Arizona republican., 1904-12-30
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e | fam Duffield has been confined to his rooms for three or four days with la grippe but is better and expects to be, out again Saturday.
 GOLDEN STATE LIMlTED-The Rock Island railroad has resumed the running of it's Golden State Limited train daily and much of the eastern mail is now being routed that way, arr irving here via Maricopa instead of Ash Fork.
 AN UNDELIVERED PARCEL There is at the postoffice a parcel from which the address has been lost, but it contains things for Louis, Hurbert and Eva, and was mailed at Babylon, L. l. Any family having such members can get it on proper identification.
 BOARD OF CONTEMPORARIES board of governors of the Water Users association will hold it's regular month ly meeting at the association rooms next Monday regardless of whether it is being celebrated as a holiday by others or not.
 NEW LETTER BOX-A new letter box has been placed at the southwest corner of Center and Washington streets. That part of the city is now pretty well supplied with facilities for mailing things. There is a letter box already on the northeast corner and a package box on the southeast corner.
 OTHER PIMA BONDS-E. L. Vail and c. H. Bayless, members of the Pima county board of supervisors ar rived in the city yesterday morning to see the members of the loan com mission about funding a part of the bonded debt of Pima. The matter will be taken up at the next meeting of the commission.
 WILL KEEP OPEN HoUsE-The Woman's Relief Corps will keep open house at Veterans hall on Monday, Jan. | ?, between the hours of and 6 p. m. They will receive especially all old sol diers of the civil war, the Spanish American and Philippine wars and the militiamen but extend a cordial invi- tation to everyone interested in patri- otic work
 PETITION FOR PosToFFIcE- Postmaster McClintock on Wednesday forwarded to Washington a numerous | ly signed petition for the establishment of a postoffice near old Fort McDowell. to be called Fort Mcdowell, and asking for the appointment of Mary Gill as lpostmistress This is for the accom- modation of people living in the neigh borhood of Mcdowell and beyond there toward Tonto basin, who are deprived of mail service through the discontinu- ance of the horseback route between ScottsdaIe and Cline.
 A CHILD STEALING CASE-COn- stable Lee -Redwine last night arrest ed Faustino Cruz, young Mexican, on charge of child stealing. He had taken away from her home a young Mexican girl living in the eastern part | of the city. Her relatives were unable | to find her and Cruz could not be made | to divulge her whereabouts. The girl is seventeen years of age. Cruz was locked up in the county jail and about nine o'clock his mother accompanied by lhis two little brothers arrived with his supper. It was long past the dinner hour at the jail but on the representa- ton of the old woman that her son had been too busy ie1l day to eat, the rule was broken and the food was allowed to | go in.
 WARNING TO DRIVERS.-From now until Monday night, there will be an unusual amount of driving on First avenue between the city and the race track. Particularly in returning from the track, the teams come in a rapidly moving procession and 1t is only natural that many having good horses should have the sportsmen's s instinct to drive rapidly, sometimes