Arizona republican., 1903-09-07

M. E. BLYSTONE. Section Director SUNDAY HOURS.-Sunday hours will be observed today at the Phoenix
 postoffice. it being a legal holiday.
 THE CELEBRATION.-Th only
 celebration of Labor day announced here will be the programme of sports, music and dancing at Eastlake park this afternoon and the Curtiss com pany theatrical performance at the park theater in the evening.
 | NOW A TRAINED NURSE.-Miss
 Nellie E. Wilcox, formerly a resident
 of this city and who has many friends | here has graduated from the city and county hospital at San Francisco and i is now doing well in the profession of trained nurse.
 LIVING IN SEATTLE.-A Phoenix ] friend. who recently returned from l San Francisco reports having met | there, Mrs. Bowsrs, nee Miss Clay Henshaw of this city. She was just | leaving for Seattle to join her husband l who is conducting a profitable busi- { ness there.
 GONE TO ALIFORNIA.-It was announced in yesterdays issue that I Neri Osborn left for California Satur-
 day night for few days visit. He did
 not go, however, although he promised that he would. He repeated the prom l ise last evening about an hour before ! train time and his departure is there
 fore again recorded.
 AN ENTERPRISING LAD.-Pres- cott's poundmaster; is a negro boy. He was fined S25 the other day for letting a 1 citizens cows out of the corral, driving
 them to the pound and then collecting the fees. With that sort of ability it ought to be only small jump from | poundmaster tc something really worth ! having.
 WEIGHT AND FATE-Central Hodge No. |. 1. o. G. T. is arranging
 for d Weight and Fate" social to be held a the Osborn school house Fri
 day night. The members are expect ing a good turnout of the Phoenix people and are preparing to entertain them properly. They can go within Q l very short distance of the schoolhouse l cn the Indian school car line.
 | AN INQUIRY.-Mayor Bennett yes | terday received a telegram from some
 where in Georgia making inquiry for
 one H. M. Coachman. There was nc explanation of whether it is feared he
 is sick or in trouble, or whether it is
 merely desired to locate him. Any one
 who may know him will confer a favor 1 by informing either Mayor Bennett oI | the city marshal's office.
 GONE TO JEROME.-Mrs. Addie B | ConrOy and Miss Ada Kelly left yester-
 day morning for Jerome. where they 1 have accepted positions in the schools
 there, they having resigned their places ] in Phoenix public schools to accept the
 Jerome offer. The schools here vii lose two of their oldest and ablest teachers. Jerome is to be congratulated
 on the acquisition of such able educa- | tors.
 WHY IT WAS DARk-During the l electric storm Saturday evening light | ming started an electric arc from one
 of the 10000 volt transmission wires ot the Light and Fuel companys power | line to the pole. The damage was moi | detected until after dark when thf | flames attracted attention to the pole i line near the M. SS P. depot. It was l necessary to shut off the power for ( short time to repair the trouble. whicf l was the cause of the city. being left 1T darkness for a while Saturday night. IN RECLAMATION SERVICE.-It 1 is learned that Captain Frank G. Rus 1 sell is now in civilian service as ar | emplcye of the arid land reclamation | service, with headquarters at Sar | Francisco. Capt. Russell, it will bt i remembered. served in the First Ter
 ritorial Volunteers during the Span | ish-American war and later was [
 captain in the 34th volunteers that
 went to the Philippines during the in
 surrection. being discharged there al | the expiration of his term of service. l SENT THE PAPERS.-Roy McCar | thy, Leslie Mccarthy and Tom Arm strong, who are doing a fishing stun
 at Santa Catalina, think they are nov
 in the heavy weight champeen" clas having landed q 30O-pound Jew fish
 Leslie. Mccarthy takes exceptions to
 recent publication in this paper inspired ! by some of his jealous compa nions, t, 1 the effect that he hasn't caught fisf | this summer. He claims to have d thirt | interest in the Jew fish which the thre, | boys landed in fl minutes. A hundred pounds of it he claims credit for. Fear | ing that his story might not be believ
 ed he had the fish and himself and com panions photographed on d postal car(