Arizona republican., 1905-08-23
NEW RESIDENCE BUILDING

l NEW RESIDENCE BOlGDlNS- ! Work has been begun on a cottage to ! be erected at the corner of Third ave nue and Bennett lane by w D. Wool dridge.
 | IT MADE TT LAST-For a long | time the summer rains have been bluff ing and have now gone q month over : time. For weeks futile efforts have ] been made to make good and now and 1 ten there has been just enough rain to keep people from forgetting what rain looks like but no, enough to do any good. But last night the rain gathered it's forces together and turned loose. i Not very violently but in a persistent
 sort of a way that promised much more. This thing came about without the connivance of the weather bureau. LOST AND FOUND-Yesterday Louis Melczer was $40 short, but he was not aware of his loss until the money had been restored to him. He was out making his collections. Dep
 uty Sheriff Dunnigan saw him some.
 distance away and. desiring
 to speak to him, started toward him.
 calling at the same time. MT. MelcZer
 did not hear him and hurried on.
 When the deputy was within half a
 block of him he saw a large book fall
 out of his hip pocket. He picked it up
 anu HUI Ll-t diAtI tue lbStl anu lldliNttl
 it to him. MT. Melczer was not slow
 about receiving it. Tor # contained
 $40 in bills. He wanted to make the
 deputy sheriff a present of the part of
 the contents of the book. but the of
 ficer could not see his way clear to
 accept it. The restoration to people
 of things they lose is one of the duties
 of deputy sheFiffs.
 AN EXPLORER OF TIBURON-I
 The brother of Tom GIindeH is about
 to institute a search for him believ-
 ing that he is lost, or has become a
 victim of the savage Seri Indians who live on the Tilburon island With a party of Arizonians. GrindelI left for the Tiburon island during the early
 part of last month, expecting to ar rive by Aug. 1 at a point from which ]
 he could send word to his friends of his safe return By Aug. F he expect l ed to be home in Douglas. Not word i
 has been heard from him since he left l the mainland of Mexico more than six weeks ago. A similar trip was made | by Grindell to the islands last sum- mer. At that time he only skirted the | coast of the islands. It was his inten- | ton this time. however, to make a | exploration of the islands | and make a report. His brother Ed | Grindell will head the searching party. l Both of the Grindells made Phoenix 1 their home several years ago.
 A MOVABLE MARRIAGE LICENSE | A curious letter was received at the office of the probate judge yesterday | from San Diego. The writer whose | name is l. s. Planter is evidently con committing miscegenation and wants the clerk of the probate court here to assist him or her in cir the laws of the state of California. The writer states that there it is understood that the laws of this territory permit the mixing up of the Caucasian and Negro races in holy matrimony. Therefore he eff the writer is he) says that if he were here he would have no trouble in procuring the license. He asks why he cannot avoid the expense of making a trip from San Diego to Phoenix: whats the matter with the clerk of the court sending him the license. Clerk Kirk land wrote in reply informing him that there were two obstacles in the way The first and more important is that the laws of this territory are even more restrictive than those of Califor- mia. Another is that Arizona marriage licenses are not recognized outside the borders of the territory.