Arizona republican., 1907-06-26
OF LOCAL INTEREST

A RANCH SAlE-J. l.. Irwin yes terday sold the Ernest F. Young ranch to John Ambrose and A. R. Taylor Tor a consideration of s6.s00.
 A PLEASURE TRiP.-Mr. and Mds. J. H. Atwood of Troy are spending few days in the city. MT. Atwood is interested in mining in that section.
 VISITING ENGINEER HERE. - Engineer O. H. Ensign of the recla- nation service arrived here yesterday morning from the north.
 NEW NOTARiES-Governo Kibbey yesterday appointed two new notaries public. Miss B. w. Handyside of Bis bee and Edna w. Nolan of Phoenix
 TWO INSANE PATiENTs.-Deputy Sheriff McMurray of Globe, arrived here Sunday night with two insane patients committed to the asylum. Both were men. and Americans.
 MORE PLUMS.-The board of trade yesterday received another consign- ment of plums from local growers. Cope and Tait. There were three big branches off as many trees of differ ent kinds and each one was about as heavily laden with fruit as the leaves would give room for.
 SOLD A RANCH.-Nelson Bradley yesterday sold a thirty acre ranch to Otah s. Potest at $i5 per acre, which is substantial advance over what MT. Bradley paid for it a short time ago. It is partly under cultivation. IL is four miles west of Glendale. and is situated in section of township 2 north. 1 east
 DUPLICATE FIRE ALARM-An indicator has been placed in the en- gineer's room at the electric light works and hereafter when the fire bell rings 1t will probably be followed by the footing of the electric company's whistle. For the present this will probably be the old fashioned ierky toot. but it is proposed later .U se- cure an indicator that will give the box number as at the fire station. The whistle then, like the bell. will indi- cate the box number by the number of toots.
 FRIDAY BALL GAME.-The offer ing at Eastlake Park next Friday ar ternOon, the occasion of the clerks weekly half holiday. will be a baseball game between the New York Store team and the Pacific Gas and Electric Light Cos. team. IL will be remem- bered that at the last meeting the counter hops got the worst of the bar gain. but 1t is understood that they have taken precautions against such d thing happening again. They realize that 1t is the privilege of every team to lose if 1t wants to. but they know 1t Is the gas mems turn and would not be discourteous for anything in the world. The latter however intimate that they are willing to give way if the New Works really want to lose. In fact now that the matter has been mentioned, they exhibit a tendency to force the dry goods men into accepting defeat whether they will or not.
 CHAMPION SPRINTERS.-J J. l.. Irwin and F. M. Avis. as hustling busi- ness men are well known. but they have never yet come into the lime light as being hard men to catch. Probably in their young boyhood days. they might have shown with distinction on the village green at the annual horse show or Fourth of July. when they won the candy in the sack race or the 4O-yard dash from the post office to the town well. Possibly such recollections yesterday were the cause of these gentlemen arranging a run ming match to settle any question of prowess as sprinters. and probably neither ever ran faster or fell any harder. even back home. when they hurriedly vacated a watermelon patch under pressure of dire circumstances. Wilson Hardy was the referee and bot tie holder and the two contestants stood on the tape waiting for the word to go down the cinder path, which was the alley north of the Monihon block. At the word they were off. Avis lead ing by a nose and seemed foreordained tc win. But like Lots wife he did a ia tia thing. Just as the goal was near. thinking he had lots of room between him and Irwin, who also ran. he looked back. began to smile and then to laugh, then fell all over himself, step ped on his smile and lost the candy. NIT. Irwin thinks he would have won without the falldown of his fast step ping opponent, but MT Avis is also satisfied that had he kept his face riv- ened on the goal he would have brok- en a record, instead of jeopardizing his neck. So it's still unsettled and may have to be run over. in which case it is hard to tell who will fall next time.