Arizona republican., 1907-09-27

out bounties for the skins of wild an- imals prescribed by the statutes. J. F. Everett yesterday brought to the board of supervisors the skin of a wild cat which he would rather have kept on the cat. The animal had been taken when young and NIT. Everett was trying to domesticate him. He thinks he could have made a success of it but his neighbors believed other wise. Though the cat was kept se- cured there was a fear in the com munity that sometime he would break loose and there was SD much com munal pressure that MT Everett re- luctantly consented to kill his embryo pet. Having killed him he naturally wanted to realize as much from him as possible. The day before an Apache Indian from the Mcdowell country brought in the skin of a cat for the killing of which he had no compunc- tions at all. The animal had invaded his collection of chickens and was thinning them out when the Indian appeared on the scene with a club. With this primitive weapon he dis posed of the cat after hard fight.
 AN ElGHTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY- Mrs. Martha Patrick yesterday cele- brated her eighty-third birthday at the home of her son Herbert R. Patrick on Central avenue. Mrs. Patrick came to Phoenix to make it her home about a year ago. She formerly lived in Iowa and for some time previous to coming here her health had not been good. But since then there has been a steady ffsnra shr fE fr and her mind is clearer. For years she had devoted her time to literary matter and music and now she finds her greatest enjoyment in those stud ies. Mrs. Patrick first came here in 1880 to visit her son and she has ire quently spent winters here since. She is a sister of the late Captain w. A. Hancock who by the way was a de- scendant of the revolutionary Hancock family. an ancestor being a brother of the great signer of the declaration of independence. The family was also descended from the Lees of Virginia. Francis Lghtfoot, also a signer and Richard Henry, member of the conti mental congress and who introduced resolutions of independence on June :, 1776 The husband of Mrs. Patrick was also a descendant of the Lees.
 NEW MAIL scHEDULE-By au- thority of the chief clerk of the rail- way mail service, there will be a change in the mail schedule between here and Tempe on Sept. % This should not be confounded with the train schedule. The trains will run as usual. but some of them will not car " mail. on and after that date no mail will be sent to Tempe on the train leaving here at 5:15 P. M.. nor will Tempe send any mail to Phoenix on the train arriving here at $50 A. M. on Sundays there will be no mail sent from here to Tempe on the train leaving Phoenix at $50 A NJ. though on week days it will go as usual on that train. The only Sunday mails between Phoenix and Tempe will therefore be on the Winkelman train, which arrives here about 10 o'clock in the morning and departs about 2:20 P. NJ. Strangely enough. there is no interference with the Mesa service, though it is believed at the postof- flee that the Mesa service will be trimmed in like manner at an early day. The only reason for the change that can be learned is that Tempe. with the MaricoDa. Winkelman and suburban service it now getting about eight mails a day to and from Phoe- nix. and the postal authorities con- tend that it is rather Overdoing good thinS. There are hardly letters enough to make a showing in some of the pouches.