Arizona republican., 1904-08-14

WILL BE SENT EAST--Word was received yesterday from the relatives of Will c. Fydon, the printer who died on Thursday, requesting that his body be sent to his former home in Skan- eateles. N. Y, for interment. It will probably be shipped tomorrow.
 A BASEBALL CHALLENGE-The baseball team of the Phoenix fire de- partment chreihes a belief that there was some adverse hynotic influence in control of them on the occasion of Fridays baseball game with the New York store and that the result was not what it really ought to have been nor what it would be under normal condi- tious. They therefore ask that pub ucity be given a proposition they have to make to the New York store tea1u which is that they can scrape together twenty five dollars and more if desir- able, to offer as bait for a second game, the winners to take the roll, and the game to be played two weeks from today.
 CLERKS EXCURslON--Next F'ri- day is the date of the clerks excur- sion to Mesa City and the committee in charge of it is getting busy selling
 
 terprise as it is designed to give dol lars worth of entertainment to every ticket holder The tickets are only thirty-five cents each and admit the
 holders to the entire performance, in cluding the railroad ride, the bali game between the Phoenix clerks and the Mesa clerks, all the cantaloupes the excursionists desire to eat and all the lemonade they can drink without call ing for medical attention. There will be ample equipment, three cars already having been spoken for, and every one | is assured of a seat
 BOUGHT A RANCH-J Ernest Wal ker has acquired such ar appetite for
 realty investments in this valley that he can't keep from picking up snaps even at long range. He keeps his | dates open all the time for good things
 and when he is away his representatives
 have their eyes open for him. MT. | Welker is in New York How but his | office staff yesterday closed a deal with | Frank P. Mills and wife of Charleston, | West Virginia, whereby MT. Walker | acquires forty acres in section .,
 township ?, north range 1 east, in the
 vicinity of Glendale. It is a nice piece
 of land and that section seems to hold | it's own as a region for safe investment
 notwithstanding the failure of the beet
 sugar enterprise to materialize this year.
 HE MISSED HIS cHANcE-Jack l McArdle is in the city. There are
 many people in Phoenix who may re- fleet that it is a wonder that Jack l isn't in the New Jerusalem at this | time. It has been only a little more | than a year ago since Jack missed
 the chance of his life to force the
 pearly gates. The bible says to take | heaven by violence. Jack had nos l given the matter a great deal of atten- | tiOn until he saw from the top of a railroad train on which he was brak- | ing car of dynamite on fire. For q | train crew to go to eternity on the | wings of a dynamite explosion is
 mighty like taking heaven by violence
 Jack made a run for the car with the l intention of putting out the blaze, but the flames wrapped themselves mex orably about their victim and the car
 was blown to Guinea or some other sea | port leaving Jack to some other means | of escape from this earth than the dy- nam;te route. McArdle's nerve was
 the subject of newspaper comment all over the country at the time Since | that occasion he has been running out | of Les Angeles. He is an Esspee brakeman, but he doesn't ad- vertise as making a speciality of dyna- mite explosions.
 RICH PLACER CLAIMS-Jake Cot trell was a passenger on the outgoing
 Maricopa & Phoenix train last even
 ing. His destination is in the vicin-
 ity of Magdalena, Mexico, where he
 has lately purchased some wonderfully promising placer prospects. He says