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Che Coconino Sun
Vol. XVIII.
FLAGSTAFF, FEBRUARY 23, 1901.
No. 8
LOCAL BREVITIES.
E. E. Elllnwood returned from Los
Angeles Saturday.
D. L. Cunningham, the Williams
attorney, was here Monday.
The Racket Store will store your
household goods at reasonable rates.
Mrs. Harry Pyle of Williams spent
several days here this week visiting
friends.
W. D. Powell left Monday for Je
'irome and the mining camps in that
vicinity.
The celebrated Club House flour,
kept by P. It. Weatherford & Co. will
pleasethe best bread lovers.
H. R. Davis and wife left Monday
for a months' visit to San Francisco
and Northern California points.
E. M. Doe and wife left to-day for
Phoenix to be present at the dedica
tion ceremonies of Arizona's new
capitol.
The Racket Store has received a lot
of One rocking chairs which are belay
ing offered at reasonable prices. Call
and see them.
The Kaufman dam above the town of
Williams went out yesterday afternoon
flooding a portion of the town, but
doing no serious damage.
D. M. Francis, who has beep here for
the past week looking after the ship
ment of a baud of sheep from Canyon
Diablo to Phoenix, left for the latter
place Wednesday.
Geo. P. Sraullin, United States dep
uty marshal, of Tucson, was here yes
terday summoning grand and local
jurors for a term of United States dis
trict court, which commences at Pres
cott on Monday, February 25.
Probate Judge N. J. Layton has
issued a marriage ltconse to William J.
Watson and Emily Brooksley. Mr.
Watson is range rider in the Grand
Canyon forest reserve and the bride to
be is a resident of Fredonia. The
wedding will take place March 1.
'The greatest danger from colds and
la grippe is their resulting in pneu
monia. If reasonable care is used,
however, and Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy taken, all danger will be
. avoided. It will cure a cold or an
attack of la grippe in less time than
any other treatment. It is pleasant
and safe to take. For sale by Pioneer
Drug Store.
J. L. Munds, sheriff of Yavapai
county, was here Monday after Frank
Darmour, who Is wanted In that connty
on a charge of stealing horses from the
Perrlns. Darmour says that he took
the horses, but claims that the Perrlns
owed him and refused to pay him.
Darmour had just completed a twenty-
1 five days' sentence from the Williams
justice court.
Thomas F. Donaldson and family,
after spending several days here, left
Tuesday night for Hot Springs, Ark.,
where they go for the benefit of the
health of Mrs. Donaldson. Mr. Don
aldson has been tlio agent of the Santa
Fe Pacific railroad at Bellemont for
the past eight years. He was faith
ful and capable and the company would
retain him during the rest of his life
if he had desired the position.
E. S. Gosney left Wednesday for
Phoenix and Cave Creek.
The Racket Store buys and sells second-hand
goods of every description.
W. G. Doran left Sunday for Kansas
City, and expects to be away thirty
days.
The Racket Store is headquarters for
the finest cigars, either wholesale or
retail.
John Verkamp writes friends here
that he is spendlngan enjoyable winter
in Cincinnati.
C. E. Howard left Wednesday for
Los Angeles, where he will spend the
next three weeks. y
G. W. McAdams and wife, who'have
been here during the week, returned
to Tnba City to-day.
If in need of school supplies of any
kind you can find them at the Racket
Store at the lowest prices.
George Hoxworth, county treasurer,
reJBrned yesterday from a pleasant
tr&jto Southern California points.
Fire Insurance The Arizona Cen
tral Bank represents a number of the
largest American ana ungiisn com'
panies.
Miss Minnie Boatright and Perry
Owen were married Sunday, February
17. The ceremony took place at the
M. E. parsonage, Rev. J. H. Henry
officiating.
. AW.. Jurdet lefv to-day-for Phoe
nix to attend the ceremonies of the
'dedication of the capitol and a meeting
of the Republican Territorial Central
Committee.
The anniversary of Washington's
birthday occurred yesterday. It was a
holiday for the normal and the public
schools. The day was also observed by
the bank, postofHce and county officials.
The railroad dam across Walnut
Canyon Is reported as running over.
This dam is 101 feet high and backs
the water up the canyon for nearly two
miles and if It would hold water the
railroad company would have a five
year's supply.
The weather during the past week
has been springlike and the snow is
fast disappearing. River do Flag made
a half-hearted attempt to run, and a
small stream trickled down the old
channel for the first time in three
years. It is probable that the stream
will run bank full before the thaw
ceases.
Wanted An energetlo and reliable
man or woman who who will canvass
Flagstaff and neighborhood for the
sale of the greatest and most inter
esting book ever issued on Northern
Arizona, "In and Around the Grand
Canyon," by George Wharton James,
whose exhaustive studies extending
over many years are well-known. For
full particulars apply at this office.
David Tatum, a Quaker evangelist
from Denver, Colorado, will deliver an
instructive address on "Intemperance
and the Liquor Traffic, the Home and
Saloon, and How to Save the Boys," in
Flagstaff, Thursday evening February
28tb, at 7:30 p. m., in the M. E.- church.
An earnest invitation given. It con
cerns everybody. The speaker having
labored in the cause for thirty years
at his own expense and great personal
sacrifice will be under the necessity of
taking up a collection at the close of
the meeting.
William Babbitt is in Jerome on a
business trip.
