Arizona republican., 1904-02-29
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| ace Macdonald of Mesa City will leave
 today for a trip to Kansas and Mis-
 souri. He will be gone sometime but when he returns he will bring with
 him car of thoroughbred stock He expects to buy among other things a
 thoroughbred Percheron or Shire stall
 lion and some good dairy stock. He is also commissioned to buy several head of Guernsey or shorthorn cattle
 for his neighbors.
 A SIGN OF SUMMER.-The first i centipede of the calendar year made 1 his appearance in the office of the
 sheriff last night. There was none of
 the stiffness of winter about him. He
 was about eight inches long a good
 dimension for this season of the year.
 Experts were of the opinion, that he
 was not of the vintage of 1904, but had been left over from the stock of last year. At any rate his appearance was | considered unreasonable and he was | dispatched.
 A NEW YEAR ENDED.-The Chin ese New Year festivities which have had a run of just two weeks came to an end last night with a lavish dis
 play Of fire works. The closing scene was witnessed and heard by a con-
 siderable part of the population of Phoenix and by many of the eastern
 tourists. It is suspected that the ex-
 traordinary demonstration of the
 American Chinese is made rather for
 the entertainment of outsiders than
 because it is in conformity to religious or national practice.
 AS TO CARNIVALS.-The general
 public has become confused by the
 multiplicity of carnivals on earth at this time and Phoenix people especial ly have got mixed up. They don't
 know whether there is to be a street fair, show ground carnival or whose carnival it is to be. The city marshal
 stated authoritatively yesterday in answer to a direct question, that the Dixie Carnival company will be here today and all week, showing on the vacant block at the intersection of Washington and Fifth streets and that | the Southern Carnival company that showed here last, will be here in April | it being the organization which re- gently secured from the city council
 the privilege of using the streets.
 THE MOTOR BALKED-Mr. Chas
 A. Chase, Dick Newton and Miss Helen
 Newton of Philadelphia and oscar Roberts of Phoenix went to Tempe yesterday in an automobile. That kind l of conveyance was suggested by MT. Roberts who had never strode an auto
 mobile. He wanted to make an experi-
 nent. He had frequently observed with admiration the high speed an automobile is capable of attaining and it struck him that it might be em- ploEed to advantage in steer tying. The automobile reached Tempe with
 out incident but when it got into town | ( s-+1
 what was the matter with it. It might have thrown a shoe or something but anyway it wouldn't go and that was all there was to it. The chauffeur spoke encouraging words to it until the town officers came around and reminded him that people were passing on their way home from church. The party hired the only unemployed rig there was in Tempe and returned to Phoenix.
 TERRIBLY ABUSED.-Five hoboes< were sent to the municipal bull pen on Saturday for twenty days each. The case of one of them illustrates what the police are up against sometimes and how they have to depend on their judgment even if it should chance to be wrong. This man was brought in by Officer Kaufman about } o'clock Saturday morning. By the time he | reached the station house he was furi- Ous. He said he was an honest man and q man with a family. He was do- | ing his best to support them and was
 up early and late looking for work.
 He said the blankety blank bluecoated brass buttOned upstarts that were around picking up honest men and
 throwing them into jail ought to be in better business and as far as he was concerned he proposed to see that the man who pulled him got his just de- serts. He said it was a high-handed
 outrage, a travesty on justice and the persecution of law abiding citizen of | the United States. He had committed no crime except to be industrious and
 energetic in an effort to care for him.
 self and those dependent upon him. After he had been locked up Officer Barnett slipped up to window of the
 jail unobserved, just to listen to the
 conversation that might ensue between