Arizona republican., 1905-03-08

GUN CLUB PRAcTlcE-Severa | members of the Phoenix Gun club were out yesterday for a practice shoot. ! These informal meets vii be continued for some time.
 1 ORPHEUS CLU5-The orpheus
 club has decided to give its entertain ment on the evening of the 21st and will double up on rehearsais holding
 special rehearsals as often as possible.
 There was a full attendance at the
 Monday night rehearsal and at a spe- cial gathering last night. Another [ special rehearsal will be held on Sat i urday night.
 NEW CHURCH PRoJEcT-Rev. i Will w. Logan of Los Angeles will preach in the First Presbyterian l church of Phoenix next Sabbath March 12, at 2:30 D. m. Rev. Logan comes to investigate in regard to establishing a United Presbyterian ! church here. All United Presbyterians i former members of the church, or friends, please take notice. Those liv- ing outside Phoenix may send their names and adresses to Geo. H. Geb- by, Phoenix.
 BIG VEGETABLEs-The board of trade exhibit was augmented yester- day by a vegetable display from the ranch of Hugh Mcintyre, eight miles southwest of Phoenix There is a turnip that is really a quadruple tur- nip or four turnips that came up to- gether and grew so fast they couldn't get out of each others way. so grew together. There are also two large beets the tops of which look almost like a sheaf of wheat Each one is an armful and would make greens for a colony of vegetarians. The remark able thing about these vegetables is that both the turnip and beets were grown from seed planted Dec. l.
 A REGULAR CRUSH-At g o'clock yesterday the reservation of seats for the Elks' minstrel show on Thursday and Friday nights began. Long before that time a line had been formed at BerryhilFs and then some idea could be formed of the extensive sales which had been made. There had never before been anything like it in the sales of seats in this town More than 1000 for the two nights had been disposed. The runor quickly spread that all of the seats for the two nights had been taken but that is not a fact. There are about sixty seats for the Thursday night performance remaining yet and about 100 for the performance of Fri :
 
 boxes. All of them however will like ly be gone within twenty-four hours.
 GOVERNMENT PHOTOGRAPHER MT. Walter J. Lubkin has returned to Roosevelt after several months absence in visiting other reclamation projects for the purpose of making photographs to be used by the en- gineers and other officials as the var ious works progress. MT. Lubkin is one of many official photographers in the employ of the government and is considered one of the most capable. | He made a larger number of pictures during his former stay at Roosevelt ! and many Phoenix people have seen | some of them at the office of the re- i clamation service here The half tones | used in The Republican a week ago | last Sunday, in illustration of the de- scriptive story of the Roosevelt pro- | ject, were reproductions from MT. Lub- | kin's pictures.
 A TREES STRANGE cRoP-Al great deal has been heard this spring | of tSe eceatricities of vegetation, its | remarkable fo-wardness, etc But there | i5 q CC-iG'-s sight in the fork of an umbrella tree on Washington street | between Fourth and Fifth avenues. It | is fine growth of wheat almost ready | to come out into head. The stocks are nearly two feet long and the blades broad and healthy looking. It was at first thought that this growth con- sisted Of shoots from the tree but on closer examination it was found to be | wheat. It has no foundation of earth | or if there is any it is so hidden by Il the growth as to be invisible. The | wheat grains in someway found lodg-' ment in the crevices of the bark and |,