Arizona republican., 1899-12-26

but a meeting would be held today for
 the arrangement of a plan for the en-
 tertainment of the visitors.
 THOUGHT HE WAS TOUCHED.- A good indication of the winter popula-
 ton of Phoenix was illustrated in the
 jam at the postoffice yesterday morn
 ing. It lasted for hours and many
 who had boxes were unable to get through the dense crowd to them. They went back hour after hour and
 many gave up and waited until the
 windows were closed. One man emerged from the jam complaining that he had been touched" for a iady's watch and chain. He reported his loss to the authorities and gave in the number of the watch and description | of it at pawn shops and secondhand stores. He recovered it later at the stamp office, where it had been handed in by a stranger who saw it fall to the floor He picked it up and tried to attract the losers attention, but could not make him hear.
 SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS No doubt the pleasantest incident of all the Christmas celebration in Phoe nix was contributed by the Salvation army. The army gave a dinner yester- day to many who otherwise would have gone without d dinner, or at any rate, could not have had one so good. The army's Christmas was closed at the hall last night with a programme con- sisting of music and recitations and the distribution of gifts for children, to whom, but for the army the day would have. been as uninteresting as all other days in the year and much more un- pleasant, because so many other more fortunate children were in full enjoy ment of it. Since the army has done so much for these unfortunates, little and big, the people of Phoenix ought to do more for the army.
 DEATH AT GLENDALE. - The funeral of Mrs. H. E. Betz, nee Leah Baker, who died at her home in Glen dale at o'clock Saturday morning, was held yesterday forenoon from the Methodist Episcopal church at that place, the pastor, Rev. MT. Frambes, officiating. The funeral was attended by an unusually large number of resi- dents, all of whom have known and loved the deceased. Interment was made in the cemetery adjoining Glen dale. The deceased was only twenty years old and has been married a trifie over a year. She lived in Glendale for the past eight years, removing to that place from Canada. Her mother is Mrs. N. D. Hadsell, who also lives at Glendale. Mrs. Betz realized that her days were numbered and greeted the approach of death with resignation. She was fully converted to the Chris tian faith only a week before the end came and she left a number of mes sages for her old acquaintances. Just a few hours before dying she called her husband and mother to the bedside, and placing their hands together re- quested that they should always be as mother and son to each other. As she was borne to her last resting place yes terday morning, loving hearts and willing hands heaped high the coffin with beautiful roses.
 HE SAW THE CARNIvAL.-Tha Republican is in receipt of copies of the Daily Register of Marietta, O., con- taining a long account in two install- ments of the Phoenix and Indian-Cow- boy carnival They were written by MT. E. R. Alderman, the manager of the Register. who is in the city. Mir. Alderman quotes extensively from The Republicans account of the festivities. That part of his story containing his own impressions is the more interest ing. Marietta is the oldest town in Ohio and is also a college town. So that to one brought up in a community mellOwed by age and shadowed by the walls of an educational institution, some of the proceedings of the carni- val were raw. Nothing MT. Alderman saw, though, impressed him so much with the need of regenerating the in nuences in the west. as the open gambling and the females who try to sing in the saloons. He also depre- cated the proposal to break the Sab bath by holding a steer tying contest on it to settle the question of supe- riority between Ed Horrell and Doc GOodin. MT. Alderman thought the doubt regarding their respective merits had better be allowed to go down to pOsterity than be dispelled on a Sun day. In his letter he mentions among former residents of Marietta who are now in Phoenix, Bishop J. M. Ken