Arizona republican., 1904-08-08

CONGRESS- WON.-Ilne Congress base ball team yesterday defeated Prescott at Congress by a score of 6 to in a closely contested game of ten innings. The Congress battery was Payne and Putnam while Rumiller, Flynn and Carroll looked after things for Prescott.
 GOING EAST.-Mrs. Frank Pittman will leave tomorrow for St. Louis. She will be joined at Kansas City by her husband and together they will visit the worlds flair, after which she will return to Kansas City. where she will spend the remainder of the sum- mer with her family.
 A WEDDING JOURNEY MT. and Mrs. D. H. Burtis will leave today on an eastern visit. They will go to the worlds fair and will possibly go as far east as MT. Burtis's former home in New Jersey. It happens also that this is the tin wedding of MT. and Mrs. 1 BUrtis, so that the trip may be de- scribed as a wedding journey.
 DEATH OF ABE SROOR.-Word was received yesterday that Abe Sroor. merchant of Congress, dropped dead while watching a ball game there yes
 
 disease. Sroor was a native of Ar for several years. He was well known l here and was at one time engaged in | business in Phoenix.
 | NEW OLD SMELTER.-The Globe | Silver Belt says: The old smelling plant of the Old Dominion Copper Min | ing and Smelling company will close down August 15, and the new furnaces will be blown Hl about a month later There will be no reduction in the force in the interim, as more men will be put on to hurry to completion the work about the new smelter.
 FOR BUSINESS AND PLEASURE Charlie Korrick, proprietor of the New York store, left Sunday morning tor a isit to the world fair and an ex- tended tour through all the principal l eastern markets. While he expects tc have a great deal of pleasure during his trip his principal purpose will be the purchase of a winter stock for his store. Besides St. Louis he will visit Chicago. New York and Boston. LOAN COMMISSION MEETING.- There will be a meeting of the territo- rial loan commission this morning to consider an application for the ex- changing of $10,OOO worth of six pel cent bonds for lives. The application comes from the National Bank of Ari- zona. These six per cent bonds were issued in 1888 and run until 1913. Some time ago S135,0O0 of them were ex- changed at the request of one of the Prescott banks. There are still. beside the S10c00 application for whose ex- change has been made, about S90,COt out.
 DIED OF SCORPION sTING.-Ran. som Kellner, the 15-months old son O. MT. and Mrs. Ernest Kellner, died 1T Clifton few days ago from the effect. of a scorpion sting between the thumt and forefnger of the left hand. Thougl a physician was in attendance fiv, minutes after the sting of the insec he could not counteract the effect O the poison, which seemed to have taker to the heart at once through a blood vessel. The little one wus taken tC Globe for interment. Ernest Kellner though living in Globe the greater par of his life is well known in Phoenix being the son of MT. and Mrs. F. F Kellner and having spent some year, III here as a boy.
 THE BOARD OF HUMILIATION The August meeting of the territorial board of equalization will be begun today and the board will probably be in session all week. Fred w. Nelson the northern member. and Charles Sol Cmon. the newly appointed member from Graham county, are already in the city. A. S. Donau of the first dis trict will arrive n tour, thic rf1Orpir II The valuation of all the taxable prop erty except the railroads will come be- fore the board at this meeting. Re turns have been received from most ot the counties. The aggregate will show Lc..