Arizona republican., 1906-10-14
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| the city yesterday en route from the southern part of the territory to Con | gress where they will spend several days.
 LA5ORERS WANTED-For work on the new bridge to be constructed across the Gila river on the line of the | Maricopa and Phoenix roaC, laborers are new in urgent demand A party of twenty will leave the city tonight l having been secured Saturday by the ! Goldberg Company. More laborers ale wanted. The wages for white labor | paid by the company are S2.5O a day | BIRTHDAY PARTY-Mrs. J. w l Bowen. who resides at No II North | sixth avenue, last night gave a Dntn- ! day party in honor of the sixth ami 1 Versary of her son. Garrett There ! were games and refreshments and a i pleasant evening was spent by all. The young people present were Rosa, Der tha and Noel Milton, Delight and Har- | ry DeBusk, Mary Sharp, and Hector and Garrett Bowen.
 CASTLE HOT RINGS-Arrange- ments have been entirely completed for the openoing of the Castle Hot Springs 1 resort. The Santa Fe yesterday an- nounced rate of s from Phoenix to 1 the springs, the dates of sale to be Oc- | tober 19 to g inclusive. The tickets will have limit of four days but ad- l dltional time may be secured by the payment of 50 cents. The minimum rate at the hotel is $2 a day.
 GIFT TO CLUB ROOM-There was i yesterday placed in the club room or | the Arizona Club a fine Autograph, a reproduction of a scene at the Grand l Canyon at twilight. The work is a copy of an original done in oil by Louis | Akin in 1906. Fl Tower Hotel is shown in the picture. The picture will be a | great addition to the collection of the \ club. It was given the club by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix com \ pany.
 DEATH OF T. J. HoGAN-T J. Y Hogan, who during the last week made II two intellectual efforts to shoot him self, died yesterday morning about , o'clock, of consumption in his room at the Belmont lodging house. His physician said the wound made by the second pistol shot had nothing to do with his death. which resulted from natural causes. He was a citizen of San Pedro. California, and previous to that. of San Francisco though he claimed to have lived here about twen- ty-hve years ago. He left no rela- tiVes
 M. E. CHURCH, soUTH-Opposite the postOfice. There will be divine services at this church tomorrow at the usual hours. At II a. m., Harold Co., vette will deliver a sermon on the "TransfguratiOn." At 7:30 there will be rendered a program by the Ladies' Home Mission society, in honor of it's anniversary, with a sermon by the pastor. At the morning service Mrs Tafel will sing a solo, and at the eve ming hour Mrs. Hunter will sing The Sunday school services will be at 9:45 a m The devotional meeting of the league will be at G.: 30 D. m Official board meeting Tuesday night, and prayer meeting Wednesday night The doors of this church stand open to the incoming of all strangers, and espe- cially to the young people.
 RECLAMATION OFFICERS-A few days ago Messrs. Jenkins, Taggart and Sprague of the reclamation service. came down from Roosevelt with more or less of the official paraphernalia Yesterday the rest of the force, not immediately employed in looking after construction at the dam, arrived in the city with the remainder Of the of flee effects. Among them were C. NJ. Paddock, clerk, F. s. Kirkpatrick, in- spector Of the service and H. M Pear son, chief of the transportation bu-
 
 freight shipments. The headuuarters of the service in Arizona is now perma- nenUly established in the postofice building here, where nine rooms of the ! second floor have been fitted up to meet the needs of the force. Howard s. Reed. who has charge of stream meas urements left a couple of days ago for a brief visit to Roosevelt
 SOME UMPkINS-WiIIiam H. Shirley, who lives in the Brill addition, yesterday brought to the board of trade room a 75-pOund pumpkin. the looks of which would whet the appe- tite of a chronic dyspeptic. This pump kin and several wagon loads of similar fruit" were grown from the seed of the 51-pound pumpkin brought to the i territorial fair last year and awarded the first premium. This pumpkin is a : warning to Yuma that if she hopes to . retain the pumpkin belt she must come with something better than last years exhibit Ii also proves two other things conclusively. One is that Yuma is mighty good pumpkin country and produces good stock. The other is that Phoenix is still better pumpkin country and can take the Yuma stock and improve it fifty per cent Tn one season. The grand children of that original Yuma pumpkin should weigh at least 11O pounds if reared in this
 valley. When the reservoir is finished and this country gets what water 1t really needs, great care and judgment will have to be exercised in the planf- ing of pumpkin seed. for if sown too thickly the pumpkins will become a menace to the farmers wno are liable anytime to be caught and crushed be- tween a couple of the big fellows growing toward each other. It is un- derstoOd that MT. Shirley has been getting five cents a pound for his sur t plus pumpkins and the attention of the b. democratic press is called to the dan ] ger of a pumpkin plutocracy in this ) valley.