Arizona republican., 1908-09-13

the river opposite the contractor's camp. The Italians. after waiting around a while, found a Mexican boat of strictly Mexican design. and
 started to cross one by one The first one. after much trouble. sue ceeded in crossing after having been
 taken down stream about one hun dred yards In the meantime. the rest of the bunch awaited his sue cess or failure It had not dawned
 on them until the first got across
 that it was necessary to have some
 one bring the boat hack for the
 others. When it did though the air about tben was blue for few min
 utes. They finally prevailed on their comrade to bring back the boat. and at the suggestion of your cores pondent three at a time were taken across and all were finally ferried over. We did not wait to see the fn- ish. but have, been wondering ever since how they got the boat back to it's original mooring without having to leave cne of their men on this
 side. Gilesc that's up to the Edexi- can who owns the boat
 California Joe received a large box thls week via Mesa, containing efghr rattlesnakes which are to he used by< him in an exhibition to be given o1 Saturday and Sunday next at the new town of Roosevelt There will also be some sancy shooting with both rifle and bow and arrow. at. all of which Mir. Joe is said to ne an expert He wanted to open up the box and show his pets to the agent at the express office. The offer was declined with thanks. We are not partial to rattlesnaizes. anyhow
 The four men burned in last Sat urday's explosion of gas are imprDv- ing slowly. Mir. Demrick has been suffering the most from his injuries.
 s. S. Thompson developed a case of blood poison from fly bite and has been sporting lis arm in a sling as a result. Getting better, thanks.
 Four of the government carpenters rebelled at working on Labor Day and went on strike for higher wages. also trying to induce the bal ance of the carpenters to join with them The other men declined the offer. as they thought they were get ting a very fair wage. and only eight hours work per day. As the other four would not give in they were discharged and an order sent to Phoenix for men to take their places
 Ortie Frazier. Mir. Trayhan. O. M. French and MT. Hopper left by Mesa stage this morning for Phoenix
 Wm- Peace is helping Mir. Thomp- son at the stage office until the. latter again has the use of his arm.
 Ernest Blades left this morning via Globe stage to resume his studies at Tucson.
 Joe Pfister came down from his mining property at Rye yesterday and left this morning for Globe. He states that work is progressing very favorably and ore is showing well He thinks he has pretty good thing to tie to.
 A number of pretty school ma'ams have passed through here the pres ent week on their way to their re- spective schools between Roosevelt and Payson and although travelling on the PaysOn line has had it's diff culties, this week the driver, Lon Green. reports them all as being plucky trsvelers and making no com plains
 Mrs. W H. Reed returned from her eastern trip this week. Mr Reed meeting her at Phoenix and accom- panying her on the balance of her journey home.
 Mir and Mrs. Win McCauley came in on the stage last night Mir. Me Cauley went as far east as New Orleans to accompany Mrs McCauIey on her return trip home.
 Doc Smith Is being kept busy now adays with his number of patients and in his drug store. He is rapidly filling up the latter and will soon have a full stock. He says when peo- pie want a thing bad they have to have it; and he intends to have it for them when they want 1t. and not have to wait until it can be gotten from Mesa or Globe, as has been the case quite often heretofore under former owners of the drug store.
 Mrs. S. s. Thompson has been helping her husband in the stage office here while the latter has been disabled. and has proven herself a very efficient help.
 The postoffice site is stin hanging fire. delaying the final moving of the ~@~- population have already moved and the other half are hanging back for the moving of the stage company. which is held back by the postoffice. the latter being the point on which the whole thing is expected to turn. We hope Washington will get busy and give it's orders so we can all get settled. But they seem to have forgotten all about us
 September g was the record break CT for putting in of concrete. There were 255 patches of concrete. which means 12s ship loads. which. average three cubic yards each of concrete / or 3s4 cubic yards in all of concrete alone
 Four new carpenters arrived on the Mesa stage tonight to take the places of those leaving this morning. Their names are R. A Muirhead. George Theby. Alex Swain and C.. G. Ham beth.
 Dr. Smith has had row boat here for emergency trips around the lake.
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