Arizona republican., 1899-06-30
Arizona Day by Day
 Live News Taken From Territorial Exchanges.

, MufDHN feluctantly took leave Of her old friends and boarded the westbound
 train this morning. Miss Murphy was
 much pleased with our city and while
 here met the greater portion of our
 best people, She and Miss Kennedy. of Tucson. were very kind in soliciting donations for Ghe Improvements lately
 made at the cathedral All her friends join iii wishing her pleasant journey to her home in Petaluma, California.
 Colonel Ben Morgan. who in early
 days made Prescott and Tucson his home, has returned to this city after an absence of seventeen years. during
 which time he has made San Fran cisco his home. Colonel Morgan re turns to Tucson to again become q cit iZen of Arizona Ben Morgan has many friends in fl1is territory who will gladly welcome him back to the fold. He is q good citizen, an able lawyer and will assist materially in the up
 building of the Treasure Territory
 Tucson Citizen.
 We have not the slightest doubt that there are in the territory numerous butchers who keep records answering the requirements of Section 42. but if there were none. says the WillcoX Range News. that would not be q valid ground for allowing the law to be ig- nored There is a good reason for the existence of the law. It is on the statute books. and no competent au- thOrity has questioned it's constitution ality. There is no very serious hard ship or expense involved in the work of complying with the law. It requires only a systematic plan of recording details which every butcher should keep for his own convenience and pro- lection. We think that the real trOu- ble with the Phoenix butchers is that they object to paying the fee for in Specting hides Desiring to annul the law in that particular. they consider it polite to ignore it altogether and. if possible. to make it appear that the statute is a dead letter.
 For several days past Billy Brown congratulated himself upon the fact. 1 says the Tucson Citizen. that he had the finest specimen of the Arizona rat | tier to be found in captivity on the l Pacific coast. He was an alabaster ! 1.-the and savage, but had lost the, use of his rattlerS. He occupied an ele- l gant glass cage in the rear of Congress Hall and was admired as well as fear cd by all who visited his snakeship | Last night. however. someone left the cage open and the king of the plain, the monarch of the prairie dog town. wended his way leisurely up Mesilla street, and when about to enter Church i plaza was observed by several gentle men who hastily dispatched the ven omius beauty. and today he is no more. Mr. Brown is heartily glad that the snake met his end so early. for had he not been observed some unsuspect- ing person would have been bitten. his caudal appendage being out of working order. necessitating a fight without due warning.
 Ed. Anderson. one of the Tucson Rough Riders. who went to the Las Vegas reunion. returned this morning. Dave Hughes will be an incoming pas senger in the morning. Ed states that the boys had the grandeSt time Of any soldiers who ever assembled in Speaking of breaking up the camp. Ed says. on the morning of the 2Gth Governor Roosevelt was given q royal speeding at 1:30 o'clock on his departure for New York. Roosevelt and party were accompanied to their gar by pOminent citizens of the south { west among them being Governor OierO. of New Mexico. and Governor { Murphy. of Arizona. Although Tue
 
 tiOn," said Ed. we were noticeable to ;Ome extent. as Dave Hughes. who | pore tine regimental c0Iors at San Juan hill, was there. and the stars and { stripes that f1oated amid the shell and l bullets of that memorable day, cheer d the comrades on the occasion of our -eunion and Dave Hughes was there to | l2ar them in cOmmemOratiOn of that s yreat event. .'-Tucson Citizen |