Arizona republican., 1899-12-05
Arizona Day by Day
 Live News Taken From Territorial Exchanges


 went to his room and in the evening T. J Hesser, the proprietor of the ho- tel, went to the room. and found him dead. It is not known whether death resulted from natural causes or from an overdose of laudanum. A message was sent to the family conveying the sad intelligence, and Monday morning MT. Joe Bargman went to Winslow, and brought the remains up on No. ?. The funeral was held at o'clock p. m, Tuesday and his remains was accompa- nied to the place of rest by a number of sorrowing friends.
 Private Philip Raper has received the artificial leg recently furnished him by the surgeon-generars depart ment. He is very well satisfied with it. -Arizonian.
 In a conversation with President Kimball last Saturday, he informed us that work on the Enterprise Canal would be commenced at an early day This canal would bring about double the number of acres under cultivation in this valley.-Arizonian.
 Land Agent Holsinger says that there is no doubt but that the government will soon set apart the petrified forest as a national park. The proposed re- serve includes three townships and is located twenty miles east of Holbrook. Part of it lies in Apache county and part in Navajo county.-Citizen.
 Miss Blanche Brown returned Tues day from her visit to Mexico, where she has been the past six weeks in com pany with her brother, w. c. Brown. Claude also returned but was met at the train by his father. J. C. Brown, when they continued on to Wicken- burg to look after their mining proper ties at that place.-Williams News.
 Deacon Bob Williams was up from Penzance Sunday. He was dressed in elegant style with a stove-pipe hat, a long-tailed coat, billed" shirt ard a tin-horn vest; can't remember ~ neither he wore pants or not We know h"t whether he preached or postponed it to some future occasion. Tex says he thinks the deacon was fuller of spirit of corn-juice than of that other spirit deacons are supposed to have.-Hol- brook Argus.
 ] The football contest between the Normal and University teams demon- strated that there are games more de- sirable for physical exercise than this rough and tumble game. in which the Normals won most points, says the Star. The University boys showed the most skill and science. but they lacked ! the physical strength and endurance. The two teams placed in balance the ] Normals would have weighed at least a | third more than the University s. ! Weight tells in football contest. ! The owner of the horse that caused ] the accident near Ft. Thomas lately, saw Mir. Garland as he was going out { and wanted pay for the horse, says the ! Globe Miner. The owner was a Nor ! mon and lately came to the valley and 1 had but two horses and the one killed | broke up his team. The owner was I telling all of his troubles to Mir. Gar ] land, when the railroad president said :: 1 T am not worrying about your trou- | bles: it's my own that troubles me, ! but" remarked Mir. Garland, put in | your claim and it will take it's regular | course It is said the killing of the horse cost the railroad some sS0O0. i Prof. Lennon arrived last Sunday from Colorado in search of a number of young Indians for the Grand Junction, 1 Colorado, Indian school and secured ten Papagoes, says the Star. The professor ] is superintendent of the school winch was located in 1886 and opened in 1887. With the ten Papagoes, who left on de- 1 layed No. 10 yesterday, there will be l4S 1 scholars on the roll. This is the only section Prof. Lennon has visited on l the trip. He will visit the Navajo country on the occasion of the next visit to New Mexico and Arizona. Prof Lennon has high opinion of Prof. S
 M. McCowan, superintendent of the government Indian school at Phoenix
 Though the correction is made at the
 eleventh hour it is not too late to say
 that injustice was done Under Sherlti
 Robert H. Paul in the report of the Jall
 delivery, says the Tucson Star. The
 statement made it appear that MT
 Paul was thrown by Chaves, when the
 contrary was the case. While MT
 Paul had Chaves down. the other prls- oners came to the assistance of Chaves
 and threatened the officer with peat
 ing by applying a stick of wood lie
 dodged one blow and received it or
 the arm With three men over him il
 could not otherwise be expected than
 that they should overpower MT. Pau
 and lock him up, as they did Hopley
 The break might be repeated and mer
 of even greater strength than HopleS
 or Paul. be placed in the predicamen'
 in which they were found after the jai
 birds had flown. Neither of the officers
 has the slightest tinge of cowardice 1T
 his composition, as all who know
 them can attest.