Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-26

up the deal, though no one will be the
worse for 1T except the prospective
purchasers in New York. The selling
price was to have been $3.OO0,O00, and
| the new company was to take charge
on the 18th of this month. Th=y
were unable TO find competent man
| to place in charge on account of The
rebellion, as good mining engineers
are worth more alive in New York
| than they are dead and sGalped in
! Sonora. As the new company failed
to keep IT'S part OF tie agreement Mr..
Melczer wired that the sale was off I'M
less other arrangements ware entered
into. He is fortunately in a position
to be perhaps less interested in the
matter than some others who are
anxious to ses devel-pment work
pushed ahead for the reason that the
mine has been proved a valuable prep
erty and in the long run the owners
Will realize ml0re by wCking it than
thay would from a sale.
DEFENDER OF THE BELLS. A
nan TO whom the Standardization of
the small bell as an adjunct CT COM
IneTce IS mUSic writes to The Republ.-
can as fellows! L noticed IN article
in yesterdays paper in which a kicker
d
to the particular stage Of growth ths..
Phoenix had reached in her onward
march to greatness. He advanced she
opinion that the only thing necessary
to make her a full-fedged metropolis
was an ordinance against the use of
bells on horses, citing the c,.-y Of
Los Angeles as an example. By so do
ing he only advertised his own ex-
uibeTant growth of antique mass. for
in the city of LIS Angeles today
Bright's special delivery runs sixteen
wagons and with each wagon there
,itn,gles a dozen sleighbells mingt.ng
their pleasant chimes with the ether
noises CT the busy S,roets- But the
kicker kstng used to seeing bells only
on COWS, calls al bells cow-be-ts.
Naturally his rustic SCmnClence is dis
turb5d by the shocking innovation of
seeing ba-ls On horses. In justification
of the bells l viii say there is puI-
pose n them. All tha drivers ara
instructed To rass a central point in
going Oh th6.r trips over The city;
then If thsTe are any orders in the Of
flee for the direction in which they are
gctng the party in she office hearing
the ,fbe..s halls the driver. If there is
in the Office for him he drives
on without stcDping"
DEATH OF P. c. NEWPORT. -
Messages were received in this city
yesterday afternoon announcing the
death at / O'Clock p. M of Mr. P c. /
at the Sisters hospital in Les !
An gefes. Mention Of his ILLNESS. which :
commenced with typhoid fever, has
beer made from time 10 time and
some three weeks ago e was thought /
his recovery was very doubtful. He i
rallied somewhat from that AMI just I
as hope was again returning his i'll !
ness was further complicated by
pr eUmonia He was to- weak 20
Withstand ths second sieze with the /
result IS above stared. A Sister who /
lnd been summoned from the east was 1
at his bedside dicGing his last hou-s. /
Mr.. Newport w5s fer a couple Of years !
resident of Phoenix and has a host
If trends here who Gzplcre !
lis uL.1inieiy death. He was
n the prime Of early man !
1ocd and in good health, was
possessed of an excellent physique and .
strong constitution, and one who +
vo9dd be least expected 20 succvmb in =
AIRY life 10 the raVages of an acute
disease. For several months he rep
'essnted the Wholesale house Of Bark
& CO. in Arizona and
New Mexico. and after the d-ss9luii On
# this firm he represented their sue
,essors. Messrs. BarkHsy Bros. IN ths
anne territory. He was young man
# good character and exemplary hab-
IS and 20 know him was to respect
i'm. Kind and pleasing in his disDo-
it:on ne made friends Of Ell with
v,,cir ne came in contact The re
mains VIII bsl taken 10 his tcE1ner
.c1ne in Iowa for intennent.