F. O. Poison and M. C. Sharpneck
of Williams were visitors here today,
Try the Club House Flour of P. R.
Weatherford & Co. There is none
better.
John Dohoney, who is in the Mercy
Hospital at Prescott, is reported to be
improving.
Miss Alice Mclntire, a teacher in
the Williams public schools, is visiting
friends here.
Mrs. M. Lovell has returned from
Phoenix, where she has been for sev
eral months past.
Father Connolly of Wlnslow spent a
few days here the past week, return
ing home Tuesday.
Mr. C H. Schultz left this moraing
for Phoenix to be present at the dedi
cation of the capitol.
The output of the Arizona Copper
Company at Clifton for last month was
832 tons of Bessemer copper.
P. R, Weatherford & Co. are exclu
sive agents for the celebrated Club
House flour, the king cf flour. t
Navajc blankets, curios and photo
graphs of Grand Canyon and other
points of interest can be bad at the
Racket Store.
Dry Lake is receiving tbe flow of the
ditch built by the Central Plateau
company two years. ago.. Tha-atockr
holders 'of the company would like to
see the big lake full to tbe rim.
W. H. Thompson of the Pittsburgh
Copper Company, R. H. Marine, Dr.
W. C Robinson and R. A. Ferguson
returned from Coconino Point last
night. Mr. Thompson reports the
prospects there most encouraging.
Wanted Capable, reliable person
in every county to represent large
company of solid financial reputation;
$936 per year, payable weekly; $3 per
day absolutely sure and all expenses;
straight, bona-fide, defilnite salary, no
commission; salary paid each Saturday
and expense money advanced each
week. Standard House, 334 Dearborn
street, Chicago. 1-19-26
Albert Newton of Denver returned
last week from a trip down the Colo
rado river. This was his second at
tempt, and he succeeded in reaching
the point he desired, although he lost
bis second boat and was compelled to
build a third boat. Just what point In
tbe canyon he reached Mr. Newton did
not state, preferring to keep the loca
tion to himself. But he say that valu
able mines are located at this point,
and what Is of more Interest to our
readers is that these claims will be
worked, and before another year passes
by a couple of hundred men will be at
work in tbe proposed new camp.
Mr. A. F. Banta, well known to old
settlers as Charley Franklin, came
down from Phoenix this morning to
take a position as guard at the prison,
says the Yuma Sentinel. Mr. Banta
is one of the pioneer newspaper men
of the territory, and in 1874 set type
on tbe Sentinel. His last venture, the
Pick and Drill, at Prescott, he con
cluded not to revive after the big fire,
in which most of the plant was de
stroyed, and he has since been out of
the harness, although occasionally do
ing a little scribbling to keep his hand
in. He goes on duty at the prison to
morrow night-
The water in the town reservoir Is
increasing. A raise of five Inches Is
reported for last night.
Mr. St. Charles of Mohave county
holds a high rank among the world's
greatest apologists. Republican.
Tbe Indians who sought the high
ground last year in anticipation of a
flood seem to have been a year in ad
vance in their calculations. They may
have occasion this year to strike tbe
high places. Journal-Miner.
J. C. Blake, Frank Fay and J. Con
nell are interested in some mining
claims fourteen miles north of Agua
Caliente, which they were working for
copper. A recent assay developed the
fact that tbe ore carries a large per
centage of bismuth, a rare and valu
able mineral.
There will be a patriotic service in
the Presbyterian church to-morrow
(Sunday) morning in honor of Wash
ington's birthday. Members of the
Sunday school will take part in, the
service. An offering will be made by
the Sunday school and congregation
for missions in our own country. Tbe
service will begin at 11 o'clock. All
are invited.
It is reported there are several cases
of smallpox in Williams, and that it
has been deemed advisable to close
the public schools of that place. Judge
N. G. Layton, superintendent of county
9chast)lafctlrisroiBlBg to-investi
gate the matter and the necessity of
clos:ng the schools. We trust that our
sister town may not have another
visitation such as it had a few years
ago, and that it may be confined to tbe
present number of cases.
W. H. Timerhoff has moved the stock
of drugs recently purchased of W. R.
Edwards to the store formerly occu
pied by the Flagstaff Cash Store. Tbe
room is well lighted and is well adapted
to the display of his stock of goods.
He will add largely to the stock and
keep a number of lines not hereto
fore kept. Although a stranger here,
Mr. Timerhoff expects by fair and
liberal treatment of the public to at
tract a large share of its patronage.
The building and loan associations of
Tucson have been of great financial
assistance to the people thereof. They
have given Tucson citizens capital to
build and improve their homes when
it could not be had elsewhere. They
gave scores of families the means of
securing homes. Then began the
building of good cottages and resi
dences in tbe city, which gave abetter
and more permanent value to all realty.
There are no institutions which have
done more good or brought more hap
piness and contentment to Tucson
homes than have tbe loan and building
associations. Star.
The Los Angeles Times is giving Its
readers their money's worth, and more
too. It has begun tbe distribution,
free to Its patrons, every Sunday, of a
very handsome picture made by the
Tonnesen Sisters of Chicago. "The
Rose," the first of the series, distrib
uted February 17th, has just been re
ceived by this office, and it is a picture
which, framed, would be an ornament
In any home. The Times proposes to
do even more than this for its patrons.
Beginning with the first week of
March, a handsomely lithographed
musical composition will be distributed
free to its patrons every week.