Arizona republican., 1909-06-24

 AGAINST FIRE Kelvin Has Now aFuH Pledged | Department IA MONSTER STEEL ORDER The Ray Company Will Be
 Set Back Some $500, 900.
 Phoenix Given g Chance
 to Recover Its Lost Base
 ball Laurels.
IA MONSTER STEEL ORDER

Kelvin, June ZS.-(Speclal Corre- spondent of The Republican.)- was a special meeting Of the firemen held in the opera house Tuesday eve
 ming for the purpose of electing of- ficers MT. Coleman was appointed chairman. pro tenn of the meeting and acted as spokesman, and pr. Brown
 as temporary secretary. A motion
 was made and seconded that the off
 cers be elected by verbal vote, which
 was carried by a safe majority. The nomination for president being in
 order, $. c. Armstrong was nominated and elected on the first ballot. Then 1 MT. Henness, who has mad quite Il lot of experience in fire departments, was elected vice president to take the chair in the absence of the president. Then, as Dr. Brown was filling the office as secretary so well it was de- cideG to give him tle position as sec retary and treasurer permanently. Consequently he was nominated and elected without a single dissenting vote so he kept his seat and con- t;nued to take down the minutes of the meeting. Then a recess of five minutes was taken in order to do a
 little lobbying before the election of
 the chief. Things were warming up
 considerably by this time, several
 names of prominent business men
 were mentioned. but MT. Coleman
 seemed the stronges-, SD when the
 meeting was called U order at the
 end of five minutes, Mir. Coleman
 was nominated and elected unani-
 mosly in less time thsn it takes to
 tell it. When he was nominated he
 said it was a rather delicate subject
 for him, as he was acting chairman.
 After being elected he arose and
 made a pretty. little speech, thanking
 them all for the honor conferred on
 him, promising to fill the office of
 chief to the best of his ability. Then
 there was an assistant chief to be
 elected, and every one thought NIT.
 MoDIe the right man fer the right
 place, so he was nonnrate6 and elected without more ado. MT. Butler was then elected foreman. A com mittee of four, Dr. BrsNn. MT. Cole r1Gn. MT. Henness. Mir. Edwards, was then appointed by the chair to call on
 .he Ray company tomorrow tl state their plans ana see what concessions could be had in the way of laying more and larger water mains all over town. There will be a special meet ing held Wednesday evening at the opera house and the committee of four will report their findings The meeting was then adjourned. We are pleased to see the lively interest talk en by all the leading business men of the town, as every house in town was represented. All we need now is cooperation and the fire department of Kelvin will be a big success.
 The young people of Kelvin have abandoned dancing for the present at least, and have taken to horseback riding instead, much to the delight of Jake Bates, the proprietor of the Kel- win livery barn, who must have an ticipated such a turn in affairs and taken time by the foreiock, as he has a barn full of thoroughbreds and can suit the most fastidious, as a pacer, single-footer, trOtter, or in fact Q horse with any gait can be had at reasonable terms by applying to the said Jake Bates. Great excitement prevailed in Kel- win Sunday afternoon for a short while. There was such a chatter of hoofs as was never before heard here, and every one rushed pell- to the street to see what it was all about, all of the ex-soldiers saying it reminded them of Q cavalry charge, back in the sixties. But when the dust had cleared away it became ar- parent that it was all a false alarm, as it was only an innocent party of equistrianss on pleasure bent, com posed of Karl E. Lyoyd, J. K. liar mon, jr., C.. A. Gibbons and P. P Nalle, who it was learned after their return was on their way to the ranch and home of MT. Armstrong whose place is near Troy, where they were treated royalty, and with unstintsd hospitality. A fine dinner was served at six in the evening and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Miss Elon Armstrong acting as hostess. In the afternoon their host took them out to inspect some of his mines, both copper and gold. some of his samples taken from the former running as high as seven