Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-11-11

progress and will compare most favor
ably with any of the bands of the ter
! ritory.-Bisbee Orb.
B. A. Packard yesterday received q
picture of his grandmother, Mrs. Re
I becca Packard of Covington, Pennsyl-
vania, says the Bisbee Orb, who is now
little over 104 years old. Judging
from the picture the old lady is in the
best of health and looks no older thar.
a person of Go or 20. Mrs. Packard was
the mother of thirteen children, all of
whom lived to man and Womanhood.
A young cowboy recently applied to
Mrs. Thomas Richards of Stockton
Pass for a steady position, intimating
that q good home, rather than a large
salary was desired. He is rather under
size, weighing only eight pounds, but
makes up in vigor for what he lacks in
bigness. All that worries Tom is that
he can't enter the boy in the Phoenix
roping contest.-Willcox Range News.
The Wilcox Range News says it is
reported that Ed. L. Drew, now fore
man at Sierra Bonita ranch, and Doc
Goodin, who recently bought a half in
terest in the Scripture cattle at Hook
er's Hot Springs, will compete in the
roping contest at the Phoenix Cowboy
Carnival next month. Ed. Drew won
the roping prize at Salt Lake last year
and Doc Goodin won the territorial
championship at the last Phoenix car
nival.
The Mohave County Mining exchange
building at Chloride is fast becoming
a reality. The directors are pushing
work on the structure with all possible
speed. Several changes in the person.
mel OF the exchange have taken place
, within the week, Charles D. Ridgway,
the well known assayer, superceding
Major ". \. Mensch as secretary and
Charles d. Rjdgway and Charles Sang
ster being added to the directorate
Kingman Miner.
Mrs David Babbitt. wife Of q mem
ber of the big Flagstaff firm OF I3aLbitt
Eros, died in los Angeles, where she
had been taken for medical treatment
few days ago. The remains were
shipped to her old home in Cincinnati,
where interment will take place. The
sorrowing husband and six small chill
dren We're passengers for Cincinnati on
the same train. Father Dilley, the par
sorrowing family.
Manuel Brown was arrested this
morning upon the charge of failing to
support his children, says the Tucson
Citizen, the warrant being sworn out
by his wife. The case grows out of a
family quarrel of long standing Mr.
Brown started suit for divorce against
his wife the fore part of the week and
sensational charges were made in the
bill of complaint His trial will occur
IL Justice Culvers court at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
James REILLY died in KiESman last
Monday evening, aged A years, says
the Miner. The cause of death was
pneumonia. He was a quiet and inof-
fensive man who made Il number OF
warm friends during his residence in
town. He was miner by occupation
but owing to i'll health was unable to
follow it of late years, conterting him
self with odd jobs as a means OF live
lihood. His funeral took place Tues
day afternoon and was well attended.
A special car carrying Tennessee
people who We're on their way to San
Francisco, where they Will meet and
welcome the Tennessee regiment Of
volunteers who are now en- route for
home on q transport from Manila, was
attached to the regular westbound
train which passed through this city
last evening, says the Tucson Citizen.
Among the party was the widow of eX-
President James X. Polk, who has two
soldier sons in the regiment, and sew
eral other notables.
Pete" Olsen took a drive out in the
county to locate a copper mine.
says the Journal Miner He IN
hitched his horse from his cart and
hitched him to a tree, to do some
tramping over the hills. On his return
he found that the horse had chewed
the rope into and left for parts I'M
known, and Pete" was left with the
alternative of going into camp on the
spot or pulling the cart about nine
miles. to the nearest house. He chose
the latter.
Wells H. Bates. representing eastern
capital, has located a tract of gold
bearing gravel eight miles in length by
one-half mile wide along Bill Williams
Fork. says the Kingman Miner. The
ground lies below Planet This is sup
posed to be the first step in an under
ldkliiS which lids lO4 IT'S ODJGtl TIE
damming of the stream at the head of
Striped canyon and working the gravel
deposits on a scale of great magnitude.
\ dam in Striped canyon has long been
speculated upon, but the tightness OF
the eastern money market CAUSED the
many schemes to fall through. Now
that money is plentiful the dam may
become a reality.
Bisbee has some very striking exam
pies OF what the continued use of NOR
phine will do to a person, says the Orb.
Not two years ago there came to Bisbee
a well dressed young man, a lawyer b.
profession, who came here representing
eastern capitalists who intended in
vesting in mining property. During
his visit he made many friends and
was respected By ali who made his ac-
quaintance. During the last six I
months he has cultivated such an ap- /
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