Arizona republican., 1904-06-06

A BOY.-Avery Thompson, assistant engineer at the power house of the street railway company. has received the glad news from Missouri that Mrs. Avery has just given birth to a ten pound son.
 BOARD OF EQUALlZAT'ON.-1hc June meeting of the territorial board of equalization will meet today. There is not much to be accomplished for no other kind of property than railroad property will come before the boarI until the August meeting. It is prob able that the hoard will be in ses- sion at this time for three or four days Returns from all the roads are not usually in at the opening of the session and then a day or two will be taken in going over them.
 DEATH OF R. s. IiATCH-Surveyo General Ingalls, yesterday received a telegram from Yuma informing him of the funeral there yesterday of Robert $. Hatch, who died on Friday. Bob Hatch was one of the best known men of the southern part of the territory. He had lived at Yuma for many years. He was at one time connected with the office of the sheriff and al another was assistant superintendent Of the pCui- tentiary. He was for a long time active in the affairs of the republican party of the territory.
 THE TONTO RANGE-Of range conditions in the Tonto basin country the Globe Silver Belt says: D. J. Peter the Tonto cattleman. who was in town on Tuesday, reported the range condi- tions in that section as deDlorab!e. On part of the hange. particularly where sheep have graZed there is not a ves- tige of grass and the drouth is so ss- were that the oak brush hes bean killed. On Salome, Armer and Long gulches, Lower Tonto Mir. Peter esti- mates that two-thirds of the cattle will die. Tom Auner recently counted sev- enty-six dead cattle while travel.ng two miles. MT. Peter will go to Phce- nix next week to bring his family to the hanch to spend the summer.
 FOUR PEAKS BURNlNG-The boys in the east end Of town have for twu or three days been watching a pillar
 of cloud by day and a pillar of fire Oy niht, that is hanging over the Four Peaks, and last night the fact was re- ported to The Republican office. From | the roof of the Hotel Adams d fire could be seen that evidently covered m area of many acres. and as near as could be determined it was just where
 the Four Peaks are in the day time. II is probably a forest fire for there are
 no snow banks to burn there this year
 and it is hardly expected that -he Peaks have turned into a volcano. The lgCvernmen: is making lumber for the ITonto dam somewhere in that part oi
 the country and it is sincerely to bc hoped the fire is not in the government lumber mills nor in the immediate sec-
 ton from which they get their timber
 supply.
 OIL AT ROOsEVELT-An item ir
 the Globe Silver Belt says that O
 seepage was recently found above tn,
 high line road, and a large number O.
 locations have been made. J. B. New man is the first and largest locator an, is forming a company to develop tn oil indications. Robert Schen. who i
 now in Phoenix, was at Roosevelt few days ago and says he saw lots O rock in the vicinity indicated tha
 seemed to carry oil, or at least smella like oil. Frequently in that country h has worked in prospect holes where tn oil OdOr was so strong as to be naus ating. It would be almost like a sp7
 cial act of Providence if good fuel oi
 could be developed at that point whicI
 is only few hundred yards from tn
 dam site, for the freight on the fue oil necessary 10 use in the building O the dam is reckoned as one of th largest expenditures in the enterprise With the cement factory and fuel O.
 at, hand there could be nothing els that even the most devOut enginee could have the nerve to pray for. SCOTT -PENNY-At 7:36 D. m. Sun day evening, at the home of Dr. an Mrs. C. H. Brown. the latter being th
 Brides sister. MT. John Fl. Scott an
 Miss Jennie w. Penny were united i marriage by Rev. ". II. BagbY. Tn