Arizona republican., 1904-05-11

MIR. HUGHES ILLNESS.-Sam Hughes is still quite i'll of appendicitis but is doing as well as could be eX- pected, making gradual improvement
 JAPANESE SOClAL.-The endeaVor society of the Presbyterian church will give a Japanese social in the church parlors next Friday evening. All friends of the society are invited.
 MIR. EAKINs' DEPARTURE.-J. l.. Eakins left on this mornings s. F. F. & P. train Sor Albuquerque where he will spend a month or six weeks then go to the Adirondacks for the summer. MT. Eakins is managing editor of the Evening World of New York and came here last November to enjoy the bene- fits of a mild winter climate. He s very well pleased with Phoenix. He expects to return here again next winter.
 A MISSIONARY MEETING.-The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the First Methodist Episcopal church will meet in the church parlors Thursday afternOn at half past two o'clock. Mrs. Porter, a returned mis- sionary from China, will address the meeting. At half past three o'clock. there will be a special meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society at the same place. A full attendance is most urgently re- quested, as business of most vital in terest to every member of the society will be transacted.
 WATER FOR THE NAVAjos.-- Major H. F. Robinson left this morn
 
 from the government to make plans for procuring a water supply for the Navajo Indians in that immediate neighborhood. Major Robinson is not informed yet as 70 the precise nature of the task before him. In the vicinity in which ho is to operate there are no running streams and no means Of de- veloping water from beneath the sur face He believes it is the plan of the government to build a lot of dams in the arroyas and canyons and store water from the rainy seasons for the use Of the Indians.
 EXCITEMENT AT TUCSON-An interest amounting to an excitement IS being taken at Tucson in the Twin Ruttes mining property. This is the property owned by Mayor Rose of Milwaukee, and his associates. \ valuable strike was reported from the Twin Buttes a few days ago and there was a general scramble to get in' on the ground floor. Instead of enc strike there have been a series of strikes and the last one always augmented the excitement. A little of the stock had been put on the market for development purposes. That was quickly taken Up and the stock ran to seventy five cents share. Col. MCord sold 1000 shares at that figure on Saturday. A transfer l of them was made yesterday.
 TALKS FOR ARIZONA.-A. w. Up- son has received a copy of the Hart ford COurant containing a short let ter written by himself, in which d brief, but telling argument, is made for single statehood and in which ne also thanks the Courant for it's kind words previously spoken in behalf of statehood for Arizona. MT. Upson eX- poets to leave in a short time to spend the summer in Connecticut, which IS his native state. He says Arizona, her resources and her demands for state- hood will be the burden of his sum- mer song and he hopes to do q little good work for the land of his adop- ton.
 OUONG CHEE MAY STAY-The case of Quong Chee was decided oy Judge Kent yesterday in his favor and he was. released from confinement. Quong Chee was arrested at Globe, charged with being unlawfully in the county At the time the exclusion act went into effect he was a merchant in this city. He was not required to take out certificate. He subsequent ly went to China and returning to this country he went to Globe to live. It