Arizona republican., 1898-09-02

uTIueu Ou dcCOuuL or Cne absence or u.
 w. Smith. tie superintendent of ma
 chinery, i1 California-Albuque
 Citizen ~; s5-.-- --H The funeral of Michael Welsh took
 place this afternoon from the resi-
 dence of the deceased, large con-
 course of friends following the mortal remains of the old pioneer, esteemed
 citizen and devoted father to his last resting place. Rev. Vandermaisen of
 the Catholic church officiated at the , obsequies. Dave Welsh, one of the sons of the deceased, arrived today to
 attend the last sad rites.-Tombstone
 Prospector. i-siai
 MT. A. J. Davidson has leased his Ri1-
 tito ranch 10 a paI.7 of coloa,sis who will at once bes,in its cus -lva:ion There are in the party .sixty-four pa: pie in all, uf whom sixteen are grsTn men. They own fifteen teams and arc
 said to be an active and fenterprls'ns } people. A portion of them formerly
 worked on the Crane & Fraker ranch
 near Pantano and are familiar with
 Arizona farming. It is reported that lthey will put 400 acres in alfalfa, in addition to large acreage of vege- tables and small grain.-C:tizen.
 Frank Dysart, Bert Frye, Ed Futile
 and T. K. Davis returned from their
 hunting and fishing trip to the Black lriver countrY.- They were gone ten
 days and come back looking the pic ture of health and well pleased with
 their outing. It was unfortunate that the law forbidding the killing of deer
 was in effect during the time they were
 in the hills, as deer were very plenti-
 ful up there. They caught large
 number Of speckled trout and had fair
 success hunting. They did not en-
 counter Red Pitkin, the partner of
 "Broncho Bill."-Bulletin.
 As an instance of the rapid growth
 of vegetation In southern Arizona is
 to be founc ill the corn and sorghum
 planted on the Rillito by J. D. Andrew.
 Before the late ram came it was about
 ten inches high, and was kept alive by cultivation, but now it is higher than , a mans head. When the rain came it
 took new start in life and grew from !, six to eight inches in each twenty four hours. The fear now is that it will run largely to stalk. The sor- ghum grew almost as rapidly as the Icorn, and IS now in blossom with t.:e prospect of a large and profitable crop. iOf the two he has about forty-five acres
 wholly dependent upon the summer
 rains for making croD.-Citizen.
 A swarthy and rather emaciated
 looking young man in a brown suit,
 wearing a hat bearing the words,
 "Roosevelt's Rough Riders" was the
 center oi attraction on the streets of
 Prescott yesterday So much so, in foo hCt o@
 press through the crowd to bother him
 with more questions. but obtained
 the second hand information that the Rough Riders name was Arnold; tkat, Ialthough he enlisted from Gallup, N.
 M.. he grew up in this neighborhood. He. was in all the fights around Santi- ago and verif1es the reports of the ter
 rible suffering of the troops for want
 of being properly, provisioned. He is
 one of the fighters who was fortunate
 enough to pass through the hail of Mauser bullets unscathed-Courier I Private T. X. Wilcox, company A,
 stationed at Whipple barracks, wrote a letter to Congressional Delegate Fer |guson of New Mexico. The letter is ipublished in the Citizen and is an
 earnest appeal for the disbanding of
 the regiment. The following is an ex-
 tract from the letter.. "The exigencies that called this regiment into exist once being no longer operative. it's en- listed members desire to be returned to their homes and usual avocations. Tn restraints of military discipline, : the hard fare and monotonous duties : incident to garrison life, may come : easy to the professional soldier, but ayn nvf vf,~nr, n1x op1 rvol1 ing to men who, like ourselves, have
 only taken up arms, not as a prOfes- sion, but as an expedient, not as , matter of inclination, or fitness, but | from deep sense of duty to our coun- ltry. We feel that no other condition 5 than an actual state of war can justify | our retention in a service that falls
 iegiumately within the province of l regular troops"
 . Sunday evening as Mr. and Mrs.
 A. H. Porter were returning from the l wedding at the Stafford house about g 1C:3O o'clock at night, they were in- 5 tercepted by Miguel Martines and an other, name unknown to us. MT. Por- ) ter turned and tried to avoid them but
 was headed off the second and third , time, when he ran to the saloon and Sot a tlc tdD1C OuI Icduy lO Ue- fend himself and found that the par t ties had followed him almost to tho s door. He took a shot at them. but , Mrs. Porter, who stayed outside. and
 had seen that the unk1own one was f trying to get Martines away. disturbed his aim, and no damage was done. MT.
 Porter at once caused the arrest of , Martines, who is known in this section l, of the country as Mike, the Gambler" , But after Keeping him all night in
 charge of an officer, were obliged to
 release him as MT. Porter saw neither
 gun nor knife, and could not swear !, that the man had done anything more . than get in his way and bother him. V ;Arizonian. $50 CITY OF MEXICO AND RETURN
 Our neighbors will celebrate their e national holiday in grand style. The