Arizona republican., 1905-12-04
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A COUNTRY RiDE-The visiting engineers of the reclamation service and their wives and Mir. and Mrs. Walling were yesterday the guests of Mir and Mrs. B. A. Fowler in a ride northwest of the city. MT. Fowler se- cured a tallyho and the party drove out to his ranch, spent about a half hour, and then drove back tn the city.
 COMMERCIAL MEN DEPART Having become impatient over the de- lay to travel caused by the floods and because they had urgent business in the southern part of the territory, a party of six commercial men left Phoenix yesterday morning for Flor ence where they will cross the river and drive to Casa Grande, taking the Southern Pacific for Tucson and oth- CT points. A second party planned to make the same trip today.
 CITY HALL DECORATIONS-The work of decorating the interior of the city hall will today be taken up and rushed to completion. Already the painters and paper hangers have fin ished the room which will be used by the city library as an all day read ing room. The city marshals office will be completed first, followed by the rooms occupied by City Assessor Barnett and then the city council chambers. In the railways the wood work will be washed. oiled and var nished and new linoleum put down.
 P.T. U. ELEcTION-A meeting of Phoenix Typographical Union No. 352 was held yesterday afternoon at the office of Judge J. M. Burnett in Wall street. The meeting was well attend ed and several matters for the good of the organization were discussed and disposed of The meeting marked the close of the official year for the union and new officers were chosen as fol- lows: Frank P. German, president; Geo. E. Mckay, vice president; Denis A. McHugh, secretary treasurer; MT. Cutler, recording secretary; Roy Lo- man, sergeant-at-a The president, vice president and secretary treasurer with Harry Frederick and MT. Bick- ley comprise the new executive board. Several amendments to the constitu- tion and bylaws were made, the changes to become effective the first of January. The union is in good shape financially and has enjoyed a remarkable growth the past year.
 A BISBEE HOLD-UP-A holdup man did business last Monday night on the railroad track under the win dows of the Copper Queen store office at Bisbee. The affair occurred about 10 o'clock. It was reported almost inn mediately to Marshal Snodgrass, but was kept quiet in the hope that ar rests might be made. The man held up was J. T. Carson. He happened to be without a thing of value in his clothing, and the hold-up man came out of the job in debt for his time. The description given of the man by Carson corresponds with the deScrip- tion of one of the men engaged last week in the hold-up of the Noel Sa- loon, and it is thought that perhaps he was in that job. He wore a hand kerchief over his face and carried a six shooter. The latter he had poked in the stomach of Carson while he ex- amined his pockets. Tne fellow ex- hibited no nervousness and was ap- parently an old hand at the business.
 ENTERED A SALOON-Armed with a six-shooter drunken Mexican spread terror in the Caretto saloon on O. K. street in Bisbee one night last week. He emptied the place in short order of occupants. The barkeeper ran to the office of Justice Murphy for aid. The justice gathered his mag isterial robes and his crutch together and proceeded as far as the threshold of the trouble. After looking into the barrel of the Mexican's six-shooter from that distance he concluded to join the rest of the crowd in its pill grimage down the street. At the cor ner he found Constable Doyle and t,,r,nod nnro,, to him tha tn clr nf n11all-