Arizona republican., 1903-04-24

D. A. R. MEETING.-Maricop copa chapter, D. A. R., will meet in G'Iild hail saturday, April p, at 2:SO D. m. As this IS the last meeting until fall a full attendance is desired.
 W. A. Giles and daughter who have been residents of Phoenix since last December and who have spent several winters here. left on this mornings train for their home in Chicago.
 THE MEN WILL SERVE.-There will be an innovation at the Country club Saturday afternoon when the popular young men of the club will serve refreshments. This will be the last afternoon of the season and T large attendance is anticipated.
 DEATH OF A PRINTER.-A. L. Johnson, a printer of Butte, Mont, died yesterday of consumption. He came here about two months ago from Prescott. The time of the funeral has not been set, but it will be conducted by the Printers union of this city.
 \ MIX UP.-J. w. Jacobs and F. Tompkins got into a scrap Wednesday night in the tenderloin district. both oi them emerging in rather a disfigured condition. The latter caused the ar rest of the former ard his case will be heard this morning at 10 o'clock :n Justice Robertsons court.
 BASE BALL DOWN THE CHA The Buckeye baseball team will play :, return game with the St. Johns team next Sunday at the town of St. Johns The same teams played at Buckeye last Sunday, the game resulting in T score of to in favor of St. John Both teams are working hard for the honors in that section, and the game next Sunday promises to be good one A LEDGE WORTH FINDING John Maddox, who has been operating , in the White Tanks country for sev- eral years and has several good prop critics there, has recently made d strike which he thinks beats them all. He came upon a three and half foot ledge which will go $50 in gold to the ton. He brought several samples of
 the ore back with him to dazzle the 1 eyes of the beholders.
 i GOOD GROWING WEATHER-Thiz is the time of year when dame nature gives daily exhibitions of what can be
 done with the best soil on earth when there is fair weather and lots of water. Yesterday there was brought to the i board Of traue room a head Of lettuce
 weighing three and a half pounds, rais- ed by the boys al the Phoenix Indian
 school. R. R. Hedgpeth also brought ir
 a sheaf of wheat six feet high that he
 had raised on his farm three miles north of Phoenix park.
 THE WATER COUNCIL.-The coun-
 cil of the Water Users association held
 a meeting yesterday in the board of trade room embracing both forenoon , and afternoon sessions. Though it was
 an important meeting and much good
 work was done nothing of special inn | portance occurred of a news nature Several bylaws were considered. pass i ed second reading and referred to com mittees, but none were finally acted
 upon. The meeting adjourned to con- vene again on the first Monday in May which is the regular meeting.
 1 THE BEET SUGAR FACTORY 1 Inquiry was made yesterday regarding
 the status of the campaign for secur ing the bonus that will guarantee thu building of a beet sugar factory here It was learned from, member of tn | soliciting committee that there is stil a shortage Of S2,SGO beside the $500 ! the members of the committee person | ally guaranteed. The time given fo 1 raising this bonus was up a week az
 and it is only by the grace of tn
 Eastern Sugar company that so muc time has been granted the people C
 the valley to make good. It is under
 stood that even the day of grace
 waning very rapidly and whatever
 done will have to be done this weel
 That leaves just two days in which [
 raise g., ,SCO if factory is to be secured With the present outlook for wate
 storage it would appear that that muc