Arizona republican., 1907-11-08
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NEW NOTARY-,ieorge Cole of
 Phoenix was yesterday appointed a
 notary public.
 A SHORT DOCkET.-Justice Kyle
 had before him yesterdaw Santiago
 Jimmez and Jose Reyes who had been LICENSED TO WEO.-A marriage ! license was issued yesterday to sam : Barrett and olive c. Isaacs.
 TEXAS VlSlTOR.-Mrs. James B. Mcclellan. of san Marcos, Texas. ar
 rived in Phoenix yesterday for a visit with her son, Horatio Mcclellan of the
 undertaking firm of Moore &McLellan. ANOTHER FREAK CHICKEN NJ. Quist. living near Alhambra. has a chicken which will probably attract
 some attention at the territorial fair. It is a more than ordinary freak but is not in any way deformed. In its general appearance t is a brown leg horn bullet and lays leghorn eggs. It has the crest of bullet but it's hackle is that os 2 rooster.
 YUMA MAKING GOcD-Yuma pro- poses to be on hand at the fair with an agricultural exhibit that is worth while. Among other things en route here are stalks of field corn g feet
 sugar cane 17 feet. and cotton Sis feet long: six watermelons weighing 24O pounds: three sweet potatoes weighing sixty pounds, and a five months-old
 grape vine eighty feet long.
 LEFT FOR FRESNO.-R. J. Holmes and family left yesterday for Fresno.
 California. where they will in the fu-
 ture reside. MT Holmes has been em
 f-
 pany for several years He is one of
 the old timers in the territory and
 came here by the overland route from
 California by the wa Of La PaZ. then
 a prosperous city on the Colorado, to
 Prescott in the year 1872. He recalls
 many incidents ot historic value in
 the earl.- davs of Arizona.
 THE WATER-The volume of water in Salt river is gradually diminishing. there being "A second feet at Rocse- welt yesterday and 1883 second feet at the Arizona head. There were 17.20G inches of water in the Arizona canal at Evergreen. odd as il may appear. the less water there is in the river, the more there is in the canal The reason is that as the water in the river goes down the repairing of the rock dam more nearly approaches completion
 OUR CY-This is what the Cincin- nati Post of Oct. q says: "Cy" Young the Third, the Wichita. Kan. pitcher. who failed to shine as Brownie when Col. McAleer had him two springs ago. is a Pittsburg capture for 1908. Young is a graduate of the University of When going to school at Madison he hooked up in a memorable game with Ed Reulbach, who was then Notre Dame. Reulbach was the victor. but Young pitched every bit as well as he did. In that show he struck out II batters That was back in 1902 or 1908. Reulbach since has won his purs with a vengeance, and Young. hopes to follow suit.
 VALLEY REALTY SALES.-J. l. Irwin yesterday closed up three deals which show that the business is still moving in the real estate line Mr Irwin says that the October business will greatly exceed the business of the same month during previous years. He finds that a greater per cent than usual of the families coming in this winter are hOmeseekers and looking for property. Through the agency of MT. Irwin yesterday. $. NJ. Huston sold to James H. Parsons, recently arrived from Rochester. New York. five acres one and one-half miles west of the fair grounds for a sum of s1.S5O. Ten acres belonging to Ed Wetzler located one mile northwest of the fair grounds was sold to Frank Barnum for con- sideration of s2.300. S NJ. Huston pur- chased s 1-3 acres belong to w. F. Campbell for s1.4OO. The property is located four miles southeast of Phoe- nix
 AN INSANE STRANGER-Com- plaint Uas made yesterday that Will liam Jackson Fay had gone crazy or that he har come here crazy. He ar rived in town day before yesterday and before 9 o'clock that night he had six fits. He "as turned over to the po- lice but yesterday morning appearing to have recovered himself he was dis charged. Tn the afternoon it was re- ported that an unknown man was wandering about aimlessly in the country east of the city. Deputy Sher- i if Davis started out after him and found Fay plunging about in the brush in the neiglborhood at the joint head l He was in bad shape and told the of ficer that he was partially under the influence Of chlOral hvdrate That though he said was not the cause of his trouble. He said that these fits had resulted from a wound in the head that he had received in the Span | ish-American War. He had one fit after he was locked up last night and Dr. Beauchamp vas sent for Later in the night the doctor called on him | the second time. r. there is no i'm provement in his condition he will be given an examination in probate court today. BELL BADLY BEATEN-Many Phoe- 1 nix people will remember l. N. Bell. | who formerly resided here and who