Arizona republican., 1904-09-09
COMING ATTRAcTIoN

COMING ATTRACTION - Marion McCann nd s. J. Mcdonald are adver- Using a big steer tying contest for Eastlake park September Is, II anu IS. Miss Kfttie White, the noted young woman cowboy" will participate.
 GOING INTO THE OIL BUSINESS Dallas McFall left yesterday morning for Kansas City, where his father George McFall, and family has been since last June. George McFall is ex- tensively interested with Dr. Ford and others in oil eds in southern Kansas and Indian Territory. Dallas will be engaged by corporation which has been formed for their operation. >
 RETURNED TO NEW YORK; Ernest Lamson, who has been spend ing the summer in Phoenix and in Iron Springs. has left for New York, having received notice from his manager, MT. Pinkham. that the Young Tobe Hoxie' company would open the season about three weeks earlier than they original ly intended. Mr. Lamson thinks that Iron Springs has the finest summer climate of any place in the United States that he has ever visited, ana he has been over pretty much all of
  Pinkham reports that he has booked "Tobe Hoxie" in the best theatres of most of the large cities east of the Mississippi river for the season of 1904-05.
 TWIN COONS"-When is a coon not a coon? When he is a Cohen. When is a Cohen not a Cohen? When he is a Cohn. Why are they twins if -h to skin the same trade. Also because these two special articles always come in the same parcel. E. Cohen is from San Francisco and sells things which fit like gloves because they are gloves. I. Conn travels out of Los Angeles and sells gents furnishings. They always travel together and are now in Phoe- nix to remain until after the Jewish New Year. They have so many friends here that they regard Phoenix as head quarters No. 2. They will probably buy the Republican reporter who wrote this a cigar.
 A DOUGLAS ROW-Two men named Ed. Prenty and John Johnson seem to be developing very rapidly, q deeply rooted feud in Douglas. They had a fight in which it was charged
 
 held petty office under the sheriff and his commission was revoked. Prenty having him arrested for assault with intent to kill. On Tuesday he was ex- amined by a magistrate, and exonerat- ed. The same evening while he and another man were leaning against I bar ir a Douglas saloon, Prenty enter ed and ordering a drink began abusing Iph mi hiF1 in hn Til Johnson fought, back and Prenty reach ed for his gun. Johnson followed suit and each man hammered the other with his weapon till both guns fell from their hands and were taken care of by bystanders, it appearing that neither wanted to shoot. Then they mixed in rough and tumble fight. Johnson went to the floor first, though before the bystanders had separated them Prenty got the worst of the fight and had to be sent to a hospital. Both men are under arrest.
 PETITIONS IN REGULATIONS The city attorney yesterday furnished the city marshal with copies of forty seven different petitions to be signed by property owners, asking for the construction of cement gutters. Under the law it is necessary to secure or at tempt to secure the signatures of twO- thirds Of the resident property owners, to petition asking the council to order the construction of a cement gutter along any particular block be- fore it can be done. As it is desired to construct gutters along forty-seVen different sides of city blocks in the center of town, that number of sepa- rate petitions are required. If all are signed up promptly there will be a lot of gutter work going on here in the near future. The marshal is up against what is probably the most voluminous