Arizona republican., 1903-09-28

temperature 63.
 Average relative humidity, SS per cent.
 Total precipitation 1.46.
 Character of the day: Cloudy.
 M. E. BLYSTONE. Section Director
 HOMIE AGAIN-Doctor and Mrs. Ancil Martin who have journeyed eX- tensively in the east and Mrs. Martins mother, Mrs. Walter Talbot have re- turned home.
 THE GAME LAW.-Conditions in this city for some time past suggest that the Arizona game laws should ba amended to prohibit the killing of pull lets and hens. The egg industry is paraiyzed.
 TOURIST SEASON BEGINNING The tourist season is now here and from this time forward the city viii be full of strangers. Employes of the Phoenix postoffice report that about fifty new faces are seen at the win dow each day.
 PRISONERS FOR YUMA-Deputy Sheriff Gangwe of Flagstaff arrived in the city yesterday morning with three convicts sentenced to Yuma. Two of them are horse thieves and the other was a burglar. Other convicts from Coconino will be brought down within a day or two.
 A GIRL BABY.-Mr. and Mrs. T. w. Pemberton of this city have been ad- vanced to the honorable station of grandparents through the birth of a daughter to MT. and Mrs. Meade Good Toe of Congress, Mrs. Goodloe being their daughter. The pleasing event oc- cured yesterday morning at their home in Congress.
 A VISITING MINISTER.-Rev F. D. Bovard of San Francisco and editor of the California Christian Advocate is attending the Arizona Mission con- ference now in session at Tempe. Yes terday morning he preached a very able sermon in the First M. E. church of this city, the subject of his dis course being 'Christs Going Away" and the text being John 16:1. He was greeted by a very appreciative audi ence.
 THE CITY LIBRARY.-If any one doubts that the Phoenix city library is not appreciated he should sit in the city hall plaza any evening at o'clock and watch the procession of people, young and old, that call daily to ex- change library books. If general read ing has a tendency to improve the race, and most people believe that it has, Phoenix is certainly deriving great benefit from its city library.
 LEFT LAST NIGHT-Colonel and Mrs. D. s. White. who have been here for couple of days en route from the east to their home in San Fran cisco. left on last nights M. &, P. train. Col White is newspaper man of wide experience in the mechanical, as we'll as other departments. He lived in Phoenix in the seventies and again in the latter eighties. He was formerly employed on the Gazette and was pres ent at the Firth of The Republican.
 NO PLACE LIKE PHOENIX.-Mrs. T. K. Elvey returned Saturday morn ing after d three months visit in the east, most of her time being spent with her mother in Webster City, Iowa. The latter part of her visit was very pleasantly spent with relatives in Chi Cago, where it was made so pleasant for her that the time seemed too short when she had to return home. Miss Emma Cook accompanied Mrs. Elvey home and will spend another winter in Phoenix
 FUNERAL OF MRS. CARTLEDGE. The funeral of Mrs. Matilda Cart ledge, who died at her home, No. 2O3 North Tenth avenue, Sunday morning at 1:15 o'clock will be held at Easter ling's undertaking parlors this atfer- noon at 1 o'clock. The interment will be at Tempe. Rev. Rowland will of hciate. Her son, w. H. Cartledge, who is with the Los Angeles Livestock company, arrived here on the Sunday morning train. Mrs. Cartledge was 51 years old and lived in Tempe previous to coming to Phoenix about a year 1 ago. Beside her son, Mrs. Cartledge leaves a daughter and host of friends to mourn her death.
 ] THE NEW HONES-Every- thing worked nicely yesterday with the | telephone exchange considering that I both the public and the central office | were new to the system" The new | directories were distributed as early as possible yesterday morning. They are only temporary, however, and the reg ular directory will be issued soon. Patrons should keep in mind the neces- sity of following directions for using | the new system. namely hunt up the number desired, on the new card which 1 is in most case different from the old