Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-09

m; sermon by Dr. McAfee, THE Life
of Christ" illustrated by stereopticon
views; appropriate music by quartette
Service preparatory TO communion will
be held at 7:30 tonight.
PAID THEIR RESPECTS. Many of
the maskers last night paid their re-
spects to the reportOrial staff of The
Republican. The visits were great
ly appreciated and no doubt would
have been even more so if the innocent
reporters could have ascertained the
identity of their guests, most of whom
We're ladies. They were politely asked
to announce their personality, but they
as politely refused to do So The re-
porters being modest young men. re-
Trained from turning on the X-rays and
are still uniformed except in the case
Of a sweet-faced girl and two pickanin-
MES who presented cards reading May
Irwin" "Rastus' and "Persirnmons."
a TRAIN OF WOE. The funeral of
Mrs. Phileta Fairfield, who died at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. Bessie V. Cush-
man, a week ago, will take place from
the Presbyterian church at o'clock
tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. Fairfields
father. Mr.. Johnson OF New Orleans,
arrived in the city yesterday. He had
not heard of his daughters death, but
when he was met by Mrs. Cushman,
before she had time to tell him of the
sad occurrence, he related to her the
killing of his brother in a railway dis
aster near Denver a few days ago, an
account Of which was printed in The
Republican. A nephew was also in
volved in that disaster, and perhaps
fatally injured. When Mrs. Cushman
found opportunity to tell him of his
daughters death he first asked her if
she had been killed.
FIRES FOUR AND FIVE Up to
Friday there had been three small fires
in the city since the beginning of car
nival week. Last night two more were
added to the number. The Illuminated
parade got in its deadly work on two
counts. First, a Roman candle set fire
to the awning in front of Burtis' store.
1t blazed up quickly, but fortunately
the sidewalk was filled with men who
simply peeled their coats and whipped
out the blaze. No alarm was turned
in. Ten minutes later another blaze
was started in a similar way in drapery
on the front of the Heyman building
An alarm was turned in and the horses
were quickly in their places, but the
fremen seeing the blaze but a block
away and the intervening space liter
ally damned full of people, decided
that run meant death for many
They waited a minute or two and the
fire was eNtinguished without their
help.
WOULDN'T START AFOOT. A
wedding was almost thwarted yester-
day by the suddenly developed aristo-
cratic ideas of the bride. Some time
before noon Ventura Ortiz obtained Ii
cense for q marriage to Refugia
Nunez. He made arrangements with
Justice tombstone TO tie the knot at
stated hour. Just before that tiRe he
visited the justice again and said a
disqualification had been made, but he
hoped to pull the event off later in the
day He said that when he got ready
to start to the Justices Office Senorita
Nunez asked where tina carriage was.
Senior Ortiz said it wasn't far, and
they could walk The bride told him
not on his tin-type. She wasn't going
to set out on a matrimonial Journey on
lOpI. Sut WOulu pIODdply nave e-lOu5u
walking to do later on and she was
going to take q good rest before she
set out. The groom suggested a street
car. She asked if he owned a car. He
replied that ne did not and she said if
he was only going to charter one for )
cents he might as well charter q car
riage. They could bring it right up to
the door, while they would have to
a particularly hard and unfortunate
request at that particular time, for the
carriages, hacks and all other wheeled
vehicles except street cars were at the
race track. So they had to put off the
wedding until the steer tying contest
was over