Arizona republican., 1906-07-25
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GONE TO TUCsoN-Dr. Ferguson, superintendent of the insane asylum, left for Tucson last night on business.
 AN INDIAN BUSINESS TRlP-J. B. Alexander, superintendent of the Sacaton agency. accompanied by NJ. c. Fisk, left last evening for Gila Bend on official business. They will be in that vicinity for several days.
 HOT EVERYWHERE - Advices from Los Angeles say that the hot wave which has been so partial to this locality the past week has not over looked Los Angeles and that the peo- pie there are sweltering and complain ing of the heat.
 ENTERPRIslNG DoUeLAs-Doug- las moves up one in the scale of met ropolitan progress. Her street car system has been extended. completing q circle that takes in the suburb of Pirtleville and both the c. & A. and the Copper Queen smelters.
 A MOVER OF CANTALoUPEs-G. H. Nelson. who has been in the valley for several weeks past handling for the Santa Fe Refrigerator Express the shipments of cantaloupes from here and Mesa C.ty left this morning for 
 charge of the worx at that point.
 A DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEMAN The announcement of the appoint ment of Col. Tom Weedin of Florence to serve as a member o' the territorial democratic central committee to fill a vacancy from his county was made public by E. E. Ellinwood. the chair man of the committee. yesterday Mr Weedin is a strong advocate in oppo- sition to jo'nture.
 A YOUNG RtOT.-What might have resulted in the police being called to quell a riot was a fight, sort of free for-all, started in the Casino saloon yesterday afternoon about o'clock. No one in authority knew just what precipitated the outbreak, but it was successfully put to an end by all of the Mexicans being forced to leave the place.
 Winslow Mail says: Pantaloon Ro- nero is now recuperating in the Hotel de Houck at Holbrook for a period of fifty days he not being able to procure the same number of dollars. The cause of his absence from Winslow is on account of an unprovoked assault
 
 cate instrument used being a beer bot tle-empty.
 HEAT REGISTRATIONS - There were two cases Of heat prostration among the patients at the insane asy- lum yesterday but neither. 1t is be- Eeved, will be fatal One was that of an aged man named Miguel Degerre who was brought to the asylum from Graham county in 1893. The other case was that of Dolores Sotomayer, who was committed from Pima county.
 IMPORTANT TO GRAY.-ln yester- day mornings issue there was men ton of the fact that Marshal Kinney had received a letter of inquiry as to the whereabouts of William r. Cray. from Dr. Singer of Pueblo, who said that money and friends awaited Gray in that town. Last night Marshal Kin ney received a telegram from Dr. Sing CT urging him to report at once if possible, Gray's whereabouts If he is in this region it will be to his interest to report to MT. Kinney.
 GOING TO THE REAL RESORT Jerry Millay, superinten of the territorial prison at Yuma. arrived in the city yesterday morning for the purpose of consulting with Dr. Wylie He is very little improved in health since he was last here, although he has reason to believe that his plans for the next month will after they are car ried out leave him much improved. He will remain here until Thursday morn ing when he will go to Iron Springs for a stay of several weeks
 [ NORTHERN RAINS = Passengers arriving on the train from the north yesterday afternoon say there were short thunder showers all the way from Ash Fork to a point a few miles above Beardsley all day yesterday and from the appearance of the ground they had been falling for several days. Last even ng about o'clock the sky to the north and to the west of Phoe- nix indicated that a rain was falling and from the accompanying lightning II appeared that a good big storm might reach the city before morning.
 TOUCHED OFF A CARTRIDGE Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morn ing Jose Curos, a Mexican lad 9 years Of age, met with a painful burn by setting fire to powder he found in q broken gun shell. More serious than was the injury was the fright the child sustained and the terrible pain fol- lowing the explosion. Dr. Bell was called and dressed the child's fniur.es and is authority for the statement that no scars will result. The boy lives with his parents at 132 East Jackson street and found the cartridge back of his house. He used a knife in cuttipe open the cartridge and everything but the powder was removed He then applied match, and the first notice ms mother had of the affair were the screams the boy emitted as he ran to- ward the house. his face and arms black with powder