Arizona republican., 1903-02-16

were injured, and the messenger had been sent to telegraph for a doctor. MT. Park learned no other particulars of the accident and did not learn the names of the men who had been killed. The business of Mir. Park is to look al herd of 130 bulls in the valley.
 A VISITORS DEATH.-David Phil lips of Bradford. Pa. died Saturday afternoon a t the temporary home of the family on North First avenue. He was twenty eight years old and a we'll known capitalist of Bradford, Pa. hay ing been engaged in the oil business. He leaves a wife, who was with him here and who, in company with MT and Mrs. Neal McCallum and Fila Phillips, left on this mornings train fer Bradford escorting the remains for
 nterment there
 AN EXPERT MARKSMAN.-Cap George F. Bartlett. ex-deputy United States marshal and scout in North Da- kota, expects to visit Phoenix the tat ter part of this month and give q free exhibition. He has made marvellous records with the rifle, pump gun. re- NolVer, and in fact nearly all kinds or weapons. He earned his reputation as a marksman first as a scout ana h. clan fighter. and has traveied the length and breadth Of the continent but recently returning from Lower California.
 AN EASTERN COMMENT.-Pboe- nix, Arizona, the center of Salt River valley. was q few years ago the cante-, ct a sage brush desert Ii has now twenty-five thousand inhabitants. with an assessed property valuation of ta1 million dollars. All this is due to Wa ter, which, brought in canals from streams fed mainly from San Fran cisco and other Arizona reserves. has turned the desert into fertile valiev- covered with ranches and dotted with small towns.-Farm and Fireside, Springfield, Ohic
 MIR. FAVILLA's SIDE OF IT.-A correction of the article in Sunday mornings Republican entitled "A Syn dicate of the Sick" is due to Ar. FavilIa Tn view of what he claims to be T correct version of the affair. NIr. Fa- Villa said he paid for his share of the furniture in the first place. and tho bedding was furnished him on the offer. CT MT Wilkins to use for three or four months At the expiration Of the first month Wilkins abruptly demanded his clothes, winch Favilla requested thai ne De permitted to keep for the night until he could go elsewhere. Wilkins refused and FaVilla thereupon locked the clothes in his trunk to hold for an other night, and Wilkins employed an 0tI1cer to get them. Favfra had accom- nodated Wilkins in the loan of money during the week previous for board and medicine in the city, and ir view Gf the circumstances that so much was written in The Republican of the mat ter MT. Favilla feels that correction IS due him as he is known by nanv people here. He is a merchant iu San francisco of the firm Of F'avilla &. Nieri md needless, expense and annovance was caused him beside the publication of the incident
 A COMMON NAME.-A great many people have an idea that Phoenix is an | odd name for town, or rather they cfmerly had that idea, but in thes. 1 nays It has been demonstrated that | most any old place can be named | 7hoehlH II 1t wants to. \ reference to i ne latest official postal guide suggests ] hdl II IS coming to be quite a fad for | towns to call themselves Phoenix. and | | oehooVes people to impress on their | correspondents the necessity Of writing he addresses on their letters plainly 90 there can be TO mistake Not onlv ne name of the town should be care ully written but the name of the state IT territory. for there is q Phoenix Tn Alabama and another in Ark, though here is no in the latter. and Ariz. arelessly written might be taken fo;, Ark. CT Ala. In thirteen states. beside Ai1zona' there is a Phoenix postofice. he name being spelled with an o. They re Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana. Mary and' Michigan, Mississippi, Nebrask... New York, North Carolina, Ohio. Ore .oA' Pennsylvania and South Caro- ma. In each of four states. namely Arkansas' Indiana, Missouri and Rhode sland there is a Phenix. same name peIled without the c. New York aIs, las a Phoenix Mills and a Phoenicis while Connecticut and Pennsvlvanf.,