Arizona republican., 1900-10-07
5:3a q. m. 5:3O D. m

STRUCK IT RICH.-It is said that
 s. c. Bagg, at one time editor of the
 Tombstone Prospector. has struck il
 rich in his claims in MOhave county.
 w. C. T. U.-Mrs T. w. Otis. of Pres
 colt. Territorial president of the Wom-
 ans Christian Temperance Union,
 spent Friday in Phoenix making ar
 engagements for the annual meeting to
 be held next week.
 COMPLIMENTED AGAIN.-ThesRe
 publican office was complimented by
 another serenade last night just before
 the big mass meeting. This favor came
 from the Indian school band and was
 very much appreciated.
 CLJ-BBED AND ROBBED-Robert
 Lawrence. a member of the Southern
 Pacific bridge gang. was found near the track in the Tucson yards. Thursday morning. badly beaten up. He says he was assaulted and robbed.
 RAY MINES TO START.-It is learned that the Ray mines will start up again about the 10th of this month. and that the company will be>fn need of first-class machine men and miners. The wages paid, it is understood. are $2.50 per day.
 TENNIS IN TUCSON.-The lawn tennis games between Harry Drachman of Tucson and Malcolm Gillett of PhOe- nix, were played off Wednesday. The score at the end stood 6-4 6-2 in favor of Gillett. This leaves Gillett and Bau- man to play off the finals for the cham pionship.
 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.-The new pastor of the Christian church will not begin his labors until the 18th inst, but there will be services in the church at Il o'clock each Sunday intervening. This morning the social service will be led by MT. Moore. Sunday school and Y. P. $. C. E. hold their regular eXer- cises in the morning and evening re- spectively.
 MELON GROWERS ASSOCIATION. At the regular annual election of the Phoenix Melon Growers association the following officers Were elected: J. l.. Irwin, pres; Jas. Covey, Vice-pres. F$ p. Fowler. sec; Mrs. Ada Irwin. treas. and l.. J. Bruiger. manager. The board deferred the consideration ofcon- tracts for melons next season to some future time.
 A ROBBER IDENTIFTED.-On of the men who robbed the Helen Mining store at Graham, N. NJ. and who is now in custody. turns out to be Wm. Lane Gibson. alias Fred Jenkins. former resident of Globe. Gibson sWears that he did not know that there was, postoffice at the store. He also tries to place the blame for the raid upon his companions John Ward and Jack Davis, with whom he went from Globe into New Mexico.
 A BASE BALL GAME.-The North Center base ball team and the famous Eclipse club played at the west end grounds yesterday morning. The for mer tsam won by a score of 23 to 15 The batteries were-Eclipse. Earnest and Spalding; North Centers. McCowan and Lyal. One of the features of the game was the excellent pitching of Me CoWan. Earnest, who was d crack pitcher of Los Angeles junior club. was batted out of the box and two oth- CT pitchers suffered the same fate be- fore they could get the victorious North Centers stopped.
 THE GUN CLUB-Some very good scores were made at the Gun Clubs clay bird shoot yesterday afternoon The shooters are beginning to show the results of practice. The scores at sin gles were: Aiken s 10 s. Wylie 9, :. 10, s, 9. Jessop 6. 9, 9, 9, :. Pinney s, [. 10, !. Randolph 6, 4, 6. s, 9. Rich ardson :. Field shooting: Aitken :, Jesop [, Wiley :. The live bird shoot vii take place today at Phoenix Park, commencing at o'clock This shoot will be open to club members only. but persons desiring to enter may join the club at the park. Over zoo pigeons have