Arizona republican., 1904-08-12


 buildings the contract for which had been awarded the day before. It had been determined that one of the build ings should be put up west of the pres ent building and the other east but the precise distance from it had been de- cided
 RETURN OF JAMES R. THORPE MT. Jas. R. Thorpe yesterday came back from a comprehensive visit of the east. He naturally saw the worlds fair. He also attended the commence ment exercises at Princeton on the fifteenth anniversary of his own grad nation. He will leave today for the Buckeye country to learn the extent of the damage to the dam of the Buck eye canal company by the late flood.
 ARlZONlANS ABROAD-The fol- lowing Arizonians are among the re- cent arrivals a the Hollenbeck Hotel in Los Angeles: Miss Nellie Louise White, Yuma; Mrs. J. A. Perkins, Truxton; H. A. Woods, Douglas; Dr. Charles Jones and wife. Tempe; Con rad Meyer and wife, Tempe; c. D. Clark, Morenci; D. H. Bradlee, Cliff ton; w. L. Mackay, Bisbee; w. C.. ' l |. Oscar Duby, Bisbee; ". H. Taggart. Kingman.
 BASEBALL TODAY-The New York Store baseball team and the Bremen will play a game of ball this afternoon 2t Eastlake park. Some confusion has occurred over the announcement that the clerks would go to Mesa today on an excursion. The excursion will not take place till next Friday, so there is nothing today to interfere with the baseball game and the champions and partisans on both sides insist that the contest will he worth seeing. Both teams have dOre some good work and it will take good strong judgment to pick the winner.
 JACK ROBERTSON DEAD-A let
 ter was received here yesterday say ing that Jack Robertson, who spent the winter, spring and early summer in the city, had died at Colorado Springs. He was a son of Sheriff Robertson of South Bend. Ird. He came here last fall a victim of tuberculosis He cid not seem to be in a particularly ad- | vanced stage and apparently made some improvement during his stay. He left for Colorado Springs a few | days ago on account of the hot wealth CT. He died on the night of his arriv- al at his destination. It is though the | immediate cause of death was heart l disease.
 w. c. COLLIER'S lLLNESS-W. C. | Collier was striken wih paralysis of
 the left side on Wednesday, Yesterday
 he was a little better, but was still | confined to his bed. The case is one
 deserving of sympathy and the good offices of these who are charitably in- clined. MT. Collier is now 79 years old
 and has lived in Arizona a great many years, probably a quarter of a century. He has no relatives here and has no ] financial resources whatever. He has always been an honest and upright cit l iZen and a hard-woTking man when he was able to work. He is being cared for by the city marshal and any person who feels like contributing to his com l fort should call upon Marshal Kinney. A MULE TEAM JOURNEY-On | July 1, T. F. O'Connell who had been in | charge at the agricultural station left for his former home in Wisconsin by raule team He was accompanied by | his wife and his son Rollin. C. A. Larsen yesterday received a postal card from him. He was at Albuauer- | que at the time of writing it. That was August '. He said that so far
 he had found the journey less difficult | than he expected it would be. Neither he nor either of the members of his ! family had been ill. Mir. O'ConnelI is an enthusiast on the subject of Indian
 baskets and he visited on his way those tribes of Indians who make them but he said he found none worth carrying away except a few placques