Arizona republican., 1899-12-31

was muffied. The party re-en- tered the carriage in fifteen smin- utes and the vehicle was driven through that darkw thoroughfare Commercial avenue, to Center street. That move was, perhaps, not made to further envelop the proceedings in se- crecy, but because the horses could not turn a somersault with the car riage attached to them. There is no such thing as turning back after one once gets into Wall street; there's no turning. It's like the way to Avernus, only it is not down hill and greased.
 A NEW YEARS PARDON. A par don was sent to Yuma yesterday for Joseph Dickson, under sentence from Yavapai county. Dickson was put in the penitentiary only last July, but the petition for his pardon which was put in circulation about a month later was signed by District Judge Sloan, most of the jurymen who convicted him, and many prominent residents of Yavapai county. It is said Dickson was con- victed of cattle stealing on general principles rather than on evidence. His short record at Yuma is good.
 BONES IN A BOX. A curious and ghastly discovery was made in what is known as the graveyard mound, at Tempe last Friday. Messrs. Penn and Cummings unearthed an old coffin be- side which was a wooden box about three feet long and two and a half feet wide. The box was rotten with age and was broken to pieces when it was removed. This strange shaped box was found to contain the bones of a human body, which from the position of the bones, appeared to have been cut into three pieces before burial and crowded into the receptacle. There was bullet hole in the top of the skull, The bullet, long leaden mis- sle, now in the possession of MT. Cum mings, was found in the chest of the skeleton, having ranged down through the head and throat. Its course was traced by crushed and splintered bones. It was supposed that the box had been buried about twenty years ago, but that was all conjecture. How ever, it must have been buried later than the coffin. One side of the jaw of the skeleton was smaller than the other.
 CARNIVAL OF SPORTS. - The Glendale Base Ball club has arranged programme of athletic sports for New Years day at Glendale that should attract lovers of healthy sport from all over the north side. In the forenoon the principal attraction will be tug-ofwar between picked teams from Glendale and the Cartwright dis trict, and a match game of base ball between the school hines of the Glen dale and Cartwright district while foot and horse races, throwing and jumping contests will fill in the inter vals. From Il to l o'clock the ladies will serve an old fashioned New Years dinner at the school house, all the pro- ceeds of which will go to the ball club for the purpose of furnishing uniforms. Two bits buys dinner the like of which can't be found between San Francisco and Halifax, outside of a prosperous farmers home. The ladies stake their culinary fame on that. At 1:30 D. m. the grand event of the day will be called-a base ball game be- tween the Rough Riders of Phoenix and the Glendale nine. On Thanksgiv- ing day the Glendale boys went down before the Rough Riders. who in turn Stars. The Glendale nine beat the lat ter by a large majority Christmas day. so the New Years game will undoubt- edly be close and exciting.
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