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Volume II.
HOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1897.
Number 11.
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THR KAILKOAD8.
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad.
(WC8TXBX PITISIOX.)
C. W. SMITH. Receiver.
Condensed Time Card Ufo. -4 -,
Effect Feb. 14. 1897.
WE8TWABD.
STATIONS.
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Chicago
Kix City
litfuver.
l.a Junta.
A tbui'riue.
Wiugate
Gallup
Holbrook
W inflow
Flagtulf.
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7 ISa' 7 00a
Prescott.
10 ftp, 10 SO
Phenix ...Ar 2 U.p
j A Uup
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50p' 7 20p! 1 40a
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STATIONS.
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Denver Ar! 6 Oup ,11 1j
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SPECIAL KANDSBCKG THAINS.
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8 SOp
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Traína Nos. S and 4 are limited t raj rim run
ning semi-weekly. No. I leaves Clikaifo
Wednesdays and Saturduys, pomes Albu
querque rridays and Mondays, arriving at
Los Ang-eles. Saturdays and Tueidays. Train
No. 4 m iil leave Los Anirelea, Mondays and
Thursdays, pansiiig- Albuquerque, Wednes
days and Saturdays, arriving at Cbioago,
Fridays and 'Monduys.
Pasnirers on liinited west-bound trains
holding" tickets reading direct via Mojave
change at Barntow to No.
Pullman Palace Sleeping- Cars daily
throiifrh between Los Anicele and Chicug-o
and Williams and San Fraucisco.
Pullman Touriict Sleepiujr Cars daily
ibroiiKb between Chicago und San Francisco
and Chii-ag-o and Los A ngelem.
Tourist cars leave Suu Francisco every
TneAday and Lo Angeles every Wednesday,
runninz through to slansaa. City, Chicago
ai:d Btoii.
Tbe Grand CaDon of the Colorado can be
reached oulv via this line.
Ask for a beautifully illustrated book
which wiU be mailed free.
Ho A. Sweet,
Geni Passenger Agent. Albuquerque, N. M.
S. F., P. & P. Railwau.
WITH THS
a.t. & s. f re. re.
13 THE SHORTEST AND
QUICKEST ROUTE
To Denver. Kansas City. St. Louis, and Chi
cago and all points EAST.
8. I-'. P. Ac P. TIM E
TABLE
In effect Xov 29. 19. Mountain time
standard used
is
SOCTH BOCND. I
I NORTH BOUND.
No. i No. 1 I
Pun j Pav
I No. 2 I
1 Pass!
No. 4
Pans
STATIONS.
7 0p: 7 00a
Ash Fork
Roctt Itutte
Del Kio
Jerome Junction
Prescott
Prescott
Summit
Skull Valley
Kirkland
Date Creek
Congress
. Wirkenliurg
Peoria
Glendale
Alhambra
PhUMliX,
S ! 4 4oa
4 41p. 4 4-a
5 4Jp S 45a
1 2pi t Sua
2 4Up, 2 fea
2 2bp 2 2Ua
1 üupi 1 43a
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10 &o 10 45a
11 40p u 2ai
12 4.1a 12 Svpj
1 U.a 12 V.p
12 Sua 12 4L'p
12 la 12 p
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9 -u 9 4p
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8 Wii 7 &p
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Dining station.
THE SCENIC ROUTE OP ARIZONA.
The best route to California. The only north
and south line in Arizona to the
Grand CaCou of tbe Colorado. Petrified
Foret. Cliff Dwellings, Great Pine Forests.
Salt River Valley and numerous other Points
of interest.
Through tickets to all points in the United
States, fsniuis and Mex'co.
Nos. 1 and 2 connect at Jerome Junction
with trains of V. V. & P. Ry. for Jerome.
Connecting at Prescott with stage lines for
all principal mining caniiis: at Congress with
Couitre. liold Co. R. R. for l'ungres and
stage lines for Harqtia Hula Statiou and Tar
neiL At Phami with the Maricopa A Phoe
nix Ry. for point on tbe S. P. Ry. Also w ith
S. R. V. R-Ry.
Close connections made at Ash Fork with
8anta Fe Route fast trains to all points nut
and weit. Trains for California leave Ash
Fork at 6:S0 and 8:45 p. m., arriving in Los
Angeles next afternoon at 1 :20 and San Frnt
eisco second morning at 10:45.- Train for tbe
East leaves Ash Forkat6:2T.
F. M. MURPHY, GEO. M. SARGENT.
Pres't t Gen'l Mg r, Gen'l Pass'r Aent.
Prescott, Aria. Prescott, Ariz.
