Williams news., 1905-01-21

nance which practically repeals the gambling and the women in sa- looms" ordinance made a law last spring, and transforms this border town from "wide open" to a high license community and also pro- hibits the employment of women in the saloons in any capacity.
 The Arizona Bar Association met in Phoenix this week, several of the Prescott attorneys being pres ent. In all, twenty-seven sugges- tions were made, regarding needed changes in the territorial code. The lawyers will make united ef- fort at this session of the legislature to get the laws framed in better hape.-Prescott Herald.
 News has been received of the death of Adolph Solomon at Sol omonville. He was one of the old est and most prominent citizens in the territory and was we'll known throughout the southwest He was interested in banking institutions of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Fl Paso, and esta blished the Gila Valley Bank and Trust company of Stafford. He was an uncle of Mrs. Dave Goldberg of Phoenix.-Ga- zette.
 Ed Porter, blacksmith in the employ of the Arizona Eastern, was brutally murdered in a lonely mountain canyon on the Gila river above Dudleyville. The crime was committed by Jose Martinez, a Mexican, and Jose Carson, half breed, who have confessed. The murder was particularly brutal one, the head being mutilated, the throat cut and the body disembow- eled. Porter was killed for bottle of whisky.
 News comes from the Paradise country in Cochise county, Arizona, to the effect that the California mining district is to have a town site on the market very soon. The protector of this enterprise is J. w. Stonehouse of Douglas. The site is to be at the mouth of Cave creek and about five miles from Paradise. As the mines of that section are having a decided upward trend, almost boom. considerable is ex- pected of those interested in the new town.
 MT. Latimer, one of the engineers of the Amalgamated, who has been away on a Christmas vacation, has just returned to Martinez from Phoenix and the coast, on a honey moon trip, and was accompanied by his charming wife. They are going to make their home at the camp, and leave Congress Junction today for Harrisburg by stage. Mrs. J. B. Grand arrived from Prescott and will accompany them and visit her husband few days. MT. Grand being the chief engineer of the con- pany. Captain Meeks, general su- perintendent of the company, is at Martinez, and is at home now, in- asmuch as Mrs. Meeks and son Nelson are with him.-Martinez News Herald.
 Charley Genung is in from the Quartzite section of country and is enthusiastic about the future of that camp. At the present time the population has rapidly aug mented and all is hustle and rustic. That this is to be he says, the coming camp of Arizona, is beyond question. Bemer & Go. are work ing all the men they can get, and no man comes along who wants employment who does not get it. But many refuse, for they would rather take their chance at prospec- ting. The Belle of Arizona is work ing all the ore they can get. This is not near as much as they can handle. It is not from lack of ore that they suffer, but from lack of teams to haul the ore to the mill. Here, he says, is good opportuni- ty for some enterprising man with teams to get in on the ground floor and make a good thing out of the investment.-Courier.