Arizona republican., 1899-09-16

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 is going on less than a mile from there and a man who has had experience in such matters expressed the theory to-
 day tLat the robbers were cowboys
 that they left their companions early I on the evening of the robbery. did the ] job, hid their plunder and were punch ! ing cattle with the rest Of the cowboys
 the next morning as though they had i enjoyed a sound nights sleep-Tcinb- stone Prospectcr.
 Globe, by actual count on the parI Of some inquisitive individual, con- | tains eighty-four widows and grass ] widows, to say nothing of the misses i and 109 bachelors. How about it? The , only conclusion is that any adult sen ! of Adam who continues to sew his own buttons on after the 18th day of De- ! cember, is either a slouch or miser i There is no excuse for him.-GIobe i Times.
 William Gregg, collecting curios and geological specimens, is c0nfining his
 attention exclusively to the mining dis tricts. He is new gone to the MSnte- zuma district, Sonora. Recently MT. Gregg made a shipment of specimens collected which contained many rare samples of different mineral forma-
 tions. They were secured in some or
 the old Spanish mines that have lately
 been reopencd.-Ex.
 Mrs. Ida DeCiCss was injured by the
 bursting of a Winchester shot gun l9st week, while attempting to shoot
 hawk that was flying over ths camp at the Bremen stamp mill. where her bus
 band is in charge, says the Globe
 Times. A piece Of the barrel struck Mrs. DeCloss near the right shoulda, ,l~s T other piece grazed one of her children. The barrel Of the gun was completely torn to pieces.
 G. w. Thompson arrived in Prescott yesterday with his wife and daughter, says the Courier. MT. Thompson is a Pacific coast pioneer and saw several states made in the n0Ithwest after his arrival there. He came overland from Oregon to Prescott. He comes :n search of milder climate. In Oregon he was widely known as "tha bridge builder" He is a man we'll advanced in years, but remarkably well pre- served for his age.
 On October 3 next every postofice in the country will begin weighing all matter passing through it. There are nearly S0,000 offices and in each one of these this weighing will ba kept up for thiTty-ive consecutive days At the end of this time each office will for ward to Washington its complete re- port, and from this enormous mass of statistics will be compiled, by a spe- cial staff yet to be selected a wealth of information that cannct fail to benefit the service greatly.-Ex.
 George L. Cansler, in a letter from Fort Logan to Bert Henderson, says: When the men reached their destina- ton they were marched out for target practice and it goes without saying that the Arizona boys were the best shots. There were sevanty-two men more than was necessary t3 iii the regiment, but the Arizona boys were singled out and placed in company L 1 of the Thirty-fouTth. They are now | in San Francisco and will be on their | way to the Philippines soon.-GIcbe | Times
 An eighteen-mile railroad is to be | at once betWean Morenci | and Guthrie, the nearest feasible june | ton point with the Arizona and New I Mexico narrow gauge, says the Range | News. Bids on the contract have been | called for, the main stipulation being | that work shall be finished by Janulry | next. The road will be q narrow gauge. IL will pass through a very | country, so precip-t3us | at one point as to necessitate the con structicn of three loops
 William M Futile, chief Of scouts i and six Indian police have bean round ing up the Indian men, women and | children and shipping them back t0 the | says the Globe Times Tuesday 150 were sent out sn the tops If nd An more that will be gathered. Fifty ,epees were burned on Tuesday, much to the disgust of the occupants. TheSs Indians have been a source lcf annoy 3nce to our people and are an injury 70 themselves for many of thcm have been drunk. There seems to be poor Cn the reservation or -ather no arrangement at all.
 The public schools at Wilcox made m suspicious beginning Monday, says he Range News. While H. A. Morgan was absent on the coast he was able D engage the services of Miss E. c. iaines to take charge of the Wilcox public schools as principal. Miss r laines is a graduate Of the San Fran ,iscO normal schCC1, and was a student Or two years in the departments Of English and pedagogy at tha Univers-
 
 las charge of the primary department There were thirty pupils enrolled in he primary department and twenty in he grammar department. The enroll nent promises to increase next week. Ne hope the school may be held fully ID to the stanCnrd cf the best public chools in the land
 There is a marked increase of activ- ty in all lines of business, says the 2; Tucson Star. This comes in a meas re from the return Of the people frcm ummer resorts where they had gone 1 o keep cool during the torrid months. heir return naturally stimulates bus ness, as they are rested and infuse ' CIV energy into the various channels ( I business in which they are engaged. { 'hese summer outings are a good ,i5nic or the overtaXed but when they Cme to realize there is more rest and I oir ;- -s1iT 1