Arizona republican., 1909-08-06

SiNt tA htUlbllSAidNlbll ol Aiit SALt pl d ! Drink yesterday in one of the down towns saloons. but because of too great a series of demonstrations | the southern colonel lost his dignity. l and when last seen was being "toted" down a back alley to the rear entrance of a friends home.
 WATER AND CANALS-There was no material change noted in the wa ter flow of the rivers yesterday. Wa ter will today be running in the Salt and Maricopa canals, probably, on regular heads No water can be run in the Arizona below the crosscut for the present on account of breaks made yesterday by the Cave Creek wash, mentioned elsewhere in this issue.
 MORE CARELESS DRiVlNG-The names of several careless automobile drivers were taken Wednesday morn ing in route to the fire call. The lives of many are at stake in a fire run, and everyone is more or less needless of machines. and also bicy- cles From time to time the names of fast drivers will be taken, which will no doubt simplify matters some what should an accident occur.
 TWO WAYS TO KILL THEM-| While Mir. Betts was away on his vacation he heard d part of a con versation regarding the Glendale can taloupe, which is making such tremendous hit all over the country this season. There are only two ways to down the Glendale canta- loupe, one is to freeze it out, and the other is to pull out the plants by the roots" Mir Betts has a reputa- the valley and forgetting the bad ones.
 GUESSED WRONG-A young lady, recently alightcd from a Los Angeles
 train at Maricopa, and was accosted
 by a strange man, whom the young
 lady mistook for a white slave trader.
 After arriving home, she told her
 large brother of the incident. who has tened down the street only to meet a long forgotten cousin who recently returned from a trip fin Africa, and who had recognized his cousin at the train The long lost cousin, although considering it q joke, feels greatly humiliated as to the appearance he puts up to the weaker sex.
 HE TAKES A NEW TRACK Harry Hedgpeth started out yesterday in a different direction, having dis covered in the course of the last six months that he had gotten off the main travelled road that leads to use full manhood. Hedgpeth is a St. Louis boy who has just finished a term of sixty days in the county jail for an committed at WickenburG. on his release from jail he found in the postoffice money enough to meet his immediate wants. He is not go- ing to leave town, but he is going to live here in such a way that people will forget that he has ever been in jail.
 BOBST- T-HOEFER-AIiles Bobst and Miss Ethel l.. Hoefer were married last evening at S:SO o'clock at the Presbyterian church. by the pastor, Rev. Henry NJ Campbell The affair was a quiet function there having been no previous formal announcement of the event and only a few intimate friends were present. The groom is a well known young man having lived in this vicinity for the last four years. The bride IS a niece of s. P Hoefer of this city and has lived here for sev- eral years. Both the young people were born in San Luis Obispo. Cal. though oddly they never met until they came to Arizona
 ONLY BOYS SHEA vehement protest was made the other morning by a gentleman standing on the cor ner Of Center and Washington streets, against the growing practice of busi- ness men in catering to the youth and sissy boys of the country rather than to full sized, manly men. The protestant was a big husky man just in from the hills. He stopped on the Boehmer corner and sighted the side walk scale which in it's fancy color ing and its promise Co speak ones weight. rather appealed to him. He stepped on the scale and was pre- pairing to insert coin when he saw the sign announcing that the scale only weighs up 10 25O pounds. Hell" he remarked as he stepped off again, they don't seem to have anything but boys sizes around this town"
 WILL INVESTIGATE CALIFOR-
 MIA WELLS-ThorntOn Fitzhugh. the secretary and principal mover in the Paradise Valley Homesteaders' asso- citation, will leave about the fifteen of the month for California where he will visit some of the principal scenes of pumping operations and will se- cure estimates for the driving of wells on the lands of the local asso- citation. During the past few weeks there have been six new members added to the twenty-two who are all ready interested. and if the eXperi- ments with the wells prove the sue cess which the promoters confidently expect, the taking up of lands north of Scottsdale will be rapid and a considerable settlement will be es- tablished by next fall. It is expected that the driving of the wells will be