Arizona republican., 1898-09-16

correct certain reports relating to his share in the chase. He denies that he sat beside Moudy at dinner at Wick
 enburg and failed 10 recognize him.
 He denounces as an infamous cam
 paign lie the further rumor that Moudy paid for his dinner. In support of his
 denial MT. Doheney points with pride
 to the circumstance that he left Wick
 enburg on his return to Phoenix be-
 fore dinner.
 FIX THE DITCH. Some repairs
 have been made on the town ditch, but there is room for more That sec
 ton of it about Fourteenth and Eff
 teenth avenues is either not high lenough as to it's banks or it is insecure.
 Anyway it does not convey all the
 water that runs into it and that is the
 plIpose ditches are meant to serve.
 The streets in that IeighborhOOd are flooded again.
 INQUIRED AFTER. Inquiry has been made through the office of The
 Republican for man named James s.
 Reynolds, who was a resident of Phoe-
 nix six or eight years ago, and maybe
 he is yet. He was formerly a resident Of the state of New York Any one having information to communicate re-
 garding him, or Mr. Reynolds himself if living and this inquiry should come
 to his notice, should call at this office. THE JEWISH NEW YEAR.-Rosh Hashona, the Jewish new year, will be-
 gin at sundown or o'clock tonight and will continue until the same hour tomorrow night It will mark accord
 ing to the Jewish calendar, the begin ming of the year 5659. It will be cele
 brated in this city by services at
 E.lks' hall at 6:30 this evening. The stores of all merchants in Phoenix of the Jewish faith will be closed from ] this evening until tomorrow evening.
 Ten days later Tom Kippur, the day Of atonemenIt, will occur. Jewish practices regarding the celebration of tEese holidays and the intervening period vary. Orthodox Jews cele- brated two days of Rosh Hashona and fast until the close Of Tom Kippur.
 AUTOMATIC ANT TRAP Gar dener Scott of the city hall has de- vised an automatic ant trap. It is successful beyond his widest dreams, for the automatic feature of it was not originally contemplated. The trap consists of a beer bottle set in the ground, the mouth even with the sur face or slightly protruding above it. The ants crawl into the bottle and are unable to ascend the smooth sides again. They carry a great deal of dirt down with them, so that in the course of three or four days the bottle is filled with dead ants and earth. Ants ar irving later evidently believe that the bottle is an improved ant hole. They find everything to their satisfaction
 except the debris within. They pro ceed to remove the dead ants and earth and take so much out of the bottle that at last the new corners find themselves unable to get out. In this way the trap is constantley kept in operation and requires no attention beyond that gwen it by the victims themselves. The patent has not been aplied for. A REPORTORIAL MYSTERY.-Mr B. A. Fickas has lately returned from Indianapolis, where he went as a dele gate to the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias The affairs of the supreme lodge, of which there had been a good deal of criticism, were satisfactorily adjusted. Some retrenchment was dl- rected in the management and vital change was made in the manner of
 revenue, which will hereafter be de- rived from an annual assessment of the members Of the order amounting to about cents per capita. While the discussion of the affairs of the supreme lodge was going on and which occupied several days, the Indianapolis Sentinel
 appeared daily with reports of the pro- 1 ceedings, more voluminous even than the minutes of the lodge. It published t, the speeches of the members. How { the information was given out is still a mystery. At first each member pres eEt was suspicious of every other
 member, but at last the knights eX- onerated one another and decided that a reporter of the Sentinel had been