Arizona republican., 1905-04-21
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

MIR. O'RoURKE DETAINED-Mr. J. NJ O'Rourke, contractor for the
 Roosevelt dam, failed to arrive here yesterday as expected but sent word that he would be here today.
 GOING TO ASH FORK-Governor Kfbbey Secretary Nichols and Mar shal McCord went to Ash Fork on this mornings train to meet Major A. O- Brodie and family who are on their way to the Philippines and who are expected to pass Ash Fork today A MINING SALE-Among the ar ticles recorded in the office of the county recorder yesterday was a deed From John Bradford and others to the Oriental Gold Mining and Smelling company, conveying the Oriental Min ing claims and others in the White
 Tanks district
 GOING TO MEXICO-Hugh Creigh- ton who has been in New York for a few weeks returned home yesterday morning for a visit of three or four days, after which he will leave to join a party of capitalists en route from New York to Mexico where Mir. Creighton will place before them mining enterprise in which he is in- terested.
 PUSHING RAILROAD WORK News from the front along the line of the Arizona 6 California railroad grade, is that work on that new line is being pushed along as fast as pos sible. The grade is now within five miles of Saiome station and the inter vening distance is rapidly fading. Sew eral hundred men and nearly as many mules are employed.
 THEY DISTURBED THE TOWN Florentine Lopez and Juan Melendrez were before Justice Johnstone yester- day charged with drunkenness and disturbance of the peace. Each was fined S6. Neither had a cent but it
 was shown that both had employment and were always working when they were not drunk. They were given time to pay.
 WILL RESIDE HERE-Mrs. c. Cam, mother of George Gam of the NJ & P. offices. arrived here a day or two ago from Fresno, California and
 will probably remain with MT. and Mrs. Gam. Mrs. c. Cam is eighty-One years old and has demonstrated that l she is fully old enough to travel alone. i She crossed the Salt river bridge on a push car, having arrived before the M. i & P. repairs were finished and while , it was necessary to transfer passen- gers.
 1 BOTH WERE HELD-Ramon Elias and NJ. Carmacho were before Justice l Johnstone yesterday on preliminary ! examination on a charge of stealing gold watch from the person of John ! B. Rosseau. The suppostion had been that the actual theft had been com mitted by Elias but that supposition
 was based wholly in a confession made l by Carmacho after his arrest follow I ing his sale of the watch to John Bar
 on. But when they were brought into
 court each began accusing the other. 1 Both were held to the grand jury in 1 the sum of $2OO each.
 1 SWELLING THE FUND-Attorney
 ! General F. $. Clark came down from
 l Prescott yesterday morning and re-
 If turned home again on this morning. S
 train. MT. Clark says there is a move
 + ment on foot in Prescott to raise an
 | additional twenty-five thousand dol
 Y lars to be added to the Rough Rider II Memorial fund. so a monument can be | built that will still be an imposing structure when Precott becomes as large as Denver and one the Arizona l people can point to with pride even in the day and generation of their great ! grandchildren.
 NEW INCONSISTENCIES of the following corporations were filed l in the office of the county recorder i yesterday: Arizona Osage company capital stock, $500, 900, incorporators w. J. Wilkes. H. c. Curran and G. w Anness; Bullfrog War Eagle Mining company, capital stock, $1,0O0 900. i'm cOrporators L. Anerbach, and A. T Myer; McMahon Gold Mining com . pany, capital stock, $1,OOO.OOO, incor- ] porators P. II. McMahOn. T. C. Rob- erts and F. F. Bishop. The articles o1 the Great Western Gold company wer, amended fixing the capital stock al SIP. .OOO, 900.
 q LEDGEMENT-AIr B. A 5 Fowler called at this office last nigh l to protest against the oversight of Tn, Republican in failing to announce il | yesterdays issue that the day befor, s was the anniversary of the battle O Lexington in 1775, when the shot wa! s fired that was heard around the world s and that is reverberating yet. The Re ] publican admits the validity of the pro Fl test but pleads in extenuation that tn, q echo of the shot was temporarily los ! in the racket of the merry go rounC 3 across the street and the democrati convention in O'NeilI hall. For fea a The Republican will be so busy build $ ing the Roosevelt dam a little later or { that it may again forget itself, it an s nOunces now that the 17th of June vii 7 be the anniversary of the battle O s Bunker Hill.
 aI THE LAST MATINEE-The Phoeni si Driving association has decided to hol