Arizona republican., 1897-12-21

an old and highly respected citizen O. Pnal county, having represented it il the legislature and in the constitu thy of the entire community in his ill ness.
 Mr. John Nets, prineipal of the Florence public school, will respond to the address of welcome at the op. ming of the! joint teachers institute to be gin at Tucson on the 29ih inst. Be sides he will open the discussion on School Discipline,' subject intro versify.
 Speaking of the university, the Star says: Dr. M. M. Parker, the new president, shows himself in every re- spect capable of filling that office And we can predict that the university will be one of the best schools of learning in the west if such men ss Drs. Billman and Parker are at its head.
 The students of the university pre- sented eX-President Billman duri g the entertainment last Friday evening with some works on political econ omy. J. D. Young rendered the pre- sentaltion oration in. behalf of the students. This is only one of the ways that the students show their esteem for their late president.
 Alt a. regular meeting of Winslow lodge No. ' K. of F., held in their hall on the evening of the 18th inst, the following officers were elected to take theEf seats on the first of the coming year: J. F. Wallace, c. C.; J. W. Kesler, " C.; Sherman Thompson, prelate; G. R. Bauerbach, M. at A.; c. A. Davis M of F. and K; T. J. Hes ser, M. Of B.
 The Yuma Water and Light com pany last week began picking oranges and lsmons on the Yuma Heights fruit farm. The oranges are yielding fairly we'll, averaging box to the tree. The fruit is we'll developed and is being shipped to various parts of the United States as an advertisement of the re- sources of Yuma county. It is also sold in the local markets
 A notable meeting of two old timers occurred in Nogales last Monday. Dep uty Shleuiff J. M Roberts of Nogales and Col. W. s. Morrow of Westfield, N. Y., who were together in the Ow- ems river Indian war of 1862-63, had never met sice the Bishop Creek bat tie thirty-fOur years ago. Both were young men in the prime of life and it would be injustice to them rbt to say that they are still we'll preserved and i'm active life
 That hogs can be successfully rais- ed in this section Is evidenced by the fact that the butchers, Mohlenpah & Mude1sbach last week purchased four hogs from A. c. Greenlaw that ag- gregated fifteen hundred and fifty four pounds in weight. One of them weighed four hundred and tMenty-six pounds net. There were larger hogs in the lot tham the four ment ;oned, but they were not so fat and we're not selected by the gstaff Kicker.
 J. A. Peiwette reached Prescott from Montezuma last Friday with the most perfect prehistoric metat stones ever seen in that section, according to the Courier. The stones were taken from the floor of a room in the eighth story of the prehistoric Montezuma castle. Four feet of bat guano was taken
 
 found under it. The large stone weighs over 100 pounds and MT. Pe- wette had some difficulty in descend ing the four ladders placed at intervals from the base to the top of the castle, distance of 100 feet. The metat is about two feet long by eighteen inches wide, is of blue granite and must have been used for years, as the stone is worn down so that the outer edges are several inches higher than the bottom of the groove in which the smaller stone slid up and dowu, crushing the grain. The smaller stone, CT grinder, was found near the larger.
 MT. George s. Steward had been appointed chief might dispa cher at this station of the Southern Pacific. MF. Stewart was for two years chief ington system in Mexico, and was very recently transferred to this place. He has been connected with the Hunting ton system for several years and is one of the most efficlent dispatchers on tine system. The large increased freight service now passing eastward, which averages more than twenty cars of oranges daily alone, fnducates the improvement in freight traffic, and since the quarantines have been raised the freight traffic westward inn proving rapidly mas necessitated the appointment of a chief for the night service and the trust could not have ! been placed in better hands than thos's of Mir. Stewart. Mrs Stewart and their little daughter, Ruth, arrived this mCrinng from Fl Paso and the family has taken up fits residence in one of Grosetta's residences on Pen nEngton street.-Tucson Star.