Arizona republican., 1899-03-27

was carrying in an inner pocket Was | it bible his mother had given him
 when he left home? For the moral of
 this story it unfortunately was not.
 Was it pack of cards which had thus singularly turned death aside? Nor
 that. Neither was 1t cherished pho l tograph nor any of the rest of those
 things with which men so often un-
 willingly guard their hearts. It was
 meal ticket on Coffee AIS which MT
 Sirch had bought just before he left
 Phoenix for Globe. It had only been punched once. but that charge riddled it in an instant as effectually as
 weeks regular use at the restaurant
 This is the first time on record that
 pie card ever stood between man and his maker.
 NO LIQUOR FOR MINORS. Dep
 uty Sherim Joe Bush is making a very
 orderly place of the block. He has de- termined that it shall be more orderly
 in one respect at least than some more respectable districts of Phoenix, and
 that is that minors shall not get liquor there. Yesterday he arrested Ed Reed, a minor, and J. D. Lorraine, saloon
 keeper, on this account. He says a great many minors, some of them not
 more than fifteen years old, come to the
 block drunk, but they bring their
 liquor with them thus proving that the
 law is being violated somewhere else.
 The deputy sheriff does not even allow
 the minors to loiter about the saloons
 of the block. z
 CALIFORNIA CROPS.-,A letter was received yesterday from Edward Davis,
 who left for California over a week ago and has traveled through ? con siderable part of the state since: He wrote that the general rain -Gn the coast had made everybody happy. The farmers will save more Of the crops this year than they had expected at the beginning of the season. He said fur ther that there would be a good mar ket for Arizona hay, for the rain in the southern part of the state was too late for good crCp, and even if the rain fall had been heavier, the failure of the two previous years had so discouraged the farmers that the usual crop had not been planted.
 AN OBTRUSIVE PRISONER. Dep Uty Sheriff Joe Bush had a prisoner thrust upon him yesterday. The officer had made an arrest and was bringing his prisoner to jail when he was fol- lowed by man named Sherman. who tried to persuade him to let the man go. At length he became abusive and threatening, and when the officer warned him he deied arrest. He was Il member, he said, of the bricklayers' union, and had the support of that la Dor federation. He had also money on his own account. That was the kind of a prisoner wanted-One who had money to pay his fine. He was ac- cordingly thrown in. If any meeting of the bricklayers' union was held last night MT. Sherman was present only in the spirit.
 CRITICIZED SKATER. George Herrings of Chicago arrived at the Ford last night He said he was a of several lodges at that place l which had taken up the question of the Miles controversy in their lodge dis : cussions Several members of the ] lodges are returned soldiers and the 1 sentiment seems to be favorable to { General Miles. An eX-sCldier in Cuba | spoke in denunciatory terms of the { conduct of General Shafter. He was 1 one of the orderlies for the general [ and as one is very indignant on ac- ! count of the duty he was assigned at one time. Shafter's corpulency did | not fit him for the excessive heat of . Cuba and he devised many unique | methods to evade it's discomfort. His . favorite method, however, was to lie ln his back and delegate two orderlies to fan him. It was this duty which caused the indignation of the orderly mentioned.
 A BOY ARRESTED. Paul Davis. boy, was locked up in jail last night 0n complaint of A. F. Clark, charging him with extracting s2.50 from his trousers pockets. The trousers were wing on a bed in a room to which Davis had access. Though this is