Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-01-18

coach will accordingly be sent to Ash
Fork tonight.
\ large number of passengers who
arrived in Ash Fork on Wednesday
evening en- route to Prescott and
Phoenix and who, on account of the
annulling of the passenger train on
that date were unable to get through,
report that they were unable to obtain
recommendations at Ash Fork and were
compelled to go to Williams to spend
the night.
Fred ". Morrison, the Kingman at
torney was a passenger on last nights
south bound train en- route to Phoen-
tx, where be has a habeas corpus case
before the supreme court. 1t was to
have been heard yesterday but on &C.
count of there being no train south
on Wednesday night, Mr.. Morrison
was unable to get through and wired
to have il continued.
P. j. Farley went to PbOeuix on last
nights train. AS he carried a good
sized grip with him it gave rise to the
rumor that his mission to the capital
is to get grip on the legislature in
some clerical capacity during the SEES
sion. He is capable man and could
acceptably fill any position III the gift
of the legislature and is also in line
politically for such a position.
\ Magdalena, \. NJ, dispatch says:
1t is not generally known that New
Mexico has mine turning out good
zinc ore, but the Graphic in this camp
is such mine. 1t is turning out about
six cars a day OF such ore. A force
of about thirty five men is employed
on the property. The rising market
for zinc and zinc ores Is very encour-
aging.
On the Copper Basin divide the
snow fall Of the late storms measures
thirty inches in depth, while a few
miles to the south at the Catoctin and
Climax mines the ground is bare.
Only the higher elevations seem to
show the snow and generally speaking
6O0O feet is the snow line for the last
storm. Less than that height very
little of this Article is to be seen. The
snow this year on Granite mountain is
more in evidence than at any zine in
the past fifteen winters.
Thursday morning at Hack berry the
oil tank of locomotive exploded set
ting fire to the pump house and pick
ling plant. a number of cars and every
thing inflammable within reach en-
tirely destroy ing them. The locomo-
tive was badly damaged. At one time
the great oil tanks we're on fire but the
blaze was smothered before reaching
he oil. The railroad officials advised
the blowing up of the tanks, but it
was found to be unnecessary. Had the
tanks been blown up the entire town
Of blackberry would have been de-
stroyed. -Mohave Miner.
Sheriff Walter Brown, of Mohave
county, was passenger Cd yesterday 5
north bound train en- route from FL
Paso to Kingman, with Jose Sagala. a
Mexican, who a few weeks since killed
negro woman, named Kate Burk-
hardt, in Mohave county, Sagala ad-
mits the killing and states that at the
time he vas not aware of the fact that
the gun with which the killing was
done was loaded. This story how 4ver
does not tally with the statement of
witnesses of the killing who say that
the man fired the gun into the air and
then deliberately fired the other load
into the body of the woman
Mrs. Leroy Anderson is improving
quite favorably and Mr.. Anderson now
hopes to be able TO go to Phoenix the
latter part of the week to be present at
the opening of the legislature on Mon
day He feared for awhile that on
account of his wife's illness he might
not be able to be present at the open
ing of the session. While a number of
the democratic members have already
gone to Phoenix Mr.. Anderson says
that there is no occasion for a repub-
llcan being there prior to the morning
of the opening as there will not be
enough of them in both houses to
hold a caucus in reference to the or
ganiZation.
The oil car used by the Santa Fe
company in oiling its track arrived in
Prescott three or four days since and
just as soon as the S. F. P. u P. com
pany gets its track repaired from the
recent washouts, it will sprinkle its
road bed between Morristown and
Phoenix. Had it not been for the re-
cent storm the oiIer would have been
at this work before this time. The
announcement in Prescott paper re,
Gently that the track between Prescott
and Ash Fork had recently been oiled