Arizona republican., 1901-02-08

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 Mir. Duarte.
 THE DIFFERENCE de
 difference between Phoenix and Gen.
 eral Kitchener" asked one smart news
 boy of another yesterday. The second
 lad gave it up and the smart boy said:
 Phoenix is cathin' de wet an Kitch-
 ener can't"
 Phoenix fire department has moved it's
 headauarters into the room recently
 vacated by the library on the second
 floor of the city hall. The new quart
 CTS are much larger and more satis-
 factory than the apartments in the engine house which is now entirely at the disposition of the firemen who sleep there at night and who now have room enough to snore out loud without chok
 ing each other to death.
 FIG LEAVES FOR ASTHMA
 Since the days of Adam fig leaves have not been considered of great ptil-
 ity. but remark made by a gentleman yesterday tends to show Q new use for the leaves. This gentle man is an asthmatic and has suffered for years of that malady. Not long ago he accldently rolled up a dried fig leaf with the tobacco for his pipe. To
 his astonishment the smoke relieved his asthma greatly and since then he has assiduously smoked fig leaves much to the relief of his affliction.
 A HARD FALL.--Mr. Nels Benson, prosperous ranches from Buckeye. who has been stopping in Phoenix dur ing the rainy weather loaded his wagon with lumber and barbed wire yester- day started in q hurry for home, but came to sudden stop. As he turned from South Center street to West Washington bale of wire started to roll out of the wagon. MT. Benson turned to catch it and lost his balance and fell out landing squarely on his back in the mud. He was assisted into his wagon and although very red in tNe face and very muddy was not Hurt much.
 - \ VALUABLE TORSE. - William Tossing whose stable is three miles west of Phoenix on the Isaac road, in Sirius Mark No. 27.9l6. has a stallion the ownership of which should make any horseman proud. The horse now a little less than eight years old, was foaled in Minnesota and is red chest nut fifteen and half hands high and weighs 1000 pounds. He is a trotting bred horse and comes from a long line of notable ancestors whose names are readily recognized by horsemen.
 His mother carried two crosses of the blood that produced Maud s and many famous performers bear a near rels 
 THE BIBLE READINGiS.--Th bible at the Presbyterian chapel by Mir. Eward A. Marshall, continue to increase in interest and no one inter- ested in the great book of the world should fail to attend them. MT. Mar shall will speak today at 2:30 and 7:30I D. m. The readings are usually pre- ceded by song service. Mir. Mar shall is emlnently qualified by ability and training for the work in which he Is engaged and for which he was chosen and set apart by D. l.. Moody.
 THE K. OF P.-Phoenix lodge, Knights of Pythfas, will have work in the rank of page and rank of knight hood at the lodge hall tonight.
 PROBATE COURT.-Hearing of the final account of Dr. l.. D. Dameron, special administrator of the estate of Frank B. Van Sick,en, was given in the probate court yesterday and an order was issued approving the ac- count and dscharging the admins trat9r. Petition of the widow was re- ceived for the appointment of Baxter McCreary administrator of the estate of David A. Spragg, and hearing of the petition was set for Feb. 18th. In the estate of w. F. Johnson petition was filed for an order to sell real estate and order to show cause was issued. !, Tn the estate of Charles H. Pierce copy ,f Judgment of the district court was filed.
 FROM CAMP M'DOWELL.-The lat | est news from Camp McDowell is that rainstorm of unusual proportions oc- cured there Wednesday afternoon. In fact it might almost De called Q cloud l burst as one and three-tenths inches rell in twenty minutes and hail and l rain continued for several hours, To he north it could be plainly seen that | a heavy snow storm was prevailing. The high water is interfering with mid stream borlngs for bed rock but the work of exploration is being pushed as rapidly as possible on the sides of the channel. Before the last big storm 8 hole was put down nearly in the center of the channel and what is be- ieved to be bed rock was encountered | al depth of forty-five, feet though there was no time for a thorough ex- animation.
 A NEW OFFICIAL APPOINTED.-i Justice J. M. Burnett has created a new office in his court and appointed c. w. Johnstone to fill it. Mir. John stope's official title is 'skaeDer of rec |