Arizona republican., 1898-09-15
Arizona Day by Day Live News Taken FEom Territorial Exchanges.

gora bucks about ten days ago. They are from William l.. Landrumn of Uvalde, Texas, who has one of the finest fiocks of Angoras in the United States. the original sires having been presented. to President James K. Polk by the sultan of Turkey in 1S4S. MT. Barnette has some 6O0 or 700 high grade Angoras located near the Tanks seven miles west of Globe.-Silver Belt.
 Rev. F. A. Ames, pastor Of the Free Methodist church in Phoenix, has been holding street services every evening at the Old Dominion corner. MT Ames is an earnest and fluent talker and a pleasant gentleman. He is assisted in his work by his wife and Miss Living ston. They will remain until Monday and hold services in the street every evening at o'clock and in the Metho- dist church at o'clock-Globe Silver Belt.
 | Tom Hughes is the proud recipient of box of curios-curios to any but those familiar with Spanish war ma terial-from his brother Dave who is in camp at Montauk Point. Among the collection is Spanish belt, evil dUntly taken from around a wounded soldier, as blood stains are visible in spots. Bullets for the Mauser rifle the rapid-ire gun and the shrapnel, uniform buttons belonging to Spanish officers, a piece Of exploded shell, a Spanish one-cent coin and other things are found in the collection.-Tucson Star.
 Truman Reed, an old friend of the senior editor, died at the home of H. F. Hardt, near Ryo, last Sunday morn ing, from dysentary and bloody fiuX, after an illness of six days. He had scld his property near Strawberry and was coming to Globe for a visit when taken sick at MT. Hardt's. Deceased was 66 years of age and a native of Lawrence county, New York. He had been a resident of this county for eigh- teen years and we knew him in New Mexico in the early seventies. Truman Reed was man possessed of many ex- cellent qualities and Gila county has lost good citizen.-Belt.
 Tucson was not without a represen- tative in the heavy loss from the lata Jerome fire. f. c. Bartlett of this city was a heavy loser. Property which he recently refused to sell for $15,000 was completely destroyed, and he had not a cent of insurance on it. MT. Bart lett bears his loss most cheerfully and says he will at once begin the erec- ton of a handsome new structure to take the place of the monument of ashes now gracing his lot. He left for Jerome yesterday morning, and ex- poets to be in Prescott by Friday to at tend the democratic convention, he being one of the delegates selected for that purpose by the Pima county dem
 
 Dr. and Mrs T. S. Collins who joined the hegira to the Klondyke last spring returned to Globe on Monday. They did not find the Yukon country what fancy painted it.'' When the claim owner pays 90 psr cent of the output for expenses and 10 per cent royalty to the Canadian government, the illu- sion of golden wealth is soon dissipat- ed. Dawson City has an enormous stock of provisions and prices for sta pies has fallen accordingly. Flour is selling at S4 per hundred; bacon 15 cents per pound; rice 13 cents and beans cents. Sugar is high and in de mand, while luxuries command ,extrav agant prices. Nelly Cashman, who is known to almost every old timer in ATi- zona, is running restaurant at Daw- son and getting rich. John Collins is working a claim on Dominion creek, about thirty miles from Dawson. Summed up, Dr. Collins opinion is that the Klondyke craze is about the greatest fake Of the century.-Globe Silver Belt.
 Probabilities are that the exact num- Der of fatalities attendant upon the Je- rome fire will never be known, as the lodging houses were all full at the time the fire started. The night shift from the mines had gone to bed and were sleeping soundly when the fire started In a town Of the commercial activity of Jerome there is always a considerable percentage of people ad- dicted to various kinds of opiates, and early in the morning would find many of them too much supplied to flee from burning building. The still live en- ! bers have up to date prevented very i thorough search for remnants of hu- man bodies, but i. is stated that re- mains of eight persons have been dis covered. Among the bodies found are | these of a Mexican woman and her two children, and dry goods clerk whose name is not known. No accurate state ment as to individual losses and insur- ance is yet obtainable. Nearly 100 persons from Jerome have arrived in Prescott since the confiagration. They all tell the same story as related in yesterday mornings Courier.-Pres- colt Courier