Arizona republican., 1904-07-18
COMING OFF Baseball


 fons sho,lld keep in mind that famous game that is to be played at East lake park next Friday afternoon be- tween the newspaper men and bank ers on one side and the hardware men on the other. The newspaper men are banking their paper that their op- ponents will have hard wear
 SHOW TONlGHT-Eas Lynne. the old fayor.te. will be the olH st Eas;- lake park theater tonight. It D play that everybody wants to s@e once ard cost 2oopie want to see il every time they have an opportunity. The Spnoner company is prepared to pre- sent it in the most attractive way and will doubtless be greeted by full houses the three nights on which 1t Is | schedulo5.
 FAILURE OF THE PROPHETS All the rain prophets, Indian and white may as well wipe of their states ard take a new start. They have been setting dates for the summer rain for I the last six weeks. Their predictions were based upon signs which had ne- yer hitherto been known to fail. Tie latest of these dates has expired and last night it looked less like rain thar at any other time for 3. week.
 BEREAVEMENT OF JUDGE AND MRS DAVIS-Howard the four naonths-old son of Judge and Mrs l George R. Davis, died Thursday of this week at Long Beach, California, where Judge Davis and his family are sumrnering. The child was stricken with pneumonia and died very sudden | ly. The remains have been dep5sste5; in a mortuary. pending determination of q final place of nterment.-TucsoB Post.
 PREPARED FOR MURDER-Con- stable Kyle yesterday afternoon ar rested a Mexican with murder in his heart and an instrument for commit ing it in his hand. He was in the lower part of the town and had been drinking. He had a big knife with g mUrderous looking blade in his haE6 and in the course of a quarrel with a couple of his countrymen he fingered the weapon nervously. At last hS opened it and had it ready fer use. II was at this point that he was taker into custody.
 THE SUPREME TOPIc-"Beg par don, mister. but did you say l going to ask you-' Well Why don you ask then, and not stand there rag chewing all day" Well, I was gcinl to, but I thought afterward that per hays the question would be indeIlcat, ard not timely. You know l don want to give offense." Well" why don't you proceed to ask it then? Tn not so thin-skinned that I can't bt
 
 fire away" Well what I wanted t' say was-was-" Well, say it. What I wanted to say was, do yol think it is going to rain 2"
 | RANGE INVES IIGATION-D-. r V. Colville of the department of agri culture and connected with the deser Laboratory, and A. F. Potter, of tb publi" land commission, wfo starteS out from Tucson about a month ago have reached Holbrock. They have b eel making an investigation of the leasin; system under which the Indian reserva tion is lesed to stockmen for grazin, purposes. Mr. Colville has been com missioned to inquire into the workin; Of the leasing system now applied Il state lands, railroad land grants, In dian reservations and large pri7at holdings, with a view to determining whether or not any of these system can be practically applied to portion of the vacant public lands. Mr P5tte Is making an investigation of the pre1 ent range conditions of range control
 He is also securing all informatici possible in relation to the classificat.o Of stock ranges, their relative value 10 grazing purposes and to what e5zten inc carrying capacity of the range can oe increased by the deveIopmec or water by well-digging or reseryoi building, by fencing or by any othe range Improvements. MT. CoIviIle go.