Arizona republican., 1905-06-30
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 will be a meeting of Arizona lodge No. F. A. M. tonight at which the third degree will be confirmed
 W. E. DEITY HOME-W. E. Deity returned home a day or two ago from Mexico where he is engaged in laying | copper foundation for fortune.
 A SHIPMENT OF MELONS-BIack Bros. yesterday shipped a carload of melons to Tucson. The melons aver | aged sixteen and a half pounds, and the car contained about fourteen tons. A BRIEF VlSIT-F. II. Lamb of San l Francisco spent yesterday in Phoenix. on one of his semi-occasional official visits as superintendent of the western division of the Western Union Tele- graph company.
 GOVERNMENT TELEP ONE | LiNE-M. Demrick, who is engaged in running a branch of the Roosevelt l telephone line from Evergreen to Mesa City. reported yesterday that he | had completed the line across the riv- CT and was now almost into Mesa 1 City.
 CHANGE OF oWNERsHIP-Bert i Towers has sold the Santa Fe barber shop in the Monihon block to Billy Mier and Patrick Brozell. Mir. Towers has associated himself with MT. Mad doX in the development of a promising mining property in the White Tank mountains. north of Buckeye
 ! FLOURISHING CATTLE RANGES Perry Sears. who has come down lately from his Cave Creek cattle range after an absence of several months. said yesterday that the ranges never looked so well. There is plen- ty of water and feed everywhere and the cattle are showing their high liv- inG.
 METAPHORICAL - Two summer widowers were jibing each other yes terday in the office of one of them. No. 1 1 remarked of No. that anybody can i see that your wife is away by the man ner in which you are pulling the lids from your lamps every time a strange piece Of Gingham floats by your door" Yes replied No. ?, 'Tll admit that l yard of calico now looks to me like bolt of silk
 II BRIDGE GANG MOVING-The bridge gang that has been working on the Arizona & California railroad came down from Wickenburg last night and | will today resume work on the P. & l.. II The first work will be the construction of false work at the bridge over Min eral creek. after which it will return to tEe buttes. where the big steel bridge is under construction across the Gila. and remove the false work that was placed there temporarily.
 JAcKSON's SECOND DOSE-J. <. Jackson was brought before Justice Johnstone yesterday for arraignment on the charge of obtaining money by false pretenses. Complaint had been made against him by Robert Wilson, to whom he had sold a shotgun for $1O claiming it as his own, when. as was afterward learned, it was the property of C. H Davidson from whom Jackson had rented it. Day before yesterday Jackson w2s sentenced to forty days in jail for the embezzlement of the gun.
 HARD LUCK-Hi Eldred was called home from town yesterday by a tele phone message informing him that his pond had broken again and that the salmon that had entered it through the canals were devastating his hog pas ture His family was doing the best it could to drive them back, but help was needed. It will be remembered that MT EIdred claimed to have suffered sim ilarIy last season during the catfish plague, but he presented no proof. He said yesterday that if Jake Miller was half the fisherman he pretended to be he would come home, where he could be of some use to the country and
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 UNION EVANGELISTIc SER VICES AT EASTLAKE PARK-At a recent meeting of the Phoenix Minis terial association a plan was formu- lated for holding union services on Sunday evenings during the summer months. The churches participating are the Presbyterian, Baptist, First Methodist and South Methodist. All persons who are willing to assist in the singing are requested to meet for rehearsal at the First Methodist church this CFriday) evening. It is the plan to make the Sunday evening services strictly evangelistic, so that the song services will be a leading feature The first meeting of the se- ries will be held Sunday evening, July End. Remember the place-Eastlake park.
 CHARGED WITH "RoLLING"- Jacob Rhinehart was brought before Justice Johnstone yesterday morning, charged with robbery from the person of Joe David while he lay asleep in a saloon the night before. David is a subject of the sultan of Turkey. He : claims to have lost $10.75. Rhinehart will be given a preliminary eXamina- ton today. He denies the charge, but there are said to be two witnesses who saw him Investigating the pockets of the sleeping man. He had been sus- pected of similar offenses, but had never been caught in the act. It had. however been remembered that in sev- eraI cases of rolling" Rhinehart had been in the vicinity of the sleepers. Rhinehart is pensioner, also nightly hangeron about saloons.
 NEW RATIONS-Articles of the following corporations were filed in the office of the county recorder ; yesterday: Woodstock Gold Mining and Milling company, capital stock S1. coo, coo. incorporators F. C. Smith, H. L. Morris. and J. F. WiIlett; Cib-