K. E. WELLS. Assistant General Manager.
Prescott, Arizona.
il CHALCEDONY LODGE NO. 6, F. A A.
ff L. Holbrook. Arizona. Regular
jT stated communications at 7:30 p
L4r m. on Fourth Saturday of each
' month. Visiting brethren invited.
By order of
K. C. KINDER, W. M.
J. H. BOWMAN. Secretary. 9tf
CARPENTER SHOP-North side of R. R.
track, east of the shop of Wm-Annnrust-er.
All kinds of carpenter work at short
notice. Repairing a specialty. Give me a
eall if yon have work needing immediate at
eutiva. It C, OrrESTERMAN.
ARIZONA NEWS.
Territorial Items Gleaned From
Our Exchanges and Con
densed for Our Jiusy
Patrons.
Building still continues lively at
Jerome.
District court is in session at Pbe
nix this week.
Peach trees are in bloom in the
Salt Kiver valley.
A smelter will be built at Saflbrd
in the near future.
About sixty teams are now freight
ing out of Kingman.
Judge Hawkins is holding court ,
at Prescott this week. '
The new cathedral at Tucson was
dedicated on tbe 8th instant.
A poverty ball will be given at
Jerome on Washington's birthday.
Phenix authorities are making it
uncomfortable for the opium joints, i
About seventy-five new wind mills
have been ordered for Kingman
wells.
Capt. J.
prietor of
J. Fell is the new pro
the Hotel Hardwick at
Phenix.
i
The grass on the desert, says the
Mesa Free Press, is making a fine
growth.
"Walter F. Foster, the fastest bi
. . , a, t- -c i
cycle riaer on me A-aciuc cuasi, i iu
Tiií-Ríin
Mrs. A. Kinney of Globe, has just
completed a new and commodious
brick hotel.
Alfalfa pasture in the Salt River
valley sells at from $1 to 1.50 per
acre a month.
The new dry kiln of the Saginaw
Lumber company, at Williams, has
been completed.
Solomonville will have a grand
masquerade ball on the evening of
the 2nd instant.
Yuma has made up the deficiency
in her school fund by a popular sub
scription of $500.
An effort is lieing made to have a
postoffice established at Scottsville,
Maricopa county.
The New3 says Williams presents
a good opening just now for a first-
class photographer,
j The sugar beet industry is to re
iceive attention from the farmers
around Tempe and Mesa.
Yavapai count3', says the Courier,
contains the most extensive gold
belt on the face of the earth.
Burglars blew opan the safe in
Chas. Holburu's whiskey house in
Casa G randa last week and secured
$175.
Notarial commissions have been
issued to F.
Florence and
Yuma.
Chamberlain
L. Redondo
of i
of
The Phenix Gazette says that if !
j volume of gambling is a test of pros
perity, that city is strictly "in the
swim." I
Baker & Hamilton of Los- Angeles, j
extensive dealers in buggies and
wheels, will establish a branch house
at Phenix. -
The people of Prescott are talk
ing of reviving the race track at
that place and having races in the
early summer.
It is rumored that the survey of
the line segregating the coal fields
from the San Carlos reservation has !
been rejected.
A bold bad man held up a faro
game at the Fashion saloon at
Tombstone, one night last week, and
secured about $300. -
U. S. McWilliams, a cattleman of
Maricopa county, attempted suicide
a few days since in San Francisco,
by cutting his throat.
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mot .;tK mcf r.a;nr..l .Mant i
last week, caused by the side bar of
a wheel barrow exploding.
Goodman Brothers, when sinking
for artesian water at St. David,
Cochise county, struck crude petro
lium at a depth of 130 feet.
The United Verde company of
Jerome, have ordered a couple of
cars of lire clay from Gallup, which
will be used for the smelter.
It is . said that some new cliff
dwellings Lave been discovered on
t he Verde river. Tbe caves can only
lie reached by the aid of ropes.
A colored man known as The Kid.
was arrested at Tucson on Tuesday
mgbt on a charge ol murder, lor
which he is wanted at Los Angeles.
During a carousal at Cochise on
the 8th instant, Dolores Diaz killed
Jose Padulla by stabbing him in the
right side. The murderer escaped.
The cottonwood buds are burst
ing and the trees will soon lie in full
new leaf. In many cases the trees
still retain their old leaves. Tempo
News.
Attorney E. Murphy of Phenix, is
charged with the embezzlement of
$2.2(X) from a widow client. Murphy
skipped and is supposed to be in
Mexico.
