Arizona republican., 1903-03-04

RALPH MELZER HONORED. - Ralph Melczer. son of Mr William Melczer, who has been at Yale for the last three years has been recently honored by his election to membership of a select scientific society for having distinguished himself in the field of metallurgy and chemistry. The New York Herald. speaking of this matter. said that only six persons were so honored and Ralph was one of them.
 QUICK ACTION.-In yesterdays issue was reprinted q portion of an ar ticle on the manufacture of olive oil il this valley. written by Secretary Van der Neer of the board of trade and pub lished in the Baltimore Sun. Yesterday the National Bank of Arizona received letter from the Leghorn Importing company of Baltimore referring to the article and asking for the address of the manufacturers, for the reason that if the oil is as represented that com pany would like to handle It extensively in the east.
 RIGHT OF WAY COMMITTEE.-l The Phoenix and Eastern right of way committee, the members of which have
 
 summer to securing the right of way for the new railroad, met yesterday In the board of trade room and approved the report of expenditures made hy Chairman Fulwiler on account of the work. It was reported that Mesa pledged $1,110, of which S1,010 has been paid. Tempe pledged $1,500 and has paid in S1.07O Phoenix is short only $160 of the amount subscribed and this amount is divided among five subscrib- CTS. The committee adjourned for one week In order to make q final call OH these delinquents and then pay over the amount raised in order to settle up the affairs of the committee.
 WOMAN'S CLUl1.-The Woman's club of Phoenix held it's regular meet ing in the Free Museum last night in- stead of yesterday afternoon. The special feature of the programme was a lecture by Mrs. Dwight B. Heard on the subject "Glimpses of Egypt The address was illustrated by stereopticon pictures Mrs Heard has her own ster eopticon and it is an excellent machine. The talk was her first effort of that kind and it proved very entertaining
  been more Interesting or better selected as Mrs Heard has travelled in Egypt and was therefore speaking from per sonal knowledge and presenting pie | lures of scenes with which she was personally familiar. After the lecture there was a social season that made the evening one of unusual pleasure.
 A TRIP FOR NOTHING.-Shcriff | Thompson Of Caddo. Okla. who arriv- cd in town yesterday morning is the victim of a blunder of a district at torney. Sheriff Thompson came here as the agent of the territory of Okla homa with a requisition from the gov error of Oklahoma upon the governor of this territory for the eNtrAdltion of l E. R. Gould who is wanted in that ter ritory for swindling by means O. 1 fraudulent check. Gould has been un- der arrest at Tucson for come time on l the request of the Oklahoma authori- ties. There was no doubt of his guilt and when the Okla homn sheriff started after him he had TO doubt that he would return with hin. But there was q serious and curious defect in the sherin's papers. The date of the finding of the indictment against Gould was set forth as the law re- | quires and also the date of the com mission of the crime for which he was indicted. It appears from tke papers that he was indicted before he had time to commit the crime There was q clerical errcr that could not be over looked and the requisiti0n was not honored.