Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-12-05
Additional Local


SOME NICE PEARS.-Fred Warren
brought to the Board of Trade yester-
day three fine pears grown on his home
place ut l4l2 West s,.hIIiaton street
The three weighed three pounds
REAL ESTATE DEALs.-J Ernest
Walker made two real estate deals yes
terday both in Block of the Brill
addition. Mrs. Pauline O'Neil sold to
Joseph Egley lot No. 6, and =. Paul
Farquhar sold to Mrs. O'NeilI lot No.
3 of the same block.
SURVEYING NEAR YUMA
contingent of the United States geolo-
gical survey is now camped near the
"Old Quartermaster's" building. hav-
ing come down the Colorado a few
days since to do some surveying near
town in Yuma valley.-Yuma Sentinel
MAYOR BENEFITS CONTRIBU
TlON.-Mayor Walter Bennett yester-
day brought to the Board of Trade
room several fine orange exhibits.
There were twins or triplets on each
twig brought in and there were sew
eral twigs. One pair of oranges weigh
ed thirty-eight ounces. They are of the
navel variety and are on exhibition in
the window display.
FUNERAL OF MRS. PEcKHAM.-
The funeral of Mrs. Ida f. Peckham,
who died Thursday morning. will be
held at > O'Clock this afternoon AT
Easterlings. Mrs. PeclIham came here
from Fargo, n. D., her husband be-
ing a commercial traveller of that city.
Her own family resides in Springfield,
Mass. Rev. McAfee will ofIiciate at the
funeral service.
TIME EXTENDED.-An extension
of time has been granted bidders OH the
constructor work Of the lover canal
to be built skirting the storage basin at
Tonic. This was found necessary for
the reason that the time between the
preparation of scEtif'tlt Cns and the
letting of the bids was too short to al
low the prospective bidders to visit the
scene of operations and prepare their
estimates.
REOMEN ORGANIZE IN YUMA
Mr.. j. G. Albright, for many years
editor and owner of the Journal-Demo-
crat of Albuquerque, n. NJ. and organ
iZer of the Independent Order of Red
Men. is in town engaged in the forma-
ton of lodge of that order for Yuma,
says the Sentinel. New Mexico and Ari-
iona are still under the Jurisdiction of
the grand council, but upon compile
ton of the Arizona organization auto
nomy will be granted and a grand
lodge to embrace both territories will
be organized.
FOR CAMPAIGN WORK.-The cit
liens waterworks committee held
meeting at the Hotel Adams last night !
which WAS pretty welt attended. The
questions discussed were purely relat- !
ing to the conduct of the campaign /
and as the result of the conference |
committees were appointed to look /
after the various things that always /
have to be attended to at and preced- |
Ing an election. 1t will be the work /
IF these committees to look after rou- /
Inc matters. and arrange to get out |
as large vote as possible, i'm the
canvassing the situation and !
leterirIEitS wh' IL t,io u p<t ecficacio3Is
work can be done. The campaign viii.
De only week long but the commit
ee proposes to make it as lively as
possible during that week.
WEeB'S BISMUTH MINE.-Frede-
rick Webb. who recently came into the
possession of sufficient money to aid
him materially in his mining ope "a
lions. has purchased the interest of his
partners in the bismuth mine a few
miles above Mesa City. and says uhe
property is now in a fair way to be-,
operated on a. scale that should bring
profitable returns. He has given a
bond upon il till the first of January
10 parties who seem anxious to buy. In
Inc event that they do not take it by
hat date he will work it himself by Il
process of his own which, after re-
heated experiments. n j. satisfied will
prove successful. Under present con-
1itiors the best price he can get
Tor the ore at the smelters ds ten do
ars per ton, ard though much of the
Dre is rich enough to return a good
profit at that rate. he thinks he can ;
save the values by his teaching process
1T ar expense of $50 per ton and can
n this way work not only the rich ore I
)ut ore that would not p5y to ship. J.;