Arizona republican., 1900-09-03

Mesa yesterday to attend the funeral of
 Mrs. F. P. Drew, an honored member oc the order.
 MIR. WELLS BEREAVEMENT. -
 MT. +. F. Wells of Prescott. assistant
 general manager of the s. F. P. X, P.
 railroad. has gone to Colorado. being summoned by the death of his father who passed away Friday night after a long illness.
 GIBSON POSTOFFICE.-W. n. Pies
 and Billy Edwards Were in the city yes
 terday from New River. Mr. Piles is ! the prospective postmaster of the place
 his bond having been forwarded to l Washington. The new postoftice will be 1 called Gibson.
 | BALL MEN BEDECKED GAUDILY. ! In all the gorgeOusness of bright red uniforms the DeMund base ball team | blossOmed out yesterday. The team will play Tempe next Sunday and ex- poets a hard gam inasmuch as the i suburban nine van4uished the True Blues yesterday.
 THE TIDE OF TRAVEL.-The tide of travel has changed and the incoming trains are now carrying more paSsen- gers than the outgoing trains. The train from the north brings in from sixty to eighty persons daily and though many of them are returning eX- cursionists, there is always a goodly number of strangers among them.
 ANIGH-AMERICAN M'KINLEY CLUB.-A number of the Spanish-Am- ericans of the city met yesterday and organized a Spanish-American McKin- ley club. The club has a good member ship to start with and every member IS a republican missionary. They are too young yet as an organization, to do much talking, but they propose to do a little business with the democracy be- tween now and election time.
 WATER The amount of water in the river for the last week has been fuctuating between 1000 and 1,OOO inches. The river rises a little one day and falls a Iittle the next. This is more water by considerable than was in evidence some time back. though it is still low. The encouraging feature of it is that the little rises in dicate showers above that give prom ise of greater precipitation
 BUSINESS BOOM BEGINS. -Busi- ness in all lines has begun to take on 1he annual fall rush and the start has been unusually early. On Saturday all merchants reported big increases in sales and in some cases almost doubled over that of Saturdays during the pre- vious three months. Every train brings in dozens of Phoenicians who have spent the summer in the north or at the coast and the winter visitors are already beginning to arrive. At many of the better class of boarding houses all the available room has been engaged and indications point to a heavier in tiuX of visitors than ever before.
 POLITICS. Politics is too much for me-" said a WilsJl heeler about II 30 last night T cah't stand the pressure one more turn and I'd been done for. Then he sat down on a box and leaned his head against a post while both feet rested on the sidewalk. He was suffering from mental prcsCration and needed absolute repose. Wnii= he was shiiling about for a comfortable posi- tion for each particular limb and m m Der of his body Smith rounder came up. He was filled with Glra. ami otrer things. and said That Was the worst | ever saw. Nobody seemed to know who their friends were. l had Joe Alex ander crazy. l was wOrkin for his push all the time and every time I'd hand in a bunch he'd rise an object. I didn't spend cent of Smith money and made my first raise out of the Wilson sack.