Arizona republican., 1906-03-18

COCHlSE NlSITORS-COunty As
 sessor B. J. O'Reilly of Cochise county and Hon. Charlas w. Bowman were in
 the city yesterday.
 HE LIKES PHOENIX BETTER Attorney Walter B. Kibbey has re- turned from Los Angeles where he went about a month ago with the idea
 of locating. After looking over the
 ground he decided that one could do
 better here.
 Y. M. c. A. MEETlNG-The usual Sunday afternoon Y. NJ. c. A. meeting will be held at three o'clock today at Lamson's hall. The principal address will be by Rev Harold Govette, whose subject will he Influence"
 THE CITY REPUBLICANS-There was a meeting last night of the city republican committee. It was gen eral business meeting for a discussion informally of candidates and issues. The only definite thing done was to authorize the ward members of the committee to call ward caucuses. FUNERAL MONDAY.-Tne funeral
 of Fitzgerald Murphy, which was first | announced would be held yesterday. was postponed until Monday afternoon at o'clock on account of the absence of his intimate friend, Frank Connolly, in the mountains MT. Connolly re- | turned home last evening and the an ! funeral will take place Monday. It will be held in the Catholic church and | interment will be made in the Catho- l lie cemetery east of Phoenix.
 COL DRAVO HERE.-CoIonel E. F. Dravo of the United States army ar rived here yesterday and is registered
 at the Ford hotel Col. Dravo was stationed at Fort McDoweI many years ago when he was yet very young officer and at that time ne in vested quite extensively both in min i ing property and in valley realty which interests he still retains. He 1 has not been here before for nine years but he has always had faith in PhOe-
 nix and comes now for a stay of sev-
 eraI weeks, being on an extended leave.
 THE DEATH OF A FATHER l Charles and Leon Gass. proprietors of
 the Gass Brothers chop house yester- day received a telegram informing them of the death of their father, Julius | Gass, ST, yesterday at Chattanooga.
 Tenn. MT. Cass was seventy-twO years of age. His illness had been on | ly of about two months duratiOn@ The l telegram stated that the funeral vii. l take place on Monday and in cOnse- quence the place of business of the brothers will be closed from 6 a. m. to
 D. m MT. Gass leaves a large fam lily consisting of eight sons and two
 daughters
 SNOWING.-It was scnowing in northern Arizona Friday and Satu-- day and threatening rain here yester- Iday. There is severe cold wave 1 l,a ,fr-a1 a | of the storm in these parts. Concern ! ing rain Section Director Jesunofsky of the weather bureau said yesterday l that the most that has fallen at any one point in Arizona this year is 444 inches. But that is considerable for the brief time that has elapsed. Continuing on the same subject he said that Arizona presented about all the variety a reasonable man could ask ! for at one place or another Last
 year was atremarkably wet one gener- ally and the maximum rainfall in the
 wettest place during the year was | 56.50 inches. That is more water than
 most people would have believed could
 fall in Arizona in one year but that | was a avery exceptional year and very exceptionally wet spot. On the other
 hand there was a comparatively dry spot in Arizona even last year with 2 II i it's wetness. It was one of the south western points and the total precipi- tatiOn there during the year was only