Arizona republican., 1904-05-31
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THE RATHBONE SISTERS.-There will he meeting of the Rathbone Sis ters on Wednesday night for the pur- pose Of nominating officers. It had been announced that this meeting would be on the night of July l.
 A BUSINESS POEM.-A local poet who has an intuitive appreciation cf the eternal fitness of things and who readily conceives the appropriateness of the marriage of business and senti- ment hands in the following: 'The wind bloweth, the water floweth, the subscriber oweth. and the Lord know eth that we are Tn need of our dues; so come a-runnin'. ere we go gunnin', this thing of dunnin' gives us the blues"
 WHER FORE THE FISHING TACkLE?-Charles Gittner and some friends have gone to the HOle-in-the- Rock for an outing of a few days. Mir Gittner is always doing something to fill bis acquaintances with wonder
 nent and they are wondering now why he took along a lot of fishing tackle including lines, hooks and bamboo rods to say nothing Of several nets. Mir Gittner is one of the most ardent and successful sportsman in this part of the country but he was not always so- He completed his primary course in sportsmanship by lying in wait near the Rock for a lot Of snipe which he had been told were haunting that vicinity and those who pretend to know anything about that region say there are as many snipe there as there are fish.
 THE NEW NATATORlUM.-Worl- will be begun on the new natatorium today The plans were finished yes terday and contractors were notified that their bids must be submitted last night All the awards will be made to- day and especially the award for the brick work. Tafel and ROos, the Chicago gentlemen, who purchased the old Baptist church ste last Thursday. have gone about the business of put ting up this natatOrium in the Chica- go way with feverish haste. They in- tend to have the enterprise in running order in about six weeks It will cost them in the neighboThoOd of S10,000. Beside the cost of the construction of the building there will be a large out lay for machinery for independent electric light and water plants. One of the proprietors will leave for Chi cago within a day or two after the machinery.
 A CONTRACT FOR MACHiNERY.- w. E. Deity, the mining engineer and general manager of the Arizona Mex ican Copper company. returned yester day morning from Mexico. On Mon day he closed a contract with Roy &
 Titcomb of NogaIes for SIP, ,009 worth of machinery for the company's mine known as La Gran Proveedora in So- nora in the Altar district. The con tract includes hOisting machinery, gal lows frames, boilers, pump, pipe line, etc, t1 be placed on the mine by July l. TEis property has been steadily de- Veloped for the last eighteen months and has been proved to be extensive and valuable. More than 1,200 feet of work has been done and the lowest working is $40 feet below the apex of the ore body which cross cutting has proved to be more than 100 1t. wide with satisfactory values in gold, copper and silver. A smelter will be placed upon the property next fall
 THE BURRO.-As everybody knows, | the burro Is a mighty important fea | ture of life in the entire Rocky noun
 tain region and he is by no means
 rare animal Everybody has seen him | singly and in punches but til yester- 1 day, 90 far as can be learned, there
 has never been but one well authenti- cated fact of a burro's death and that was through violence. The writer has | never seen a dead burro ncr has he i ever found anyone else who could say ] he had seen one, and prove it. Ere l quentIy they are reported missing but | what has become of them is a mys- 1 tery and opinions differ as to whether
 they are translated when their period
 Of usefulness is over. whether they are worked up into venisou jerkey by the