Arizona republican., 1903-07-03

 returned yesterday from the mountains l west of McDowell where he has been examing some bismuth mines for
 New York people
 HOME FOR THE FOURTH.-John M. Messinger, who is now living in San Francisco. is home to spend the Fourth with friends and relatives. He expects to be here about a week.
 GONE AFTER EASY MONEY.-De- putty Sheriff Oscar Roberts left last
 night for Douglas to take part in the
 steer tying and bronco busting events.
 He will be satisfied with nothing less
 than the principal prize of s1,000. POLICE COURT.-In the police court yesterday Peter Sanchez was fined five dollars for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. John Doe, a. Mexican. was fined five dollars for being drunk and asleep on the street. Two others. ar rested on the charge of vagrancy, were discharged.
 BUTCHERS WILL CELEBRATE The butchers, though a hard-working class of people, are determined to have their part of the Fourth of July fun, so they have agreed to close their shops from o'clock in the morning to o'clock D. m., when they will be open again for two hours.
 A PEACE DISTURBER IN JAIL
 NJ. Rondon was locked up in the county jail last night on d charge of disturb ance of the peace. Complaint was made against him by R. D. Jones, the pro- prietor of the Vermont house. Rondon l had insulted the wife of Jones. Jones | caught him at Five Points and jerked lnm out of q wagon and brought him down town. Then he swore out 2 war rant against him.
 CHARLIE LAWRENCE HOME Charlie Lawrence, son of Mrs. w. H. Stillwell, is in Phoenix to spend the Fourth with relatives and friends. He has been for sometime the assayer at the McCabe mine, and after his vaca- tion expects to go to the Iron King mine near Val Verde to assume the duties of chemist.
 RANGES IN GOOD CONDITION - Sheriff Cook returned last night from his Cave Creek range, after an absence of three weeks. The ranges in that 1 part of the country. he says, were neV- CT in better condition. The feed is good and there is plenty of water. A curious thing is that though some of the old water holes have dried up. oth- CTS have sprung up in places where ! there was never water before. CAPTURED A ROBBER.-Sheriff
 Dell Lewis of Cochise county came in from the north yesterday morning with Ed Howard, wanted at Tombstone for robbery. Howard was captured at Prescott on a telegram from the sher- | if. Howard pretends to be deaf mute. It is known that he can both talk and hear. but though he has been operating in this territory for some | time nobody has ever heard him speak. He is a criminal of long standing and is said to be an exceedingly smooth enc.
 SERIOUSLY HURT.-A man by the name of Hudson, who was formerly employed by Sanders 6; Beale of this city, was very seriously if not fatally injured yesterday at the Gila bridge. Recently he has been working for the M. & P. & S. R.. V. Co. on the Gila bridge improvements. He was at work yesterday in the river bed below the
 bridge when a crowbar fell off the bridge and hit him on the head. Word was sent to Phoenix and as soon as
 possible Superintendent Bicknell and Dr. Craig went after him with d spe- 1 oia! train. He was taken to the Sis ters' hospital and is doing as well as
 can be expected, but is yet in a critical condition.
 A BIRTHDAY PARTY.-A delight full little party of ten was entertained | by Miss Creech Wednesday evening the occasion being her birthday. Her beautiful home assumed a festive air being decorated with flowers through out. The hall was one of the most at tractive places, a cosy corner of flow CTS being made in which was placed .
 cut glass bowl of punch, presided over
 by little Miss Lucy Mansfield. Music
 and dancing were the chief amuse- ments. A dinner of substantials ant | ices was served and all spent a mos
 enjoyable evening. The hostess looked ] lovely in a gown of white silk null