Arizona republican., 1903-05-25

SUNDAY DRUNKS.-Night Officer Andrews last evening jailed three sleep ing drunks and picked up another dis orderly man on the city hall plaza.
 BAND CONCERT-The band con cert last evening was the most largely attended of any concert this season. l. was a warm day and pleasant even ing.
 BULLET EXTRACTED.-The bullet
 that lodged in the shoulder of Date Graham, the Douglas officer shot by an unknown desperate at the time Tom Vaughn was killed. has been extracted and his recovery is practically assured.
 FRIDAY AFTERNOON Ho1IDAY A committee O; business men will tc- day circulate petition among the merchants of the city requesting them to close their stores hereafter at noon on Friday for the purpose of giving their clerks a half holiday.
 AN ILLINOIS VISITOR-William Baum of Indi&ncla. Ind. is here visit ing his brothers. Frank Baum and C. M Baum. both we'll known Salt River valley ranchers. It is MT. Baums first visit for nine years and he says ha
 
 Phoenix.
 SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE.-A strike Of switchmen at YulTia involving four teen men is in progress. So far it is q purely local affair growing out of a difference of opinion regarding hours. The trains arriving there day before yesterday morning were slightly delay ed as there were only two men to ham, de them.
 OFFICE REMOVAL. - J. Henry Wood has moved his headquarters from the Phoenix Light and Fuel com pany's office to No. 42 North Center street. where he will continue his work as accountant ana mines management expert. MT. Wood is just now busy systematizing. the development opera tions at the mining property near Phoenix in which w. C. Greene is in terested.
 THERE'S MUCH IN A NAME Henry Drane. who is engaged in the collection of the school tax which less wise generation than the present one called a poll tax says that he Is getting along rapidly. People who used to hide out when they saw the poll tax collector coming are sitting up nights now to receive and welcome the school tax collector. They know now that they are contributing to the cause Of whereas they formerly thought that their contributions went into the general fund and were dissi- pated without serving any useful pur- pose.
 UNFAVORABLE WEATHER.-Dr. F.. E. Prowell returned yesterday morn ing from the coast. He was at Los Angeles during the opening days of the general assembly and heard a great deal of complaint among the eastern clergymn and delegates to the assembly about the weather It has been cold ard foggy an unusual condition for this season of the year It is hard to make the visitors, es- pecially those who are visiting the city for the first time, believe that the con ditions are not normal. The newspa- pers and the citizens are. kept busy trying to explain the extraordinary conduct of the weather. The day pr. ProweH left Los Angeles it had begun to rain again.
 A MOURNFUL MISSION.-R. E. Barrow and Frank Hester spent yes terday in Phoenix. leaving on last nights train for Florence. The first named is q half brother and the last named a brother-in-law of P. M- Bag wall who was killed by the explosion of a premature blast in a'tunnel being driven through a mountain east of Florence by the P. & F. railroad com pany. An account of the incident, in which a Mexican was also killed was printed in these columns last Monday morning These gentlemen are from Cripple Creek ard Poland, Ariz.. re- spectively and hope to secure the ef- fe cts of their late relative as well as e....l.o.. i,, fern, O tinr rnna rdincy tha in-