Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-09-14
NEWS
OF HI
TOWN

| A WAITING TELEGRAM. - The
Western Union Telegraph company
has an undelivered telegram for john
| Davis.
! A PAINFUL FALL. Miss Nellie
Canning, daughter Of J. w. Canning,
! fell and broke an ankle yesterday
while descending the steps at the Cen
trail school building.
TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. :
The ladies Of the Christian church
will give a social at the new church on
Friday night. 1t will include trip
| around the world, with refreshments
at every station.
YOM KIPPUR. The merchants of
the city holding to the Jewish faith
closed their stores last evening at sun
down in honor of Yom Kippur, the
Jewish New Year. Services appropri-
ate to the occasion were held last
night in Elks' hall.
COLLECTED THEIR FEE. - The
legal firm of Frazier, Mccormick &
Westcott yesterday obtained judg-
ment in Justice Johnstone's court
against Prosper Bordoni and Gene
veive Ho1tense Zarriges Bordoni, his
wife. The judgment was for $3.50 for
legal services.
HE SLEPT WHILE DRUNK. =
ANDY Garcia was in police court yes
terday morning charged with being a
sleeping drunk. There was SO little
doubt about the absolute correctness
of the allegations set forth in the
complaint against him that Recorder
Jobs put him en- the chain gang for
four days.
A PHOENIX BOYS PERFORM
ANCE. -Anent Leland Stanford, Jr.,
university and Phoenix high school
graduates, a letter received by a friend
from the professor in charge of one of
the departments, states: William c.
Halsey was one of five in forty to pass
our entrance examination in drawing,
and 1 am pleased that he is to dc con-
siderable work in the subject with
me-"
FELL INTO A WE'LL. -Wilsey E.
Peek fell into the new well at the
water works yesterday. He was work
ing near the edge of the big hole when
the earth gave way and he was pre-
cipitated about ten feet, when his fall
was broken for an instant by some
scaffoIding. Then he fell about ten
feet farther, sustaining a severe cut
On the left leg. The wound was
dressed by DR.. Stroud last night.
TRANSLATED BY EAR - Some
times, says reader of The Republi-
can, people want to mail a Republican
to one of the students at Tucson or
Stanford or Harvard. Let them mark
this quotation from "Acta Column
biana:" Tutor-'Ycur writing is so
wretched that 1 can't make anything
-
Caesars bonae 1eges?' Sub-fresh-
man, tremulously-''Why, the bony
legs of Caesar, I believe, SIR" (Small
eaTthquake).
CAMP MEETING. 1t has been de-
cided to continue the camp meeting
services till Sunday evening next The
interest and enthusiasm in the meet
those engaged in their conduct
those who engaged in their conduct
seem gratified with results. Over
eighty new members have been added
to the rolls of the NJ. E. church, south,
and nearly all the other churches of
the city have received new converts
The attendance is large and each sue
cessive meeting seems fruitful of
good results.
WILL SEND A SUBSTITUTE. 1T
was announced some days ago that
Lew Walden would leave this week
for Morristown, where he was to
act as general freight, passenger, sta
ton and telegraph agent for the S. F.
P. & P. railroad. AS the ice is just
about to break en- the social season in
Phoenix Mr.. Walden has decided to
tarry yet awhile in the verdant valley
fields, and will therefore send sub
stitute to the front. 1t is understood
that Mr.. c. H. Hart, at present an en-
ploye at the freight depot, will fill the
position.
PIONEER BANDS EXCURSION. -
The Pioneer band has arranged for an
excursion to PRESCOTT on Saturday
September Is. The band will play en-
route and will give a concert at the
plaza at Prescott. The train will leave
here at O'Clock in the morning and
tickets will be good fer three days,
though they may be extended thirty
days by the payment of an additional
sum. The railroad company has sup
piled the band with tickets which are
to be sold at the price of a fare and |
which will afterwaId be exchanged |
for regular tickets at the railroad Of !
fee
MAN VS.. WHEEL. The race is not |
always to the swift. On Tuesday night |
Officer William DoiweH saw a wheel |
man without light and called to him |
to stop. A stop meant So 1t cost less
to keep going, and he put on a burst |
Of speed. So did the officer, who over
took the wheelman, seized him by his |
suspender and, dragging him from his |
bicycle, observed that he was some |
thing of Splinter himself The wheel |
man did not raise a vigorous objection |
to paying the So, but he held the police |
force to be accessories to his offense. |
Somebody, he said, had stolen his
lamp that morning and the theft could |
not have been committed if the police |
men had been attending to their du- |
ties
TO THE GRAND CANYON. Frank |