Arizona republican., 1904-07-19

that will be of greatest interest her
 will be reproductions of the solar mo-
 tor at Tempe and pictures from the
 Passion play.
 IS IMPROVlEG-It is learned from friends of Professor and Mrs. A. J. Me-
 Clatchie that their son. stanley, who was sick for long time previous to their departure from Phoenix. is inn proving since they went to California. The inference may have been drawn from the announcement of their depar- ture in these columns that Professor McClatchie had severed his connection with the agricultural experiment sta tion. Such is not the case, however. as he is still in charge, though the eX- pertinent farm is being looked after by d competent subordinate. The eXces- sive drouth this year greatly interfer
 ed with many experiments and Pro- lessor McClatchie believed he could spend his time to better advantage in California where the climate is more suitable for study and writing as he has done in previous years. His de- parture, however, was somewhat ear Her than it would have been. on ac- count of the illness of his son. whose recovery it is sincerely hoped will be complete and permanent.
 HAPPY BALL TOSSERS-The Phoenix baseball team was jubilant when it returned from Tucson yester- day morning. it's brow decorated with the laurels of victory and it's face wear ing a smile one could throw baseball bat through without touching a tooth. The boys had only the best of words to say of the way they were en- tertained and of their treatment in the game. There were some bickerlngs, cf course, over the umpire's decisions, but he evidently meant to be fair in all things, and even if he erred the vic tory wiped out all possible sins. The boys noted one thing, which earned their respect even if it did not hslp them any in the game, and that was the Intense loyalty of the Tucson people to the home team. Though they were quick to applaud good work on the part of the visitors, it was easy to see that their hearts were with their own champions, just as they ought to be, but in a degree that is sometimes lack ing in this city when the local team finds an elephant on it's hands.
 MORE ABOUT MIR. PATRlCKS BONES-Wlliam Gilson. pioneer rancher who lives east of the city and whose arrival in this country was an- tedated by that of H. R. Patrick, by only a few hundred years, called at the board of trade rooms yesterday to see the bones of the mastOdon MT. Patrick claims to have ridden dow n from the grand canyon. MT. Gilson says that the bones are not those Of a mastodon, but of a camel. It is a matter Of common knowledge that this country was once the abiding place of many camels, the remnant of a herd turned loose by the government after an improbable experiment in using them for pack animals across the des- ert From that incident has sprung the annual camel story that is exploited in the magazine departments of the Sunday papers MT. Gilson does not deny that Mr. Patrick once rode a mastodon: for all MT. Gilson knows he may have had the swiftest mammoth on the prehistoric speedway. All he is passing judgment upon is the bona exhibit now in evidence. He does moi deny that the camel may have belong ed to MT. Patrick, as per the branded tooth. He thinks MT. Patrick will do well to make a lot of people who are straining at gnats around here. swal low a camel, without trying to shove a mastodon down their threats.