Arizona republican., 1905-08-10

A VACATION-Miss Susie Scher- merhorn expects to leave this evening for a short vacation in Southern Cali fornia.
 HE WAS TAKEN UP-Yesterday an Indianian, an admirer of United States Senator Albert J. BeVeridge was at the Hotel Adams and got to talking about joint statehood. He felt so sure that the Indiana senator who seldom failed in any of his undertakings would succeed in welding Arizona and New Mexico that he offered to bet a half million dollars that the joint statehood bill would be passed in the early part of the next session of congress. The ele- Vator boy took him.
 AN ANCIENT HISTORY-There is in the library of O. c. Sharp an inter esting old book. described by the title page as 'The Chronological Historian: Containing an Account of All Material Transactions and References, Eccles- iastical. Civil and Military, Relating to English Affairs from the Roman In vasion to the Fourteenth Year of the Reign of King George H." The book bears the date of 1747, London. It would seem from the title that this ought to be a big book, but on the contrary. it is not The work con
 
 of which has been lost. This historian was not given so much 10 det5n as some of his contemporaries.
 HAVING A GOOD TIME-A letter
 received yesterday from MT. H. c.
 Yaeger brings the information that he
 and Mrs. Yaeger are enjoying their summer visit in Vicksburg, the city
 which he says is famed for a record
 in war and prosperity in peace and the most healthy city in the south. He
 says their plan is to remain a few weeks longer, then go to Helena. Ark,
 to visit their son Gilbert, next to the
 old home in St. Louis then to Litch- field. Illinois. to visit their son Irving, then to Denver to see a daUghtepr in law and finally about Oct. l, to PhOe nix. the only place in all this beautiful country Incidentally MT. Yaeger writes that the family in general takes pretty well to the Roosevelt idea as he and Mrs. Yaeger have acquired two
 grandchildren during the present sum mer The latest is a ten pound girl in the home of Mir. Gilbert Yaeger, and of course she is named after her Arizona grandmother.
 THE BLOODY BLUE-Blue river.
 in eastern Graham county, in an out of the way and almost inaccessible re- E He icides and disorder than any similar area in the territory. It was on the Blue that a gang of outlaws who for
 years overran the eastern half of the territory made their headquarters There has been another killing, de- scribed by the Clifton Herald as fol- lows: A courier came in from the Blue river Friday and reported shocking ending of an old feud over water rights the day before between two brothers Jaw, George Thomp- son and R. A. Snyder. Thompson went to the ditch near Synder's house, and he was armed. Finding Snyder there, the old quarrel was renewed. Snyder
 was unarmed. and after a few hard words between them, turned to walk
 away. it is a.-e5ed, when Thompson shot him in the back of the head, kill ing him instantly. A boy named Mar tin is said to have witnessed the trag- edy. Both men are well known in Clifton Snyder was married to Thompson's sister. The widow and seven sons are left Thompson was arrested and will be brought to Cliff ton The men had a water rights suit at the last term of district court,
 which was decided in favor of Snyder.
 Since then there has been hard feel
 fngs between them. Thompson has
 wife and several children.