Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-08-02

weighed 1900 pounds. The fish con-
sisted of barracuda yellow tail and
Spanish mackerel. Mr.. Sweeney says
Jake Miller and Hi Eldred are not in
it. All they can catch is measles.
A TIP-If there are any Ola SIeuths
or Sherlock Holmeses in this village
here is a tip from which they mag
work up a case Of some sort. Yester-
day a well known Phoenix business
man told a Republican representative
that the night before he had forgot
ten to ride his bicycle home but left
it on the sidewalk near his office all
night. When he came down yesterday
morning he found a sheet OF Hotel
adams note paper pinned TO it and on
the other side of the paper was this
ominous message: "AlI has been dis
covered and you better get out tonight.
Walker and Cunningham are after
you" The message was signed by
Tom Smith but there was nothing
TO indicate whether it was just any
old Tom Smith. the country being full
of them, or whether it was the real
and only w. Tom Smith of local fame
More than likely it was a forgery and
if so its only one more wicked thing
done by designing people in these
parts in the name of Tom Smith, who
is looked upon as al sort of a paschaI
lamb for the sins of all cruel jokers
hereabout.
TEMPERATURE OF AN OSTRICH
Most people probably do not care
whether the normal temperature of an
ostrich is $50 or only so in the shade.
but DR.. F. o. Richmond. veterinarian,
is a man who likes to know things. and
as he has taken the trouble to post
himself on this subject he is willing to
take the world into his confidence. Yes
terday he tested the temperature of
several birds and found that the nor.
NAL temperature of the males is 101
degrees, the same as that of COW in
good health. The females, however,
We're found to be uniformly a half de
gree higher. The normal temperature
of a goose is 1O4. which is much higher
than most animals. and man who is
found indulging in that degree of tenn
perature needs looking after promptly
The principal purpose of this infOrna-
ton is to use in the science of arti-
fcially Matching ostrich eggs, for to do
so successfully it is desirable to have
the incubator at as near a normal tenn
perature as possible.
C. D. DORRIs HOME-C. d. Doris
returned home yesterday morning from
an extended tour both east and west.
He left here with Mrs. Doris. going
first to Chicago and Grand Rapids, the
great markets for the furniture bust
ness, where he bought large stock for
the Doris Heyman store. From there
they went to st. Paul and Minneapolis,
where they experienced the only real
hot weather of the trip. From Mime
sofa they went to the Yellowstone park,
where five days and a half We're de-
ightfully spent and which place Mr..
Doris says is the most beautiful il has
ever been his privilege to see, and he
has seen nearly everything in this
country of a scenic nature. From the
park they went to Portland and took
in the exposition, then jOurneyed south
via San Francisco and Los Angeles.
At the latter place, or in that vicinity,
Mrs. Doris will remain during the rest
of the hot weather, being Joined today
by Ter children, who left on last nights
train in the care of a nurse.
THE BENEFlCENT CRICKET
There has been a good deal of i'll adj
vised profanity directed against the
cricket in the course of the last week
and he has been regarded by the ig~
norant as an unbearable plague. On
the contrary he is a public benefactor
Local entomologists have discovered
that he is an active mosCuitoclde- It
is said that not al mosquito has been
heard to sing or has been felt to pune
ture since the crickets came in force.
Not only has the working mosquito
been eaten up or driven off by the
crickets but the next generation of
them has been destroyed. Mosquitoes
are propogated in the dark and damp
places and it is in such places that
the crickets pass the daylight hours,