Arizona republican., 1906-04-01
ALTAR CANDLES
 SPARED A FIRE
The Narrow Escape of the Mexican
 Quarter at Roosevelt.

Roosevelt, March 28, Especial Core spondence of the Republican.)- What
 might have proved a very serious fire.
 had it not been for it's early discovery. occurred on Saturday night of last week As it was, the only loss report ..
 ed is the destruction of one tent and
 its entire contents. The Mexicans. of
 whom there are a great number in
 Roosevelt, are without a regular place
 of worship, and one of their number
 Q. Romo, had given his tent house fo- | that purpose. They are all Catholics l and in the service a great many can
 dies are used and it seems on this oc- Fcasion an extra large number had been | employed. The interior of the tent
 was fixed up as near as possible to | resemble an altar in their church. and | a great many altar cloths and dra-
 perles were hung about. The services were conducted by a priest who makes | weekly visits here. and after they wer. | over all had left the tent and the can dles still burning. There was quite
 a high wind blowing at the time. and | very soon the candles. which had burn
 ed quite low, set fire to the f1imsy ma
 terial, and when it was discovered the i whole tent was in flames. Fortunately the large number of men that had been l reach and all were pressed into tba work of fighting the flames. In that part of Roosevelt where the Mexicans i've the tents are usually close together and the energies of the crowd were df- rected toward tearing down the tents about the burning one They suc- ceeded fairly well in doing this and only two tents nearest the burning one were scorched. Very fortunately the fire was confined to the tent belonging
 to Romo entirely, and as he stated at
 the time. his loss will amount to abou.
 one hundred dollars
 Mir. Louis F. Brown, the correspond ent of McClures magazine, and pr. R. F. Palmer, made a visit to the cliff dwellings, which are located seven
 miles above here, on Tuesday of this
 week. They spent the greater part of
 the day in and around the dwellings.
 exploring them all. and Mir. Brown.
 whose knowledge of such things is very
 extensive, pronounced these to be
 about the best specimens of the GIT Dwellers' art to be found in the terri tory. He is very much interested in
 them, and as 9 member of the Arch geological institute of America. he con-
 templates having work carried on ir regard to them. Before coming here MT. Brown spent several days in and around Mesa, with several labOrers, digging in the mounds of the prehis- toric Mound Builders, and his search was rewarded by the finding of several pieces of pottery and shell work The fact of MT. Browns position, and his membership in that famous society for the unearthing of prehistoric things, makes his interest in the dwellings of some import. and if work is instituted and carried on, as he hopes to have it. it will be watched with great interest by the citizens of Roose- welt.
 A very serious accident happened 10 one A. Martinez. a quarry man at the camp Of O'Rourke and company. by a heavy rock falling on his left leg. 1 thereby breaking it. He was removed | to the Roosevelt hospital with con siderable difficulty. where his injuries l were attended to by Dr. Palmer.
 A rather interesting John Doe case found its way into Judge Evans court | during the early part of the week. The | man is from Globe and is charged with | obtaining goods under false pretenses and then skipping the country. He | obtained most of the things from sta dealer in Globe, the main arti- cle being a beautiful gold mounted 1 fountain pen, worth perhaps ten or twelve dollars. He promised to pay within a short time. but his sudden departure for Roosevelt made the Globe man suspicious and he had in telephoned to apprehend the man upon his arrival here. Ranger Holmes had no difficulty in identify ing him and when confronted with the charge he immediately surrendered all 41.- 1ns He tried to explain that it was his in tention to pay for the goods. and upon the surrender of the articles it was agreed that the case and charge against him should be dropped which was done.
 MT. James F.. Jenkins and Raymond ] Depue, two of the young men who were down from the government offices talk ing the civil service examinations at Phoenix last week, returned Saturday night, the remainder of the bunch re- maining over and returning on Mon day nights stage.
 On account of the very heavy rains which fell on Sunday and Monday. the Mesa stage could not leave and the 1 mail for that place was sent out on horseback to Fish creek, over the Golf fin trail The river has risen consider ably and it is feared that part of the | road between here and that place has | been washed out.
 Messrs. Abbot and Welborn of Mesa, | two prominent members of the Water | Users association are visitors on the | project during the early part of the | week returning to Mesa Wednesday | 
 Jim Holmes, the territorial ranger. | who for some time past has been in | Phoenix on matters of business. re- | turned to Roosevelt early last week.