Arizona republican., 1899-10-16

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 since the opening of this station. I WILLIAM G. BURNS, Section Director. | HOGS TO RIDE THE RAIL- Be
 tween nine and fifteen carloads uf hogs | will be shipped today from Glendale | to San Francisco. The hogs mentioned are four-legged and are being chap
 eroned by MT. Cameron
 LADIES' SESSION. Invitations are
 being issued for an informal ladies so-
 cial session of Phoenix lodge No. 335,
 B. P. O. E., to be held in their pasture, corner of First avenue and Adams
 street, on Friday evening, October 20. ELECTED DELEGATES. At the session of the Presbyterian Sunday
 school yesterday Mrs. W. E. Deity, l.. L. Plank and J. M. Creighton were elected as delegates to attend the ter ritorial Sunday school convention at
 Tucson.
 FOR A PLEASANT EVENING. - The United Modern lodge will hold a social session after their regular lodge meeting tomorrow night. It will not be a public affair, but the members are
 permitted to bring their families or intimate friends. It will be a social reunion, followed, perhaps, by dancing. LOCATE AT MESA CITY. pr. and Mrs. E. N. Gerard returned yesterday morning from a summers visit to Shel- byville and other Missouri points. They are accompanied by their son and will locate for the winter in Mesa City. where pr. Gerard will practice his pro- fession. They leave for Mesa City this morning.
 BAPTIST CHURCH. There was an
 unusually large congregation at the Baptist church yesterday. The music both morning and evening was excel lent and included a cornet solo by Miss
 Edith Kay, a vocal duet by Mrs.
 Thompson and MT. Beller, and an of fertory in the evening by MT. Brewer and MT. Halsey.
 SURPRISED VISITORS. The min ing engineers were greatly surprised yesterday to find the weather cool and bracing. They had been led to expect that the weather in southern Arizona is hot during twelve months in the year. They will go home with a much more favorable opinion of the terri | tory than they ever had before. BY THE THOUSANDS.- 4 new edition of the Salt River Valley fer Health pamphlet is about to be issued | by the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
 railway. Fifty thousand copies will | be delivered within the next two weeks. | The pamphlet can be inclosed in an envelope and mailed and sent out
 broadcast over the country at large. 1 SOWED TO RYE GRASS. = The Bermuda grass in the court house plaza
 is already commencing to turn brown
 and scar and Gardener Dave Turner has taken time by the foreIock in sow i ing Australian rye grass on top of the ! Bermuda. This is a secret that Dave
 has monopolized for keeping the plaza
 perpetually clothed in verdure green.
 HEAVY TRAVEL. The train from
 the north was heavily loaded last night
 with incoming passengers, the majority
 of whom intend to locate in Phoenix
 for the winter. It has been the same
 way every night for the past three
 weeks. People are just commencing to
 realize that the winter climate of the
 Salt River valley is simply incompara-
 ble.
 TRUE BLUES WON. - A ball game
 was played at the park yesterday af-
 ternoon, the True Blues winning over the Phoenix nine by a score of to 8.
 
 gala catcher for the True Blues, and Morse was pitcher and Collins catcher for the Phoenix nine. Three of the latter's best players did not participate in the game one of whom was Hogan, who acted as umpire.
 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. - An other mysterious conference was held on Wall street yesterday afternoon, the doors being closed to an inquisitive public. Such phrases as municipal ownership of public utilities" were not infrequently heard by eavesdrOpoers- BODY CREMATED. The body of A. B. Rich, who died in this city last Wednesday morning from heart trou- ble, was cremated in Los Angeles Fri day. His estate is said to consist prin- cipally of life insurance.
 COOL WEATHER. The winter of 1891 is said to have been one of the coldest ever experienced in the Salt River valley, when icicles as long as a mans arm formed on the hydrants. Yesterday with a minimum tempera- utre of fl degrees. was the coolest ever recorded so early in the autumn by the weather bureau in this city. Light