Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - May 23, 1908, Winslow, Arizona VOL 23, 1908. No 17 I LOCAL NEWS I Baseball The Winslow baseball club last Sunday wore their new uniforms for the hrst The uniforms are made of a light grey trimmed with and the team now presents a very neat The game Sunday was played against a picked nine the result being a victory for the by a somewhat onesided Loose playing on both sides was the main cause of the regular team having much the stronger therefore making little effort to put up a good article of Next Sunday's game is to be played against the Flagstaff nine and will without doubt be interesting from a spectators point of view and every point well fought out by the players both sides being evenly matched as was shown in the game played at Flagstaff some weeks ago when the locals won by a score of 5 to 2. Preparations are being made to handle a record breaking crowd at the grounds when it is expected the grand stand will not be large enough to accomodate all desiring The Baseball Association now have under contemplation some needed improvements to the grandstand which probably be made during the next week or The game Sunday afternoon will be called promptly at 2:30, P. and all desiring seats should be on hand early to avoid crowding at the entrance to the Of Interest to The National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has begun active operations at its headquarters at D. C. In addition to its regular it is now preparing a Campaign which it hopes to have ready for distribution by July 1-two or three months earlier than The Committee is charged with the duty of in every way the election of. a Democratic We wish the active co-operation of every voter in the United States who with that the election of a Democratic Congress would greatly benefit the We must rely upon the people to sustain our work by giving information as to local and suggestions for our Each individual can at least aid us by making a Will he not do so and interest others in helping us We wish our Campaign handbook distributed as generally as and we will furnish a as soon as to every one who contributes to our Send remittances to me at D. C. JAMES T. Last Saturday morning about sixty of the upper class pupils gathered at the school house and proceeded on and on horseback to the Daze ranch north of The day was spent in playing and games of all A dinner of the true picnic style was served at The party was chaperoned by Prof. Slifer and Mesdames and Mr. and Mrs. French and Mrs. Clifford also were The merry party returned home and promenaded the street singing and giving the school All the popular magazines are for sale at the Post Office At a convention held here Thursday afternoon the following delegates to represent County at the territorial convention which will be held at Tucson on May 28th, which convention will elect delegates to represent Arizona at the National Democratic Convention to be held in Denver in W. H. W. P. W. G. R. C. of A. F. Jos. F. of and Q. R. of The delegates were instructed to work for W. H. Burbage for National from Arizona first last and all the Conductor A. Bird of the Needles passenger who has been absent for the past three during which time he has visited various parts of New and other as well as making a trip into Old returned last Saturday and will resume work with the Santa Fe in passenger service within a few - A meeting of those interested in was held last week and after an informal discussion it was decided to call a meeting for Monday afternoon of this week to organize a gun At Mondays which was well organization was perfected under the name of the Winslow Gun and the following officers were Dr. F. H. M. J. E. O. B. Bert Field On Sunday last various members of the club repaired to the the traps at present being located in the district near the brick and had what might be termed a practice The following scores were SHOTS NAME BIRDS 50 Gazin 30 70 Bauerbach 46 10 Sechrist 3 70 Waite 51 70 Kauffman 15 60 36 60 Wonders 31 50 Wolff 5 40 Wilson 5 30 Sellsted 1 40 Seeger 15 30 Sutton 2 Another shoot will be held next Sunday when it is expected better scores will be made as the members become accustomed to the It is now thought that a tournament will be arranged for some time in the near future when Gallup and Williams will compete with the Winslow G. N. a brother of Dr. C. L. who for a number of years was employed as an operator at various stations along the Albuquerque is visiting Winslow this week renewing old Mr. Hathaway is ut present in the employ of the Chihuahua and Pacific Railroad Company at where he holds a trick as train After a short visit with his relatives here Mr. Hathaway will go to Albuquerque about June first to meet his wife and will then re turn to the land of A. E. cashier in the Santa Fe agent's office at has been transferred to the position of agent at Flagstaff vice the having been granted an indefinite leave of During his j Mr. Buckbee wiH California and other Pacific Coast As a result of eastbound Santa Fe train No. 8 crashing into the rear end of eastbound freight train No. 850 at twenty-three miles west of at 6 o'clock Saturday main line traffic was delayed for several the engine of No. 8 was badly the caboose on the freight train was two carloads of sheep were derailed and many sheep The passengers on No. 8 received a severe shaking up and several of the women were badly but as far as could be learned none of the passengers or trainmen were The exact cause of the wreck is not The main line was cleared up after several hard work by the wrecking crew which left here for the scene of the No. 8 arrived about being hauled into the city by the freight The passenger train was in charge of conductor Frank Murphy and the freight was in charge of conductor Greenlaw and engineer Rock is now being hauled from the Penzance quarry to the dykes on either side of the bridge over the Little Colorado about three miles east of where the Santa Fe are making extensive improvements with a view to holding the river in its original channel and saving their a large portion of which was carried away by high water some two years W. O. recently of the Manila has been put in charge of the work at the Word has been received by Sheriff Woods of this county of depredations being committed by the Apache Indians in the southern end of the near The information was to the that a band of renegade Apaches stole about 130 head of sheep from Reidhead and also shot a horse from under a The sheriff by deputies left for the scene of trouble and the Indian scouts are also on their On Saturday last a party made up of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miss Cora Miss Mary Myers and Miss Sadie Young drove overland to the meteor mine near Sunshine returning the same They report a very pleasant and enjoyable
