Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1896-04-28

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tried by the recorder at 8. Poole was
fined So and Bas5ett was discharged.
Prescott Courier: A Prescott Sister
of Mercy recently visited Congress to
solicit aid for THE proposed Mercy hos
pital to be erected in west Prescott.
The people of Congress contributed
most literally TO this worthy object, 50
nIIDch so in fact, that the good Sisters
are desiroJls that their thanks be ten
dered the denizens OF that prosperous
mining camp.
Something that nearly resemb.ed a
storm blew over Phoenix yesterday.
All the day was wind and its accompa
niment of dust and about II a. m.
came a short and extremely unplea5-
ant sandstone, followed by a dash of
5he rain That has flooded southern Cal
ifornia during the pas five days, as
much :. as six inches of rainfall be.ng
noted in several sections
Workmen are busy with improve
mems to the front of the Goodrich
block, corner of Center and Washing
ton Streets The brick front is being
taken out and the wooden awnings TAX
en- away. In their place will be
modern front of iron and plate glass
and cloth awnings. The frontage of
the structure Will be faced with gran
lite and otherwise entirely changed
Prescott Courier: In this issue of
The Courier appears the call for a con-
vention of delegates of the Democratic
party of Yavapai county to meet in
Prescott May 80, 1896, at 10 O'Clock a.
M, for the purpose of selecting sixteen
delegates to the territorial Democratic
convention to be held at Phoenix June
8, 1896, for the purpose of selecting
six delegates to The National Demo-
cratic convention ITO be held in Chicago
July next.
AT The governors office yesterday
there were no items, though am inter
esfng sight was comprised in pile of
blank commissions ready for the sig
| nature of the executive. During the
afternoon the governor was visited by
many of the strangers who had come
either to attend the Republican con-
vention or to take notes on it's man
agement, with a view to their app,ica-
ton at the succeeding convention of
the Democracy.
Under the Highland canal, above
Mesa, this year will be cut several
Thousand acres of the heaviest of grain
crops. Most of it is wheat There has
been mitigating water i'm plenty and
the cultivators anticipate decided
profit from the season. ALI over the
upper valley the crop has been but
| slightly injured by the extraordinarily
late frost, but in the bottoms of the
ella River valley the wheat crop of the
Indians has been badly damaged.
Tucson Star: Reports come from
the Papago country THAT the Indians
continue to depredate upon the stock
of that section, and lit has been carried
on in such a wholesale manner recent
iy that stockmen are driving out their
| cattle. The stockmen of Pima county
alone have been damaged more than
100000 during the last three years by
the stealing of these Indians. The
serious question arises, Shall western
Pima county be given over to these
rowing bands of Indians?
T. C. Trice, the leader of the co,ored
! jubilee singers, who will show in Good
| Temp,ar's hall tonight, is enc of the
most accomplished and versatile come
dfans that has ever appeared before a
FnoenlX toot1lght. He lis possessed of
| remarkably clear tenor voice. and
has a happy faculty of making de-
cided hits in his impers ona1;ons He
has first class troupe to support h: IN,
and promises a good performance. The
admission is hut 25 cents which goes
toward carpe JIG the hall by the Good
| Templars.
Prescott Courier: Geo. Zika has re-
-ceived returns from seven toms of ore
shipped from his Surprise mine. in
Black canyon distict The ore yielded
s1,190 gold. This mine is developed
| by a sixty-fve foot tunnel, all. in good
ore; the vein is three feet wide and the
rich pay streaks from eight inches to
one foot in width The vein is within
600 feet of the Aqua Fria, where an
abundance of water flows in all sea-
sons. 1t is in this vicinity that Mer-
riWeather's mill lis being put up on the
Compromise mining group
In bulletin Is of the agricultural ex-
pertinent stallion, in speaking of i'm
proving the quality of beef, Professor
Gulley says: Il have tested several
foods for the purpose, and among them
sorghum, which 1 first grew in 1892
Sorghum Will produce as much grain
aus good corn crop and is better
adapted ito hot and dry climate than
corn. Many experiments have been
conducted ITO determine what the eff
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