James Cutter has been arrested
on a charge of attempting to black
mail Dr. Drann of that place, and
has been placed in the county jail at
Phenix. I
Un tne btn instant r lagstau by a
i . . . , rvj. ,
i bonds to the amount of Go,(XX) for
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I KLAV3 WII3llUtlllU JL M OJCLVrill VI
water works.
A petition is being circulated at
Jerome, praying the legislature to
enact a law prohibiting women from
siugiug and dancing in saloons is
this territory.
It is reported that Mrs. Boyd has
sold her mining claims adjoing the
United Verde mine to R. E. Moore
of Trescott. The purchase price is
said to by $12,000.
Owen Stull a miner employed at
the Senator mine, was killed on the
12th instant by falling from one of
the stopes to the drift below, a dis
tance of fifty feet.
D. Markham, the well known cat
tle man whose range is near Tucson,
has bought 3,000 head of New' Mex
ico long, horns which will be deliv
ered in Tucson the latter part oS the
week. Tucson Star.
Tbe Mexican who was shot through
the body with a twenty-foot iron
bar, near Clifton, a few weeks ago
has so fully .recovered, says the
Lordsburg Liberal, that he is now
out of the hospital and expects to
go to work in a few days.
About 5 o'clock last evening a man
named W. J. Baker, aged about 40
years, was found dead iu a cabin
Dear Granite creek. It is alleged
that he was addicted to the use of
morpbene and it is supposed that he
took an overdose. Journal-Miner.
Carrie, the 4-year-old child of Mr.
aud Mrs. George Heisler of Prescott, 000 and that a smelter will be plac
while plajúng around the stove a ! ed upon the ground at once. A por
few days since, got her clothes on j tiou of the purchase money has al-
nre ana out ior i ue timely assistance
of Mrs. J. P. Fitzgerald, who saw
...
her from her porch and ran to her j
assistance, would have been burned
to death.
One of the residents of
complains because little
this city
minnows
are furnished with the water supply ;
that conies to his homo. Ho is cer-
tainly unreasonable to expect the i
water company to furnish fish large I
enough for table use at the present !
rate charged by the water company.
Phenix Gazette.
Three men wen
held up in the
nnrlnr nt Ilia Alfniün linncii nf Wil- l
I'1-' v - "" i
liams on the evening of the 12th in-
stant by a mask man, and relieved j the men had no very startliug expe
of $755. In taking his departure i rience to relate, although the danger
the robber emphasized his work by; at times was very great. Mr. Con
discharging his revolver, the ball ! way and companion camped on the
passing through a partition and : bank of the river while they explor-
wounding Mrs; .Altmau in the leg,
just above the ankle. j
An event oí no small importance down irom the rim nueen Horses j
to Mesaand viciuity took. place;over the Bass trail, a fact hitherto !
Monday.' This was the starting up
of the dynamos of the Consolidated
I 1 A ! II
: anai company aoout one miie nortu j
oi jtesa. auo power was useu ior
raising water from the large wells
that had been put down for furnish- !
insr water for the canals. The dv-!
J 1L. 1 X '
liamos auu lUB piimi.s worn to per-
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fection. Mesa Free Press.
Report comes from Lynx creek
that T. G. Barlow-Massicks' hydraul
ic works are running night and day;
800 cubic yards of dirt, running
from . 40 to 60 cents a yard in gold,
are being moved every twenty-four
hours. The big boiler for t he steam
shovel is being put in place. How
the boiler ever reached its destina
tion with the roads in sich bad con-
dition is a matter of marvel to those
who have seen the engine and the
roads. Courier,
An immense grey wolf was killed
! early Thursday morning near the
j slaughter house, says the Kingman
miner, it was running wit n some
Indian dogs when first seeu and Mr.
Phelan had to follow it a long dis
tance before getting a chance to
shoot it. It is supposed that this
wolf has caused a great destruction
among the calves in the Wallapai
mountain country for a year or more
past. The aunimal was on exhibi
tion in the meat market Thursday.
It weighed ninety pounds.
W. X. Staley, representing San
Francisco capitalists, is investigat
ing the gold placer bars on the San
Juan river at the old Gable camp.
Ho is shipping twelve tons of ma
chinery to that point to be used in
operating upon the bars. . It is slat
ed that the company will expend
25,000 in the. latest improved ma
chinery for fine gold saving and in
development. Trials thus far show
a range in the value of the gravel of
from 50 cents to 4 per jard, a grade
that certainly justifies their expecta
tions. Judge Hicks is in receipt of a
novel instrument from Syria, Tur
key, it being an assignment writteu
in the Arabic language from the
father and mother of the lato Joseph
Hyder, who was killed some months
ago at Congress. While Judge
Hicks cannot intrepret or make out
an? . meaning of the hieroglyphic
I writing, tue. American consul at
j Bieruth says it is all right. The
! estate is valued at 3,000 and the
I old folks assigned it to the American
residents. It should be seen.
