Arizona republican., 1898-03-16

! IS Uullulul d uOl110 COuplOI6 The frost last night did not injure anything so far as is yet known. Dudley Craig is looking for saddle horses to take to Pinal ranch. He says there was more rain there this winter
 than anywhere else on that range.
 The desert is so bare, however, that
 he expects to haul hay out to give his
 cattle feed or two when he brings them down to the valley.
 Mrs. B. B. Denure is better today. Bailey's grove is looking finer than ever this spring. MT. Bailey sent east for 13, 900 more trees to finish plant ing the ten acres on which the grove stands, but the nurseryman could not i fill the order.
 AT THE NORMAL. Rev. c. Ogburn, who is holding pro- tracted meetings in Tempe and Rev. R. A. Hopper visited the school today.
 Rev. Ogburn addressed very pleasantly the class in ethics.
 o. E. Ousely, w. H. Purcell and Miss Barbary Randall of Phoenix also wis 1ted the school today.
 Rolla Stanford is absent today on account of sickness.
 The boys are trying to organize base ball nine. Whether they sue ceed or not is a matter of great doubt in some minds.
 The senior class held a business
 meeting to discuss the programme for commencement. Nothing definite was accomplished The class will choose the speakers and arrange the pro gramme.
 Dr. Sabin has been spending two
 weeks at his mine ten miles from the Vekol He says he has a ledge which
 under the test of the new process now in operation at the Vekol banned out
 s1O worth of gold to the ton. There is $50 900 worth of this kind of ore in
 sight.
 There were eight passengers for Globe this morning and four or five who wanted to go. Ben Gibson and brother James, of Congress, received
 telegram that their father was dying
 at Globe. They immediately started and arrived in Tempe last night on the Maricopa train. It was their in tention to secure horses there and go on without stopping. No horses were i to be had and they walked to Mesa, getting there about 12 o'clock. They endeavored again to get horses. but failed, so they stayed the rest of the night Early this morning they sue l ceeded in obtaining horses and pushed on for Globe. expecting to arrive there tomorrow.
 SCOTTSDALE
 Scottsdale, Ariz., March 15.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican.) J. W. H. Greene went to Phoenix yes
 terday and will not return until to- night. He is disposing of some fine apples, also lumber that he brought
 with him from Illinois.
 R. w. Porter and family are now living in one of Mrs. ROss's tents. He see the doctor.
 One more new pupil entered the Scottsdale school yesterday. THE RAILROAD BICYCLE. The Republican railroad bicycle is a great innovation in this part of the country. Of all the people who have looked at it there is not one to the knowledge of its rider, who had seen one like it before. It is as effective as it is handsome, for it gets the paper in Tempe for breakfast, at the nor
 nal in time to act as a slight stimulant , for the days study, and in Mesa be- fore the train leaves and before the people begin to think about a news paper.
 As it goes spinning along honest
 people will stop and stare at it in amazement. while dishonest people
 will not look at it for fear some one will know they never saw anything i of the kind before. If it stops a mo-
 ment anywhere it is a moral cer- tainty that there will be questioning
 voices coming from all directions from people who cannot be seen. but who
 by their clamor indicate their rapid
 approach, and if the machine will but tarry a minute longer it will be sur rounded by the origins of these voices
 plying questions in the lump. 1 The most comical thing, however
 took place the other morning on leav-
 ing Tempe for Mesa. As this wonder i spreading machine crossed the Mesa
 road in East Tempe, there came a man
 up the road in a buggy waving his
 arms, flashing his galloping horse and
 shouting at the top of his voice for the
 thing to hold On." The thing stopped and the man drove up and jumped out i of his buggy before his horse had stopped. He threw his lines out on
 the ground, then picked them up nerv-
 ously. endeavored to tie them to the
 smooth wagon road, meantime ask
 ing the general public to excuse him
 for his boldness, for said he, q have
 been railroading all my life, have seen everything now that has been turned
 out and have ridden everything my , self that travels on rails, but I'll be
 Jlggered if I ever before run up against
 a deal of that kind. Does it run easy ? ; Well, say, ain't that pretty? It has
 four wheels, eh? And runs with a
 chain? Why, it's a regular bicycle!
 How much does it weiah9 Only sixty pounds! And do you ride it? How
 fast does it go? Where was it made ?
 What do you do when you meet a
 train?" The man looked by this time