Arizona republican., 1904-04-02
MATTERS sIMPLIFIED.-Matters

MATTERS SIMPLIFlED.-Matt have been simplified for the voters in the Seventh council district of the Water Users association, by the with drawal Of candidates who had been named for more than one office. Fred Tait, who was nominated both for governor and for councilman for the three-year term, has withdrawn his candidacy for the latter office and will make the race for governor. Prof. George Blount, who was nominated for both the two-year term and the three-year term in the council, has withdrawn from the former and will make the race for the long term.
 VALLEYS LONG DUCK SEASON. A great many wild ducks are being killed, and some of the shooters seem surprised that there are any ducks in the valley at all so late in the season. Inquiry among local sportsmen devel- ops the fact that good bags of ducks were gotten last year during all of March and April and even into May fairly good kills were made. As a mat ter of fact, duck shooting. is good whenever you find the ducks there being no closed season here on them. From now on teal and grey ducks will predominate. There are still few mallards and springs being killed.
 F A FRIEND OF STATEHOOD.-Mr. F. H. Adams, of the Chicago Inter- Ocean who has been in the territory for the last week left last night for Guthrie, Okla, to attend the republican al NH~bf NKrill there on April '. MT. Adams was pres ent at the New Mexico convention. The object of his visit 10 the territories is to encourage the movement for single statehood for the territories which the Inter-Ocean is earnestly ad- vocatins. MT. Adams will return to Arizona in about ten days. He came back from the southern part of the territory yesterday morning. his visit to Bisbee and other mining towns in the south was cut short by lack Of time, but before he finally leaves the territory he will make a further study of them.
 A WISE DOG.-A few days ago d valuable spaniel pup strayed from his own freside and was taken i'll far from home. Instead of going home he applied for assistance at the residence of a local physician and got it, as the sick always do from a reputable doc tor. After administering temporary relief, however. the physician turned him over to a veterinarian, who treat ed him successfully and the deg Is now recovering. The veterinarian is not worrying about his bill for in the event the owner does not appear on the scene he will keep the patient. ol sell him for more money than his bill. That is where the veterinarian has a mar gin over the physician. If he can't get his money he can keep the patient, and unlike some human patients they are worth more than the amount of the bills.
 HI ELDRED'S HOT cAKEs.-Hi Eldred had hot cakes. for breakfast yesterday morning, April !, of the year of our Lord, 1904. MT. Eldred went to Coffee AIS for breakfast. If he had re- membered the day of the month he would probably have gone somewhere else. Mir. Eldred orderedNhot cakes, of which he is passionately fond. Thao Haffner heard the order and he undertook the personal supervision of the construction of the hot cakes. First there was very thin layer of batter. On top of that was a circular section of dish rag of a little smaller diame- ter than that of the batter. Then there was another layer of batter. Three of these reinforced hot cakes were thus built. They were placed be- fore MT. Eldred who had grown raven ously hungry and profanely impatient for it takes longer to prepare hot cakes in this way than the old simple way. MT. Eldred coated them heavily with butter and drowned them In maple molasses. Then he assa1Ied them with knife and a fork. The result was the same as that of the fifth Japanese attack on Port Arthur for the dish rag had been selected with reference to its staying qualities. He sawed away on those invincibIe hot cakes until some one told him 1t was April 1st when he gave up the unequal hand to hand struggle.