Arizona republican., 1906-06-20

 superintendent of the company, Theo- dore Hapke, is expected between now and the first of the month.
 FOR THE sUMMEK-Mrs. George A. Mintz and daughter Georgie, left last night for Los Angeles. where they will stay two or three weeks and then go to Coronado for the rest of the sum- mer.
 NIECE OF GOVERNOR PATTIsoN There were but a few of the most intimate friends of Miss Alethea Ham, ilton who knew that she was niece of the late Governor Pattison of Ohio. who died in that state Monday. Miss Hamilton had planned to go to Cali foTnia for her vacation, but was called east when it was known that her uncle was probably in his fatal illness, and, with her mother she was at his home when he died.
 GETTING UP STAKE RACES Shirley Christy, superintendent of the speed department of the fair, is now in the southern part of the territory ar ranging for several purse stakes for the coming fair. He will visit Morenci, Clifton, Bisbee. Douglas and Tucson before his return, and may possibly go to Fl Paso, the merchants there having intimated that they might possibly guarantee a purse for a race to be known as the Fl Paso stake.
 A FAMILY REUNlON-A. s. Mills home yesterday morning from a trip of several weeks in the east. The primary purpose of his visit was to at tend family reunion at Corning, Kas., on May 27. that date being the sev- entieth birthday anniversary of his mother. There are nine children liv ing and all were present at the re- union. After an enjoyable visit with his mother and other relatives Mir Mills went to St Louis for a few days, to meet the gentlemen with whom he Is interested in mining in the Cave Creek district.
 RiNEHART- COTTON - Last eve ming, at the home of her aunt Mrs. ! sam H. Harris. on East Van Buren 1 street, Mrs. Blanche Cotton was united in mur lage to Edgar c. Rinehart, the ! Rev. A. R. Maclean performing the cerenlany. The happy event took place i at 7:30 o'clock, in the presence of only | a few of the most intimate friends of the contracting parties. The couple | left at midnight on the regular train | for the north for the Grand Canyon, ! where they will spend about ten days, i
 
 nix. For the balance of the summer they will make their home in the house on North First av- | enue.
 DEATH OF w. w. WEED-William w. Weed died in Tucson few days | ago. and with his passing there end | ed the life of one perhaps more wide | ly known personally on the coast than 1 any other man not made notable by of | ficia life or spectacular events that | arrest public attention. Mir Weed was ! a stenographer and. court reporter and | was accounted in his day the best one | In the west. He had devoted the greater part of his life to that business and was wonderfully rapid and accur- | ate. He has served in that capacity | in nearly all of the Arizona districts | and before coming here was equally as l famous in California as a stenographer 1t is said that he was the first short hand writer employed in the courts at Los Angeles. His long practice had perfected his knowledge of court forms and of law and he was therefore much better equipped for his business than another man might have been who was equally as expert in the art of stem ography. MT. Weed was a native of |. New York.
 TO BUILD THE FOUNDATION-I Recent visitors to Roosevelt say the fl -ime is fast approaching for the very ! important and somewhat spectacular fl incident of laying the foundation of II he big dam. 1t is understood the cof- II Ter dams are both completed and that he tunnel is about ready for the di- Il version of the water through it, leaving he bed comparatively dry The plan Il $ to remove the contents of the area between the ,coffer dams by ponder 'us hydraulic machinery except the arger rocks, which will be taken out with derricks. after which the upper wall or face of the dam and a portion )f the foundation will be put in as fast IS possible. up to the ordinary level of he river bed. It is understood that he contractors have ninety expert either now on the way or all 'eady at Roosevelt, to perform this work, with the assistance of all the un- killed labor they may require It is eported that if all goes we'll this foun- lation will be laid within the next Wo weeks