The Tucson citizen., 1902-11-06
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THE CITY NEWS
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At s O'Clock this afternoon train No. |
9 was reported two hours late. No |
10 and the flyer are on time.
Mrs. Colonel French and Mrs Staff |
Captain Connect will conduct the ser
vices at the Salvation Army hall, on
Congress street, tonight. No charge
for admission, and everybody is in |
vited. The services tonight will be of |
the regulation Salvation blood and |
fire" character. The lecture on the
social work of the army will be given
tomorrow night.
The fire department was called to
North Main street in a hurry this
morning. "A large barn in which
some thirty-five tons of hay were
stored took fire in some mysterious
manner. Great volumes of smoke
were pouring out of the shed, and it
feared that it would burst into fame
any minute. The department arrived
on the scene just in time. The mem
bers did some quick and effective work,
but it took some time to put out the
smouldering fire. The hay is thought
to have taken fire from spontaneous
combustion, and was probably smoul-
dering for a few days. The hay be-
longed to Walter Hill. The barn is
owned by Knox Corbetr.
The midweek service Of Trinity
Presbyterian church will be held this
evening at 1880 o'clock in Odd Eel
lows hall. The Woman's Aid society
will hold a special meeting after the
service.
The local hive of the Lady Macca-
bees will meet this evening at A. 0. u.
w. hall.
The Pima tribe of Red Men will be
in session tonight
The Odd Fellows will hold a regular
meeting tonight.
Professor E. L. Wetmore, local
weather observer, has prepared some
interesting figures on the effect of
climatic conditions on rainfall. His
table tends to show that as far as
Arizona is concerned, intense heat
does not produce great rainfall, but
drouth. The hot years, then, are the
dry periods, while the cool years pro-
duce more radiation and condensation,
and hence more moisture. The aver
age mean temperature from June was
412.7 degrees. and the average mean
annual for the last five months was
4.05 degrees. This shows some ~
points above normal. The total rain
fall for the past five months has been
4.03 inches. The average rainfall for
the same five months since 1875 was
7.22 inches. The departure therefore
has been 3.194 inches. The years 1903
and 1904 will be moist years.
J. A. Parker brought some very
rich looking ore into The Citizen Office
yesterday. He is interested in a
group of five claims in the Castle Creek
district. near Wickenburg. The prop
erty has been incorporated under the
name of the Fort Henry Mining and
Exploration company. A number of
eastern capitalists are thinking at pres
ent of buying it. 1t is gold PROPOSE
ton. Little work has been done as
yet. The ore is rich-looking mix
ture of red oxide OF iron and sugar
quartz. 1t also contains some lead.
1t runs high in gold. The prospect is
particularly flattering. Mr.. Parker is
lineman with the Sunset company.
At noon today the returns on the
race for carnival queen showed that
the candidates had shifted somewhat.
The results showed the following vote:
Lola Katzenstein SO. Leta Reid 105,
Mabel Rockwell 46. Bertha Goldtree 80
and Edna Clark 81.
A big, bouncing baby boy was left
to shift for himself rather early in life
today. He was found on the Military
plaza about noon. He had been de-
serted on the back door step at the
residence of J. H. Schneider between
II and II o'clock by some unknown
parties The baby was wrapped in a
sheet with heavy pad of cotton. The
| cause for this criminal and inhuman
act can only be imagined The sheriff
was notified and took charge Of the
child. The boy was left temporarily
with kind Mexican family. awaiting
some one who should care to adopt
him. The report spread around towr
that Frank Murphy was the happy
father of boy, and he is not through
explaining yet. Election congratula-
: tions were not in it. Unfortunately
he is a bachelor