Arizona republican., 1908-06-28
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 for the past two or three days.
 L. C. Hill, chief supervising engineer for the '. $. R. S. in the southwest arrived at Roosevelt tonight with his wife. son and daughter. in his auto by way of the Mesa Roosevelt road. The roads and country are very much in need of a few good showers as they are very dusty.
 George Done;so,. a carpenter work ing on the Transformer house below the dam. while picking up his tools to quit work stepped on a board with a knot in it and broke through, falling forty-three feet to the rocks below, breaking a couple of ribs, dislocating his ankle, knocking out several of his teeth. and sustaining some very seri- Ous bruises. His life was saved by striking a couple cf 2T4 scartling on the day down. The first was struck about twenty feet down and the other one between it and the rocks below. The force of the first blow broke the 2x4 scantlings in two. MT. Donelson is getting along as well as could be expected under the circumstances. but is n a very bad condition yet He has been furnished with a1 electric fan and the government officials are do- ing all they can to make him comfort able. He is looked on as past danger If m complications set in.
 The government has begun to move its steam power plant from Mesa to Yuma. Pud Norton. with a sixteen mule team. left with an eighteen thou sand pound boiler erroute to Mesa from where it will be transported by train 10 Yuma.
 One of the bulkheads at the cement mil broke and let out about two hun dred or more barrels of cement which spread over the road and some of it went into the canal. which is about twenty feet below the cement mill About ten men are busy picking up the best of it.
 The iron men expect to be through their work at Roosevelt in about two weeks. If nothing retards their pro- gress. They would have been through sometime ago only for a change in their original plans which necessitated the raising of part of the machinery appertaining to the gates. a height of five feet above its original base
 Hoyt Medler one of the U. $. R. s. boys. has organized a school of cow pUnChing and Duncan Dean. ac- companied him to Livingston Saturday night and stayed over Sunday to take his first lesson. NIT. Medler is very 7fficicnt in the art of handling colts: whether one is wild four-year- old or an automatic, We know he can hit the ground every time
 Last Saturday night there was a biz dance at O'Rourke's camp. an orches- tra composed of three negroes furnish ed the music.
 Alvin Burtis, son of G. D. Burtis. the postmaster, who has been railroadi1g in the northern part of the territory, has returned to Roosevelt for a two months vacation.
 Roosevelt was visited by one of the worst windstorms of the season yester- ! dav the dust was so thick that every body was seen closing up his tent and the stores kept their doors closed tight. A few drops of rain fel. The wind and dust came up about noon and blew regular hurricane until i about the middle of the night.
 Dad Landry and family have re- moved to the Sierra Anchas noun tains to spend the summer.
 W. Y. Salas, working fer the gov ernment. while attempting to move q large rock yesterday. got a couple of the fingers of his left hand caught be- tween that and another rock. mashinC the ends of his fingers pretty badly.
 Miss Liliie landry has gone to Globe to stay indefinitely.
 William Simpson. an old soldier from the Soldiers Hore a: Sawtelle. Calf, stopped over in Roosevelt to see the dam.
 Cone Webb, of the firm of Webb and Sons. general merchandise, made a trip to Globe and back on business for the firm.
 c Rcurke's camp was the scene of a !. brilliant wedding last Wednesday eve ming when Miss Elect Carrick and Harry Pierson were united in mar riage by the Rev. E. G Decker. pastor of the Ba .tist cf=rch at Globe. The bride was dressed very becominglv in white and Wore a brides veil Frank helso ac--d 2s -est ran and Mrs. George Duval, sister of the bride was I natron of honor. The groom Is aI highly respected young man of Globe and is employed as shift boss at the O-d Dominion mine at Globe. After the wedding, which was private. al adjourned to the recreation hall where there was bis dance and the camp turned out in fu,l free The bride and groom led the grand march. They were given chariyari at 1:3O a. m by the night shift returning from work They left this morning for Globe where trey will go to house. Keeping in a furnished house secured by the groom beforehand.
 Ed Leachey returned from Globe yesterday where he has been taking in mathematics from highly lflclent masters in the art who taught him how to separate himself from his Nad in the shortest possible fraction 7 time.
 J k. Thompson of Cline received a .ream separator from the east the lay before yesterday and will compete With the valley product in s,Ipplying Roosevelt and vicinity with first class butter. Jim is a stayer at whatever le undertakes so we know he will de- Q iVer the goods and Mesa will have to cox to her laurels on the butter prop- ( lsition.