Arizona republican., 1904-03-30
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| FUNERAL OF WILLIAM MElC- | ZER.-Word was received yesterday | that the funeral of William Melczer
 would take place today at Palo Alto,
 Cal, according to the rite of the Jew 1 ish church. The interment will be at San Francisco.
 DEATH OF VALUABLE HORSE. | A. H. Davidson last night lost a
 horse he valued at $500. the animal succumbng to lung fever. The horse
 was Zodella D, who was sired by Zo- | lock with a record of 2:1012, the dam being Delnette, who made a record of | 2:2SA on the Phoenix track on New Years day of this year.
 CAUCUS NO MINATIONS.-The
 water users in the Third council dis trict held a meeting last night at the | Fowler school house to make nomina- tions for the coming election of the Water Users association in that dis l trict. J. Ernest Walker was made l chairman of the meeting and Henry | Hilbers, secretary. The nominations
 made were as follows, the petition be- | ing signed by every man present. For president, B. A. Fowler; vice president, F. w. Wilbur; member board of gov
 ernors H. J. Hanson; councilman for term of three years, Henry Hilbers; for term of two years George Kay; for term of one year w. Fl. Mann.
 A YOUNG MANS DEATH.-Ed ] Bloomfield of Oswego, N. Y, died Sat. | urday at 5:45 o'clock, at No. 445 East Washington, of consumption, of which he had been sufferer for three years. He was 8 years old and unmarried, having relatives in Oswego who were
 notified, the body being held pending ] instructions. He was a most estimable | man anu was greatly respected by al
 who formed his acquaintance during | his two years residence here. His ill.,
 ness was contracted during a sojourn in Alaska, when he was crossing d channel near the coast in an open boat. The boat was tipped over and he was
 thrown into the cold water, catching a | severe cold from which he never re- covered.
 THE FIRST RATTLESNAkE.-The | first rattlesnake of the season was re-
 ported yesterday by H. R. Patrick, who ! killed him while visiting the pictured
 rocks, south of the city, for the pur- | pose of making photographs of them. i The snake was in a fighting humor, | having just arisen from his long win | ter's sleep. He was d beautiful reptile, | that is beautiful of color which he had
 taken on among the light granite rocks among which he had been hibernating. | It is a fact pretty generally known that snakes assume the color of the sur
 roundings of their sleeping quarters. | Speaking of the hieroglyphics MT. Pat
 rick insists that they are genuine, ! made by q prehistoric people and not | by himself at a later period as some sceptical people have intimated.
 WHO WILL IT BE?-There was ; considerable street talk yesterday re- | specting the permanent filling of the office of the city recorder now held temporarily by w. C. Foster. who is also city assessor and tax collector. It is announced by those who have con- suited the charter, that the city coun- cil has authority either to call spe- cial election or to fill the vacancy by appointment till the next general cleo = tion in May, 1905. It is thought the latter course will be pursued by reason of the expense attending an election and also the expense that any possible candidate would necessarily assume and the term would only be a short one. It was announced that both J. B. Woodward and C. w. Barnett were early aspirants for the place. but that the former had withdrawn yester- | day. Frank Thomas, a well Known re- | publican and party worker has been
 suggested for the position as also have | been Lou Collins. D. P. Kyle, c. w.
 Johnstone, P. K. Hickey and H. c. | Warnack. In justice to all however it | should be said that their names were l spoken of on the street and are not given by any personal authorization.
 WAIT FOR THE DEAD.-A great l deal of complaint has been made from | time to time of the want of respect | shown for the dead by many people of Phoenix. Yesterday afternoon the fu- i neral procession following the body of | Judge Jobs to the cemetery was broken
 no less than d half dozen times. Once | the offender was a delivery boy who | drove between the hearse and the vehi- | cle conveying the minister. Another person broke the procession midway with a load of garbage Those who | witnessed these exhibitions of disre- 1 spect were inclined to condone them | for the drivers were not believed to
 know any better. Other offenders
 were women in carriages and one was the motorman of street car. These exhibitions do not give visitors a good ! impression of the general intelligence | of the community. In other places peo- | pie do not break into funeral process | sions. In fact, they are not allowed to break into any sort of a civic pro- .I ccssion. If those women, or that de- | livery boy, or the driver of that gar baGe wagon had committed the same
 offense in an eastern city they would
 have been turned back to the side o
 1 the street from which they started I
 does not take long to wait for the deat
 to pass. People who do not know
 enough to wait are likely to belong tC