Arizona republican., 1899-05-20

insured becomes destitute he is cared for by the company. Business men
 have given the question: considerable
 attention and from a theoretical stand point the scheme would be a money
 maker and at the same time a general
 benefit to the poorer classes.
 HE WAS SADDLED WRONG-
 Yesterday afternoon riderless horse
 tore swiftly down Washington street
 It was no wonder that he was rider
 less, for the saddle was on his stom-
 ach instead of on lis back, where it
 should have been. There isn't a
 horseman in the Salt River valley who
 could have ridden in that position
 with either comfort or safety. The
 man who saddled him must have had
 his mind on something else at the
 time. The runaway afforded a good
 exhibition of horsemanship, for a cow
 boy rode after him and made neat catch. The absent-ninded man who i tried to ride in an inverted position has not been found.
 DLKS OF GLOBE.-Glcbe lodge B.
 P. o. Elks, No. 4S9. with 43 names on
 the charter list will be instituted and
 officers installed by district deputy.
 G. E. R., c. F. Morre1l on Thursday
 evening, May 25th. A number of the
 members of Phoenix lodg, No. 335
 will attend. A banquet and grand
 ball will be given the visitors and big time is every respect is assured
 Globe Is going to do herself proud
 More than $1.O00 was raised for the event; forty-three names at S25 a
 name for the lodge. It will be the
 largest" time ever given an Elk in stitution of a lodge in the territory.
 roo MUCH WATER. Edward Bowers was in town yesterday from a ranch fourteen miles from town, and about six miles above the junction, of the Salt and Gila rivers. There is about 100 acres of alfalfa on the ranch and good supply of water can be had at any season of the year. making it possible to test the possibilities of alfalfa in this valley. MT. Bowers has discovered that alfalfa can have too much water Probably the first error which would be made by the farmers if they had all the water they wanted would be to irrigate their lands ex- cessdve;y. The result is that a rank growth is produced but the quality is impaired MT Bowers attention was first called to this fact when he was in Prescott two years ago. There was good demand for hay, but the main fault the consumers of Prescott had to find was that the hay had been allowed to grow too long before it was cut.
 THE MIDDLFMARCH SOLD.-A deal of unusual importance has just been consum,Tated n which the Middlemarch Copper company has transferred it's property to eastern 1 capital. The selling price, is S375,00O l and the first payment of ten per cent i has been made in Los Angeles. The mine consists of tweLtJ-one. claims, | located at Miidlemarch, Cochise l county, in tEis territory. The prop 1 erty is situated near and in a region l similar to that at Bisbee The forma- | ton is much the same, the mountains | being pervaded with indications of | copper. The Middlemarch mines are i covered with an immense iron or 1 gossan comb. Lime enters into the i formation and the ore is self-huxing. ! development work has | been done and there are 150 tons of | ore on the dump. It IS understood | that al present there is large amount | of capital behind the mine, and its { merits will be brought to light quick | ly. The new owners do not propose | to put in a shelter or other extensive | until 1t is clearly | shown that the property is valuable. ! The shafts have not been sunk deep. the explorations having been made | mostly near the surface, but already 2 large body of ore has been uncovered.
 THE AMERICAN GAME IN i MANILA-.Ernest Whitehead, travel ing agent for the Santa Fe Fruit and Refrigerator line with headquarters at Sacramento, was in Phoenix yes -erday. MT Whitehead was in Los Angeles a short time before coming here. He says that the Phoenix ball team is in Los Angeles and will play I game there today He believes that it's first game will be with a picked nine. and that tomorrow it will play ] game with the Trilbys. MT. White head said that there has been no 0ase ball playing in Los Angeles for about six months, and for this reason he coming contest should draw pig crowd. But the hines there have lone no practicing, and if the Phoenix boys have a strong team, as he thinks hey have, they should have little