Arizona republican., 1902-05-29

the matter of foot races and their abil-
ity as foot racers. Mcdonald said
very few people know of his record as
q swift sprinter and empha tically as
serts that Leon Bowler by no means
can at any time run fast enough to
even carry a sweater for him. as he
is afraid that he would get through
and that before Bcuvier would arrive
he would be chilled. Bowler contends
that that is TO be seen and that Nc
Donald by no means can beat him.
Joseph Monihon will be referee.
\ HUSBANDS PERTI-N0t long
ago in a Phoenix sunday school a wo-
man who is nardeut pro-
hfbitionisu took occasion to lee
ture class of little tots on
the subject OF temperance She
chose the favorite plan of holding up
horrible examples before the little folks
to warn them of the awful things that
invariably follow the use of liquor.
Among other Illustrations she used that
of the ruined home where father comes
home drunk and mother gets mad and
for relief has to fly to the divorce court
and apply for a legal separation Final
iy the woman asked the class if they
had ever seen d drunken man. One
little girl replied, Yes. l have: papa
came home drunk once and mmma said
if he did it again she was going to have
him separated"
BURNED BY \ TRAMP-A vacant
frame house at 18TH avenue and WASH
ingtOn street was destroyed by me
yesterday morning al half past seven
o clock- An alarm was sent in and TIE
fire department responded in = mar
velously short time. on account of the
long distance and the inhamma bic
character OF the building, which vas
well on the road to destruction when
the fire was discovered the fireman had
little 10 10 but put out the blazing
5nlbers. 1t is supposed that the lire
was started by = tramp. one vas sen
in that neighborhood shortly before ;he
discovery of the fire and he seemed to
have come from the house. The build
ing had been occupied until last sun
day by family by the name of Jones.
whom confia gra lions seem to be purSti-
ing, though this one arrived . little
late Two or three months ago he
Jones family then living in the same
reighborhood. was burned out
STATEHOOD WORk-Among those
recently heard from on the statehood
question by the statehood committee
and the board of trade are the follow
ing: Delegate Flynn. Of Oklahoma
writes Ver:5 encouragin2ly of the pIas-
poets, ana closes by saying that he he
lieves that GOverno. Murphy can do
more work right now than any other
man in this territory. and hopes that
he viii be sent ID Washington. Cover
nor Murphy is already there. Dele
gate Rodey, OF New Mexico. say:
There are several New Mexico people
here helping me out, and l certai Ily
think the combined efforts of the three
territories Will result III the passage Of
the bill in the senate this session.
Delegate Smith writes OF the necessity
OF bringing influences to bear on SEN
ators from among thei. own corstitu-
ents In Illustration of what is being
done among the commercial bodi =.
Ben L. Bear wrote TO T. ". Braun &
| Co. OF Los Angeles, wholesale drag
! gists, asking them To interest them
selves in the matter. They reply :har
! they Immediately wired their sena tors
and then took up the question with he
secretary of the Los Angeles Jobbsrs
association. and an effort will he made
to secure . memorial from that and
similar Los Angeles organiza tons.
which will be wired TO senators. earn
cstly requesting their cooperation in
/ the passage of the bill.