Arizona republican., 1905-08-24
ARIZONA BUYS sApoLEs-F. A


 Grim, who sells saddles and harness for Portland house. is making Ari- zOna and spent yesterday in Phoenix leaving for the north this morning MT. Grim says it is a noticeable fact that Arizona and Wyoming buy the best the market affords in saddles while states east and west from here are satisfied with an article that is more for show and less durable. The best season of the year for harness establishment is in the spring.
 A MONUMENT TO JOHN QUINN A movement is on foot among the commercial men who travel over Ari- zona to raise q fund for the erection of monument to John Quinn, a salesman who for years had made this territory in the interests of a Chicago clothing house. Quinn died some time ago and Is buried at Bisbee. At the head of his grave at present is a pine board, not at all what his friends ap- prove of. To the fund by which the stone monument will be bought only those actively engaged in travelling will be allowed to contribute. Quinn had many friends in Phoenix. as in fact every town in the territory he visited during his lifetime.
 DESERT PIONEERS-The most
 
 the Tonto Dam project ever printed appears in the current Golfers Week ly. The author is Arthur Ruhl, who accompanied the congressional irriga- tion committee which lately visited Phoenix. The article is the second of a series describing the work of the re- clamatiOn service. The third will re- late to the Yuma project. The pres ent article is prOfUsely Illustrated the views having been taken by MT. RuhI on the occasion of his visit to the dam site with the other members of the party. Beside the dam project MT. RuhI devotes some space to the Salt River Valley and the sentiment of the people against joint statehood.
 IT'S A WONDER THERE ARE NOT MORE-On Tuesday afternoon one of the city sprinking carts fell into a forgotten cesspoOl in the rear of the Union Hotel near Eighth avenue and Washington street. Only the hind part of the wagon and tank was sub merged. The tongue of the wagon was thrown up into the air carrying the horses with it. It could not long sus- tain their weight and broke off. No other damage was done. There are many of those old cesspOOls built in an early day and many of them are DulIt Tn alleys. ! ne IDCdllol OI some of them are not known but as the tim bers on top of them get more and more rotten all of them will in time be To- cated by wagons, horses and men fall ing into them.
 INQUIRY AFTER JOHN MUIR Inquiry is being made by metropolitan papers of their correspondents in this city regarding the whereabouts of John Muir. famous throughout the world as a geologist, explorer. natur- alist. author and mountain climber. It is understood abroad that he is some where in Arizona, seriously i'll. He is the discOverer of the Muir glacier in Alaska, and he was a member of the party which sailed on the Corwin into the Arctic regions in search of the De Long party. He has taken great in terest in forest preservation and in the establishment of national reserva- tions and parks. MT. Muir resides at Martinez. Cal. It was learned last night that MT. Muir is at Adamana. a small station on the Santa F'e Pacific east of Williams but nothing could be learned Of lis condition.
 THE CONDITION OF HENRY MORGAN-Henry Morgan. to whose condition attention was called by The Republican on Monday morning, is slightly improved and is able to sit up a part of the time. Janitor Seth Byers of the courthouse took a couple