Arizona republican., 1904-09-05
LABOR DAY.

LABOR DAY-Today is labor day, general holiday and the afternoon especially will be devoted to celebrat- lung. Many of the merchants have vol untarily offered to close up their sores at noon and give their clerks a half holiday. The only regularly arranged for events will occur at EasLake park undcr the auspices of the Phoenix
 cle:'ks and will consist of a series of
 races that promise a great deal of fun, 10 begin at 1:30 and to be followed at 2:30 by a base ball game between the
 Phoenix and the Mesa City clerks. A
 feature of the celebration will be that
 everything will be free. There will be
 TO charge for admission to the bal
 ground or the grand stand and during
 the ball game lemonade will be fur
 nished free to all who want it by q staff of boys who have been employed
 to circulate through the grand stand
 and keep all thrOatS well moist6ned.
 For each race there is offered a cash first prize of one dollar and q second
 prize of fifty cents. The races will in clcCe a sack race, three legged race, potato race, turro race, egg race and
 a girls foot race. The egg race has been arranged especially for girls and
 each contestant will be required to run holding a spoon in her hand ir
 which she carries an egg. And if she drops t i- s an off. The Phoenix colors are cardinal and apple green and ail
 Phoenix visitors to the park who can
 do so are requested to wear them A
 good time is promised to all who at tend and it's as free as air after one
 gets to the park
 HIT WITH A HAMMER-An fn-.- dent that very nearly approached q homicide, occurred las5 evening about sundown near the intersection of the
 M, & r. X s. R. V. railroad track and Second street. The Maricopa train
 was backing from the yards to the de- pot when a Mex an named Jesus Orosco jumped on tEe train to ride and was fired off by the crew.
 He then j-.nped on the pt,o oG The engine as 1t passed by and was again Gieiodged. The youths of Shat neigh | borhood have consistently aggravated the train men in this way till they have almost logt their patience fearing | that some day they would be blamed i for killing some one who has been courting death. After the train reach
 ed the depot on Center street the Mexican above referred to came up
 to the engine looking for tro"tle. En-
 giEeer Goodrich threw a hammer at
 him and hit him be e,ween the should
 CTS and an employe of Wells Fargo C CO. tried to catch him but Orosco evaded him and picking up the hammer ran down the track pursued by Jesse Dom nell, the fireman of the train crew. who was armed with an iron bar. When Donnell approached he threw the bar but missed his man and the Mexican
 turning hit him a severe blow on the forehead with the hanner, then ran south m the direction of the river. The police were called at once but the Mex ican was gone before they could ge- there. Later in the evening Orosco was found near the corner Of Third and Washing.o streets and taken in-
 to custody. He had a swollen face having received q hard blow near one of his eyes. Donnell was brought up town and given medical at tention and while his wound is severe
 it probably will not prove dangerous as the blow did not render him uncon- sc.ous.