Arizona republican., 1905-10-21
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INTEREST

| Ons MAFG O PREACH-Ihe
 usual services will be held at the Pres byterian church Sunday and Rev. Dr. McAfee will preach at both the morn ing and the evening service. MAY MAKE TT HOMER c. Me Clellan and wife are here from Jeffer-
 son, Ohio, visiting with MT. and Mrs.
 G. E. Garner, being the uncle and aunt
 of MT Garner. They are very much
 impressed with Arizona and will stay
 here some time. If they continue to like the country as they do what lit tie of 1t they have already seen, they
 will probably remain permanently. ORANGES CROWD WATERMEL- ONS-A load of watermelons was ! yesterday brought to town, probably
 the last that will be put on the mar
 ket this year. In size they are fine :! looking but like all fruit that is grown out of season the quality is not as fine
 as the earlier fruit. An orange grow
 CT yesterday said it would not be over
 two weeks until oranges in small
 quantities would be on the market. A WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Announcement is made of the ap-
 preaching wedding in December of Miss Justa Righetti of this city to Leo GOldtree of Tucson. Miss Righetti is
 a native daughter of Phoenix and has
 been educated in the city schools and
 the schools of the Sisters. MT. Gold | tree is employed in the office of the
 auditing department of the s. P. at II Tucson.
 THE FRIDAY CLUB-The regular meeting of the Friday club was held yesterday afternoon and a plan of
 study for the coming winter was out lined. This year the club will study II American history the writings of the historian E'ielxn m sO11 Niroir1ia
 Her NeighbOr," being the text book
 used. There is probably no other branch of American history that is as
 interesting and a most successful year
 is anticipated.
 fl SCOURlNG THE COUNTRY-The sheriff and deputies are rushing around through the country gathering up wit nesses for the territorial court which
 will open next Monday. Sheriff Walk CT left last night for Yuma, Deputy | Cunningham went to Wickenburg and the surrounding country this morning and Deputy Joe Balsz Is dragging them ] in from the region about Liberty and i Buckeye. The business of keeping things straight at home is devolving upon Deputies King and Wright. COMING TO THE FAIR-J H. ! Langston returned yesterday morning l from Nogales where he had gone on | legal business. He said that the chief ! subject of conversation in that part of l the territory was the territorial fair | and that it appeared that half the pop ulation would be in Phoenix during | fair week He is also in receipt Of 1 letters from friends in Williams ask ! ing about the fair and indicating the l purpose of the writers to be in at ! tendance.
 | JERSEY DAlRY-Wiu George has bought all the Jersey cattle in the Ralph Sparks dairy, together with the dairy plant. and will hereafter con-
 duct a first class Jersey dairy He | will sell only Jersey milk and will no5I water it or otherwise adulterate it. Furthermore he will guarantee two | pints too every quart, together with reliable service and clean handling
 He knows there is a fortune in dairy
 ing and he hopes he can find way to
 get it out.
 APPROVED sURVEYs-The sur veyor general has approved mineral survey No. 2147. Lake Superior Boy, Escanabo and BOnaz lodes, situated in the Warren mining district, Cochise county, and claimed by Hoval A. Smith of Bisbee, Arizona. He has also ap- proved the survey of the California, Lawrence, Greedy and Grant lodes, situated in the Warren mining district, Cochise county. This survey is de- signated as survey No. 2149, and is owned by HOval A. Smith. Also sur vey No. 2141, Emmett lode situated in the Warm Springs mining district, Coconino county, claimed by B. F. Saunders of Prescott, Arizona.
 A COUNTRY FIRE-A gIaring light in the west was seen last night but it was so far beyond the city no word p 1 fir reached ant it was not certain that the light was that of a burning building. But L. L. \ Plank, who arrived in town later, said that the home of Mrs. Perkins, just t beyond the Col. Christy place, had been destroyed. Mrs. Perkins had gone across the road to the home of J her son, and while she was there the fire broke out. It had attained such headway that only a part of the con tents of the house could be saved The origin of the fire was unknown. The house was a large two story frame structure built ten years ago by MT. Kline.
 A STOLEN PONY-Two Indians spent a considerable part of yester- day in search of an Indian pony that had either strayed or had been stolen from their camp near the Gila cross ing. Late in the afternoon they To- Cated their property tied to a hitching rack near the Methodist church and took possession, taking the pony to the office of justice of the peace. To- wards dark as no owner had applied for the property the Indians were told to take him and go which they did delighted at the recovery. they had made of what to them was a very valuable pony. It is thought that whoever took the pony from the In dians rode him into town and then deserted him.
 A FATAL FALL-Bert Anderson, a member of the construction gang at the Copper Queen smelter at Douglas, fell from an eye-beam on which he was working a few days ago, and sus- tained injuries from which he died the next day. Anderson had in his pocket