Arizona republican., 1899-06-03

spects correspond tc those of the tea
 growing districts of China, but bet
 ter argument in favor of creat-
 ing an experimental farm, at least i'll
 a few points in the south. is the fact
 that tea has been grown previously
 with f1attering results. T believe says MT. Burke, that China will cease
 soon to monCpolize the tea trade"
 PROFESSOR M'NAUGHTON, NEW lPLACE.-A telegraphic dispatch in
 The Republican this morning an
 nounces the election of Superintendent
 James McNaughton of the territorial
 normal school as president of the 1 California state normal schools in San
 Jose, Gal None but Professor Me Naughton's mere intimate friends had been made aware that he was conten- plating a change. The California nor
 nal school is one of the greatest edu- cational institutions in the west and one of the foremost normal schools Of the country.
 LOOKS LIKE MORE RAIN. -S. P.
 Behan of Prescott, live stock agent of
 the s. F. P. & P. arrived at the Con-
 mercial last night. He says that the
 people north were agreeably surprised
 on account of rain which fell steadily.
 though not violently, all of Thursday
 night at Prescott and many points as
 far south as Peoples valley. The rain
 seems to be general and indications
 E0int to more The stOckmen in the ranges have reason to rejoice, and un- less the weather indications prove un- reliable, an increased supply Of mar ketable cattle will be the result:
 FARMING AT KYRENE. A. J. i Hansen of kyrene was in town yeste"- Ia tion over 1000 acres and is making preparations to cultivate nearly 501 | more. A porticn of his soil is much l the same as that at Peterson's Siding, i where the date orchard will be estab. | iished. Mir. Hansen has 5000 young !! date seedlings which he started this i season. He intends to become one Of . the farmers who will profit by the date experiment by bud- ding his plants with buds from the CT chard, and if date culture proves success he does not propose to be out done by Uncle Sam. MT. Hansen says that in many respects the soil about Kyrene is superior to that anywhere else in the valley Only certain tracts contain alkaH and the soil generally ia sandy. He says it requires less water than in most sections in the valley, ! and the soil will retain the moisture for greater pericd of time. For i-I- he said, there are a few lands of alfalfa which have not been irri- gated for eighteen months, yet one ,rop has been harvested this season and the alfalfa is again blossoming. The character of the soil enables him e successfully raise corn. Many stalks last year stood up fifteen feel ligh and they yielded we'll
 SEPARATED BY THE COLOR LINE. A woman applied to Justice Iohnstone yesterday for him to get q marriage license for her daughter and ] man, who, the justice happened. tu lnow, was a negro. The justice told Ter that the laws of Arizona were dead et against miscegenation. The wo- nan said that was particularly unfOr- : unate in this case, for the couple had !
 baby about two years old. The coI- ] red man made her house his home Z nd her daughter was already his wife Xcept in name. There are people liy- : ng in Arizona as maneand wife who culd nor be married here. The cere- 2 1ony uniting them has been per- : ormed in Mexico and it is a matter Of Oubt if their cohabitati0n in the ter ftory is not unlawful even though hey did not break the law by getting z larried in it. The statute describes g uch marriages as null and void.~ Whether that means that they may not d Q contracted here or whether that t aving been contracted el lsewhere the relation may net be contin- ed here is uncertain. A few days ago
 young white man married a girl Of panish name, but one of whose par l ntS WAS a negro. That was a viola Q on of the law, for the slightest aG- . fixture of Ethiopian blood makes all | le blood Ethiopian so far as the Ali- a ona law against miscegenation is Jncerned.