Arizona republican., 1903-12-21

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 after their private affairs. It was re- ported to them in jail that someone had taken advantage of their enforced ab- sence from home to break into their re- spectfve houses and steal whatever was desired and worth carrying away.
 FAILED TO MAKE GOOD.-Joe Moran and John Doe are the stage names of a couple of hoboes who were released Saturday under contract to get out of the country. They failed to go. however, and yesterday Officer Bloomhorst caught them in the act of panhandling everybody they met. He placed them under arrest and started for the jail, but for some reason they were not anxious to proceed. First one and then the other hung back as though they were not used to being driven in double harness, but he final ly landed them without serious trouble.
 CHRISTMAS INESS-Phoenix is just now full of Christmas business and the mails especially are crowded. But the mails to and from this city are not a circumstance to what is going on in some places. A train is now being run between Los Angeles and San Fran cisco carrying nothing but mail. Re ports from the Los Angeles poStoffice are that HOOD packages were register cd in that office in three days and that 8 extra clerks are employed in the reg istry department alone. There W n be something doing th's week in the Phoe- nix oostofiice even if this isn't a very l large city.
 KID CURRY WAS HERE-An off | cer from one cf the northern states who is in town says that no long ago | Phoenix had the honor of entertaining unawares the famous train robber Kid | Curry. Curry was the leader of the gand which held up a Northern Pacific 1 train in Montana several years agI' ! committing one of the most spectacu- | lar crimes in the history of the coun- try. Among their plunder was a lot of unsigned bank bills, which were after ward put irto circulation. More than
 q year after the hold up Curry was captured in Tennessee. He was held l there for q lorg time, but about six months ago he succeeded in making his i escape. Nobody knows where he is
 now, but it is understood that he is | somewhere in the north. On his way | h. passed through Phoenix and went
 on into California.
 DR. FRIEDMAN.-He has all along 1 been known as Harry Friedman. whose expanding business at one time threat kened to crowd out everybody else in i the block except those who were pro
 tected by long leases. and even they i were apprehensive of the time when | their leases should expire. Mir. Fried man has abandoned none Of his com
 mercial aspirations, but he is branch i ing cut now and threatening one of the | professions He is the holder of di-
 plcma from a Chica go opthalmic insti- ! ute, and he has had the diploma for l several years. He had left II in the l northern part of the country, and SC | never said anything about it.. He be- l Ieved as they do in courts. that the document itself is the best evidence. | He has lately received his diploma, 90
 that warning nay now be served on
 all other opticians.
 DEATH OF R. J. c. WALKER Friends Of the family in this city re- i ceived telegrams Saturday morning an ] nouncing the death in Philadelphia of R. J. C. Walker, of this city. There are many people here who were acquainted
 with MT. Walker, who. with his family | spent last winter and the preceding | winter in this city for MT Walkers | health, he having suffered of lung af- ! lection for a long time and which dis
 ease finally caused his death. While 1 here Mir Walker purchased the Me ! Carthy place on Central avenue. Il was his purpose earlier in the seasOr
 to come here this winter, but he later planned to spend the winter at Thomp- l sonville, Ga, a famous resort, in which the family also owns a home. He wa: | taken desperately i'll, however, too soor 1 to go anywhere. Mir. Walker was for
 merly a congressman of the Fifth dis
 trict in Philadelphia, wealthy mar ! and well known both in political anC l business circles. His father was at on,
 time secretary of the treasury. Mrs | Walker is a daughter of MT. Wake | man, who is the leading figure in | large chemical manufacturing cOmpan.
 and who is now accounted to be tn
 largest owner Of real estate in Phila | delphia. He is 93 years old, but stil
 devotes a portion of his time to busi-
 ness matters.
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