Arizona republican., 1903-11-09
Temperature

Maximum temperature &c, minimum
temperature 81.
Average relative humidity "A per
cent.
Character Of the day: Part cloudy.
NJ. E. BLYSTONE, Section Director.
BIG HORSE SHIPMENT-Eleven
carloads of horses was one of the
items in the cargo of yesterdays
freight train from the north. They
came from Holbrook.
BAND CONcERT.-The Pioneer
band yesterday began holding its
Sunday concerts i'm the afternoon in
stead of the evening, the nights being
Il little too chilly to make rolling
around on the plaza lawns a real en-
toyable pastiple. While the enjoyment
of the music is, of course, the first
consideration. the fun of tramping out
the grass should not be under estimated
for with 1T comes the indescribable
delight of knowing that the city gar
dener is earning his money.
THE GLOBE MERGER-C E. Tay-
Tor OF Globe, returned to Phoenix,
again Yesterday on court business. He
SAYS that the latest information in
Globe is TO the effect that two-thirds
of the Old Dominion stock has sig
nifed a willingness TO accept the terms
of the proposed merger of the Old Do
minion and Phelps Dodge interests III
that district, the opinion prevails that
the deal will go through. Some of the
owners of the other third, however.
are still strenuously holding out.
PRICE AND MURPHEY TRIALS
The trials of Former Surveyor General
Price and Chief Clerk Murphey, on one
of the five indictments returned against
them for bribery. will begin today. \
severance having been asked for and
granted in the first case set for trial
in which they were charged with hay
ing accepted a bribe from Mrs. Emma
Miller of s46O to expedite work on al
application for a mining patent The
case against Mr.. Price Will be called
first. At its conclusion the case against
Mr.. Murphey Will be taken up. There
will not be a great deal of testimony
in any one OF the cases and it is be-
lieved that both of those set will be
disposed of today.
cREGO-KYLE.-Mr. Miles c. Gregg
and Miss Leona Kyle were
married at half past eight o'clock
on Saturday night, at the residence OF
the parents of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs.
D. p. Kyle on East Washington street.
The officiating clergyman was Rev. \
NJ. Gibbons of the First Methodist
Episcopal church. Many Of the friends
of the bride and groom witnessed the
ceremony Mr.. Gregg has been a resi-
dent of the city for about eighteen
months. He came here from Buffalo,
y. Y, to take a position with Wells,
Fargo & Co, which he still retains.
He is we'll liked by all who know him
and is one of the worthiest young men
of the city. The bride is the youngest
daughter of Mr.. Kyle and a most low
able and highly accomplished young
lady. She was graduated from the
Phoenix highschool. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gregg will begin housekeeping at No.
AIS North Seventh avenue.
STRENUOUS VACATION.-Dr. r
VI. Dodsworth returned yesterday
morning from what he calls his summer
vacatinon consisting of two months
spent in taking a special course in the
New York Post Graduate Hospital.
That was rot all. Between times he
kept himself busy making a study OF
the city health system for the purpose
of dapting some of it's features to the
territorial system of which he is the
head. He left New York a day or two
before the election but by that time
the situation had got so hot he did lot
see how it could possibly be improved
by election day. The doctor also par
in what is called in New York
the ten inch rain" the most marvellous
down pour in the history of the
weather bureau service there. The rain
did not seem to fall in drops but IN
sheets. While ii was raining he went
TO the city from a suburban town and
a part of the way the train plowed its
way through three and a half feet of
water.
DRY WASHER THAT WASHES
F. c. Skadan. of Chicago, was III
Phoenix. yesterday en- route home TO
report to the mining company he rep
resents respecting the company's oper-
atoms in the Quartzsite mining district
Of Yuma county. Mr.. Skadam has
been engaged in the installation of 4
new dry washing machine on the COM
pany's placer ground and reports that
it is now IA successful operation. The
feature of the enterprise
is that the new process machine is the
invention of Colonel Atkinson, who has
been, operating to some extent, for
two o. three years, Immediately north
OF Hot Springs junction in this county.
Colonel Atkinson, it appears, was not