Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-17

ARE hereby informed that if they hear
the fire bell ring it will be no sign of a
fire. That is. unless some unlocked for
fire comes without being sent for. If
it does, the department will attend to
it and the citizens need not lose their
breath running after it.
MISSED THE CARNIVAL. - Nose
Drachman returned yesterday morn
ing from a business trip to New Mex
leo. He was one of the most persistent
boomers of the carnival and it curious
ly turned out that he never saw the
great event. He left here the week be-
fore to advertise it and was doing good
work WIN he received Geographic or
deTs from Arbuckle & Co. of New York
to proceed to Albuquerque and take
charge of the office there, that district
having been added to his territory.
A MULE IN CIRCULATION. =
About a week ago an Indian named
Antoine stole a mule from Guy McCord.
He aggravated the offense by selling
the mule at Five Points the next day
for 81. The purchaser sold him imme-
diately to somebody else and he to still
somebody else. They knew all the
time that Antoine stole the animal, but
the mule was kept in such active cir
culation that the officers couldn't find
a corpus deficit. Yesterday the mule
was headed off in his commercial ca
reer and Antoine was arraigned before
Justice tombstone. He will be tried
tomorrow afternoon.
STEER TYING TODAY. "A steer
tying contest will take place at Phoe-
.. On L.
Ed Herroll, the winner of the carnival
prize, and Doc Goodin. In order to
eliminate the element of chance as far
as possible each man will be required
TO tie five steers. The one who does
the job the quickest will be the winner
of a purse of $500. The best man does
not always win when he ties a single
steer quicker than some other man. He
may have an easier mark, there may
be slip of a rope or one of a dozen
of things which could hardly happen
in the tying of each steer of five.
\ YELLED MOON.-A new time card
issued by the general superintendent of
the universe went into effect last night,
changing somewhat the schedule on the
moon. That secondhand luminary
was rolling up the main line north
bound, and when nearing the station at
thirty-five degrees above the horizon
It met the shadow of mother earth and
was thrown head on into an eclipse, al
most the entire moon being obscured
for a time. Any casualties that may
have occurred have not, been reported,
but the damage must have been slight
as the moon was beating up the track
as usual before s o'clock.
\ PIMA FROM MISSOURI. The
foot hall game at the park yesterday
was succeeded by a row in which the
Indians scored as successfully as they
had in the game. The high school boys
were rendered infiammatOry by the
result of the game and cast aspersions
on their red brethren. One enthusiastic
white boy applied an exceedingly op-
prObrious epithet to an Indian stu
dent. You call me a -.-: you
got "a to show it to me; I'm fom
Missoury." That wasn't true. but it
was classical slang. Then he let go and
produced a confusion on the white
youths eye.
BOARD OF TRADE MEETING. -
There will be an important meeting of
the board OF trade at their rooms in the
GOOding block on Monday evening at
S o'clock, to which every business man
in the city is cordially invited. The
object of the meeting will be to devise
some method OF raising a fund for the
completion of the road to the Ray mine.
The road has been completed TO within
five or six miles of the mine, which is
ffty-siX miles from Mesa. There is a
long mountain side on which to finish
the road and it will require about
81 800 to complete the work. The own
ers and residents of and near the
mine are DESTROYS of hauling their ores
to and making their purchases in
Phoenix, but are now compelled to go
to Casa Grande.
TUCSON EXCURSION. An excur-
sion train will leave Phoenix for Tue
son Tuesday morning, December 26, at
o'clock for the accommodation of
teachers who desire to attend the in
stitute to be held there. The signified
intention on the part of the teachers of
this county to superintendent Fulton
indicates a large attendance of the
members of the Maricopa association.