Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-07
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Adolph Cohn has concluded to re,
main in Bisbee.
L. w. Cooley of Benson has sold all
his cattle, from six months up, for SIS
a head.
After Governor McCord has gone to
war, what will the Prescott Courier
then find to growl about ?-Oasis.
The metal front of the new building
for the International Bank and Ari
iona Commercial company at Nogales
is completed.
Prof. w. P. Blake and Mrs. Blake
have left Tucson for their eastern
home in Connecticut, where they will
spend the summer.
The Fourth OF July celebration COM
mittee of Tucson has decided to elect
a Goddess of Liberty for the coming
event. The Goddess will be elected by
Chas. Fredericks has just finished
building a large sheet iron tank for
John Hanley, the hustling dairyman of
Bisbee. The tank will hold 1900 gal
Ions of water.
Out of 1900 children of school age in
the Tucson district 165 signed the
Maine monument roll. This small
number of slgners is due to the fact
of this being the vacation season.
Tuesday there was a custom house
sale of smuggled Panama hats and silk
goods, and now couple of dozen No
gales gentlemen are sporting fine hats
which came remarkably cheap.
The amount of wheat which is pass
ing eastward, consigned to different
points in Italy, is enormous. From fif-
teen to twenty trains pass over the s.
P. road every twenty-four hours.-Tuc-
son Star.
Prof J. w. Stewart, who has been
principal of the school at Bisbee foS
the past three years, leaves that town
for his home in Tempe this week
Prof Stewart was not candidate for
reelection this year.
the citizens, whom it will cost five
cents to cast a ballot. Two years age
this plan was adopteu, and something
like four hundred dollars was raised
to assist in the financial part of tn
celebration.
It is authoratively stated that tomor-
row the detachment of the Seventh
United States cavalry. of late en-
camped at Calabasas, will return to
Fort Huachuca, the emergency fequir-
ing their presence so near the border
having passed.-Oasis.
In removing the Calabasas postoffica
to the depot the government is saved
the service and expense of a carrier.
On retiring, Col Sykes has a record OF
sixteen successive years as postmaster
We venture to say that this cannot be
beaten. Walter Vail comes very near
with fourteen years as postmaster at
Pantano.-Oasis.
The Republican party is playing in
its usual luck; first, short crops in the
old world to create a demand for
American wheat, enriching the farmers
and starting the wave of prosperity
promised in the political campaign o:
1896-and now big war to turn loose
slathers of money and swell the al
ready rising tide of good trmes.-Oasis.
Mr.. c. c. Crane, of the firm of Crane
& Fraker, ranchers at Pantano, is in
Prescott. These gentlemen own an
valuable ranch of 200
acres, 70 acres being in alfalfa and the
balance in barley and wheat. They
usually cut four crops of alfalfa annu-
ally, averaging ten tons per acre, and
sell the surplus on the premises at
good figures. Mr.. Crane says the crop
this year brings $40 a ton right at
home.
The Arizona packers have arrived at
Tampa, Florida, and are now doubt
less on the main to Cuba. A banner
bearing the words, he Real Arizona
isn't in it, was car
ried on the passenger coach, and at
tracted considerable attention as tie.
sped on their way to their destination
The banner was put on their coach al
Benson when the Cochise boys joined
the recruits.-Tombstone Prospector.
Thursday morning at 4 o'clock DR.
F. w. Braun of Nogales, Sonora, who
had been i'll a couple of weeks, passed
peacefully away, pneumonia being the
cause of his death. Deceased was q
native of Germany, aged more than &C
years, and had been in Mexico the
greatest part of his life. He was sur
seon in the Mexican army in the tim
If Juarez and Macmillan, and did
good service in the cause of the Mex
can people against the Austrian
lsurper.
Thursday afternoon the town of Bis
zee was thrown into fever of excite
nent over the reported finding of the
body of man on Bisbee heights. |
Such proved to be the case, and shortly
ifter the body of E. H. Hurley was
aiken fran his room to the undertake
ng parlors OF E. S. Adam, where |
,ost mortem examination was made /
~ DIR. Clark, who found that the de- !!
leased came to his death from a rup-
ured heart vessel. The deceased was
ound sitting in rocking chair in his |
Dom, and probably died the night be- |
ore, as the body had already began to
how signs of decomposition. The de !
ceased came to Bisbee several months |
lgo, and was friend of Mr.. Leavitt !
he jeweler. He was man of strong |
physical appearance. The funeral oc-
.urred Friday.
The board of Sunervisors held q /,