Williams news., 1905-08-12
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Phoenix Dec. 4 to g, will certainly be grand success. Why? Because every newspaper in the territory is boosting.
 If the people drilling for oil in the Jerome Junction neighborhood strike it, it will mean a mighty spoke in Yavapai's wheel of pros- perity, and the indications are first class.-Prescott Courier.
 Hon. F. J. Wattron of Holbrook succumbed to the effects of an over dose of laudanum Wednesday. He had been troubled with insomnia for a long time, and had been in the habit of taking medicines to overcome this.
 The annual encampment of the A. N. G. is being held at Camp Brodie this week. Company l., of this place, thirty-eight strong, left for Prescott Thursday morning on No. 1 in a special car. The boys presented fine appearance and will no doubt make good showing at the encampment.-Coconino Sun. The body of little Katie Hatch was found last week seven miles from the camp from which she wandered. The family were in ca mp near Fort Apache several weeks ago and she wandered away from camp. A continual search has been made for her, resulting in finding the body across the White river from the camp.
 H. J. Gray, who is buying sheep for the Cudahy market in Los An geles, was in the Del Rio section of Yavapai county last week. He sent one large consignment of mutton to his firm and expected to soon make another. MT. Gray takes the place of buyer Dunn, who was foully murdered in California in the spring and who for many years made the Arizona circuit for that firm.
 The county of Santa Fe. of which the town of Santa Fe is the county seat and the territorial capital, is irrevocably bankrupt. The county's outstanding indebtedness is $1 ,OOO,- 900 and it's assessment less than $2,OOO.OOO, and it has defaulted on it's interest to such an extent that the courts have been resorted to to compel it to pay up. Our readers will remember that Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico, and also to be the capital of the joint state, and in the face of this outrageous show ing we find men and newspapers in Arizona advocating uniting our for tunes with this condition of affairs. -Enterprise.
 Milton R. Moore has been ap- pointed register of the consoli- dated land office and Fen S. Hil- dreth was appointed receiver. Mir. Moore is now and has been register of the Tucson land office for eight years, and Hildreth is now receiver at the Prescott land office. Both men stand high with the depart ment, and no opposition whatever was made to the appointment of either of them. Mir. Hildreth has received letter from w. A. Rich ards, commissioner of the land office at Washington, D. C., notify ing him that on September 30 the Prescott land office must be closed and the records moved to Phoenix. The letter also states that the land office in Phoenix will be opened for business on October 2.
 A fatal accident occurred Thurs day afternoon at the big mill of the Arizona Lumber & Timber com pany, by which James L. Treat, a well and favorably known citizen of Flagstaff lost his life. The de- ceased was engaged in unloading the car on which the logs are run into the mill. A cant hook had