized in Los Angeles, with an office in Kingman. It's purpose is to utilize the material from the Metcalf quarry west of town for building and other pur- poses. It has been found adapta ble. when ground and mixed with oil, for an elastic waterproof paint for cement work and masonry, and the new company will put it to this Kingman Miner.
 Mark Smith is elected. He will now be expected to line up the long winded democratic senators to talk the joint statehood bill to death. If Mark fails and we are attached to New Mexico, the democratic party in Arizona will get q hard lick. It would have been better for the democrats, to have let a re- publican representative shoulder the responsibility. Mark will have to make his stump talk good or his brilliant career will snap off close to the stem.-Mineral Wealth.
 The convention of the Arizona Bankers association was held last Monday at Tucson There was a good representation of the banking institutions of the territory. The convention was called to order by President R. N. .Fredericks of the Prescott National bank. after which prayer was offered by Rev. F. T. Bennett of Prescott. There was an address of welcome by Mayor c. F. Schumacher and response hy MT. T. E. Pollock, of the Arizona Cen tral bank at Flagstaff. The officers of the association elected are: A. G. Smith, president; H. J. McClung, vice president; J. M. Ormsby, treas urer; Frank J. Steward, of the Southern Arizona. Bank and Trust