Arizona republican., 1904-09-03
CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING

There will be another meeting of the republican county committee meeting today at the offices of Millay & Chris ty. The matter of arranging for the convention and primaries was attend ed to at a meeting of the committee week ago. The conference today is for a discussion of a plan of campaign.
 FIREMEN WCN-Tne Phoenix fire men went to Mesa City yesterday and won a ball game with the Mesa team by a score of to 0. At least that would be the decision under the rules of the game for the Mesa team with drew from the field aIt the beginning of the fifth inning with the firemen at the bat, the cause of their fluke being q disagreement with the umpire and the score keeper, both of whom are Mesa men. The score at that time stood ito in favor of Mesa, with two men out on the Phoenix side. The Mesa cap tain, Al Hunsaker claimed there were three men out. The umpire and score keeper both assured him there were but two gone. About that time a very prominent business man, who belong ed to neither team butted into the game and urged the Mesa captain to call his men off and he did sO Prof Loper of Mesa tried to pour a little oil on the troubled waters and it is said the aforesaid business man struck him vicious blow but he was too much of a gentleman to retaliate. The above story is the tale brought back by the firemen who say they think the greater part of the Mesa people were with the umpire and the score keeper in the matter and think the ball players act ed to say the least, very improperly and unsportsmanlike. The firemen feel sure that they could have won the game had it been played out and are ready at any time to meet the Mesa team for money. The seven runs were made by Mesa in the first inning, with Ellis Graham in the box. Delgado was then put in the box and Mesa never made another score and under the rules of the game the team forfeited all it had made when it left the field.
 SEEKING FOR WATER-William Weaver of Arizola is in the city. Mr.
 Weaver is pretty near all there is Of Arizola. He is the wealthiest resi- dent, the postmaster and general sup ply agent and his ranch is the city's chief industry. However, he has re- signed as postmaster and is about to abandon his ranch until such time as the San Carlos dam project shall be- come a reality. He is now in search of land where there is water and will carry this quest to a point on the Co., lorado river just across the Nevada border, some fifty miles from the Need les. There he hopes to get water that will 10 a Ya season he has had no water from the Gila river and only once has he had water from the Santa Cruz. He reports the diversion dam of the Florence canal to be in a bad state He is firmly of the conviction that his country is better alfalfa land than the fields of this valley but admits that this sec ton is more adapted to wheat and bar ley. However, he insists that nothing can be done until the San Carlos dam is built. While free to admit that the Tonto dam may have been the greatest good to the greatest number, he feels anything than kind toward the people of this valley who secured the first great reservoir just when those fovor- ing the San Carlos project imagined they had it cinched. Had he lived n this valley he says th2t he would have worked as hard as it's people have done to secure the great boon, but he Is satisfied that at San Carlos a dam which could hold twice the water of the TOnto dam could have been buils for less than half the cost. MT. Wea- yer is an ardent republican and takes all the large papers of both parties from New York. From their perusal he expresses himself a. satisfied that Roosevelts election will be the most