Arizona republican., 1896-07-24

and Fred E. Wilson, and Ricardo Cos
 tella. The latter will assume the stage management. The rest Of the company are some Of the members of the old company, :Messrs. Gus Nea- vile, J. H. Burns, Fred Mussey and Frances Neaville. The theater will reopen next Thursday night, when Under the Gaslight" will be produced
 It's a good time to start a street pavement agitation, The late rains have covered our ill-graded streets with great pools of stagnant, pestilence breeding water. The same thing will occur next winter, but then the legis- lature and tourists will kick vigor- ously and warn their friends not to come here If nothing else can be done at least the principal streets mud and stagnant water may be prac- tically abolished.
 The most important scientific expe- dition of the past fifty years is now en route to Flagstaff. The expedition is headed by Percival Lowell, the famous Boston astronomer. The object of the expedition is to make observations of Mars and to procure if possible, ev- idence to support the theory held by MT. Lowell and other noted astrono- mers that Mars, commonly called the Red Star of War;" is inhabited by human beings The party has a 24- inch lens with which to make observa- tions.
 Editor Geo. H. Kelly of the Graham County Bulletin is rich enough this summer to take a vacation, the first in twenty-five years of ceaseless toil At Camp Arcadia, sixteen miles south east of Solomonville, his tent is pitched high up on the mountain mid pines and ferns. From ice cold springs riv- ulets of purest water ripple musically along their pebbly course. Mint springs eternal on the banks and Ed itor Kelly with a little sugar draws delicious juleps into his glass at any hour of the day or night. Lii Hung Chang's former cook at Pekin operated a fattening restaurant and tourists can reach the camp by an excellent wagon road from Solomonville. Wis itors spending a week or more at this newest Arcadia can listen to Editor Kelly's views on silver and see him mix natural spring juleps for nothing,
 Jesus Lares, the Mexican languish- ing in the county prison at Florence, under sentence of death for the murder of the Doll family year and half ago, was to swing for the crime to- 6nx hyrf ocyta r1ox f1N hsof commuted the sentence to life impris- onment. There seems to be consider able doubt by many of the prominent citizens of Pinal county as to the guilt of the accused and in order that an in nocent man should not be hanged the governor thought it advisable to give the man the benefit of the doubt by sending him to prison. The prisoner does not seem to realize that he was in the shadow of death, but looks upon his incarceration as a gigantic joke He asserts his innocence of the crime and cannot understand why he should be made to suffer. The necessary pa pers for the communication of the sen tence will arrive in Florence in time tomorrow to save the mans neck.
 Special Police Officer A. W. Galpin visited Phoenix yesterday from his al mond ranch, five miles northeast of town, where he is spending his first and attending to horticul- tural business besides. Heavy rains have thoroughly soaked his twenty acre tract and vegetation is humping itself accordingly. Nearly the entire area is occupied with 5-year-old paper shell almonds which this season groan under their first crop. The nuts are big fellows with kernels bigger than most peoples thumbs. Aside from this revenue yielding feature of the ranch are various fruit trees, alfalfa enough to support horses and cows, chickens, bees, flowers and about ev- erything bucolic that two cooing lovers have time enough to think about Special Police Officer Galpin tried to milk the brindled heifer last Saturday evening for the first time. She play fully kicked him so high into the at mosphere that he did not descend un- til the Sunday morning church service next day had nearly reached the dox- ology. The COW will be sold or given away to Sells circus on it's arrival in Phoenix next September