Arizona republican., 1903-10-12

OFFICIAL MEETING-The boarG,; ! of officers of the Baptist church will hold a special meeting this evening in
 O'Nein hall at 7:3O o'clock.
 A LAWYERS DEATH.-Seth NJ.
 Leavenworth. district attorney Of Co., chise county died at his home in i Tombstone Friday morning, of lung trouble
 BAND CoNcERT-The usual Sun day evening band concert was held on the city hall plaza last night. Ii was
 q beautiful evening and the town be- ing now well filled with people the at tendance was large.
 RECEPTION TO DR. PRATT-A re- ception will be given tonight to pr. Pratt and his wife at the East End mis- sion on the eve of their departure from the city. The reception will begin at
 7:3O. Both pr. and Mrs. Pratt have been very active in the work of the mission since it's establishment
 MINISTERS MEETINC-There will be meeting cf the Pastors Conference on Monday. Oct. 12th. at two o'cloC X D. m.. III the pastors study of the Christian church. corner of Fifth aven- ne and Monroe street. Visiting clergy men are cordially invited tn Ee pres ent. l.. Haisey. president; w. H. Bag by. secretary.
 PETITION DENiED.-Tne board of supervisors Of Final county have de- nied the petition Of the citizens Of Superior. q new mining camp. asking for the privilege Of organizing al pro hibition district under the provisions of the local option law. The ground for the denial Was that the petition did ret carry the signatures of fifty electors, the number required by law.
 BEDROCK IN COLoRADO-The latest news from the U. $. engineers making soundings for bedrock in the Colorado river at Cocopah point, says d Yuma paper. is that four holes have been bored to bedrock. The fourth one is in the center of the river and is loo feet in depth. The Colorado al this point is 1.0GG feet wide and it is the opinion of tbe engineers in charge that the balance Of the holes will be deeo- CT.
 THE COUNTRY cLUe-The an nual election of officers and directors Of the Country Club and reoDening of the club will take place next Saturday. The members of the club are looking for the most prosperous year in the history oi the club. The membership will undoubtedly be greater than it aas ever been before and the present merl- bers are participants in the general feeling of prosperity which prevails Throughout the town and valley. A year ago and for several years before that, that feeling was absent.
 WALLACE, THE -EATER.-- Phoenix people will remember that when the Southern Carnival Company was here the big wild animal show d fcrocious lion. known a5 Wallace, the man-eater. It will also be remembered that Wallace lacerated his keeper here as it was said he had done on many previous occasions. The Southern Carnival Co. will he at the Albuquerque fair and a late report says that Wallace recently stuck his paw through the cage and tore up an other keeper in a very cruel sort Of q way. Wallace is great on sidvertis- ing, or his owners are. and they are determined to feature Wallace as long as they have any hired men left to bait him with
 A VISITING EOiTOR.-Eli Perkins. editor of the News Herald. that is so bis that il has to take both Wiclzen-
 burg and Martinez to live in. was a Phoenix viistor Saturday. He says eV- erything is prosperous in his field and the future looks bright. Saturday be- fore he left hO1e ne said the news reached town through the exhibit of some ore samples. that a new strike had been made near the Gro Concen- i trating Co.'S operation and the ore spe- cimens shown were certainly rich enough to satisfy anybody. Grc't things are also expected of the old I Churchill mine that recently passed from the ownership Of the Trinity co.
 to a Colorado man wl!O has sunk an incline shaft on the ledge. which is now all in ore of good value.
 THE BAPTIST PULPiT.-"The
 American Baptist Pulpit at the Begin- i ming of the Twentieth Ccntury." editor Rev. Henry Thompson :-outhan. is the
 title O. q volume of 760 pa ses ju-'. published at Richmond, Va. The book