Arizona republican., 1900-07-11

morning of July ,, says the Yuma Sun, while attempting to board freight train at Pilot Knob. The injured man was picked up by the section crew and taken to Yuma and placed in the coun- " hospital Dr. Greenleaf. the attend ing physician, found it necessary to amputate one of the unfortunate's legs which was frightfully mangled.
 FEARFUL OF A FLOOD. A. J. Hansen of Kyrene was in town last night and said that nearly all the h. dians south of there had taken to the hills in anticipation of a great flood. Yesterday morning MT. Hansen saw an old Indian with his earthly effects packed on pony moving southward and asked him why he was pulling out. Much water" he said. indicating with sweep of his hand that everything in sight was to be shortly submerged.
 MUSIC FOR THE INDIANS.- That the native American has an ear for music has been amply proved by the Phoenix Indian school band But a brass band is not the proper thing on all occasions and as the government has set out to develop the Indians musical taste. it has decided to do the work thoroughly. Superintendent Me COwan therefore has purchased an Els tey chapel organ for use at the school and the infant class will have some thing to sing by as well as the big boys with the tOot-horns.
 IT WAS A SCORCHER. It may not be conducive to the enjoyment of this summer weather to discuss the heat. but it is certainly a help in the consolation line to know that. while yesterday was the hottest day of the year in Phoenix, there was not a single case of prostra tion from the extreme torridity. while nearly every city in the north and east reported one or several casualties from Old SoTs rays. The mercury in the weather bureau ther- mOmeter climbed to 11024 degrees at o'clock, while at various places along Washington street it registered from 1O9 to 116 degrees.
 GONE TO ENGLAND. Miss Dor othy Dawes left Monday morning over the s. F. P. & P. railroad for a three months visit with relatives in England. She came here with her sister. Miss MadGe Dawes, about five years ago and for the last three years has been faithful employe of The Republican in the capacity of bookkeeper and has fully earned her summers vacation She will arrive in New York on Friday and expects to sail Saturday. going first to Glasgow. where she will visit for a couple of days; then to London for week. and the rest of the summer will be spent at her home in Norwich
 
 Col. J. F. Wilson returned yesterday morning from the southern part of the territory. the principal object of his visit being to deliver a Fourtk of July oration at SOlomonvilIe. While in. Graham county he visited the artesian wells which have been struck on the tableland between Stafford and the Ora ham mountains. Therc are seven of them. Three spout a four-inch stream three or four feet into the air. and each enc is capable of irrigating 320 acres of land. The others are smaller. These wells have. proved godsend to their owners, for it is as dry in the valley of the upper Gila as anywhere else in the territory.
 BARLEY AND BICYCLES.-A ca tastrophe, more Imaginable than seri- ous. occurred Monday afternoon on East Adams street. A hard working freighter was travelling east with a big load of grain. on top of which three bicycles were piled. Whether or not the man had run across a crippled bi- cycle club somewhere in the country and contracted to bring it to town. or whether he was just making a collec- tion of wheels, was not learned and has nothing to do with the story, which is simply that just east of the Hotel Adams a sack of grain fell out of the wagon, then another and another. un- til finally the street for half a block was strewn with grain sacks and wheels alternately. The wheels were not broken, but some of the sacks were
 PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. -I Governor Murphy yesterday named representatives from this territory to the Pan-American exposition to be held in Buffalo, N. Y, from May l to No vember 1. 1901. He designated as vice presidents Rev. Dr. Lewis Halsey of Phoenix and ex-Governor R. C. Pow CTS of Prescott: members of the Yo- mems board of managers. Mrs. Ada IT,