Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-15

month there will be considerable ri valry to secure the elegant Indian rug and the 8 in groceries to be gwen away.
 After spending over si0,0O trying to keep its road open for traffic, the Maricopa & Phoenix rairload company had it's bridge across the Gila washed out again on Thursday for the seventh time this winter. It was reported yes- terday that eleven bents of it had gone this time. That company has certain ly had hard luck this season.
 There will be union service of the Baptist and Marina street Methodist churches at the latter church tomor- row morning at Il o'clock. Rev. E. B. Taft will preach. Subject, "The Constraining Love of Christ" in the evening, the service will be held at the Baptist church and Miss Ida Clothier of Colorado will speak.
 Judge Sloan yesterday decided the case of the Japanese girl, so far as his court is concerned. He ordered the girl returned to the custody of Officer Webb, as he claimed that the case was one over which the department of com merce and labor, and not the courts had jurisdiction. Mir. Webb left on last nights train with her for Tucson.
 Ella Welton and Camitite Wiley, one colored and the other white were brought over from Jerome on Thurs day evening by Deputy Wes Owens, and lodged in the county jail to await the action of the grand jury. They are accused of robbing a man there and were held under bonds of s2O0 each which they were unable to give.
 O. B. Marshall, who came in on Friday from the Senator camp says that on Thursday morning he measur- ed the snow there as it had fallen on a pile of lumber and it measured sev enteen inches. He said that snow continued falling there all day of Thursday and that there is not less than two feet on the ground there now.
 Roadmaster Higley yesterday receiv- ed telegram from the assistant fore man at Kelvin that the Gila liver continues at flood height. He reported that at one place on the road where the grade when built had been from one half to three quarters of a mile from the river it was now only about one hundred yards and the river was still encroaching on the land and washing it down stream with possi- bility of reaching the track.
 E. L. Bartholomew, who was in town on Friday from Octave, says that there are a large number of people there who are engaged in placer min ing. He says that Mexicans, Ameri- cans, Chinese and Japanese are hunt ing for the precious metal and with good success. He says that all the way from s1O0 to s250 per day is being taken out and on some days the amount will run to $500. Nuggets have been found running as high as sI00 and from that all the way down to g. 50.
 Call on us and see the handsome Indian rug that we will give to some one of our customers on April 3d. We want to get acquainted with you, and We want you to know our store and the quality of goods we carry, and the quantity of groceries we sell you for a dollar. We give the rug and also 8 worth of groceries without cost to patrons and solely for the purp >se of advertising our store. Anyone has a chance to get one of these gifts. Read our ad and save the coupons. The Ideal Grocery, Nathan and Ben, Proprietors.
 Irene Curry died in Phoenix on Wednesday, but owing to the tele- graph wires being down no word of it was received here until Thursday evening. MT. Stone, step father of the girl, left on yesterday mornings | train and met the heart broken moth | CT on the way here with the body. | Irene was fifteen years old, and was an | exceptionally bright girl, beloved by | all who knew her, and her death will cause sadness to a large circle of friends. The funeral will take place Sunday afternoon, at ? O o'clock from the Catholic church un- der the direction of H. M. Maus < Go.
 President Gates, of Pomona college, was not greeted last night with as large an audience as the excel lent lecture he delivered deserved. The lecture was given in the high school auditorium for the benefit of