Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-18

to-day, the second on Saturday and the
third on Sunday Previous to theii
departure a telegram was received
from Captain Armstrong of the Fort
Grant team accepting the challenge OF
l'-he DeMund team, and it is quite pcs
sfble that the Phoenix boys will give
the soldiers a run for their money be-
fore they return home 1t is under
stood the Fort Grant team guarantees
all expenses.
MORE COPPER MINES. Captain
! T. G. Cree has returned from the
group of copper claims in the Castle
! Creek district owned by Justice G. D.
Gray of Phoenix, Jim Dunn and F. w.
-McAnnly. Mr.. Cree reports gres,s ac-
tlVity in the copper mines of that dis
trIct, and speaking Of the Gray group,
sad they gave promise of becoming
rich producers in the near future. The
veins appear in a favorable formation.
being contained in lime, porphyry,
iron and granite, the matrix of the
C5e being lime. The character OF the
ore is a hard carbonate and the as
says show that it is very rich There
is 300 feet q work done on these
claims, exposing the veins to con-
siderable depth and defining the strike
Of The ore
BOARD OF TRADE SECRETARY.
At meeting Of the dreo5ors of the
board of trade last night H. NJ. Chap
man was elected secretary. Mr. Chap
man has been for some time secretary
of the PhcsniX Library association and
has had extensive experience IN the
organization of commercial bodies IN
'-he east. Until lately he was manager
of the Phoenix Music company The
board of trade has now 256 subscrip-
tons for maintenance, guaranteeing
an annual sum CT S3,072. This IS al
ready a larger membership than had
been contemplated and the field has
hardly been half worked ever. The
success CT the movement has been al
most as surprising to the promoters of
1T as mas been to The onlookers. 1t
now looks as if Phoenix had unani-
mously agreed for the first time to
grow
NO TRACK OF ZEIGLER. No
trace was obtained yesterday of Otto
A. Zeigler, the confidence man who
put up a game for The amusement CT
Assistant United States Attorney
Thomas d. Bennett Reflective people
are not surprised to learn that a clue
is still being sought for. They did not
expeot that Mr. Zeigler would be
caught Yesterday morning in the act
of breaking into Jail. He left a pre-
vailing and not Incorrect impression
behind him that he wss not th3t kind
Of people and it is su: mised that when
he is next heard from he will be some
where else. 1t is barely possible,
-hOugh, that he was only an under
study in the affair and that the real
artist was not in Phoenix at all.
Zeigler did not look like a smooth
man, but smooth men GO not go
around with the fact advertised IN bold
-ype next to reading matter. If he
was only playing second fiddle he did
t well.
DECADENCE OF ANGLING. The /
season is now fast advancing and /
Early excursionists TO the coast ara /
beginning to return 20 their Phoenix +
homes, but thus far not a single fish /
story has been waited back on the .
coast 'breezes and not a single refer +
nee has been made in the California /
papers to the proves Of Arizona .
Inglers. Can II be possible that there
S no longer 'as good fish in the sea +
IS have ever been caugLt' or have
he excursicnists all b5ucd themselves
" mutUaf understanding that they
would not talk? Or. worse still. have
he local disciples of ISaak WaIcon lost
heir skill with rod and reel? Hereto
ore The summer season has been rich
4 anecdote and story from Catalina
nd other well known resorts, and Ari-
onians have not only been the he
oes of fish stories at home. but have
7on distinction abroad ard have had
her pictures in the big papers and
lnny stories written about thsIn.
ven here at home not single story
ig enough to be doubted has come
own from the Arizona canal
MORE ROOM FOR MARIA. Maria
ilmore, whose present name is Mrs.
-ich0las Prescott. was in police couI'-
for a disturbance of the
eace, about which there WIS no doubt
mcCg the neighbOrs Within two
,ocks Of the corner OF Fourth and 1
Washington streets. which neighbor-
1Cd had been filed by Mrs. Presc0tt's
ne Cour.y RcscCmmon b-ogue, ac-
ntuated by cuss words and imprint {
bic language. She had been COM
uning with her husband Mrs. Pres
1tt denied nothing. but said: Yer
nner, Give not ben bd5ure yez now
+ tree months. Ye moight be Iaight |
4 me Nick was that provokin' an {
ebbe OF had a drcp too ma-any on :
1aId." She was fined 81. Then +
-ck's case was taken up. He resisted =
IS effort of the officers to remove his I
ife and had 10 be quieted by the butt
a revolver. He got $40 Paying
9TH fines, he said as he went out:
Watch me uf l d0n'd take der old
}Cmans to ter guntry On a forJy-acre
act where she can raise all ter ell
le vars TO md il don't cost no