Arizona republican., 1903-06-07
ARIZONA NEWS
Interesting Items Cleaned From Ter
 ritorial Exchanges.

Bishop Kendrick of the Episcopal
 dioI ese of Arizona and New Mexico is
 in Bisbee where it is proposed to build
 a new church as a memorial to the late
 Dr. F. A. Sweet.
 Mexican boys seem to like jack knives just. as well as the proverbial
 Yankee boys. The other day Bisbee
 Mexican boy stole four dozen of them l from a drug store.
 Yuma was first in the market this year with cucumbers and ripe figs. The Yuma Fruit company has been ship ping them to the California markets for more than two weeks. For figs they receive $1O per box of 7la pounds,
 the highest price they have ever real ized. They are shipping l5O boxes of cucumbers daily and receiving $2.25 per box of three dozen. The demand
 for them is very great, more than equaling the supply.
 August PIuett. an Austrian laborer,
 died at Grant brothers grading camp
 in the Bradshaws from the effects Of an explosion last Monday. According
 to the story told the entire crew had
 been drinking pretty heavily on Mon day and Pluett had been amusing him
 self by firing sticks of powder. His comrades tried to persuade him to stop when he placed fuse and cap on a stick and prepared to throw 1t into the crowd He held it too long, how ever, and the powder exploded in his hand, tearing the member off almost to the elbow and seriously injuring him internally. The arm was amputated and the injured man taken care Of. The wound seemed to be improving but the internal injuries were of such nature that death had been expected almost any hour since the accident
 Wilbur Jones. the eight-year-old son of MT and Mrs. Thomas Jones, cat tIeman and miner, was almost instant Iy killed Wednesday morning directly in front of the residence of his parents on East Third street. in Tucson. The little fellow endeavored to mount low. heavy truck belonging to the Ste veHs Express company, missed his hold on tfe stake and fell under the truck, the right hand rear wheel passing completely over his body. The child's mother and aunt happened to be standing in front of the house at the time and saw him killed.
 F.. F. Jago, an old-time Californian, and a splendid man physically and mentally. blew the entire top Of his head off at Mammoth Wednesday. News of the suicide first reached the Reilly undertaking company of Tucson through a notification of the coroner to take care of the remains. MT. Jago was for many years the toll receiver on tho road from the Cliff house to san Francisco. He had been engaged in mining and in business in this terri tory for a long period of time. De ceased was about 60 years of age and was 9 man who weighed over 200 pounds. He was in good circum stances financially.
 One of the most attractive sights at Fort Huachuca, says a Nogales paper, is the big barn in which the cavalry horses are fed and cared for. Each of the three troops there has about 65 head. Each troop has its own barn and each man takes care of his own horse. On Sunday last a large number of the animals were loose in the corrals and they presented a beautiful and very interesting sight These animals are all selected by government buyers and are all as nearly of the same standard as 1t is possible for them to be. They are all big fine horses and standing off locking at so many of them of the same size. color and con tour it makes an impression that is not soon forgotten