Arizona republican., 1904-08-17
GOING ABRoAD-A Los Ange

GOING ABROAD-A Los Angeles paper announces hat Rev. Joseph H. smale. pastor of the First Baptist church of that city and we'll known in Arizona, is preparing to take an ex- tended trip abroad.
 THE w. c. T. U.-The Womens s Christian Temperance Union will hold .ts regular meeting at half past tV" o'clock this afternoon at the rooms or the union corner of Center and Monroe streets.
 BACK FROM PRESCoTT-Messrs. Mackenzie Gordon and Gus H. Hirseh- field returned yesterday morning from Prescott where they spent a few days very enjoyabIy. MT. Gordon, wlo visited that, city for the first time was very much enamored of both the town and the people, but he says it is too far up in the air for his good health.
 FUN AT NIGHT-Tnere was no fire at the Nordrach last night whatever passerbys might have been lead to be- lieve by the colume Of smoke arising from the screen verandas of that pop ular boarding house. Something did happen there, however. It was smoker given by fifteen young men Of the house to two summer widowers whose names are withheld that their | wives may not read and run.
 1 DlSGUSTED SEWIVES-Phoe- nix house keepers were on a strike 1 yesterday. They refused to do any house cleaning until the weather man apologized for his sudden fury in the dust storm line Monday evening and promised not to do so again. As q matter of fact the city was dust strewh. and the house wife was confronted with a hardship by no means merely ina ginary
 A MONTHS VACATtON-Mrs. J. IC. Graves left on this mornings S. r.. ?. ( r. train for San Francisco where she will visit with relatives and friends for the next month. The vacation of MT. Graves, who is one of the passen- ger conductors on the :. F. P. & r. will begin tomorrow and he will join Mrs. Graves at once, remaining in San Fran cisco till after the Knights Templar conclave.
 NEW CANCELLING DEVICE Postmaster McClintoCk has received a Bew electric motor furnished by the department to be used in furnishing power to a new stamp cancelling ma chine that is expected daily to arrive The machine now in use is, or has been q great contrivance in it's day and a vast improvement over the old fash toned hand cancellation, both in the quantity and quality of work accom- plshed. But the later invention is supposed to be superior in both re- spects, especially in the matter of speed While it is not an entirely new thing it will be the first machine of the sort to be placed in Arizona.
 4 CAVE CREEK PROSPECT-A prospect on Cave Creek. owned by Charles k. Philes. has been brought into prominence through the med 'urn of the Arizona worlds fair mineral ex- | hib!t The ores from these claims carry tungstate of copper and samples were asayed and prepared for exh!bl- ton by Assayer Porterie of this city and turned over to Commissioners DOran. At the fair they were seen by c. Broereke of the Premos Chem ical Co of Premos. Pa. an institution whose principal business is the reduc- ing of rare minerals and purifying | them for use in the arts Mir. Brcereke was favorably impressed with f the samples and came on to look at the i property He was greatly pleased with the conditions he found and it is prob able that he will either buy the claims or take d bond on them.
 RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE EX- TENSlON-As ye. the Phoenix & | Eastern railway carries no mail. the mail being sent to Florence by way of 'I Casa Grande as it has always been from the beginning. But on Septein- Der mail route will be established on that road as far as Kelvin and al.