Arizona republican., 1900-08-29

His complexion is said to have been
 very fair, inclined 10 ginger His | height was five feet eleven, and he was V,ry s,raight. He is q native of the pari of Emly. County Tipperary Ire i land. and if living noW is forty-eisht years old. The inquiry has been re- 1 rerrrd to the office Of jhc adjutunt-grn- i cral ot Ih~ United States.
 WAR ON THE COTTONWOODS - The city has renewed its war .n the ! cottonwood trees begun some seven years ago and waged in desultory fashion every since. It will probably be continued until the last cottonwood
 is gone. Tn the meantime the tele- phone. electric light and GameweH fire alarm systems have b en disarrang5d
 by falling trees. Except for the inter-
 ference. the fire alarm system. which
 had become unreliable. has been r--
 stored to hiciency by l.. NJ. Francis
 and is now in good working order
 EXCURSION TRAINS A special
 train will come down from Prescott
 today, bringing the coach for the last
 $. F. P. & P. excursion of the seas T
 for southern California. The summer
 tourist travel is about over, though
 there were thirty-two tickets sold be
 tween here and Ash Fork for last
 weeks excursion. There are few who
 have put off the vacation till the flag
 end of summer but no big crowd is
 expected. On the contrary, thtre are more Phoenix people arriving than de- parling and the returning wanderers nearly all express themselves as glad to be home again. Mkt week the s. F. r. X P. will run a special excursion to San Francisco.
 CUBIOSITY.-It does not take long
 to call a crowd when people are made to understand that something unusVal
 is going on around the corner. About sundoWn last evening a couple Of men stopped at the corner of Adams street and First avenue and looked toward the south. 4 wheelman came along and joined them. A buggy went to the corner and was stopped. A similar pro ceeding took place at the corner of Washington street and First avenue, l only the spectators were looking to the north. In two minutes all the able ! bodied men within two blocks On eith= r | street were running in that direction. | When they reached a corner where ! their vision rested on First avenue they . found that an old horse attached to d farm wagon had his tail over line and ! had backed up at least ten feet.
 OAK CREEK PEACHES. The Re publican yesterday received from l Lyons & ErobI-ck, eu.crDIising gro ! c,rs of Jerome, a box OI pSach5s of ] which every one was :. peach Neither the Salt River valley nor Cali -orria has ever been able |, produce such peaches. The sig is magnificent, but the rlal delight lies in the eXqui- site flavor seldom found, except in the fruit of the famous peach orchards of the east. These peaches come from the orchard Of James Page on Oak cr5ek which lies out of the path of the late hailstorm which raVaged the Verde valley. Lyons X KnoblJck have already shipped 2.JOO boxes from this orchard and the crop is just now in it's prime and will last six weeks longer The senders mlntion thar shis fruit is raised with the aid of water stolen rom .he farmers of the Salt River val ey." The growers against whom this has been made bear ID mal- ce since they learn through the col- lmns of The Republican that tLere is l general opinion here that the fruit ] $ fine It is a pity that thele is not water for the northern valleys in order hat more Of such peaches could be 'aised.
 PROBATE COURT-The most i'm portant proceeding in probate court yesterday was the hearing of a peti- ton for an accounting by $. ?. Hoef=r, administrator of the estate of Anna F.. Douglass and the revocation of his etters of administration. It was charged among other things in the pc ution that the property of the estate, ranch north of the city. was going tD wreck under the administration; that the orchard was dying for want of water and the stand of alfalfa was not as good as il was when the ranch passed into Mr. Hoefer's hands. The 'eply to this complaint was that many orchards in the valley were falling into decay for want of water and that the etters of administration issued to Nlc. Hoefer did not lay upon him the burden of providing an adequate and reliable supply of irrigating water for the Salt River valley. The evidence was heard n the part Of the petitioner. The case yill be resumed at 9:5o this morning. \ hearing on a petition to set aside real property of the estate of r.. A. Keller