Arizona republican., 1904-08-05
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

Goodrich of Tombstone spent yesterday
 in Phoenix.
 GONE TO THE sPRINGs-Postal
 Clerk Wartman of s. F. P. & P run,
 has gone to Iron Springs to enjoy
 couple of weeks vacation.
 TRIED TO KILL HIS WiFE-De-
 putty Sheriff Burns of Yavapai county l arrived in the city yesterday morning with a man by the name of Ruiz, con victed of the attempted murder of his wife. This affair happened at Jerome
 and was almost a success. Ruiz was Sentenced to four years in the peniten- tiary.
 A GROWN KING VISlTOR-Geo. F. Harrington of Crown King is in the
 city, a guest of the Ford Hotel MT.
 Harrington has for a long time had ' charge of the Crown King mine, and it's associate operations. Since the building of the Bradshaw rairoad there
 has been renewed activity in that sec tion and Crown King has become an important center.
 AMATEURS NIGHT-It is announce
 that Saturday night at the park thea ter will be "amateurs' night. The per
 formance will be a special programme arranged to suit the purposes of local people with alleged stage talent. The ideb is not to make the Spooner com pany ashamed of it's own work but to ] give the stage struck Phoenix people
 a chance to develop their genius WILL LEAVE TONIGHT-Harry Olds will leave via the M. & P. railroad
 tonight for his former home in Idaho, to spend the summer with his mother and sister. He is not strong and only n siege in the hospital. But he has a
 host of friends, made during his resi- dence of several years in this city, who will wish him a safe and pleasant jour ney home.
 AN ARIzoNikN's sUcCEsS-Les- ter Jackson, for many years a resident
 of Yavapai county, Arizona, arrived here yesterday from Oaxaca, Mexic ,,
 where he has been living for the last three years and successfully operating
 a twenty stamp gold mill. In addition
 to his duties in the conduct of that enterprise he is kept in the field large part of the time by a syndicate of eastern capitalists who are inter- ested in mining. He expects to leave
 for Prescott in the morning and will be
 in Arizona two or three weeks before returning to his field of operations. GONE TO BOSTON--Chaplain and
 Mrs. Winfield Scott left last night for visit in the east and expect 10 go at least as far as Boston before return ing west again. They will spend today Tn Tucson where the chaplain will con duct a meeting of the board of regents Of the university. The following day they will leave for St. Louis and spend short time at the fair, then continue their journey to Boston, where the an- nual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will meet on August 14, Chaplain Scott being chaplain of the national encampment
 MILITARY STOREHOUSE-CoI. B.. w. Leavell, adjutant general of Ari- zona, has rented for a year the west room of the Hickey building on west Washington street, and will use it as a storehouse for national guard supplies. There was TO longer room at the cap itol building for the equipment al ready on hand and there is more ex- pected constantly, so some other place } had to be secured for it.. There is now general assortment of military stuff on hand, all new goods and identical , in character with the equipment of the regular service. It is intended to fully ]. ritory as soon, as possible, so at mo- ment's notice it will be ready with ev- evrything but rations to take to the 7 field.
 THE LATEST THEoRY-Postmas- ter John Hodnett of Tempe was in 3 Phoenix yesterday and chanced to
 meet H. R. Pasrick. the alleged owner q of the bones of an alleged mastodon which he found on a ridge in the 4 Hassayampa bottoms south of Wick enburg. Mir. Hodnett said he had giv- I en the subject of those bones a great 4 deal of thought since he first read ! about them in the Republican. He be- f lieved that all other scientists who x had ventured an opinion were mistak- < en, but that he had the correct solution ! of the mystery. He said he believed E the bones were from the skeleton of a whale that came up the Gila river and N into the Hassayampa in some flood Of 2 the long ago. and got stranded by the sudden falling of the waters.
 NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS-A letter from Iron Springs yesterday S brought the details of the injury inflict- 8 cd on leighton James the day before 'z Dby dog bite. Some poisoned meat 1 had been laid for the benefit of the q sSunks that have infested the colony this summer and the pet dog Of the 4 James family in scme manner secured a luncheon of it. Shortly after he be- : came very ill and went into spasms. RI Leighton was prying the dogs mouth E open to dose him with lard when his q jaws closed spasmodically and a tooth 8 penetrated one of the boys fingers SC 2 deeply he had to pry the dogs mouth & open again to release himself. The Al wound was small but deep but it was R given immediate attention and it is not N feared there will be any distressing re Fl suits.
 E LOST RIVER GAUGEs-C. G. Will S Hams, who has charge of the river q gauging stations of the geological sur & vey in Arizona, received word yester- r day from the gauger at Charleston, or # the San Pedro river, that during ths z flood of a few days ago, that tool N away the railroad bridge at Fairbanl E and did much ether damage, no spe K cial respect was paid by the element: 4- eI,s