Arizona republican., 1903-08-08


 M. E. BLYSTONE, Section Director YUMA EXCURSION.=An excursion train of fifteen cars loaded with cattle was sent to Yuma yesterday via the M. x P. They were consigned to F. w Hodges.
 A J. EDWARDS HOME.-A. J. Ed
 wards returned home yesterday morn | ing from an extended and very sue cessful trip in the east on mining busi- l ness.
 | POLICE COURT.-Frank Lyons,
 whose face is familiar in the police court. was sentenced yesterday to sev en days of enforced temperance as a punishment for intoxication. 1 NEW NOTARIES-A notarial com 1 mission was issued yesterday to J. D. | Wakely Of Prescott and ". J. De Gress
 of the City of Mexico was appointed l commissioner of deeds.
 | MILLS HOUSE SOLD.-The Mills
 house has been sold to L. M. Christof-
 ferson, who has been engaged in ranch
 ing in this valley for many years. The
 terms of the sale have not been made 1 public. GOING TO KANSAS.-Chris Miller i and wife and their son, Ed Miller and his wife, expect to leave shortly for
 Kansas to reside permanently. Both
 the gentlemen were ranch owners but
 the young man disposed of his hold l ings.
 HAVE BOUGHT A HOME..-Arthur K. W. Kaske and wife came here re-
 gently from the east and expect to make this their home. They have pur- l chased a fifteen-acre farm a few miles northeast of town under the Salt River Valley canal.
 A REGULAR DELUGE-The rain of | Thursday seems to have been the heav- jest in the lower part of the valley. James L. Cant. who came in last night from Meridian. said that it was a de luge between that neighborhood and Riverside. where the water stood three | inches and a half on the level.
 PARKHURST-D -DAVIES.-Mr. Arthur D. Parkhurst of Ogden. Utah. and Miss
 Lotta Davies of TifIin. Ohio, were unit ed in marriage on the 21st ut. MT. Parkhurst was a resident of Phoenix three years ago and has many friends here. He was at that time president Of
 the Baptist Young Peoples union. The
 bride Is the daughter of Rev. J. NJ.
 Davies.
 HELD TO THE GRAND JURY The preliminary trial of Edward Keith line charged with an aggravated as
 sault upon his wife. took place yester- day before Justice Burnett There was only one eye witness. the wife, but she
 was busy and did not see so much as
 she felt. Three neiShbor women testi-
 fled in corroborative way. Defense nd 10 pl
 in the sum of $500.
 WATER GONE-The last
 of the early watermelon crop was cleaned up yesterday. and people who
 have been passing by big piles of them of buying are now melon hungry. By the time the market is again supplied they will probably lose their appetites. Watermelons, like everything else taste better when they cannot be had SUMMER SENSATIONS SCARCE It is customary in this part of the , country to have some sort of a start ling tragedy in midsummer, and some times half a dozen of them, but the | season seems to be backward this year There hasn't been a murder or suicide I for so long that the coroner is getting l nervous and the undertakers are starv- 5 ing to death.
 G. A. R. EXCURSIONISTS.- C Wright, O. W. Ringrose, Lawrence M Thomas, Mrs. E. M. Mills and JohI I Flood were among the Phoenix people d leaving for San Francisco last even I ing, taking advantage of the excursion 5 rate offered for the Grand Army en 3 campment. In the morning l. M s Christy and J. H. Baldwin also left fo : the encampment, travelling over tn a northern route.
 COOLER BUT HOT-Those wh z have formed the habit of consultin I the weather reports of The Republican a will observe with surprise that yester 3 day the temperature was only 97. The T would have never thought it, for tn q day was about as 1isagreeable as an 8 with which this part Of the countr Fl has been afflicted this season. Thei surprise will be somewhat lessene s though on observing that the humidit Fl was 62.
 Fl RETURNED EMPTY HANDED a Deputy Sheriffs Widmer and Robert 2 returned yesterday from the chase ( the horse thieves who last Saturda