Arizona republican., 1899-09-05

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 Rel. humidity .,'.. 50 IS Wind, direction ... NE NV
 Wind, velocity ..... Precipitation .. ..... 0 0
 State of weather Clear. Clear.
 SOLD A RANCH. -P. Kinney yes
 terday sold a ranch of 160 acres to Will
 liam Osborna. The ranch is situated
 seven miles west of Phoenix and the selling price was $6,4OO.
 WILL TRY .RANCHING- c. F Marrell has sold Ia ten-acre ranch to
 John E. King of Florida. The consid- eration was $55 ger. acre and the ranch is situated two miles northeast of the city. .az'7,-
 FOWLER SCHOOL DISTRICT. - i The trustees of school district No. 45,
 commonly known as the Fowler dis
 trict, have elected Miss Matte Garnett
 ing year. School will begin Monday
 morning, September Il.
 7, UNOBSERVEDs AT TEMPE. Labor | Day was. not strictly observed at Tempe. The courts must have been
 running, for three persons were brought down on commitments to the county jail for ten days. each. BUSINESS CHANGES HANDS. = The ice cream pafIor heretofore con
 ducted by Higgins & Co. on West Washington street yesterday changed hands, the new proprietor of the place, being a gentleman by the name of
 Moore
 BULL FIGHTING. It is reported that an effort will be made in the near future to get permission from the proper authorities for pulling off real old fashioned Spanish bull fight one of the kind where either the bull or some one else gets hurt.
 DETAINED BY SICKNESS. =. The infant son of Mr.--and Mrs. Clinton Miller has been seriously ill. MT Mill Ter was preparing to start last zSatur- day night on a visit to her husband at Kansas City, where he is employed as travelling representative of a wholesale grocery house, when the child was sud denly taken sick. Mrs. Miller is now stopping with Mr. and Mrs. w. S. Pickrell.
 THAT STONE SAW MILL. After a great deal of experimentation which for a long time seemed hopeless and many futile starts, the mill for saving tufa at the Capitol grounds was put in successful operation. First it was dis covered that the foundation for the saving machine was defective, and when that was remedied, the saws wouldn't saw straight After the last readjustment they are running true.
 STANDS WELL WITH BRAD STREET. MT. John A. Riley, divis- | of commercial agency, said recently to | Los Angeles Record reporter: T have just returned from a trip | through Arizona occupying two months time and I never before saw ! Arizona in such excellent condition. The territory is extremely prosperous. There has been ample rain and crops ire in good shape"
 LABOR DAY. Nobody paid a great leal of attention to Labor Day. Some 'f the public offices were closed and iome were not. Still no public busi- lass was transacted whose legality will ever be called in question. Every where else except in banks matters vent on precisely as if it were not a lay made sacred to labor. Work was ,eing pushed on all private work, and It the Capitol grounds they seemed to 'e working harder than ever. There were no parades, speeches, flags fly ng or anything else to distinguish the lay from any other day.
 BETWEEN TRAINS. - Judging rom the local columns of the Tucson Iapers hotel accommodations in Tue on must be meagre and visitors to the ,ity very accommodating and easily atisfied. Almost every issue mentions ome prominent citizen of the terri ory as laying off here between rains." Technically construed the in erence would be that visitors to that ity sleep in the railroad yards with Tucson blankets for a covering. .ater on when the Catalinas are cov- red with snow they will probably be furnished with t"Tucson stoves"
 A DEADLY WEAPON. Almost nything is a deadly weapon in the ands of one who knows how to use it. Irs. William Moore, who lives on anch west of the Agua Fria, killed attlesnake a few days ago that was as fig as the Atlantic cable. At least it 1oked that big to the man who gave his information to the reporter and 'ho has owned both cherry trees and atcfets. Some people would have cen frightened to meet a snake like hat in the road, but Mrs. Moore has cen in this region too long not to ave learned a few points about snake ulture and the annual harvest of the TOD. So she reached for big sun
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