Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-18


ent at the meeting Of the lean comnEs-
sion At which the funding Of tbs bonds
WAS ordered The def5nsa inS:Scea
that he should not be permitted u an-
sTsT. the record Of tha commission Dss
ing better evidence. The most ex-
traordinary Of all was an objection To
a statement regarding the witness au
| thorlty as a member of the commits
sion In this case the sta.cute confer
ring the authority was insisted upon.
| This is the first time on record tha=
an effort has been made to make the
law part of the evidence
WAS NOT THE PIONEER. -
Manager GOodell of the Western
Union Telegraph company says: THE
person who authorized the statement
that 1 imported the first safety to
Phoenix was mistaken. To save me
from further persee utio1 by the first
man who owned a safety in Phoenix,
kindly publish in a conspicuous place
that I was not the source of your in
formation. 1 learn from 4 reliable
source that there were safeties TO burn
in Phoenix long before ever heard Of
Arizona; therefore. the person who
foiSted me DsfOre tne Tublic as a
pioneer in a bicycle WY va have to
lie low for time"
A MAN IS SAFE NOWHERE. A
Frsnchman named Arguillez, now al
Yuma, has just written 10 the 2u-
thOrities here thai ne has been caught
between two great republics and
squeezed out of a team, a wagon and
everything elsa he owned. He wants /
10 know what can be done about ii. He /
says that not long ago he was on his /
way to Lower California He had +
crossed the line, but was pursued by !
mounted inspectors of the United /
States, who overlook him and accused /
him of being a smuggler. Notwith- .
standing he was going from the United i
States and not into - they brought
him back with the consent of the Mex
lean line Iiders and cOniscat4d all his
properly except his clothes.
WAS IN THE BLOCKADE. Vic
tor Check, who volunteered in the
navy during the war. arrived from J
Brooklyn yesterday. He enlisted at
the BROOKLYN navy yard and served
on the Somers torpedo boat. ~ The
oomers was formerly an English yes
sci. 1t was employed as dispatch
boat in the blockade Of Havana. Mr.. Z
Check says the boat narrowly escaped II
being rfddled on several occasions. Il
Moving about the bay a. Havana dur
ing The night it went without lights.
This was necessary, for at times it !
went dangerously near Moro castle. J
One instance Mr.. Check mentions of I
Inc boat almost being sunk by the
New York, Admiral SIMPSONS flag
ship 1t was as usual wf.hout Iighfs
when ii was sighted by the New York
The latter signalled and the Somers
the signal promptly. AxsTight
regularity of the signal and the
'omners would MOI have f1cated five ;
seconds. The blockade vessels at that :
Ime were suspicious of small vessels :
around. at night.
WALL STREET PUT ON AIRS. - |
theodore Thomas, lately connected :
With the Fashion, barb=r shop. has !
arried civiliziIg influences into Wall 7
treet- He opened a shop there yes :
erday, and Wall street his bzgun ID ! 7
tut on airs. This is the first barber !
mop ever established on that thor T
and the deniZens didnG know :
t first what it was Some OF them :
lad seen barber shops before. but had
IwayS associated striped red and
White Signs with them. Mr. Thomas
hadn't put up sign and the inhab- '
tantS OF the street headed by G. P
Billiard, Captain Mcdonald and I. n. |
Sell crowded in front of the door and
ngaged in conjecture. Some thought
was to be a dentists Office and
theirs thought il was a reading room.
When it was learned that it was to
g a tonsOrial resort the agitation e
ubsided and was replaced by local S
ride and greater confidence in the p
1ture of the street Real estate adj L
anced sharply and there is now C
respect that the vacant lots fronting
r abutting on Jefferson street viii
OF be vacant much longer
-:o:- e