Arizona republican., 1905-12-22

most popular commercial men travelling in Arizona. The couple will make Prescott their home and will be at home to their friends after Feb. Is, 1906.
 A CHURCH SANTA CLAUS-Next Saturday evening the children of the Sunday school of the Church of Christ will be given a Christmas tree in the parlors of the church at the corner of Fifth avenue and Monroe. In addition to the tree and the distribution of pres ents a musical program has been ar ranged and a delightful evening is an- ticipated. The persons in charge have arranged that presents may be put on the tree for the children of visitors or for friends and they will be distribut- ed by a Santa Claus.
 G. MAGNANl DEAD - Garabaldi died at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday after noon at the Sisters hospital after a lingering illness his trouble being of dropsical nature. He was native of Italy and was forty-four years old. The funeral will be held this morning at 9 o'clock at the undertaking parlors of Easterling & Whitney. G. Magnani had lived in this country a good many years and had acquired a good under standing of American customs. He was a cook by trade and lived at Bis bee long time before coming to Phoe- nix. running a restaurant in that city. Since coming her he has conducted restaurants in the Central hotel and elsewhere. Less than year ago he was married here, his wife surviving him. He leaves besides her, two brothers, A. Magnani and O. Magnani of tNNn hrOth hpTG in Tt9lV together with mother. S7 years old. He had many friends here, particularly among the Mexican population.
 A STREET TEST-H. Bloomhorst who has charge of the street improve ment got a little satisfaction out of Wednesday nights rain whether any body else did or not. About the time the last rainy spell ended MT. Bloomhurst covered a little more than half block Of Adams street, between Center and First street with coating of what for want of better name was called gravel. It was in reality though a sort of a coarse natural cement but looked more like common light colored dirt, than anything else. While it was being spread on the street, quite a number of citizens expressed the opin- ion that on account of its fineness and its resemblance to dirt rather than gravel, MT. Boomhorst was surely making a mistake and instead of gravel was hauling in a dessicated mud hole that only needed rain storm to show it's unfitness. He contended that it was the best material he had and that only recently had he been able to ob- tain it. Yesterday after the rain, his fine dirt street was the dryest and best packed highway in the city while many of the streets covered not long ago by so-called gravel, but more cor rectly rotten granite, were quite muddy, the granite having disintegrated alarm ingly fast. The lesson drawn is thae the fine dirty looking cement is much the best material, and will be used al- ways when it can be secured. MT. Bloomhorst says it is no new discovery but hitherto there has been no such material available at the city gravel banks. All that has been used before was merely opening up the pits to the cement stratum which is now being used almost entirely. How long this deposit will hold out is not now ap- parent but it is believed there is a large quantity of it to be had.