Arizona republican., 1900-07-10

knowledge and attributes his arrest to the work of his enemies. with no other object than to annoy and harass him.
 MELONS DRYING OUT.-According to a local commission man. the melon crop has already been cut down one third by the drouth and unless there is water within ten days the balance of the crop will be ruined. Several large patches northeast of the city have been dried up completely and in the better melon country. west and northwest. the fruit is in little better condition. Several car loads have been shipped out, but the melons are not. nearly upto the standard size and quality.
 ADLAI STEVENSCN's SON. Lewis G. Stevenson. the only son of ex-Vice- President AdIai F. Stevenson. and who has just been nominated for second place on the democratic ticket, is well known in Phoenix and also at Prescott MT. Stevenson came west six years ago and has been identified with western copper mines. He was for some time manager for Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's Santa Rita copper mine in New Mexico. When that mine was recently sold to She Amalgamated Copper association (Jhe Standard Oil company the young man branched out for himself. and he is now mining through New Mexico and Arizona. He is not more than 3j years of age and exceptionally bright and active, a thorough specimen of a twentieth century unassuning young American. He now resides at Los An geles.
 SHE MET DEATH FIRST Super visor I. 4. Marshall yes -erday received a telegram informing him of the death of his mother at g o'clock yesterday morning at New Glasgow. Nova Scotia. About four months ago MT. Marshall was called to New Glasgow by what was believed at the time io be her last illness. Soon after his arrival she be- gan to mend and within a month was believed to be out of danger. Mir. Mar Shall then received a telegram inform ing him of the serious illness of his wife and he hurriedly set out on his long journey home. Soon after his de- paliture his mother grew worse and steadily declined until her death. which the tele gram says. came peacefully An unusual thing in her case is that though she was of great age. she had never experienced grief at the death of a member of her family. She leaves besides her husband. seven children, of whom the youngest is thirty-ffve.
 AN ODD COINCIDENCE Early on the morning of the 9th of July mes senger summoned a policeman to a lodging house in the southern part of town saying that his friend had been assaulted by a party of Boxers in the alley back of Chinatown; that he had been robbed, rolled in the mud and was brough; home looking like the flag end of Pekin massacre. The officer hast ened to the mans room and found him as described, his most attractive feature being a picturesque gash four inches long on top of his head. The of ficer went at once to the alley referred to, bUi, could find no evidence of a re- cent combat in that neighborhood. A couple of days later three young men met the policeman and asked him if there was a special man on duty the night of the Fourth in the reservation east of Seventh street. They were told that police protection did not eX- tend east of Seventh street and no extra men were on he force that night. The boys then announced that an individual w.1om they proceeded to describe mi nutely had interfered with their drink ing ard celebrating in that vicinity on that glorious night and that he had represented to them that he was an of