Arizona republican., 1898-06-21
f"The Hoosier" will be played
 again tonight.

f"The Hoosier" will be played
 again tonight.
 County Assessor Luke. yesterday
 turned over to the board of super
 ,isors the original tax. roll for 1898.
 It has not yet been footed up and this
 will not be finished for four or five
 days. MT. Luke thinks the total will
 not vary much from that of year ago,
 which was not quite 5000, ,00O. There 1 have been some important reductions
 of real estate under the Gila, the High 1 land and the Consolidated canals.
 The assessment of the Southern Pa cific in this county was reduced by the l territorial board of equalization by $2O,OO0. The Maricopa & Phoenix was raised by $1700. There has been an assessment of considerable new prop 1 erty which, it is believed, will at least offset all reductions.
 A municipal question has been sleeping chamber?' This interrOga- tory was obtruoed upon Officer Molloy Hast night when he came upon a mat ltress a pillow and blanket spread out upon couple of benches which a nervy lodger had appropriated for bedstead. He had gone away, possibly to get a drink before retiring for the night to sleep at the expense of the already overburdened city, struggling to meet it's monthly bills and pay the interest on it's bonded indebtedness. But the 1odger's roommates had all ready retired. One of them was a col ored individual on bench near by, and whose snores drowned the noise in the Salvation Army barracks a block away On the other side lay a China man dreaming of great wealth amassed and his return to the Flowery King dem.
 John Barnett the Mesa druggist, had narrow escape from death on Satur- day night The incident disclosed that a chemical fire apparatus is a dangerous contrivance. The ex- tinguisher is brass or copper case of two compartments. One contains sulphuric acid and the other water. with about a pound of soda in it.
 When the apparatus is ready for ac- ton it is turned upside down, the j liquids mix and the powerful gas so fatal to fire is instantly generated. In this case the soft babbit metal screw was blown out of the bottom and the rest of the apparatus shot upward to height of 100 feet with the velocity of a bullet MT. Barnett had been holding it in his hand. In it's flight | it grazed his body from the lower rib to the shoulder blade He was knocked down. Pretty soon a black and blue streak was developed on his body, showing the upward course of the apparatus. The accident in this case was caused by the cheap construc- l ton of the machinery. The soft babbit metal threads were unable to with
 stand the tremendous pressure. An article in The Republican yester-
 day morning about night blooming
 cereus attracted the attention of MT.
 Fl. R. Patrick, who has made close
 study of the plant for several years. Regarding the date of the blooming,
 which had been fixed at June IS or
 whereabouts, MT. Patrick says that
 the flower always blooms on the night
 nearest the June new moon. That
 happened this year to fall on June IS.
 He has observed the relation between
 the flower and the moon so long that
 he is convinced that it is unvarying
 and is another argument in favor of old fashioned people who believe that
 they will have better luck with their gardens if the seeds are planted with reference to the moon. The cereus is
 the most beautiful as we'll as the most l fragile of flowers, and it seems mis- fortune of natures that the fairest oi
 her children should be brought forth
 only to die in night. Attempts have
 been made to partially preserve its
 beauty. Pressed between the leaves oi
 a book as the petals of some other
 flowers are sometimes kept, those ot
 the night blooming cereus turn to an
 unsightly black. This year MT. Pat
 rick is trying another experiment, that
 of burying the flower in clean white
 sand. He also secured photograph ] of it in the early morning before
 burial.
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