Arizona republican., 1899-02-20

remain over for the coming races
 Tucson Citizen.
 In the district court of Yavapai
 county in the ease of Harding vs. Sun
 Dance company the report of the re-
 ceiver having been filed and approved,
 ar crder was issued giving permission
 tu the receiver to continue working
 the property and authorizing him to
 issue receivers certificates.
 A private note from William Vii
 Hams of Keams canyon, informs the
 Winslow Mail that up to date, the 8th
 of February. there have been ninety
 cases of smallpox and forty-one deaths
 among the Indians there. When this
 disclse does break out among them
 they die off like sheep with the rot.
 Billy Morris, who has spent the past
 two years in Alaska and who was among the lucky ones, came down from Gallup on Monday last, to visit his old friends in Winslow. Billy intends re-
 turning to the frozen regions i'll the spring to wind up his affairs and will
 probably, make his future home in Ari- zona
 It seems silly to make the statement
 that Joe MulhattOn6 story about the magnetic cactus was made out of whole cloth; but such a correction is neces- sary for the benefit of certain gullible individuals who have learned to take as literally true everything that ap pears in this ve-aciOuS family journal. Florence Tribune.
 Stanis P. Clark, who was the moving spirit in forming the Colorado Ho'-t Mems association and who had the honor of being it's first president, aD- pears to be using his organizing powers in phnnniv A7iz vvhp7so ha iE ducting the Ford hotel of that city, as we see by a recent issue of the PhOe- nix Republican-Denvep Hotel Bull letin.
 Saturday last the freight house of the Santa Fe Pacific at Winslow was destroyed by fire. The loss was con siderable. The fire originated in the western end Of the building and it's origin is unknown. The company is fitting up the old Harvey eating house for a freight depot. This is tempo rary makeshift, for a new freight house is to be erected the coming spring Cn the site of the building destroyed.
 Richard McNary has returned from a trip to Kansas, where he went to visit his mother, whom he had not seen for thirty-two years. He had 6 fine time, but is glad to get back to Ari- zona. The weather was rather severe in Kansas. This was Dicks first trip out of Arizona since 1878. He brought back a pair of frozen ears as a me mento Of the Kansas blizzard. He will resume his occupation of mining at which he has been one Of the lucky Prescott Courier.
 L. w Morgan of Los Angeles has been appointed superintendent of the smelling and mining company. MT Morgan is acknowledged to be one of the most experienced men on the coast, having mastered his profession in Swansea, Wales. He comes to Ari- zona with thirty years experience as a metallurgist MT Morgan entered upon his new duties and Tucson may expect to see tri-weekly shipments from the Azurite. Two tons came ir yesterday and four are expected tOmOr- rCw.-Tucson Star.
 A special dispatch to the St. Gcu;s Globe-Democrat from Fl Paso, Texas gives the information that the citizens of that city are moving in the matter of forming a new state. The dispatch says: "The people of this city are discussing with considerable show O. spirit of creating new state out of the counties of Cochise and Graham. Ari- zcna; Grant, Sierra, SCcoTro, DQna Ana Lincoln, Eddy and Cnaves, New Mexico, and that portion of Texas ly- ing west of line drawn from the east line of New Mexico to the Rio Grande including all of Fl Pas6, Jeff Davis Presidio, Brewster and Reavis coun- ties, Texas. Representative LleWellyn of the New Mexico legislature, is ask ing for the creation of this new state, and says that Fl Paso should be made its capital. Native Texans here are opposed to the scheme, but the major portion of the business men of Fl Paso are eastern men and favor the new state as good thing for this city They say that the state officials and legislature pay no attention to the in terests of Fl Paso county except tc, in l sist on the payment of all taxes
 A very valuable bulletin on the date | palm was recently prepared by Prof 1 T. w. Tourney, bCtanist and recently | acting director of the Arizona expert 1 ment station. It is a matter in which 1 California shares interest with Ari- l zona, and Prof Toumey's researches l and observations should secure for him 1 the approval Cf the hOrticultdrists of | this state. Palms are plants which 1 should receive wider attention from | our people It is true that we are | planting Q good many, but we are not l using them in way befitting their great beauty and their great variety in size and form. We are fortunate in possessing a climate in which very many palms are perfectly hardy, and n'this respect differ from other regions in our own latitude in the United States. We are able, then, t0 give our landscape striking features which we 1an ourselves continually enjoy, and which will appeal strongly to the visi- tors who come to us from the more lortherly countries. California should in all save the higher alti- udes, a land of palms. Prof Toumey's on the date palm of course makes very much reference to the fruit of the tree and it's prospective value n that direction. In this line the in .erior of California is also interested md may add to her res0urces.-Rural