Arizona republican., 1899-05-15
NEWS
 OF THE 
 TOWN

SCARCER STRAWBERRIES. -
 There is a scarcity of strawberries ir : the valley and it is likely that the price will advance this week.
 WOMAN BEATER IN JAIL. J. B
 Nevill, the man arrested at Prescott
 for shamefully beating his mistress, a
 woman of the block here a couple of
 months ago, was brought to the county
 jail on Saturday night
 I. O. G. T. RECEPTION. A recep-
 tion will be given J. H. Campbell to-
 night at the Good Templars' hall Re
 treatments will be served. Tomorrow . evening MT. Campbell will give a pub
 lie lecture at the Presbyterian church.
 On Wednesday and Thursday nights
 he will lecture at the Madison school
 district about eight miles northeast
 of town. Friday, Saturday and Sunday
 he will lecture at Glendale.
 AT DEATHS DOOR, The condi-
 tion of Belford Taylor, whose intes- tines were punctured by a bullet from
 his wife's pistol, is pTecaFious. Taylor may recover, but the chances are against him. Those who are around
 him most do not believe he will get well and the physicians assert that 1 they are unable to say at present
 whether his condition will change for i the better or worse.
 CONNECTS FOR YUMA. Sheriff
 Murray left last night for Yuma with
 three convicts, F. s. Albright, c. T. 1 Hayden's bookkeeper, for fifteen
 months for embezzlement; Robert
 Smith, three years for burglary, and l G. A. Snyder, two years for passing
 a forged check. Snyder went away
 protesting that there had been a wee | fuI miscarriage of justice, but those who have been watching court pro- | ceedings believe he is the guiltiest man of the lot.
 THREHING COMMENCES. - The threshing season will be opend tomor- row on the south side. Jay Gould, whose other name is Martin, will set the ball rolling. In spite of the pes simistic predictions of those who have been complaining of lack of water the g,4in crop this year will be very good. It will not run so much to straw but what is more essential, there will be a favorable showing of grain. The crop, in fact, will not fall very much short of that of one year ago.
 TOOK SECOND MONEY. -Infor- nation reaches Phoenix that the de- feat of the DeMund base ball aggrega- tion at San Diego last Saturday was repeated yesterday, the score being g ] to 6. This is the fourth game played | by the touring team, the first two | having been won by it at Needles. | It is probable that it's next game wilt | be matched at Pasadena, Cal. It is not likely that a game will be played | closer to Los Angeles and for some reason the Trilby nine of Los An geles refuses to arrange a game.
 HE HOLDS THE SECRET George B. Spahr, who secuted through this country and New Mexico about twenty-five years ago, is in the city. At present he is engaged in a very different occupation from a scout He represents the J. H. Parsons Chemical company of Salt Lake. The M & P company and other organizations hava long tried to discover some compound which would precipitate the solid min erals in the water found about here. The alkali water causes the boilers and fiues of engines to become scaly With good water a set of f1ues would last probably four times as long. MT Spahr claims to know the rece:pe which will act on the water so as to { counteract the bad effects produced by the heavy surcharge of solids.
 THE RAY PROPERTIES. c. Say Ter, who has been attending the meet ing of the grand K. of P. lodge at Jerome was in Phoerfx yesterday and , Globe. MT. Sayler said yesterG.ay z that the Ray mine, about thirty-eight miles from Globe in the Pioneer dis z trict IS assuredly the nucleus of a big l copper district The property is now I being worked by an English company ' which holds a bond, and 100 men are 2 employed. There is a historic smeIter I 0n the property. It was put up prob f ably fifteen years ago and operated I during one night, after which 1t was 1 closed down and has never been used r since. The English company will t likely erect a 200-ton smelter. r
 IN NEED OF ADVERTISING. W. i N Parkhurst, the general manager of T the Equitable Life Assurance society ( for Arizona and New Mexico, with leadquarters at Albuquerque, has been n the valley few days and he may ocate his headquarters here. MT. ParkhursG said yesterday that he } thought a great deal of the valley, but I ne thought it was sadly in need of ad- 2 Pecos valley in New Mex leo has several farming advantages, such as artesian wells and a soil adapt, ed to beet culture, but it has not the advantages Of this valley. Still, MT. 2arkhurst thinks it is the best known valley of the two. This is the result If extensive advertising. There is one newspaper in the valley which prints 50,000 copies for its weekly edi- ion. These papers tell of the merits of Pecos valley and they are widely throughout the country.
 | Merriman, the wife of George Merri- nan, the undertaken, arrived yester- lay from Los Angeles. Mrs Merri- nan is a school teacher, and was a