Arizona republican., 1903-12-17
NEWS FROHt TUCSON
The SchoOls-An Art Exhibition-An
 Automobile Accident.

Tucson. Dec. 15. Especial Correspond erce to The PepubICan) )-The Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers he'd a business meeting this morning.
 Fire broke out last night in a Mexi- can adobe on the hospital road. The fire department responded but did not proceed beyond the city limits.
 The Sunset Telephone company has completed Q special line to the desert laboratory, as per contract made with the Chamber of Commerce.
 The Thirteen club will give ball at the odd Fellows hall Monday evening.
 Col. J P. B-eathitt is here from Can anea. Col. Breathitt is quite popular in Tucson.
 F. M. McGrew left this morning for Los Angelas where MT. McGrew will undergo an operation. At the base ball game December 9th his skull was badly fractured by ball A benefit game will he given for him Monday.
 United States Attorne- Nave and his assistant, J. Ii. Campbell. have re- turned from attending count at Tomb stone.
 The public school question is bzcom- ing a serious one on account of not be- ing able to accommodate the crowd. -tt v urANF-- llseFE tll sL4le5t t'A 4tlA NbAA tractor A l.. Hamilton to construct a room at the front end of the second story hall of the Plaza school This room is to be twelve by fourteen feet and is intended for the use Of J. W. Walker, the principal Of the city schools.
 Reading tables have been placed in the upper hall of the Plaza school on which will be found an encyclopedia. dictionary and late magazines. A fully equipped library will be added next year
 A ten days holiday will be allowed Christmas. the schools closing Decem- ber 2sth.
 Photographs of the various city schools have been taken. These pho tographs and a statement covering the progress in school work in this district will be sent to Superintendent of Pub lie Instruction N. G. Layton. at PhOe- nix. who will arrange them with such materials from other schools for the worlds fair at St. Louis.
 During January there will be an art exhibition of TO large carbon photo graphs and photogravures which a Bos- ton firm has kindly leaned. The money taken in for admission will be devoted to the purchase of pictures for the school buildings from the Boston house which is to loan the pictures.
 The Purcell Grand Consolidated Min ing conUany is officered by the Pur7 cell family i. e.: s. W. Purcell .p-esi7 dent: F. P. Purcell, vice president; Dr. ". ?. Purcell, secretary; p. E. Purcell, Jr... treasurer, all of Tucson.
 The offices of the Western Union Tel egraPh company will be moved early next month to the Santa Rita hotel. Superintendent r. II. Lamb is expected here about the time removal opera tions are begun.
 H. H. BraWder of Houston, Texas, | member of the firm which has taken ! q lease of the Santa Rita hotel, is in ! town.
 NJ l. Forster and Wm Neal were ! thrown from an automobile which went | contrary near the Second ward polls about o'clock yesterday afternoon. | Forster was hurt aOout the head and | was carried to his room. Neal was not ! badly hurt.
 Arthur W. Zeckendorf, son of Wm. and- nephew of L. Zecken- dorf, is here on a visit from New York. MT Zeckendorf was born in Tucson | and has many friends here.
 Superintendent Percy Williams and | C. O. Noes, of the Imperial Copper company. are in town. They made the distance n their auto, forty-five miles, in three hours.
 Geo. H. Clements editor of the Mil waukee Sentinel, is the guest of H. J. Blekely, superintendent of the Twin Buttes mines.
 The pest house is to be removed. com plying with the request contained in the petition which hes been pending fer some time. A new site beyond St. Mary's sanitarium will be selected. An option has been secured on forty acres, Inc price being five dollars per acre. The land is owned by J. A. Graf.
 Willis P. Keynes, the well known real estate and irsurance man, is in San Francisco, called there by the serious Illness of his father. il
 At the meeting of the Womans club |, yesterday the following program was given:
 Early American Fiction-Char,es F. 3rOvn-Mrs. Van KUren.
 Comparison of J. Fennimore Cooper