Arizona republican., 1903-05-18

CANDIDATE FOR INTERPRETER. J. M. Melendrez, editor of Fl Mensa- jero a republican Spanish newspaper published weekly in this city has made application to the city council for the position of city interpreter.
 MINISTER'S MEETING.-The meet ing of the ministerial association will be held in the study of Rev. c. V. Cowan at ? o'clock this afternoon. Rev. Lewis Halsey will give a paper on the prayer meeting. Visiting ministers are cordially invited to be present.
 SUNDAY MORNING SERMON Rev. C. H. Bierkemper, missionary to the Navajo Indians, gave an excellent sermon at the Baptist church services on Sunday morning. MT. Bierkemper has been attending the sessions of the Presbytery of Arizona and New Mexi- co.
 NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY. = Major Ed Schwartz has been placed In charge by the G. A. R. of the ar engagements for the proper observance here of the national memorial day, May 90. Lawton Camp, $. A. w. V. will probably participate with the G. A. R. in whatever programme is arranged
 I. o. O. F. MEMORIAL DAY.-The members of the various branches of the Odd Fellows fraternity in this city will unite next Sunday in the observance of the annual memorial day of the ord- CT. All visiting Odd Fellows or Rebek- ahs are not only invited but requested to participate. The graves of dead Odd Fellows will be decorated and there will be a memorial service in the hall.
 THE WEATHER.-If it was as cold over on the coast yesterday as it was in Phoenix it is likely there will be various people sending home for their oVercoats. It is another verification of the old saying that one swallow don't make a summer. There are "a lot of Phoenix birds who have already flown to the beaches but they don't seem to be pulling the good old summer time. = DINED WITH THE PRESIDENT The San Francisco papers of the 18th publish the names of those who at tended the Golden banquet given the night ebfore in honor of the president and full details of that magnificent in cident. Among the guests named is Walter Talbot of this city who left here only a mayor but will return ele-
 
 who has seen the president,
 FIRST M. E. CHURCH.-On yester- day morning the Rev. H. Tolle of Mesa preached a very practical sermon from the text. Let Me First Go Bury My Father showing how in the commer- cial life men acted promptly on the word of their fellow-men. While in the more important and their enternaI in-
 
 statement made, before they would ac- cept the word of God. Rev. c. V. Cowan preached the evening sermon.
 GONE TO ROCKINGHAM. and Mrs. Harry NJ. Chapman and their mother, Mrs. Harrington, will leave the city about Wednesday afternoon for Nor enci, Ariz.. their future home. MT. Chapman recently assumed the man. agment of the Morenci hotel and was suddenly called home to attend the funeral of his twenty old babe, who died last week of spinal menin- gitis. Owing to a wreck on the road MT. Chapman was unable to arrive be- fore his daughter died Their many friends wish them a safe journey.
 CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.-The following chapter of accidents is from the Prescott Courier: Foreman Joe Wilson of Grant Bros camp No. ?. on the Bradshaw branch railroad, is laid up with a broken leg. He slipped and slid down the side of cut eighteen feet deep, and dislodged a boulder which followed him down, struck and broke his leg. At the same camp, yesterday, a laborer. who was watching for blast to go off in front of him, forgot about another behind him and when the lat ter blast went off a rock flew and struck the laborer on the arm, almost cutting it off. The bone was crushed so badly that arm had to be amputated. few days before this accident an