Arizona republican., 1900-09-11
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THE SWOLLEN CHA. Persons who came in from the south yesterday morning said that the Gila at the crossing was three feet deep.
 KILLED A BEAR. -C. J. Bush killed a bear within two hundred yards of the Catalina Copper Mining com pany's camp in the Santa Catalina mountains.
 A NEW ROAD DISTRICT. The board of supervisors was in regular weekly sessicn yesterday. The only business not routine was the establish incnt of road district in the Airing ton country and the opening of a road on township line.
 $. P. EATING HOUSES. It is ra- ported that Dr. G. F. GoGdfellow, fo"- merly of Tucson and well known all over Arizona. will in a few weeks as sume the management of the Southeru Pacific railroad eating houses between Fl Pasn and Los Angeles.
 AN EXPRESSION CF THANKS. - The committee oil decora -ion of the Doris theater for the republican coun- " convention held last Saturday de- sire to thank MT. c. H. Smith. the capitol gardener. for his generous do- nation If plants on that occasion.
 PROBATE COURT.-H5 5nry T. Chap man yesterday filed a petition in pro- bate court for letters of administration ON the estate of Henry Chapman. The hearing of an application by J. NJ Evans, Jr., for letters of guardianship of his mother, Teresa Jane Evans. was continued until September 14.
 A GIRL.-CharIes Williams reported last night that Sunday was a day of supreme importance to him, as it marked the arrival of all eleven pound girl at his house. He thinks it is sure sign that Mckinley and Roosevelt will be elected and that prosperity will continue at least four years longer.
 PROFIT ON A VACATION.-Mess Emil Hurler. Frank Lapley and Isaac Dana and family, of Mesa, were in Phoenix yesterday, after a six weeks camping trip near Prescott. The party combined pleasure with business and the men cut wood and sold in Prescott enough to pay all expenses and leave q handsome profit besides.
 CITY EQUALIZING BOARD. - The city council met yesterday as a board of equalization, but no business com
 
 until tonight. After the transaction of business as a city council it will re- solve itself into a board of equalization and be prepared to hear reasons why too high valuation was placed on certain properties.
 A PRESCOTT FIRE.--A report that another fire had broken out in Prescott alarmed Phoenix yesterday, though it was not imagined that the last confla- grafton had left many buildings to be burned. Some one here was trying to communicate by telephone with the sheriffs office there. The reply came back, They're all out fighting the fire and there is no water" It was learned later that only an isolared frame dwell ing house was destroyed.
 DREW ON HIS IMAGINATION.-A C. Potter, a colored bootback. was ar rested last night for having had a frau dulent $5 check cashed. He presented the check, drawn on the National Bank of Arizona. The holder of it learned yesterday that Potter was unknown at the bank. It was not within the recOl- lection of the oldest attache of the bank that Potter had ever had an account there and he certainly had none at the time he flashed the check.
 DEER CREEK COAL FIELDS. - Professor William Phillips of Pitts burg, who rece ntly visited the Deer Creek coal fields, has submitted rs- port in which he says the result of his investigations lead him to believe that good steam and colling coal is to be