Arizona republican., 1899-04-03
Arizona Day by Day
 Live News Taken From Territorial Exchanges.

mere amusement Of the populace. we understand says the Mail. the ladies
 and gentlemen who took parts in The GiIded FoCl' have been solicited to reproduce the play and have taken it
 under consideration Tn case they con-
 clUde to comply with the request. the
 proceeds arc to go to the widow Gile.
 who was induced by a designing scamp
 to mortgage her little property in
 Winsl0W and loan him the money.
 Since then ha robbed a society of
 which he was member and treasurer.
 and left for parts unknown. leaving
 Mrs. Gile the mortgage to pay or lose
 her property. We have no hesitation
 in saying that La Trades opera house
 would be filled to it's utmost capacity,
 should the ladies and gentlemen con-
 clUGe to repeat the play for so worthy
 an object"
 w H. Graham of Florence is in the
 city today having brought up load of
 wheat with him to the Tucson market
 MT Graham is one of the substantial
 ranchers under the Florence canal. He
 says that the fruit crop down that
 way will be very large this year, tie
 trees having escaped any damage from
 frost last winter The first crop Of
 alfalfa of this season will be cut in
 two weeks. We are going to have
 good hay crop" said Mr. Graham,
 and barley is going to yield We'll
 He says that there is hope ot the ranchers getting control of the FEor-
 enca canal which some time ago went into the hands of a receiver and which
 they depend on for water to irrigate their lands A representative of the ranchers has gone east to arrange for the transfer of the property if possi- ble. If the IancheIs are successful in the canal property they will operate it on the cooperative plan, such as is in operation under the Buckeye canal by the ranchers in that locality. Citizen.
 Thomas BIcSweeney. section foreman at Dennison, A. T., who was brought to the city on belated No. yesterday morning, died at the hospital few hours after he reached it. Tuesday morning MT McSweeney, accompanied by his wife and three children, came 10 WinsIOW en route to Fl PasO, where Mrs AIcSweeney, whCi is almost blind, wished to consult an Occulist. At tbe Winslow depot a man, John Smiley, who had been employed under Me Sweeny as section hand, came up and asked for discharge papers. MT. Me SWeeny explained that he was no long CT in authority and could not grant the request. This angered the applicant, whC had been drinking freely, and he struck at the foreman, Who then starte1 to walk away Smiley drew revoI7- CT and fired three shots, all of which took effect in McSWeeny's body The assailant was at once placed under &i- rest and the severely wounded man, ae- cOmDanied by his wife and children, was brought on to Albuquerque. The hospital surgeons saw at once that there was no possibility of saving the life of the unfortunate patient After death ensued a post mOrtem e-amiua- ton was held and it was found that ore shCt had passed through the kidneys and one through the Bowels Either must have resulted in death. The wife and children have taken rooms in the eity. They have the sympathy of ou. 'itizens in their terrible bereavement Journal-Democrat.
 John Brown returned from Denver | ,esterday where he went to look into | he business of making arrangements | or feeding and fattentng his range cet- le for the markets. The buyers of | .eeders have, in measure, ignored 1 Arizona cattIemen with view to fore ng down prices. Our stOckmen came | Q the conclusion that they could get 1 dong without these middle men. and ! hat they could take their feeders to i he Colorado, Kansas, Montana and | other northern pastures as well as to hese spectators, and reap the bac efits themselves To this end MT Brown | las made arrangements to feed and 2tten range cattle at the rate of gO ents per head month, Or $1 per head | or the season of five or six months. lay will not cost more than $15O per on to feed the stock. This moving If helr feeders nearer the market and hen tattening them for consumpsjon will prove of much profit to them. dessrs. John Brown, N. A. Bernard md George Pusch have already ar anSed to ship four train loads of feed ITS to these ranges. which will be sent onward early ne1is month. Tomorrow dr- Pusch will leave for Kansas City o make arrangements for the sale of hese fattened feeders. There will be number of other stockmen who will oIn in the business of sending their eeders to the northern grass ranges nd make the profits themselves, now lade by middle men; So that it will not e necessary for Montana and Dakota attIe buyers to come down to Arizona 0 inform our StOckmsn of the value l tnelr Cattl9.-TucSOn Star