Arizona republican., 1896-07-28

ing Sunday and completed the orga- nization of typographical union by electing the necessary officers and adopting a constitution and bylaws and a scale of wages. The new union made no changes in the present scale and adopted it. The meeting was we'll attended and every newspaper and job office in the city was represented. The name of the organization will be. PhQe nix Typographical Union.
 Florence Tribune: Occasionally the honest prospector gets in his work One of the Pinal county fraternity was over to Phoenix recently and got a number of saloon men greatly excited over some rich rock he displayed. They kept him 'tginned up'' for several days and finally secured an option on his property-in fact, two different parties secured options. The two out fits were here this week, and they were the most disconsolate looking indi- viduals you ever saw They were left holding the bag, like the man at the snipe hunt, while the honest prospect or had hied himself in the night to his mountain fastnesses But even the worm will turn.
 Mrs. W. P. Murdock has returned from Carlisle, New Mexico, where she went to attend her brother, A. w. Hand, who was shot by a deputy sher- if and who died couple of days after Mrs. Murdock's S arrival Mrs. Mur- dock says that the published account of the shooting of Hand was incorrect. The true version, she says, was that at the time Hand was out on his horse practicing shooting with a revolver. He was molesting no one, but he was accosted by a deputy sheriff who com manded Hand to surrender his weapon. Hand refused to give up the gun, whereupon the officer, who was armed with shotgun, fired at Hand, wound ing him in the elbow. The arm was amputated, but blood poisoning set in, from which the victim died
 Recently there arrived at Yuma a man named Bernard Bauri, who until a few weeks ago owned and kept a small store in Cuba. One day some of the Cuban patriots came to the store and shouted for the Cuban cause, he join ing them. The matter was reported to the Spanish authorities and troop of soldiery was sent to his store, which they footed and burned to the ground. Then taking all his money they or dered him to leave the country. He arrived at Yuma, where his small amount of money was exhausted. He started to walk to California, but in crossing the bridge over the Colorado river he fell and broke both arms on the rocks below. He lay for hours sui fering greatly and realizing that he would inevitably die if not found he managed to regain his feet and return to Yuma, where he was tenderly cared for. This is only one instance in thousand of the cruelty of the Span iards in Cuba.
 Sunday morning about 4 o'clock as Nightwatchman Vance Hoskins of the Adams hotel was making his rounds he observed tough looking specimen Of the genus hobo sitting on a pile of brick and calmly eating from Hoskins' we'll filled lunch basket. The watch man surveyed the scene for a moment, then said Hey, what are you doing there? The man slowly turned his head and putting a potato chip in his mouth, laconically retorted, Eating" Hoskins was astonished at the cool reJoinder, but said: Do you know whose grub you are eating?' "Well, l suppose it was your grub before found it, and now it is mine. Very kind of you to leave it here for my benefit. The pie is excellent, but the biscuits were little hard for my deli cate teeth" The unparalleled nerve Of the individual so exasperated the watchman that he picked up a club and gave him few taps over the head before he would condescend to leave his lunch.