Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-20

the altitude ana cannot live in New
Mexico. Professor Keffer has accepted
a position in Tennessee with the agri-
cultural college of that state He
leaves to take charge of his new posi-
ton January l.
b. F. Ray and wife are again here,
their seventh winter in this section.
says the Tucson Star Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray established at Oracle in 1898 and
are surrounded with all the comforts
of well regulated home. They have
been at Asheville, n. c.. for the sum
mer and are only too glad to be again
in Arizona and especially so at Oracle.
They find hunting and other methods
of recreation during the winter months
so that dull care does not enter their
lives for a moment, wherever they
may be.
Hunter NJ. Merriweather, a promi-
nent attorney and capitalists of Kan
sas City, is in town looking after his
mining interests here, says the Jour-
nal-Miner. Mr.. Merriweather is one of
Kansas City's most progressive and IL
terprising citizens. A recent issue of
the Star of that city devoted nearly an
entire page to a description of a very
important public improvement along
the river front, which was inaugurated
by Mr.. Merriweather and which has
been carried nearly through to COM
pletion.
Gee All Gong, a Chinaman who
writes policy tickets for the Legal Ten
der is in the hospital, says the Tucson
Star. About ten o'clock last evening
Gee was crossing the tracks in the vi
cinity of the passenger depot, when a
switch engine struck him, as he was
avoiding passing freight, the man
falling across the tracks. The wheels
ground his right foot badly and almost
cut off the left leg above the knee
The man was removed as above stated,
Drs. Purcell, Olcott and Whitmore at
tending and completing the work of
ampUtation.
a Tucson paper says Ezra c. Bart
lett of that city will resume work on his
business block in Jerome in the course
of a month. For the present only the
foundation work will be prosecuted.
Had he been able to secure the neces-
sary brick at a reasonable figure the
building would have been constructed
and ready for occupancy by January
ing $4,000. 1t is to occupy the site of
the Grand View hotel which was de-
stroyed by fire several months ago. J. /
f. Tomlinson will manage the affairs
of Mr.. Bartlett in Jerome
a terrible accident occurred at the
smelter last night between 10 and II
O'Clock by which an Italian lost a part
of the lower part of mis- face, his tongue !
and three fingers from both hands He
had been at work on the feed floor and I
was leaning on the crane track, looking /.
down into the smelter, when the crane /
came along and hit him. lie was not /
seen by any person until after the ac-
cident occurred. The unfortunate fell !
low is at the companys hospital where |
he is getting all the care possible. but
it is thought impossible for him to re-
cover.-JerOme News.
Shortly before l o'clock this morning
a fire broke out in pile of ceiling and
flooring lumber under a shed on the
northwest corner Of Fifth avenue and
Eleventh street. This was a portion of
the Tucson Lumber company's yard
in which a vast quantity of lumber is
stored. The S. P. boys got water on
town companies had the fire confined
to place of origin, although lumber
piles adjacent We're on fire but were
readily extingufshed. The fire was no
doubt the work of tramps who have
been known to sleep on the lumber
Tucson Star.
Charles F. Hof. the well known, en-
ergetic telephone system promoter Of
Arizona, with headquarters in Tucson,
has been with US for the past two days
in the interest of the establishment of
a complete telephone system in Bisbee
and the early connection by it with the
long distance system already inaugur-
ated in the territory, says the Bisbee
Orb. He expects to return to Tucson
tomorrow. He has been quite success
full in his enterprise here. Within two
weeks the material will be here for the
placing and operation of thirty or more
instruments, and expects to have the
connections made and the complete
system in operation within forty days
thereafter. Mr.. Hoff has never besn
connected with an unsuccessful or I'M
satisfactory enterprise, and there is
every assurance that this one Will not
prove an exception.
j. Clarence Brown walked out OF the
Pima county jail after confinement of
three months lacking three days. says
the Tucson Star. During the fall term
Of court this young man, who halls
from Kentucky, was tried on a charge
of forgery committed in Tucson. and
the jury after two days trial hung, the
return being four for acqCittal and
eight for conviction, the jury being out
over twenty-four hours. The case at
tracted considerable attention and the
details are still fresh in the memory of
the people of the city. Several days