Arizona republican., 1899-06-25

| ing, president of the company. MT.
 Abrams has shaved his whiskers and
 his friends do not believe that he ever
 wore them in such a profuse manner
 as was described by the mniing cor
 respondence from the Black Warrior
 camp. MT. Abrams will remain in the
 city several days, and when he re-
 turns his family will accompany him.
 SONS OF AMERICAN REVOLU- lTION. The board of mana gers of the s. A. R. of Arizona held special
 meeting at the office of ; Ernest
 Walker yesterday evening and elected
 five candidates to membership whose
 credentials mad been passed on ny the
 reg. .strar. They were Hon. c. w. ?. Hurt of Globe. Chaplain Winfield
 Scott, R. E. Miner, Harry Hart and
 Dr. J. W. Thomas of Phoenix The
 sccIcty is issuing a neat little oooL Tn
 which arc given the objects of the or der. it's constitution and bylaws, all
 the names of the Arlzcna society
 A LAWN PARTY.-Miss Mary E.
 Halsey entertained her Sunday school
 class at her home, Rosecroft, on Tues day evening, June 20. The grounds were handsomely illuminated Re
 music were on the programme, and the evening was passed most pleas antly. The members of the class are:
 Nina Bettler Lillie Rothrock, Belva Byers, Mamie Robinette, Olga Cog gins, Clyde Rudd, Mildred Case. Ger trude Stoval1, Susie Cavennes, MamGe
 Stovall Ronnie Doris, Bessie Thom- as, Willie Doris, Nellie Thomas,
 Ethel Doris, Margery Thomas, Annie
 Garnett. Mary Wells, Agnes Hoskin,
 Edith Knight, Miss Jackson. Miss Lyle, Dallas Lyle Rosa Lewis, Meda Lowe, Norma Lincoln, Maude Lincoln,
 Mary Mccullough, Rose Peers, Nellie
 Rhoades.
 CUTTING FINE TIMBER. MT. $. J. Holsinger, special agent of the IT,
 teTior department. is in the city from the north. MT. Holsinger has been prosecuting the unlawful cutting Of pine timber in the northern part of t3A territory. Fis work was nIghiy commended by District Attorney Nor rison in an interview which appeared in The Republican a few lays ago. MT. Holsinger was severely criticised in Phoenix some time ago when he began to carry out the law in regard to mesquite wood. This, however, did not stop him from doing his r1uty. and since the people who condemned him then have come to be numbered among his friends and admirers. Mr Holsinger has been transferred to Colorado, but he will probably return to Arizona later. The territory should demand his retention here. as such a conscientious official IS needed here at this time.
 A TRANSFORMATI board Of supervisors of the county will meet on July 1 as a board of eqUaliza ion.
 THE OLDEST PIN. Henry Crow ley arrived yesterday from Pittsburg, but left last night for Los Angeles. MT. Crowley is a Knight Temp,ar aid was present at the conclave Of the Masons at flttsburg last year. Until wearing the oldest Tin ever worn by a Mason. HS<:was sitting in a hotel there duringf the convention engaged in conversation with a number Of msn of his fraternity. He told them of his extraordinary pin. One old gentle man discrsdited his story. He said that he was then wearing the first pm ever worn by a Mason. MT Crowley had to see it. The elderly man reached down and got a pin which he had used to fa5ten his socks. It was a safety pin.
 A GENEROUS RAIN. The cattle men are rejoicing over the generous rain storm which has visited the val ley. It is believed that the rain was general all over the southern portion of the territory and the ranges have been greatly benefited. The long drouth has been broken and feed will begin to jump up where there was but a barren waste owing to the long dry spell. The cattlemen say that the rain of yPsterdaV was worth a large sum of money to them. A special dispatch from Tucson to The Republican saS& that heavy rainfall visited that sec ton of Arizona yesterday and the cat tlemen of southern Arizona are re- jcicing Cattle interests have suffered a great deal there owing ito the scare ity of feed on the ranges.
 FIRST ANNIVERSARY. - The Rough Riders in Phoenix who did not go to Las Vegas to attend the reunion marked the first anniversary of the battle of Las Guasimas by firing off several sticks of giant powder in a vacant lot south of the executive building. A great many of the Rough Riders have left Phoenix and are scattered over the country. Those who gathered yesterday morning here were: Sergeant McAndrws, Sergeant Al Hawley, Bugler Walters, Trooper Ward, Corporal John Hall, Corporal Sergeant Hill, Company Clerk Harold. Bugler Stelzreide, Private Jim GooCin and Regiment9l Clerk Engle. The battle of Los Guasi- mas began at o'clock in the morning one year ago yesterday, and it was at this hour that the Phoenix boys who took part in that Famous battle gath