Arizona republican., 1904-04-06
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AVENPoRT-c -cROUCH.--Mr. Ar
 thur A. Davenport and Miss Mollie A. Crouch were quietly married last night.
 Those of their friends who found out
 anything about it extended them cor
 gratulations. MT. and Mrs. Davenport
 will reside at Third avenue and Jeffer son streets. Mir. Davenport has been a resident of the city for the last two
 years and has many friends The
 bride is the handsome daughter or MT
 and Mrs. H. B. Crouch.
 JACK BUcKLEY'S FUNERAL The funeral of Jack Buckley, who died as the result of injuries received in the Palace explosion Sunday morning, will be held this afternoon at o'clock. at the parlors of Easterlirg & Whitnev. It will be under the auspices of Law ton post, Spanish h-America war veter- ans. and the Phoenix fire department will also turn out the dead man having been member of beth organizations. Company B, N. G. A.. will also attend in uniform.
 AN ARIZONA JOURNALIST.- Ralph Marshall and wife are in the city from Yavapai county where they have been for the last month, having SP-lC NuClC liREti NGNaOd. MT. AidTSnail is looking after the interests of the Mining and Scientific Press in this section and is well known as a former Arizona newspaper man. He was edi- tor of the Morenci Standard during the labor riots in that district last summer ard did signal Service on the side Of law and order. Mrs Marshall is an artist of unusual talent and makes a speciality of painting old mis- sions. having made the pictures of nearly ell the famous California mis- sions. Both MT. and Mrs. Marshall are fond of pictures and they are making :l rare collection Of photographs and views nf various kinds.
 JAKE KILLERS cOAT-Ever since Jake Miller had to buy a coat and pose on the platform as the peoples friend during the last political cam paign, he has felt it in his bones that something dreadful would cone of it. It came Monday night. He left his coat in the F'rakes livery stable, there being no campaign on now, and some miscreant broke into the stable Mon day night and stole it. The loss of the coct does not specially agitate Mr. Miller but he does feel grieved over the loss of a solid gold Elks head, an emblem of. the ~Elks' fraternity of which he is an honored member. and which emblem he had left in the lapel of the coat. The thief gained entrance through the narrow area way between the Clark Pratt Vehicle Co.'S store and that of the Phoenix Hay & Grain company.
 FELINE HEADQUARTERS cer Moore and a member of the Phos- nix fire departn,e ent, in response to summon from some one in the west end of town, repaired to the house in dicated yesterday to do q little busi- ness With an army of cats that has been mobiliZing there for sometime pasJ, ana whose deliberations had be- come more than offensive to people who do most of their sleeping at night On arriving they counted ffty-two felines, beside two or three that were running so fast they could not count them. They managed to corral the left wing of the army in room when the fireman entered and with his trusty twenty-two endeavored to kill them off, but he only got eleven of them. There was a stove in the room and the cats in jumping behind the pipe for safety formed rapidly nov us NAiNAAC'' t-AclAlt ttiell NdS SODIl ll&IlS- formed into q milky way of catS with its greatest congestion behind the stovepipe. The fireman desirous of the widest mark possible kept up q continuous discharge of his weapon in the direction of the stove pipe till the bullets sawed it in two. By that time the cats were going so fast he could see nothing but the phosphorescent haze that illuminated their flight and having no more stove pipe to aim at he gave up the unequal task Tn relating the story yesterday MT. Moore said that eleven was not the same number of casualties he had reported to the other newspaper men, but he had found it necessary to revise the story since he first gave it o-t.
 INGRATITUDE.-Some people don't seem 10 know the meaning of the word gratitude and they are usually the ones who should understand it best. Men tion has been made frequently where the facts could be run down, of in- vali6s who tarry in this valley for a