Arizona republican., 1908-07-15
OF LOCAL INTEREST

A FINE ONION-Luciano Pima, who lives up on the Santa Maria, has 1 brought to the board of trade a silver | skin onion as big as a small water | melon.
 TO VISIT BALTIMORE-Mr Wolf
 Sachs of this city and daughter Min
 nie expect to leave July 21 for Balti-
 more, where they will spend the sum mer. returning next fall
 LEFT FOR THE COAST-H. M. | Kennedy and family left last night
 over the southern route for Los An geles. They will spend the rest of the summer on the coast.
 1 THE TAYLOR TRIHl-Fred Fay | Tor, the man who was charged with
 cutting the Hill ditch west of the | Agua Fria, came in yesterday and ap- . peared before Justice Johnstone to an swer to the complaint. He said that | he wanted a witness who was not i'm 1 mediately available and the case was 1 continued until Friday.
 ADVANCE WORk-George Christ. who left for the north the other day with a party of friends for a short outing, cannot afford to hire a press ] agent or an advance man, so he is doing the work himself. Yesterday | Surveyor General Ingalls, received a post card from him with a picture of the exact spot where he was going to be the next day. He also described
 a fine mess of trout he is going to catch at Oak creek when he gets there and send back to the general.
 RETURNED FROM THE CON- VENTION-Dr. H. A. Hughes and Dr. l.. D. Dameron returned yesterday from Denver, where they had been at tending the democratic national con- ventiOn. In the opinion of pr. Hughes.
 it was the greatest meeting of demo
 crats ever held in this country, and
 for that matter the greatest meeting
 of any kind ever held anywhere. Of
 the election of Bryan the doctor e1- tertains not the slightest doubt. Moth ing but a miracle, he believes. can pre- vent it, and it is not the belief of the
 doctor that Providence is going Co in | terpose any miracles in behalf of the
 republican party this year
 THE ARREST OF BiDWELL- Constable Murphy yesterday arrested
 James Bidwell on the charge of en- bezzling a horse, saddle and bride. the
 property of George Duvall. for whom
 he had been working. BidWell is young man without any settled occu-
 patton. He has been about Phoenix for several months, but this Is not the
 first time he has seen the inside of the jail He was arrested not long ago for carrying a concealed weapon and some time before that he was de-
 tained at the city jail by Marshal Moore in connection with the disap- pearance of a watch from a corral at Five Points, where he was employed.
 REDEWILL BOOSTlNG-A. Rede- will, who is spending the summer in Los Angeles, is as usual boosting Phoenix while he rests. He appears in the Los Angeles Herald for a half column or over in which he lays aside his natural mOdesty and tells people that there is no longer any use to beat about the bush, for it must be candidly admitted that this is the best place on earth. He recites a lot of things Phoenix already has and adds to it a long list of those things that are as sure to follow as the night the day. He speaks of farm lands, of building booms, of realty and other values and of general prosperity He tells of railroad building, present and prospective, of the Arizona fair and finally of the magnitude of the min ing industry in the territory
 A GUN MAN JAILED-Deputy Sheriff Wayne Davis yesterday after noon arrested Ramon Gale for draw ing a gun on the foreman of a gang at the government ditch camp north west of the city a few days ago No complaint was made at the time and the foreman did not intend to make any, but yesterday he happened to see Calle on the street and about the same time the deputy sheriff happened along. The foreman told him that if he searched. that man he would prob ably find a gun on him. Then he re- lated the story of the drawing of the weapon. The officer arrested Calle for that His demonstration with the gun was without provocation. The foreman had only made a suggestion to him about the manner in which he was doing some work. Gale resented 1t and after protracted rag chewing he wrought himself into such a state of mind that he pulled his revolver.
 DEATH OF A KANSAS CITY AT l Kansas City papers of July announce the death of Frank Pittman, an attorney, whose wife, | Mrs. Pittman. has been residing in Phoenix for some time for her health. 1 The Journal says: Frank Pitt man, for more than twenty | years a practicing attorney in Wyan- dotte county, died yesterday afternoon at Bethany hospital, Kansas City, l Kas., after a short illness He was 5S | years old and was well known in local |