Arizona republican., 1904-09-15


 COL. LEAVELL HERE-Col. B. w. Leaven, adjutaEt general of the N. c.
 A. came down from Camp Brodie yes- terdav morning on business and will probably return to Prescott again this morning.
 VALLEY COWS SoLp-The Salt
 river valley is gaining some fame for its fine dairy stock as well as its fine horses. On Tuesday J. F.. Ranton sold
 to Tucson dairyman six dairy cows
 for eighty dollars a piece. IL is a good price to pay for COWS but il was offset by the fact that they were goOd cows. And there are lots more of the
 same sort of cows in the various dairy
 herds throughout the valley.
 SAW THE FAIR-John Rousseau returned yesterday morning from St. Louis. He saw the fair and dares any body to tell him he didn't have a good time. The only change he had 10 make in his costume. to conform to the GUS tins of the fair city. was to crook the
 handle of his cane the other way. He found the cane he left here with w;Is lief: handed one.
 PHOENIX VERSUS FIREMEN-
 The Phoenix baseball team will play a game at Eastl0ke park next Sunday.
 with the Phoenix firemen. IL is to be
 a practice game rather than a contest tor supremacy and the teams may be
 divided a little to even things up. Tt
 is 9 preliminary move having for it's
 ultimate purpose the proper fittiOS ot the Phoenix team for another contest
 with the Tucson GrayS, an aggregation
 that is entirely worthy oS careful con sl3eraslon
 THE SCHOOL AT SACATON-
 Ascent T, B, Alexander of S0caton and George E. Brown came to town yestsr-
 day on their way to the Salt river rs- .Serv0tioU, This Is considerably out cf
 their way but they were unable tO
 cross the r}VCr above Mesa, They de~
 cjde6 to come tO Phoenix and drive to
 the reservation. The Indian school lat S1c3tOn aas been openeT with SSo
 pupils, a notwithstanding number, About half of them are unable to speaS
 English. The school is in the hands of six lay teachers who manage to get alouS with the aid Of interpreters.
 HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS Improvements are going on at the high school building. The gymnasium is be- ing converted into three badly needed class rooms. The office or the school will also be in this part of the build ing. An entrance is being cut into 1t so that there will be four means of exit from the building Instead of three as now. The board has arranged a new plan for charging tuition. Hitherto tt has Seen the practice to charge pupils living outside the district, S25 for the term of nine months. It has been thought better for Q majority of the nonresident pupils to make a charge by the month and the sum of S3 has been decided mon
 A. w. ROSS HERE-A. w. Ross. who was formerly connected with the Doris theater and who left here for Los Angeles with the Curtis Comedy Go. about a year ago, returned yes terday His visit this time is in the capacity of advance agent of the Grat- Jan-DeNernon Stock Co, which will open the new Hardwick theater next Monday for q weeks enga cement. After | the Curtis company finished in Los MI. Ross went to San Diego | where he spent the greater part of the l recently accepting his present | position. He says the Grattan- -DeVer- non Co. played in San Diego for four teen weeks and made a big hit It is | a good company he says, and after it's Phoenix engag cement it will 20 di- rect to San Antonio where it has m engagement fer twenty-eight weeks
 SACATON INVESTOR-Wflia Bell of Sacaton, is preparing to take advantage Of the boom that he thinks Is certain to strike this valley at an early day. Yesterday he bought of w. K. James and John Messenger a ten acre tract Tn section IS, township 1 north. range east. The property lies south of the Greenhaw addition which s at the southwest corner of the city.