Arizona mining, customs figures drive regional notes
Arizona News Views and Gossip notes Frank Dean’s Willmington trip with Special Deputy Ed Baker acting in his absence. Albert Gaskin of Grafton WV is appointed U.S. customs inspector, replacing W. W. Flewelling. Brodie reports halting Crown Point mine to build a wagon road to Wickenburg to cut freight costs. Customs round-up in Tombstone Bisbee Naco Douglas captures several Chinamen and contraband goods including mescal and cigars. A. Overlock reports a Naco hold-up, Evans shot, others pursue suspects. Arizona State Telephone Co incorporates to link Prescott Hot Springs via Crown Point, Kirkland, Yarnell, Octave, Wickenburg with lines to mining camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Dean
Willmington
Ohio
Ed. Baker
Kirkland
Wickenburg
Custom House News
Tombstone
Bisbee
Naco
Douglas
Hathaway
Mansfield
Reddock
Webb and
Addy
Miller
White
A. G. Evans
Evans
Deming
NEW Telephone Company
Arizona State Telephone Company
Prescott
F. L. Wright
Hot Springs
Government Hill
Copper Basin
Kirkland Station
Yarnell
Stanton
Octave
Congress
Crown Point
Phoenix Gazette
Carnegie To Expand Offer For National University
In Washington the Carnegie party arrived and plans to meet the President to discuss raising the national university fund from 10 million up to 25 million. The initial 19 million was to be in Unineau steel bonds not redeemable for fifty years, which would place government stock in the steel firm. Carnegie is earnest and ready to adjust terms to what Congress may deem necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Andrew Carnegie
Washington
National University
Carnegie
Unineau Wcates Steel Corporation
Copper Output To Be Restricted Amid Mine Closures
A private dispatch claims Amalgamated Copper’s Anaconda mines closed last Saturday due to falling copper prices. Reports from Boston and Butte conflict about closures and resumes. Officials warn ongoing restrictions likely, with limited local production for an extended period. The market presently shows copper near 15 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Aanaconda
Amalagamated Copper Company
Amalgamated Company
United Metals Selling Company
Butte
Mont
Anaconda
Annaconda Company
St. Lawrence
Harrison Seeks $100 Million Transit Franchise Reform
Chicago in December faces expiration of $100 million worth of traction franchises within eighteen months. Mayor Harrison urges municipal ownership via enabling act, voter approval for extensions, fair compensation to citizens, and service upgrades including more cars, underground downtown trolley use, full night service, compulsory transfers, enlarged downtown loops, and open books for city comptroller. Harding offers $75 million for the franchises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Securitie
Harrison
Legislacire
G. H. Harding
Loneliest Duty: English Lighthouse Keepers Endure Isolated Life
A London Mail feature surveys the dreary isolation of English coast lighthouses. It describes Bishop, Loveships, and Eddystone stations, noting storms, scant variety in rations, and the mental strain on keepers. It recounts a keeper surviving alone with a dead comrade, harsh weather, and the extreme demands of rock lighthouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yenal
Bishop
Cornish
Lam
Loveships
Cornwall
Eddystone
Atlantic
Muckle Flugga
Scotland
Ushinish
London Mail
Editor’s wanders and animal climbs in rare diary snippet
Colonel Dennison recounts Sir Henry Trav— Allan’s tale of riding a horse into a newspaper editor’s room in Darlington and the editor’s retreat. The piece then surveys climbing animals and notes bears cats and tigers, then explains how iron carbon hydrogen additions modify steel properties and heat treatments create tools, springs, and hard edges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Dennison
Canada
Henry Tavelock Allan
Hyde Park
Sir Henry
Darlington
Ice Preservation in a Sickroom With Ice Shaver Tips
A medical journal describes keeping shaved ice in a sickroom for day and night use. Place the ice in a saucer inside a soup plate, cover with another plate, and nest on heavy pillows. Use an old jack plane as a crude ice shaver, turning it upside down to shave ice.
Prize winners listed in Fifty-third Fifty-fourth notices
The fragment notes prize winners with monetary values and names including Mary G C Fateh and Mrs M Hl Snow, indicating a society or club event. Details are sparse, but the report mentions the prizes and recipients within a brief society column.
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Arizona
Albert Gaskin
Grafton
West Virginia
U.S
W. W. Flewelling
Nogales Border
Weecarry
Kline Kohn & Co
United States
Smith
The
Consolidated National Bank
Tucson
M. P
Freeman
H. B. Tenney
Cashier
W.C. Davis
E. W. Graves
Cashie
Arizona National Bank
J. M. Jacons
View Pur
HMAN
M. Jacons
J. M. Ommany
Aust. Cashier
Bishop Station
Brown's
Stone Ave
Brickwood House
Nogales
Anl Unseen
J.T. Baickwoon
Prop
Pioneer Transfer Co
J. W. Woodcock
Portland
Ind
Preas
A. Birdsall
Watkins
N. Y
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
Rize
Schilling
Namme
Fifty
Mary GC
Fateh Lcved
M. Hl. Snow
Tucso
California
Mit
Scuntmag & Co
San Francisco
Fighth
Beays
Headquarters
Union Park
C. M. Stearns
Arigona
Rex
REX Rheumatic CO
Hartford
Geo. H. Cook & Co
Tucson, Arizona
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