Arizona republican., 1899-10-14

local churches. NJ. w. Messenger is Secretary of the association, and has charge of all arrangements. It is ex- lpected that a large delegation will go from this county.
 NEW CROP OF CARTRIDGES. - c. H. Sharp, deputy sheriff of Apache
 county, returned yesterday morning
 from Yuma, where he had taken three
 convicts. When the convicts were put
 into jail here over night on their way down and were searched. the pockets of two of them were found to be filled with cartridges of several sizes. Where they got them was a mystery, for they
 had been carefully searched before leaving St. Johns. Just after the
 train left Maricopa for Yuma the con-
 victs gave the deputy sheriff another
 surprise by offering him another lot of | cartridges, and they filled him with
 further consternation by giving him a
 file which they had had no opportunity to use and which they said would be of
 no service to them in Yuma. The pres
 ence of the cartridges has not yet been satisfactorily explained.
 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION.- A civil service examination for depart mental government printing, railway mail and Indian services, took place at Elks hall yesterday. Another exam ination for postoffice clerk and carrier will be held in this city on November 1. Only citizens of the United States may be examined. The examination will include spelling. arithmetic, letter writing, penmanship, copying from plain copy. geography of the United States and reading addresses. Quali- q be: Clerks. not under IS years, and carriers, between q and 40 years. Car riers must weigh at least 125 pounds and must not he less than five feet four inches in height. Application blanks may be obtained of the secre- tary of the board Of examiners, F. F. Walden, at the postoffice. Applications will not be received later than the closing hour of business on October 27. i
 NICE PALM COLLECTION.- George ] Hough Smith, the superintendent of the capitol grounds, at the request of i. the Phoenix board of trade has loaned i to them a choice collection of plants to ! be stationed in it's room on North i Center street. Although the variety of i the plants is considera bIe, yet palms ! are largely represented in the cOllec- [ tion, gathered from China, Japan, Bra l II, and other countries. All the plants ] are plainly labeled and their healthy 1 appearance shows that the climate Of . Arizona suits them. MT. Smith says ] that at least thirty varieties of palms l can be grown in the Salt River valley, ] and yet from the general appearance : of the gardens the citizens are con | tent with the growth of two or three . varieties of the commonest kinds. While the board of trade will do it's ut most in bringing into prominence the good features of Arizona before the world by first-class literature, if seems a cheap way of showing up the coun- try if the citizens would annually set aside a small sum for investment in palms, shrubbery and Towering plants. Some mistakes will be made, but the outcome will be well adorned gardens and grounds, and these will show to the annual visitors who come here from the north that the valley is a winter garden and a place to be desired to sojourn and to live in-
 MIR. BURROWS DISPLACEMENT. Jack Burrows and G. F. LamDey had ]! a thrilling adventure in the river near Tempe on Thursday afternoon. In crossing the river they drove over a quickSand which caught the hind wheels of the vehicle in it's remorseless grasp and held them fast. They sank lower and lower and the occupants of the buggy were sinking with them. Something had to be done, and that be- fore Christmas. It does not take Mr. Burrows long to recognize an emer- gency when he gets a square look at it. Stripping himself of all personal adorn- ment except a finger ring, he plunged into the flood and lifted the buggy out by the hind axle. He necessarily got into the quicksand himself and was extricated with almost as much diff culty as the buggy had been. About the time or soon after this happened, reports were received from various stations that the river was rising. This was a misapprehension caused by Mir. Burrows displacement. He re rnained in Tempe all night and MT Lampey returned by the less danger ous Wilson crossing. But that cross ing was almost the death of a man and woman on Thursday evening. They got away from the ford and would no doubt have drowned but for the assist ance of Deputy Sheriff Gonzalez of Tempe. who happened to be passing. >
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