Arizona republican., 1899-06-04
NEWS
 OF T HE
 TOWN


 Tovrea shipped 9 car Of cattle u
 Wickenburg yesterday.
 FRUIT FOR HARVEY HOUSE. -
 The first consignment of fruit was
 sent to Ash Fork to be used at the
 Harvey eating ohuse yesterday.
 DTSSOLUION OF PARTNERSHIP The Taffe 6 Burgess firm of paint CTS dissolved on June l. Mr. Taffe will open a painting ship soon- l DEATH OF REV l. N. TAYLOR. - Rev. 1. N. Taylor, ho has lived in the valley for several years, died at the Nendome yesterday at l p. m. The funeral will be held in the Presbyter- ian church today at 3:30 D. III.
 TEACHERS EXAMINATION. - The regularly quarterly teachers ex- animation will be held at the Central school building on Monday, June 10, and the day following. About ten l applicants are expected.
 COUNTY CLAIMS FOR MAY l Clerk Gray of the board of supervis- ors yesterday prepared a statement of claims allowed fo May. They amount ! ed tc S5,376.20. This includes ali county officers salaries for two months.
 HIGH PRICED FIGS. Shipments | of early figs have already been made to places as far as Chicago and New York and they meet with a good price. Yuma has furnished the early figs for California this year. In San Francisco | the earlier figs commanded 50 cents per pound.
 AT HIS POST AGAIN. County School Superintendent A. H. Fulton was in his office yesterday after a conining illness of four days, prob ably a continuation of a peculiar sick ness two weeks ago. At that time his sickness supposedly resulted from eat ing biscuits containing an unusual quantity of a cheap baking powder,
 "A MIDNIGHT BELL. VA Mid night Bell' was easily good for a two nights stand. It was played to an- other large audience at the Patton Grand and was as favorably received as on the TreoeGing night. When "A Midnight Bell' comes back to PhOe- nix again it will be received with open arms.
 SNOW AND CATTLE. -C. c. Reed, the catt,eman, made a trip fifteen miles east of town yesterday. He said he was in sight of snow which had fallen on the Globe ranges. MT. Reed says the marketing of cattle in California has poor prospects for the coming three months. California is fattening enough cattle for it's own use.
 INVITATIONS TO ROUGH R1D- ERS-LOcal members of the Rough Riders are in receipt Of invitations by Captain Llewellyn of New Mexico, chairman of the invitation committee, to the Rough Riders reunion at Las Vegas. It will begin on June 24. the first anniversary Of the battle of Las Guasimas, and will continue three days Las Vegas will furnish visit ing members free rations and quar- ters.
 MONEY FOR MRS. RIEF.-A few weeks ago Mir c. L. Hayden left here for Columbus, O., to spend the sum mer. Before going away she gave Henry George a check for S380 to be paid to Mrs Rief fer some sewing she had done for Mrs. Hayden, who was anxious that she should get it as soon as possible, for she was poor and needed it. MT. George has been hunt ing for Mrs. Rief ever since, but has been unable to locate her.
 SHEEPMEN HAPPY. - MT. Ben Yaeger, the sheep owner, received word yesterday that heavy rain fell
 
 mer ranges about Flagstaff, succeeded by three inches Of snow. The. sheep men there had been feeling uneasy fer some time on account of the scarcity of water, and feared a long drouth. Adding to the prospects of good ranges is the fact that the sheep market is better than it has been for ten years.
 CARRIED LETTER SIXTEEN YEARS. Professor J. c. Cole has just located a man named Joseph Medd, addressed to whom is letter which MT. Cole has been in possession Of for sixteen years. MT. Medd start ed from Illinois to Meridian, Wis, in 1883, and left an order to have his mail delivered to Meridian in care of MT. Cole. For some reason he didn't arrive at his destination for several months and in the meantime MT. Cole came west, bringing the letter. MT. Cole was unable to. locate him at the time, and thinking that the letter was probably of no importance anyhow, he let the matter drop. He has lately been made acquainted with his where abOuts. The letter bears an old fash toned stamp and the seal has never been broken.
 PHOENIX FRUIT ABROAD.--Bux- ton & CC. received fattering returns from shipment of apricots sent re- gently to Boston. The fruit, sent by express. arrived in a splendid condi- tion and was marketed for S3.5O per twenty7pound crate, the value here be- ing about 75 cents This shipment was merely a test and it was so encouraging that a shipment of 3 few crates will be made to Eastport, Me- the most distant 0Oint in. the United States. George Buxton said yesterday that he does not intcud to stop at that. He has met with such encouragement this season in distant shipments that he is inclined to be- lieve apricots could be prCftabIy sent across the Atlantic. He intends mak-