Williams news., 1906-08-25
FLAGSTAFF NEWS ITEMS

visit at Oak creek.
 Fred Holden. cattle inspector, was business visitor here Wednesday.
 Ed. Geddes and wife of Spring Valley are visiting friends here this week.
 Arthur W. Kinsey, foreman of the Boyce COW outfit, was in from Spring Valley on Monday. The members of the Skylight Gun club have completed their range and shooting daily. Vim. Rudd, forest ranger, is off on a vacation. He will visit his parents at Springerville before returning to duty.
 Mrs. R. H. Cameron, who with Ralph, Jr., have been spending the summer in San Diego, have returned home.
 Robert J. Kidd is among those mentioned on the republican side of the fence for the nomina- tion for county treasurer. Beasely Brothers have purchased the outfit | of Thomas Coalter, and will commence shipping the early part Of next week. Harry Milbourne, prominent sheepman of this county, has returned from a trip to Los An geles and other coast points. Mrs. B. A. Cameron and children left on Wednesday for visit to her parents in Will | jams. They will remain for the next week. Bear hunting seems to be prime>sport on the | mountain at present. Six large ones and two cubs were killed there in the past two weeks. James Kennedy, city marshal of Williams, aud one of the democrtic candidates for sheriff. spent Thursday here among hls many friends. Porter Fleming. well known here, died by self-infiicted gunshot wound at his home in Globe on Monday. III health was the probable | cause of the deed.
 this city is now in Old Mexico looking for location. It is hardly probable that he will re- turn here in the near future. Ray Wiley, who left here some weeks ago with O. for Austin, Texas, did not return with the company. He has accepted position with the Copper Queen people.
 Miss Mary Clark. stenographer at the A. L. & an extended vacation. During her absence she visited at Los Angeles and Catalina. G. W. McAdams left Monday for Kansas City with four cars of lambs He wired from Tho reau, \. M.. that the cars had been wrecked, but only two lam bs were killed and few injured
 Charles Isham, who has been filling the posi- tion of stenogl apher at the office of the local lumber company during the absence of Miss Clark, leaves Sunday with the Yaeger outfit for Utah.
 Granville Paxton, Indian trader at Red Lake, with his sister, Miss Lutie Paxton, who have been spending the summer at their old home in Missouri, returned Wednesday and left for Tuba on Friday morning.
 Walter Durham, one of the oldest established cattlemen of this county. sold all of his inter- ests on Monday last to Less Hart. The sale in- cluded all of the ranch property and range rights near Norman lake.
 Supt. Lewis of the Postal Co. was here on business Thursday. It is highly probable that there will be change in the management of the local office of the com pany, as he states that Joseph Sheppard has resigned.
 J. w. Farmer forest ranger stationed here but now the supervisor of the Graham Noun tain forest reserve with headquarters at Saf- ford, will be here the first of the month in at- tendance at the meeting of forest supervisors
 T1e temperature is again about normal at the court house. For time it looked as though there would be something doing The garbled newspaper accounts from abroad show how easy it is to turn war of words into full fedged gun play.
 It is rumored that the Western Union Co., will move their offices from their present loca- tion to the Cocon1no grocery building. This is one of the best corners in the town. Manager Mover is well pleased with the prospects of the change.
 Under favorable weather and track condi- tions, Flog, Verkamp's runner, did a quarter in "A 1-5 seconds on the local track Thursday. This looks as though he ought to get within the money at Albuquerque and Phoenix. Trainer Stearns has great hopes for his performances at both places.
 On Monday last the body of man was found near Bell Springs, and Coroner Harrington im- mediately went to the scene and held in- quest. It was the body of ul known Mexi- ean and fir from all appearances gr he has been dead unknown, and he is still unidentified. Kenneth Gillette and wife, who have been spending several weeks at Oak creek have gone to Colorado where they will remain the bal ance of the month During the absence of Mr. Gillette from the office of the Santa Fe at Ash Fork Scot Linn of this pase is looking after turn is handling MT. Gillette's desk.
 Invitations have been received here to the wedding of Clarence J. Spellmire and Miss Bertha Krentz The ceremony will take place
 n Rr spemire formerly of ofids ths city, is now the manager of Babbitt Brothers Mere; Co; at Winslow, and the bride is one of Winslow's most popular young ladies. One of the contractors for the new postoffice A Los Angeles here last week getting pies of the stone from the quarries ot the Ari- zona Sandstone Co: He states that this is the while the base of the building will be of marble the balance of the structure will be of the local sandstone This means that the quarries here | will reopen in very short time and that sev- eral hundred men will be employed in getting | the stone out
 The Flagstaff aerie of the Fraternal Order of | Eagles will have social session on Monday, will be issued and two new officers will be in stalled. Wm. Falder, the present worthy treas urer will leave in the next few weeks for Idaho, where he expects to locate, and will be sue. ceeded by O. S. Emblem while the position of outside guard, made vacant by , the departure Wiltse. Quite delegation from the Williams aerie will be in attendance.
 Mrs. c. O. Robinson, who has been quite ill for the past two weeks. is greatly improved, but MT. Rob- inson has been under the weather
 most of the last week.
 Secretary Verkamp of the repub-
 lican central committee has issued
 a call for a meeting to be held at
 the court house on Sept. 1st, to se-.
 lect delegates to the territoria l-con-
 vention.
 Harry w. Smith, scaler for the
 U. s. forest reserve, was in from his
 station at Bellemont several days
 ago. While here Mir. Smith pur- chased pacing horse from A. J.
 Le Barron.
 ! s. s. Preston, of Tuba, was in the