Journal-Miner.
Goldfield can boast of a school
marni who has nerve. She deserves
the commendation of all good peo
ple for her pluck in defending her
self and her home. Mrs. Campbell
is her name, and when a tramp in
vaded her home last Sunday, after
three times ordeiing him to leave
and he didn't obey orders, she open
ed fire ou him with a six shooter aud
after three shots succeeded in let
ting daylight through one of his
hands. She did well, but if the
miners had caught the scoundrel
tueJ would have finished the job in
! good shape. Mesa Free Press.
It is reported here that William
Stiles and Felix May hew, of Casa
Grauda, have sold their recently dis
covered 'copper property, a few
miles south of that town, for 00,-
l it i i.i i
I reauy oeen paiu anu tne remainaer
! will be forthcoming soon. The
mines in the neighborhood of Casa :
Grande are rich, aud are attracting j
a great deal of attention of late. It '
is uuuerstooa that tne silver iteei
properties have just changed owner-
ship for a consideration of 75,000.
Tucson Citizen.
Mr. Conway aud companion, just
in from the Grand cañón, states
that two men passed down the
cañón in boats last week. They
.'started from Montana and commenc-
'ed their voyage at the first depth of !
trntm- nt. lift tnirt snim'nnf flin ÍVilrw 1
;
rado river. Mr. Conway stated that i
ed aud prospected everything near
them. They succeeded iu taking I
impossible. Williams News.
Ma3-or O Neill of Prescott, has re-
i..-.! I t 4! 4 1 TT .
tu.u - .P . aa
najsww id nun jh mo cum-
pany's pay roll, and that the force
will be increased to 1,000 men by
May 1. Extensive improvements
. nn 11 ll.o n-tiila
" '"-
tendent Giroux is nerfeetin-? a nat-
ent smelter whereby the sulphur
will l-e made to smelt the sulphuret !
ores when placed in the smelter,
and has the process almost perfect
ed. Master Mechanic Adamson of
I T"-. A I Hnnn:nr. In Kqva ilia AntrA
works covered with a steel building
which will be fifty feet high and a
most imposing structure. Prescott
Courier
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS,
Late Telegrams Condensed
Readers of Tiie Argus.
for
Geni. Jos. O. Shelby died at
Adrin, Mo., on-the 13th instant.
A fire at Mars, Pa., on the 13th
instaut caused a loss of 100,000.
Tbe public debt increased during
the mouth of January 14,078,735.
Henry D. Brecker has been ap
poiutcd postmaster at Isleta, N. M.
President Diaz, of Mexico, will
visit the United States next sum
mer. The mills of the Illinois . Steel
company are now working on full
time.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker died
at Lexington, Ky., on the 11th in
stant. A young man named Robert Gard
ner is undergoing a fast at Los
Angeles.'
The Merchants' National bank of
Helena, Mont., suspended on the
13th instant.
The British mint coined in 1S96
23,00J,0D0 more pieces than in the
preceding year.
George Davies of Cleveland, Ohio,
was shot and killed by his wife on
the 12th instant.
Otto Rood has been appointed
receiver of the Exchange bauk of
Minneapolis, Minn. .
The flouring mill at Garden City,
ivan., was burned on tue iztn. in
stant. Loss, 15,000.
, Duestrow, the St. Louis million
aire murderer, was hanged at Union,
Mo., on the ICth instant.
A heavy snow storm interspersed
with hail and rain prevailed all over
Pennsylvania on the 13th instant.
The Odd Fellows Mutual Life In
surance company of Wisconsin made
an assignment on tbe 12th instant.
An incendiary fire at Piano, Texas,
on the 12th instant, caused a loss of
$100,000, with practically no insur
ance. William P. St. John, treasurer of
the democratic national committee,
died at" New York on the 15th in
stant. Wade Tillinghast, the notorious
Virginia outlaw, was arrested at
Huntington, W. Va., on the 12th in
stant. The British bark Mark Curry was
burned in Port Hoilo, Philippine
islands, with 1,200 tons of sugar on
board. ,
A vounjr man and woman were
.
OVer and killed by an engine
uoar Caliente, Cal., while crossing a
trestle.
carjjsie
is
given out that
will not return
Seeretary
to Ken-
' tuekv, but will make his home in
! New Yor.
Capt. Philo H. McGiffen, formerly
an oilicer in the Chinese navy, com
mitted' suicide at New York on the
; 12th instant.
