Arizona republican., 1904-03-31
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 stewardesses of the A. M. k. church will give q leap year entertainment at the church tonight
 TWO WERE BAPTIZED.-Twop per- sons were baptized into the Baptist church by the -astor yesterday after noon, the ordinance being administered in the Christian church.
 HE WAS DRUNK.-Alberto Flores was before Justice Burnett yesterday on a charge of drunkenness and dis turbance of the peace. He was sen- tenced to seven days in the county jail.
 LADIES' AID.-There will be a meeting of the Ladies' Aids Thursday afternoon, March 31st, at 2:3O, in the Presbyterian church. Every member is earnestly asked to attend, as there is to be an election of officers.
 COMMIS ISSlONERS INSTRUCTED-- A new set of instructions for the guid ance of the United States commission CTS has been received from the office of the attorney general of the United States. The instructions are more succjnct and rather palmer than those under which the commissioners had been operating especially in relation to their dealing with the comptroller Of the treasury. The instructions relate mostly tc the compensation of the office of the commissioner and the manner in which accounts shall be rendered to the department.
 A DIAMOND THIEF-Sheriff Hen ry Lovin of Mohave county arrived in town yesterday morning after a man by the name of Dreyful. an inmate of the insane asylum who is wanted at Kingman for the theft of a valuable diamond there a couple of months ago. Dreyful was arrested at the time . he was soon after believed to be in sane and he was tried and committed to the asylum. It was shown at the time of his trial that he had been an inmate of other Ssylums. He has re- covered and it is the opinion of pr. Ward, the superintendent, that his mental infirmity is the result of in- dulgence in liquor.
 FINED FIFTEEN DOLLARS.- Francisco Moreno was fined $15 yes terday by Justice Robertson fo- break ing down the door of the house oc- cupied by Pedro Gonzales, a couple of nights before and fiourishing dangerous weapons in a threatening manner. Moreno claims he thought Gonzales was harboring his wife whom he could not find and who he says is maiden just budding into woman hood Gonzales is a man 70 years old and has no desire to harbor anybodys wife. much less the party claimed by Moreno who is said by local officers to De about thirty years old, of rather a wayward disposition, and as a mat ter fact is not the wife of anybody.
 DEATH OF MRS. FINLEY.-Mrs. J. F. c. Finley, wife of the presiding elCer of the Arizona district Of the 3. F. Church south, died yesterday after noon of pneumonia after an illness of two weeks. A brother and his wife who reside in Los Angeles were sum- moned and reached here before she died Mrs. Finley was 8 years old and has lived here this time about two years though she was here couple Of years previous to ten years ago when her husband held the same position as at present. They were married about fourteen years ago in California. Mrs Finley leaves no children. A brief funeral service will be held in the M l.. Church south, this afternoon, at o'clock and the body will be taken to Los Angeles for burial.
 AS TO DUCK HUNTlNG-A duck hunt, made notable by an unusual in cident, was participated in recently by a couple Of Phoenix nimrods and q visiting sportsman from Missouri who showed 'em" how it was done in his country After the three men had as sumed their stations on the Indian slough near the junction of the Gila and Salt rivers, three ducks that. had Hppn waiting Lrnnrr-- for q chance to get shot, came flying toward them. One of the Phoenix men was out of range but the other Phoe- nix man fred on the lead duck with fatal effect. At exactly the same in stant the visitor fired at duck No. 2. also with fatal effect, the sound of both discharges being simultaneous and ap- bearing as one shot. That in itself was unusual and neither man knew that the otLer had shot, each believing he had killed two birds with one load. But where the fine work of the Mis- sourian was shown was in respect Of the third bird. He had timed his shot ct the second bird, so that the third one came along just in time to bump his head into it's falling body. thus breaking his neck. Frequently ducks fly in regular order like the marching of a file of soldiers, at almost an equal distance from each other. The visiting nimrod says that in Missouri the crack hunters have become so proficient in their judgment. that often when flock of ducks !s rising. by properly timing their shot at the lead duck they can secure q whole flock with one round of ammunition, each of the following ducks breaking his neck on the preced- ing bird.