Arizona republican., 1906-05-18

will move camp next week The grass hoppers are driven from the bushes into large fires, which singe their wings and cause death. Later they are gath cred, dried and ground into palatable and nutritious meal, which is much used for soup, stews. etc. The meal does not make good bread unless very , much weakened with wheat flour. on account of there being too many hops in it.
 The peddler who was selling whisky powders here during the week did not do much business. Come again, friend. be disappointed.
 stranger was in town last week looking for mining prospects.
 ChicOry Blim has at last gone to Agua Caliente hot springs to take a bath. If he suffers no bad after-ef- fleets, a number of old timers will take one next summer.
 A strange Texan rode into camp last week on q burro. driving a one-eyed steer. We understand he has located Willow Springs and says he is going to start a stock ranch
 One of Mother Carey's chickens came into town in box car from Los An geles several weeks ago and seems to stand the dry climate as we'll as any. Some people believe in the popular faI- lacy that these birds always presage d storm, and cannot live away from salt water.
 Bill Bear says he was going by the Granite Butte. west of town. the other evening when a rattlesnake with a head as large as a candy bucket stuck his head up over a mesquite tree and bellered like a calf. Bill knew hIs friends here would want to know about the monster, and he started back for town in such hurry that he lost one shoe and got scratched up considerable. Most people here think it must have been wild camel, but. as a precaut1on. the school children have been warned against wandering out that way.
 One of the large pipes at the Alaska ice works burst during the night We'd nesday, and before it was noticed five horses in the Hotfoot corral were frozen to death. A petition to the weather bureau was in circulation yes terday to put stop to such careless ness.
 The Dolby Front restaurant an- nounces that no more ham and eggs will be served this season A coyote got in the yard Tuesday night and ate the hen, so there will be no more argu- ments or seVen-up games to see who will have ham for breakfast
 Squint-eye Norton forgot to cork the pump day before yesterday and nearly all the water in the town well evapor- ated. Our citizens ought to be more careful during this hot weather.
 A prospector just in from the Color ado river says that the river is nine feet wider since the San Francisco earthquake. Most of the people in that vicinity think the great weight of the water in the Salton sea is gradually showing California off into the ocean. and that the earthquake was nothing but the jar caused by the state sliding nine feet-proven by the extra width of the Colorado river since that date
 Sugar-Foot Larsen came to town Wednesday on his land tortoise. Dumpy after supplies. Quite a few prospectors are going to use these an imals in place of burros hereafter. as they subsist on bushes. can go for weeks without water and can pack a.s much as several burros
 Nibsey Johnson is in from his hazpo- testadescolla mine. north of here. This rare mineral is extensively used for face powder and Nibsey is making ar engagements with Phoenix druggists to handle his product. which comes in all shades from violet to dark red.
 BILL DICK.