Williams news., 1905-07-22
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geant of the Rangers, has been promoted by Governor Kibbey to a lieutenantcy, vice Lieutenant Brooks, resigned.
 Grading is to be commenced dur ing the ensuing week for the foun- dation and surrounding yard of the new smelter at Val Verde, Grant Bros. having secured the contract for this work.
 An aged Apache Mohave who at tended the Fourth of July celebra ton at Prescott claimed to be 103 years old and said his name was Whiskey. It is thought that he got the number he had taken with the years of his age.
 On November 1 the Maricopa x Phoenix railroad will cut an hour off its schedule, made possible by new rails and larger locomotives. Separate passenger and. freight trains will also be run, instead of mixed trains as at present.
 The Harvey eating house at Ash Fork recently destroyed by fire, is to be replaced at once by a fine structure to cost from $3O,0O0 to $4O,O00. The plans are now being drawn and it will be of either stone or brick, and a much larger struct- ure than the one that was recently destroyed by fire.
 Attorney General Moody has ren- dered an opinion sustaining Secre- tary Wilson of the department of agriculture, in his contention that the law requiring stock in transit to be unloaded, fed and watered at intervals of not greater than 2S hours, applies to terminal compa- nies as we'll as to through lines.
 By the explosion of boiler of an engine attached to a Santa Fe train at Kingman last Saturday En- gineer Copeland and Fireman Bry- ant, both of Needles, were killed. Both of the men were terribly scared. No cause is given by the railroad people for the explosion. The engine was completely wrecked.
 Yesterday Wallapai Indian ap piled to the probate clerk for a mar riage license. When it was sug- gested he could be married in regu- lar Indian form and dispense with papers, he said his school taught that dusky bride to be would not marry him unless he conformed tc the white mans ceremony.-Mo- have Miner, July 10.
 Judge John O. Harrington oi Flagstaff precinct has held more in. quests this year than any coroner or justice of the peace in Arizona He has held inquests over clever bodies up to date, five being sui. cides and six accidently killed He has held three inquests in the past thirty days, all being suicides One was an American and two were Japs.SGem.
 Ex- Sheriff J. l.. Munds left yes. terday for his ranches, near Selig- man, to turn over the ranches and cattle to the Pitts Cattle company of Flagstaff, that company having purchased the ranches and cattle for $55 .OOO and paid the cash down for them. The Pitts Cattle com pany is composed of Flagstaff, Ari- zona, men who are engaged in the ranch and cattle business .-Cour. fer, July 15.
 Mir. Tiffits, a Solomonville black smith, has invented an ice plant which he claims will enable every family to manufacture their own ice in seventeen seconds. The ma chimes will have capacity of from five to fifty pounds each and will be sold at from $5 to $5O The in ventor claims that ice can be made by his machines for ten cents per 100 pounds. If this is straight goods it is the greatest invention of the ana Tam hstona ProSnactor