Arizona republican., 1898-09-03

kEP UBLlCAN: SAIU h 1 he found work on ranch remote from
 any saloon. Partly from want of op- portunity to drink and partly from dis
 inclination he led what turned out to
 be disastrous total absti-
 hence existence for more than ia month. He returned to
 town on Thursday and drank about as
 much as he used to drink with i'm punity. He did not take account of | his constitution weakened by tenn perance. The whisky was poured into an unaccustomed stomach, whence it was transferred to an unaccustomed
 head. The victim was found lying
 on a sidewalk, was taken to jail and thence to the police court, where he
 was fined S4. He paid it cheerfully. for it was the price of valuable expert ence. Never again would he disar. range his system by protracted course l of non-alcoholic beverages which in
 the end lead to disgrace and the cala- boose.
 AUGUST WEATHER The month lE meteorological summary com piled from observations taken It the Phoenix weather bureau for the month Of August shows |. mean atno.- rheilc pressure of 29.7S The mean ltemrc-asure for ti,e month was 90 Le sSees: highest lO9 on .be ..Sth; ,oy, est. Il on the r:h. Tins greatest daily cange of temperature WIS 3J degrees. on the 18th: least daily range was T., degrees, on the 31st The mean le1i. retat.lre for tbs monfa sui thir ..en years past was SS degrees; therefore tiin average excess of daily man teni- pe-ature was ? degrees. There has been an average daily EXCESS of tenn perature of 1 degree since Jar.:.ry | Tn prevailing direction C. the wlni
 during the month was north west; total wind movement, 3,411 miles; maxi mum velocity of wind was 40 miles,
 from the east, on the 10th. Total
 rainfall during the month was 103
 inches; there were nine days on which
 there was .G1 inch or more of rainfall
 The average precipitation for this
 month for sixteen years was 097 inch. While the excess of rainfall during the
 month was .06 inch, the accumulated deficiency in precipitation since Jan- uary 1 is 1.29 inches. The number of clear days was 15;, partly cloudy days, 12; cloudy days, 4. Mean relative hu midity for the month was A per cent There were 1S days on which the max imum temperature was 100 degrees or over. The average of the maximum temperatures was 1921, the average of the minimums was 7S.4 On the last day of the month the maximum tenn
 r,n, ofy,rc
 A DILAPIDATED CAMP.-A Phoe- nix tourist who made Pinal county lon horseback relates his experience one
 day last week at the town of Pinal, near the Silver King mine. He struck
 the place after a hard days ride, dur
 ing which he had nothing to eat or drink, and made straight way for the
 the only habitable house in the eplace. He found a comedy young wo-
 man on the front porch and putting on
 his most gallant air he politely in
 quired if he could not secure some
 thing to eat. To his surprise he met
 with prompt refusal. Why" said
 he. rather disappointed and somewhat
 indignant, I've been riding all day
 and haven't had a thing to eat.
 Can't you give me something?" The
 young woman replied: We are wait
 ing BOW for the freight team to come
 with supplies, but it has been delayed
 for some reason. All we've got in the
 house consists of some Mexican beans and canned tomatoes" Just let me
 see them,'' exclaimed the relieved young man, and when he, stopped s'see-
 ing" them there was considerably less
 on hand in the house than when he be-
 gan "Pinal,'' he said afterwaTd, in relating his experience, gave me the blues There are forty or fifty houses
 and store buildings in all stages of de- cay and ruin, apparently deserted by their owners when the silver mining
 industry ceased to pay and the mines shut down. Even the signs were left on the buildings. One place I noticed had been at one time the Tunnel sa- loon; at least the sign said so. All who live there now are a rancher and his young wife and a Mexican family camping there for the summer. I asked the rancher if the empty build- ! ings didn't make him feel lonely. 'Oh. no.' he replied; I've got used to 'em.' :"