Seven huudred glass workers at
'the Macbeth lamp company's fac-
tory at Elwood, 111., struck on the i
IltU lUStallt.
The Mclntyre Brothers & Wilson
! Dry Goods company of Oskaloosa,
la., have failed. Liabilities, 38,000;
assets, 40,000.
The Philadelphia Crematorium
society reports eight-five cremations
during the past year. Since 1888 the
number was 501.
ja Norway girls are ineligible for
..; llnt;i tiipv i,avfi Parnod cer-
tificates for proficiency in knitting, j
ll.lkilKT and sniniiin!?.
UUUU I. OHO,vv..,
Andrew pcket) 77 years, a
prominent retired merchant of Eas-1
. . , , , , -r-.
ton, Pa., was found dead hanging to I
a bed post in his room.'
By tbe breaking of one of the
" leTes near itio ista, cai.t on
tbe 12th instant, 9,000 acres of valu
able land was submerged
Sir James Grant predicts that the
gold output of Cauada, especially
of British Columbia, will astonish
the world at no distant date.
Liverpool is the most densely
populated city in Great Britain,
haviug a population of 114 per acre
including the docks and quay.
Paul Waguer, aged 45 years, and
his wife Fredericka Wagner, 64 years
of age, were found dead in bed at
Milwaukee on the 15th instant.
A team of baseball players from
Australia will sail from Sydney in a
few weeks for San Fraucisco, for the
purpose of touring the United
States.
On the 12th instant, at Cincinnati,
the Iuteruational Shpet Metal Work
ers association voted to join the
proposed National Building Trades
council.
Baron Von Kettler, German min
ister to Mexico, has arrived in De
troit to be married Feb. 24 to Miss
Ledyard, daughter of the president
of the Michig an Central railroad.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
company have made a round trip
rate from San Fraucisco to Carson
City, New, on the occasion of the
Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight of $16.40.
Philip McElhone and Lewis W.
Turner, employes in the congres
sional library at Washington, have
been arrested on a charge of dispos
ing of autograph letters from the.
library.
On the 11th instant three of the
crew of tbe Maine were seriously in
jured while loading one of the light
er guns, by explosion of the shell
which they were placing in the
breech.
The Colorado State Bureau of
Mines has issued an order prohibit
ing the use of iron or steel tamping
bars in mines in that state for tbe
purpose of driving powder into drill
ed holes.
By the explosion of a' boiler nt
Lee's coal mine in Weathersficld,
Ohio, John Willcox, aged 54 years,
was killed and Wessley Kyle and J.
G. Vetter badly scalded by escaping
iug steam.
A fight between a sheriff's posse
and a band of cattle thieves iu Kim
ball county, Texas on the 13th in
stant resulted in the killing of three
of the thieves. The sheriff's posse
were uninjured, .
On the 12th instant at a depth of
2,100 feet, at Florence, Colo., a flow
of oil was 6truck that, when the
tools were removed from the well,
spurted over the top of a seventy-
two-foot derrick.
Í
The Illinois Central Railroad com
pany has taken advantage of the re
cent break in the price of steel rail3
aud Dlaced orders with different
mills for 50,000 tons of rails to be
delivered during the year.
The Missouri senate has passed an
anti-trust bill, which nullifies all
contracts for sales with trusts and
provides that persons purchasing
under the contract from trusts need
not carry out the contracts thus
made.
On the 12th instant the senate
confirmed the following nomina
tions: Carrol D. Wright of Massa
chusetts, to be commissioner of la
bor; Martin A. Knopp of New York,
to be interstate commerce commis
sioner. The question of the Cherokee
freedmen payment has been settled
by a judicial decision that they are
tUled tQ pqual per capta "shara
'with the Indians. Payments will
begin at Hayden, I. T., and are final
payments on account of the Chero
kee Strip.
The Business Men's league of St.
Louis gives out the information that
it is in receipt of a letter from a
prominent legal firm in Boston, say-
i insr it has a communication from a
j wealthy British syndicate which is
L - nimo - tn invest SI 0.000.000 in the
city of St. Louis.
TU IV Mom ít? Irananror
of Lexington, Ky.. on the 13th in-
stant killed his 6-year-old son and
also shot his daughter and sister.
The ladies will recover. After at
tempting to kill the whole family,
Marrs killed himself. He has been
in the asylum ten years ago.
The trustees of the Washington
and Lee university of Lexingtou,
Va., on the 12th instant unanimous
ly elected William L. Wilson, post
master-general, president, in place
oi Geni. G. W. C. Lee, resigned. It
is understood that Wilson will ac
cept and enter upon the duties ot
his office the 1st of July