Williams news., 1904-12-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
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ne OanId Fe cOupdHy IS tdkluS up the old steel of it's track between Peach Springs and Blackberry and is replacing it with heavier steel. The old steel is being relaid or the Arizona and California branch of of the s. F., P. & P.
 Louis A. Grant. the we'll known railroad builder, died in Los An geles Dec. 6, 1904. He was 52 years of age, and leaves a wife and two daughters. His brother, A. A. Grant, died few years ago. The two brothers helped to construct the Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
 Mayor Walter Bennett offered to the council last Thursday his res ignation as mayor of the city of Phoenix. This action he said was necessary, although he regretted it very much, because he expected to move outside of the city limits, and it would not be lawful for him to act as a city official.
 The Greene Consolidated Mining company has declared another div idend, this time of 4 per cent, pay able on December 20. The last dividend of the company was paid about three months ago and was only 3 per cent. Those interested are jubilant over the increase in the company's earnings.-Nogales Vidette.
 President Roosevelt, last Satur, day. removed Judge B. S. Baker of the First District of New Mexico, because of the numerous complaints coming from Bernallillo county. The complaints were so numerous that the president ordered an in- vestigation, and the result was the removal. It was claimed that Judge Baker did not attend to his official duties with the proper care that is necessary to protect the rights of citizens and uphold the law.
 Here is a terrible warning to women who have acquired the habit of going through the pockets of their husbands trousers while those worthies are asleep. Yesterday a woman went into a Phoenix busi- ness house and asked for a quar- ter's worth of stamps. She received them and rendered coin to the clerk. who politely handed it back and informed her that aluminium beer checks were not legal ten der in that joint. Blushes, slow curtain, red fire, encore, but no re- sponse.-Republican.
 The suggestion that the next legislature enact law requiring all officials, municipal, county and territorial, to furnish their bonds from some we'll blished surety company instead of requiring indi- vidual citizens to become surety, is received with much favor by the business community, because of the business feature such a law would provide, as we'll as making the territory, county and munici pality more secure than under the present system of individual sure- ties.
 The surveyor general has issued instructions to Mr.. Franklin w. Smith, U. s. Dep. Min'l Surveyor at Bisbee, Arizona, for making an off, cial survey of the Little Casino lode mining claim, situated in the War ren mining district, Cochise coun- ty, Arizona. The survey will be designated as survey No. 2OO3, and is owned by R. A. Bretherton, c. M. Henkel and D. N. Hawkins, of Bisbee, Arizona. Instructions were also issued to MT. J. F. Hesse, U. s. Dep. MinI Surveyor at Prescott, Ariz., for the survey of the Orphan lode claim, situate in the Grand Canyon mining district, Coconino county, Ariz. This survey will be designated as survey No. 2OO4, and l ]