Arizona republican., 1904-01-15
Gut Flowers Daily.

MT. Robertson said that his business would furnish 9 good pointer as to the
 growth of it. Since he began travelling
 in through that country the business
 of the company had increased GOO per cent. The increase of last year over the year before was fifty per cent. A MISSING MAN.-J. L. Burrows ! received q letter yesterday from a friend in Fresno saying that his nephew, who with his mother lived in San Francisco, had left that city few days ago to come
 to Phoenix. He had a letter of intro
 duction to MT. Burrows. His name is R. H. Waugerman and he was very ill
 when he left home. His relatives have
 heard nothing from him and do not know whether he ever reached Phoe-
 nix or not. Mr. Burrows can find no
 trace of him here so far and any enc
 who may chance to know of his where
 abouts will confer a favor on all par
 ties by reporting to MT. Burrows or
 leaving the young mans address at
 The Republican office.
 MEDAL CONTEST-The medal con-
 test at the Presbyterian church last night afforded an evening of delightful
 entertainment for all and there was a large audience present. The pro- gramme was carried out exactly as ad
 vertised with the exception that Dr.
 Halsey was not present and as an in-
 trOductory the audience sang Amer
 ica and repeated the Lords prayer. Each one of the contestants both for
 oratOry and song, did remarkably
 well; so well in fact that the judges arrived at a decision Cnly after great deliberation. The medal for oratory
 was won by Edwin Powell and the medal for singing by Lillian Sisty. The medals which are given by the W. C.
 T. U. OrganlZa tion, were presented by Rev. Gibbons who closed the service by pronouncing the benediction.
 WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE VALLEY.-The correspondence of the governors office has been greatly in creased of late by inquiries from all parts of the United States about the lands of the valley and particularly about those which will be affected by the building of the Tonto Basin dam. There seems to be pretty genera! impression tEat the dam is about to be built for the benefit of intending settlers. Most of the correspondents write as if they thought there were DO settlers in the valley now: that the land is !n a wild state and is only awaiting the enlivenine influence Of water. which is to be foregathered by q beneficent government. The answer ing of all these letters is an enormous task. A circular letter Of ordinary length would not serve the purpose of aa answer at all for no two of the letters contain the same questions. Altogether they cover the whole situation. It will probably De necessary to issue a large and prehensive circular for the benefit Of such inqUirers
 THE BUILDER OF A TABLE.-A letter was received by the board of control yesterday from H. kerner of Hamburg, Iowa. containing an unusual request. MT. Kerner says that he S engaged in the construction of a cen ter table and has been engaged for some time. He hopes to have it com pleted in time to be entered at the St Louis exposition. Ire table is com posed of every different variety Of wood from every prominent public building in the United States He has already secured samples from many Of them including the White House and the Capitol aJ Washington. He wants Il piece or the Arizona capitol build ing of the following dimensions: 1-2 in. X2 in.X4 in. In fact he wants two pieces of those dimensions, a dark colored wood and q light colored wood. lie has applied just in time. The recent 1 fire in the capitol building was very ! fortunate thing for him. Some of the ! wood in the engine room will havc to | be removed. It was all originally light | but some of it has been darkened by ! smoke.
 Saturday afternoon classes in draw