Arizona republican., 1905-03-22

Iiidl COllTdCl uilucE QliilCullleS- I1G left here for Buckeye on Saturday with a four horse team. Arriving at the Agua Fria river he found it too high for fording so he made camp and un- dertook to wait for~the river to recede. He stayed there until Monday even ing when be had to return, his grub supply being exhausted. Yesterday he started out again with a new supply of prsVisions and a copper riVeted half l>sole or his determination
 BIDS FOR YUMA DAM-The Los Angeles Times of the 18th says: tBids
 were opened yesterday. by Supervising
 Engineer Lippincott in. the local offices
 of the geological survey, for the con struction of the Laguna dam. ninety
 miles above Yuma, being the first all
 lotment of government work in con
 nection with the Yuma project. The
 lowest bid was $8S5,65O, by Orman & Crook of Pueblo, Col, who, MT. Lippin-
 colt says, are a responsible party. The
 highest bid was that of the Kettle Con
 tract company of Joliet, Ill.-$1, ,933,
 200, or $1,O97,550 in excess of the min
 imum. The government stipulates that
 the contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder.
 THE FUNERAL OF MIR. SLOSSER
 No arrangements have yet been made
 for the funeral of Henry E. Slosser.
 who died at the Sisters hospital on
 Monday night. The arrangements are
 aiting on a son, AdolDhus Slosser,
 who will possibly arrive in the city in the morning He was in the noun tains in the northern part of the ter IitOry and an effort was made to com municate with him shortly before the 1 Ccath Of his father but on account of the impassability of many of the noun tain roads he could not be reached. It is thought though that word has been received by this time.
 GRASS COVERED LINKS-One of
 the interesting occupations of the la dies and gentlemen who formerly play ed the game of golf. which is both rec reative and instructive, is to sit on the porch of the Country club and
 watch the green" grass grow. Pend
 ing the complete drying up of the mud
 and silt deposited by the erstwhile rag ing Cave creek, the golf enthusiasts are 1 solacing themselves with the thought that for the remainder of the season
 at least. they will have grass covered
 links. If the weather keeps good, play
 ing will be resumed the latter part of
 the week.
 D. A. R. MEETING-The next meet ing Of the Phoenix chapter of the | DduSnIeGS or the American fNeNOlullOu will be held on Saturday at the Phoe-
 nix Indian school. Miss Almira w. | Fowler being the hostess. A very in teresting program has been arranged for the meeting which will be held at ] 2:30 o'clock. The numbers are as fol- ! lows: Address, by Miss Kendrick; selection, "The Pilgrims" by Miss Re l sor; recitation, "The Landing of the 1 Pilgrims" by Mrs. Richards; descrip-
 ton of the Mayflower, by Miss Anna l Archer; biography of Governor Brad ! ford and Elder Brewster by Miss Fow- 1 Ter, who is a descendant of the famil- i ies to which they belonged; Our Re public" by Mrs C. s. Brown.
 THE THER-Yesterday was another sunshiny day up to a late hour
 in the afternoon when the clouds again
 began to appear. The atmospheric
 pressure all over Arizona points was ! high yesterday though there was l threatening and cloudy weather on the ! coast according to the weather bureau reports as well as in the central rocky mountain region. There was 1.12 inches ! of rain in Denver and a little in San
 Francisco on Monday. The forecast i for this section was fair Tuesday night i and Wednesday and for the rest of | Arizona, partly cloudy. The rainfall | in Phoenix for the month of March
 to date totals 2.S3 inches and since
 January 1922 inches. In some places
 in Arizona the precipitation has eX- ent rate will soon be measuring it by l r