Williams news., 1904-01-30
SELIGMAN ITEMS,

AiDefC C. BufnotG mas pdrcHaSeQ the water privileges from Henery Dethridge for a consideration of $5O0,OO.
 Captain Meeks met Attorney Ash urst in New York and from what he had to say to the captain we might infer that Ashurst will be back in Williams in less than two years.
 Captain Meeks returned from New York Thursday morning on the limited. The captain is look ing remarkable we'll considering he has just gone through three weeks of high life in the metropolis.
 Rumor Number 9,999 is to the effect that MT. M. Salzman hassold his business to his manager Mr. s. L. Sommers. MT. Sommers will have his brother-in law as a part ner and the firm will be known as Samuel L. Sommers x Go.
 Deputy Sheriff Hall came to town on Wednesday and took six hoboes to Prescott. We'll done Hall, but the following morning we noticed that there was still bakers dozen of them taking a sun bath in front of the saloons.
 Monday John Drain indulged freely but not wisely in the stuff that cheers. He fancied that he had grievance against Michael Mcbride and John Harrington; and going into MT. McBride's pri- vate office, secured his Winchester and there would have been some thing doing had it not been for the presence of mind of MT. J. S. With CTS who came up behind him and secured the gun. In court Drain got off with a $1O fine and he ought to consider himself lucky. Not very long ago Drain shot and killed a negress in Williams.
 On Sunday evening after the laundryman had left town for parts unknown, Jim Skelly broke into his place of business and was leav- ing with four bundles of laundry belonging to residents when he was caught by MT. Frank Dickerson. Nothing has been done to punish him for this and probably nothing will. We do not wish to keep knocking" the officials continually but we feel it our duty to do so when a thing of this sort is allowed to pass and which only tends to encourage other rascals. Some thing is rotten in Denmark when such people can go unpunished.
 Last Sunday the government officers were in town for the pur- pose of finding if there were any Chinamen here who had not the necessary papers entitling them to reside in this country. When they approached the laundryman, who is known as Erred Harvey" he informed them that his papers were in Jim Wilson's safe. He managed to put a few yards be- tween himself and the officers and then made run for the hills, and succeeded in eluding his pursuers in the neighborhood of Caufman's dam. In the evening, the officers having departed, he came into town, wound up his business and left us for good.
 The regular meeting to decide the question of building a church in Seligman was held in the school house on Tuesday evening. MT. Howard Foley was elected chair man, and Miss Thompson secreta- ry. The subject of a denomina- tional or independent church was discussed until late hour and it was finally decided that it should be an independent one. The fol- lowing members were elected as the building and finance con- mittee: Mir. Hutcheson, Mrs. White md Miss Thompson.
 Nineteen centuries ago the mira ,le of salvation for the human race vas performed and star rose in he east. From that time forward has been struggling for reedom and individual thought.
 A deputy sheriff at Needles shot