Arizona republican., 1905-02-20
LEGISLATORS AT
DINNER-

LEGISLATORS AT DINNER Speaker Webb and General Wilson of the house and Hon. \. w. Bernard of the council last night dined with Act ing Governor and Mrs. Nichols.
 SALT RIVER-Salt river fell very materially yesterday and some people say it is now no larger than the Mis-
 issippi. But it is still too high for anybody to think of fording it. FUNERAL OF MRS. COGGINS- The funeral of Mrs. L. D. Coggins will
 be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
 at the family residence No. 30 south Seventh avenue. Rev. Dr. Lewis Hal sey officiating.
 ELKS' THEATER OPENING-NIr. and Mrs. F. w. Stechan, accompanied by the mother of Mrs. Stechan, Mrs. T. c. LaJeuenesse, who recently arrived here from Alameda for an extended visit will go to Prescott tomorrow to be present at the dedication of the new EIks' opera house, for which occasion Manager Stechan has provided Flor ence Roberts and her fine company
 who will produce Marta of the Low lands" one of the best plays in her extensive repertoire.
 TWO FELONY CASES-Two pris- oners held to the grand jury by Justice I brought down yesterday morning. one of them is Julio Samara charged with burglary. He broke into a house and stole a pocketbook containing S14. The other prisoner is Dave Garcia, charged with assault with intent to commit murder In making the assault Garcia drew a gun but before he had time to use it bystanders interfered. He is not related to the well known Garcia fam fly at Wickenburg
 SPECIAL BOARD MEETING-Pur- suant to the request of many citizens, President Marshall of the Phoenix and MaricOpa county board of trade, has called a special meeting of that organ ization to be held tonight, to consider means for the prevention of a recUr- renee of the Cave Creek inundations of the city. The meeting will not be confined exclusively to members but every interested person is invited to attend. The subject is surely an i'm portant one and something should be done by somebody at the very earliest opportunity.
 OFFICIALLY CLOsED-The relapse of Chinese neyv. year proved to be less serious than the first attack, and the festival was officially closed last night. Most of the Chinese clubs (and every Chinese house is a club house) cele- brated the close of the holiday with banquets at which were served, chop suey, noodles, soup. fruits, nuts, whis- key and cigars and ali the little deli cacies that appeal to the Chinese heart or stomach. Their after dinner speech es were mainly in the form of tOasts or humorous dialogues. At least they were humorous to the American ob- servers and from the laughter by the Celestials il is presumed the humOr was really there.
 THE RAGING GILA-The Gila river is said to be higher now than it was ever before known to be. higher than in the graet flood Of 1891: The flood is supposed to be caused by the melt ing of the snows in the foot hills Of the White mountains along which flow the Blue and other tributaries of the Gila. The snow is heavier there this season than it has been for years. George Hunt a watchman at the legislature has just received a letter from Pine Creek written a week ago in which it wcs s---ed that the snow on the level in that regiol was four feet deep. IL is of course much higher further up in the mountains. There have been no heavy rains reported from that country within the last week. It is thought that warm rains are melting the snow.
 THE JUNIORS JOLTED-The l Phoenix J-aiOrs is the name of a more or less notable baseball team that has made rather an enviable record up to yesterday, having never before been defeated except in the initial game at Congress last summer and before the team was thoroughly organized. The consequence was that the lads got