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

NAou y. AAAlAC' JA.1 4OAt -uOiN'1f
evening for Phoenix, where he will
spend the winter. He will, it is said,
be associated with Gov. Brodie in an
official capacity. He is a competent
man in any position.
The case of the Morenci orphans
will come up today before the supreme
court in Phoenix for hearing. Seven
teen of them we're brought into court
on Monday and the hearing of their
cases was set for today.
A land slide is reported to have tax
en- place on the Bradshaw road near
Crown King Tuesday evening delaying
the incoming train frum that section.
The heavy rains of the last few days is
accountable for the above condition.
At a recent meeting in Moline, H.,
of the new board of directors of the
Baumann Copper company, the follow
ing officers were elected; Geo. ".
johnson, president; J. E. Burmeis-
ter, treasurer; C. H. Dooley, secre-
tary.
Articles of incorporation of the Gil
max Gold Mining company we're filed
for record yesterday. The capital stock
was 81, 500, 900 the officers being J. 4.
Talbot, president; Ray Hill, vice
president; and NJ. E. Spaulding, Sc
cretary and treasurer.
The street car was out of commission
again from about s O'Clock Tuesday
night to O'Clock Wednesday after
noon, on account of some accident to
the machinery. 1t was unfortunate
for the company, as the accident &C
CURED just at time when a good
traffic could have been obtained. The
car has been we'll patronized during
the storm period when it has been
running.
Mrs. F. c. Peterson. who came here
a month ago on account Of. the serious
illness of Mr.. Peterson has returned
to Springer. New Mexico, and will
dispose of their property there when
she will move the family to Prescott
to make a permanent home. Mr.. Pc
tersOn is a blacksmith and an all
round mechanic and having purchased
the j. @. Keegan shop and offers his
services to those requiring any work
in his line.
Weather Observer DR.. ". E. Day
reports the rainfall from 5 o'clock
on Tuesday morning to 5 o'clock on
Wednesday morning to be forty five
hundreths of an inch, making a total
up to the latter hour for the present
storm of 2.O5 inches. DR.. Day yester-
day received word from a number of
places in the Verde Valley and from
Oak creek and Beaver creek that it was
raining heavily there and people were
jubilant over the prospects.
Reports from the Bradshaw country
say that the rain that Is falling at the
present time is identical in volume to
that of 1891, and up to the present
writing last night it has been contin-
uous for sixty hours and was still fall
ing. During the night of Monday and
Tuesday snow was coming down, but
during daylight it changed to rain
washing away the snow of previous
nights except on the northern slopes
of the mountain ranges. The good
that is being done is incaIculable to
that section, and it will be readily ap-
preciated during the coming summer.
Ho,e-.IrAT,-,o,,o.r CvIorI- sc bo T-D5+aJ
Verde yesterday telephone the board
of supervisors to the effect that the
wagon road between jerome and the
Equator mine was in a depIorable
condition and impossible to teams.
asking that repairs be authorized.
The board took the matter up at once,
and appropriated a sufficient sum of
money to repair the damage done. The
board is acting as a roadsoverseer of
the entire county and from present
indications they will have their hands
full as reports are such from every
point that the bottom has--falIen out
of the country and the roads are prac-
tically gone in many places.
At meeting of the Elks Building
association held yesterday afternoon.
the following board of directors were
elected: S. L. Pattee, j. P. Dillon,
B. NJ. Belcher, A. J. Head, H. Voge,
E. E. Greenwood and W. A Cline.
S. l.. Pattee was elected president, J.
P. Dillon, secretary and B. NJ. BeIch-
re, treasurer. With two exceptions
the board remains as it was before. j.
E. Morrison and r. NJ. Ling retiring
and E. E. Greenwood and W. a. Cline
being elected in their places.
The supreme court of the United
States has just decided the case of the
government against the United Verde
Copper company, in favor of the lat
ter. The suit was for the recovery of
$38, 600 for timber cut from govern