Arizona republican., 1905-01-18

several days. MT. Conkwrfght and MT, Vernon L. Clark of Phoenix were for mer schoolmates and have been Iife- long friends. MT. and Mrs. Conk- wright's visit to Phoenix is interesting therefore. aside from the scenes that must appear more or less novel to travellers from Kentucky
 A LOST COON-This is a free ad- vertisement for the benefit of some body who has lost a pet coon. Dr. J. c. Norton telephoned to The Republie can office last night that a nasty in ventory of his household this morning revealed the presence of a large, fat and juicy coon. The animal was perch ed on a window sill, and was viewing with calm scorn the hostile attentions of sundry dogs. MT. Coon was taken inside, and awaits his owner
 SUDDENLY MERCHANTMEN was brought to the capitol building yester- day that Hon. M. J. Nugent, member of the council from Yuma county, was i'll. It was later learned that Mir. Nu- gent had suffered an apoplectic stroke and that he was paralyzed as to his lower limbs. Hope was expressed ot his early recovery. MT. Nugent had not been feeling we'll for a day or two and the night before the stroke com plained of a nausea.
 WISCONSIN VlSITORS-Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Steinel of Milwaukee ar rived here on yesterday mornings Santa Fe train. They came from Las Vegas where Mrs. Steinel has been re- siding for sometime for the benefit of her health and where MT. Steinel has been for a week or two. Mrs. Steinel will probably remain here during the rest of the winter and MT. Steinel will return after a week or two, to Mill waukee. to resume his labors as sport ing editor of the Milwaukee Free Press
 STRANGERS SHOULD REGISTER All members of the legislature, off. cers and clerks thereof, members of the third house and other visitors to the city. who are likely to remain any length of time, should call at once at the telegraph offices and similar public places, and register their ad- dresses in the books kept for that pu5- pose. The messenger boys have beR1 running their legs off day and night for the last week trying to locate peo- pie everybody knows but whom nobody knows where to find. Many who came q week ago, registering at tbe hotels, are now quartered in private families or at apartment houses and the quick
 
 on the corner of Washington and Cen ter streets and wait, for in the courSe of human events everybody must pass that corner sometime. By registering the transients will accOmmOdate them selves as much as the messengers for the value of telegrams is seldom ep hanced by age.
 A YELLOW ScARE-An evening publication made a desperate attempt to be yellow yesterday by announcing in big headlines that the "Tonto Road Is Washed Away!i" It was related that the late rains had carried eIgh- teen miles of the road down the river and that it would take several months to repair the highway So that 1t would be passable again. The location of the gap of eighteen miles was fixed be- tween Fish Creek and the dam. The exact distance between Fish Creek and the dam being eighteen miles. 1t fol- lows that there is a yawning chasm for the entire distance between the two points. It must have been one of natures greatest catac!ysms. which carried that road away for 1t is in solid rock the entire length from Fish Creek to the dam. If those mountains of solid rock have been moved into the Salt river by the rains. it is evidently up to the Water Users association to find a new outlet Tor the river to the