Arizona republican., 1904-09-12
MISS YERKEs IMPROVEMENTS

MISS YERKES IMPROVING-M Yerkes who was so severely injured in a fall at the Ford hotel a few days ago. Is improving very rapidly though she IS still confined to her bed.
 GONE TO THE DAM-Draughtsm Howard, in the employ of the reclama- tion service, who spent a few days in Phoenix, left on Saturday to resume his duties at the storage basin.
 MIR. AND MRS. MAUK-Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Mauk arrived here yester- day morning from Los Angeles where they were married on Thursday men tion Of which was made in yesterdays paper.
 MR. GREENE HOMER. H. Greene returned home yesterday morning after very pleasant visit in the east. He saw the big show at St. Louis of course and spent considerable time at his for mer home In Illinois.
 PROBABLE SUICIDE-Catalina Casonova, a Mexican girl r years of age, shot and killed herself with a six shooter at the Nelson ranch, six miles below Livingston in Gila county. I; might have been an accident as no ons witnessed the deed.
 E home people who have been scattered all over the country from one ocean to the other, during the hot weather, are now returning home en masse. The traius arriving yesterday were loaded with familiar faces.
 EQUATOR BLOWN lN-Senator Cla-k's equator shelter has again been blown in. l. had been closed for sev- eral weeks during which time the plant had been changed from a coal to an oil burner and many important in, provements had been installed.
 HOME AGAIN-Mrs. J. J. Sweeney returned home yesterday morning ac- companied by her daughter Norma and son Paul. They had a most enjoyabie summer vacation spending about three months in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Coronado, and return home in the best of health and spirits.
 MAY BE MURDER-Advices from Hermosillo state that the Mexican government is holding a prisoner, a Mexican known as 'Frenchy," who ls believed to have made away with Doe tor Sherley, an English physician who left Douglas for Sonoro last october and has not been heard from since the following November. "Frenchy' was detected in an endeavor to sell a part of an equipment which had belonged 10 the missing man.
 CLEVER TEACHER ARRIVES
 Miss Carrie Johnson of New Brighton, Pa, arrived here Friday morning ac- compan:ed by her mother and sister. Miss Johnson is one of the newly elected teachers of the city schools. | She will have charge of the eighth grade of the Center street building. | She cones highly recommended as q teacher of fine attainments. Herself, mother and sister are stopping with Mir. and Mrs. ". H. Black, 359 North | Third avenue who are old friends. MT. and Mrs. Black have been in Phoen:y for some three years.
 THE FUNERAL SMOKE-The other | day there was a funeral which was I largely attended. It was observed by | those along the line of March that | several of those who had come out t1 pay the last mark of respect to the dead were engaged in smoking cigars or cigarettes. It struck the observers | or those of them who happened to thinS e.Sout it that that was an incongruous 1 performance; that it might have been | better to abstain from smoking until
 at least, after the procession had start ed on the return journey for the horses are not allowed to trot until the hearse i is coming back.
 CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS-A | day or two ago a young man by the | name of William Dungeons, who had | been employed on the Roosevelt -oad l found himself too strong for that kind | of work came to town and put up at J the Star lodging house. On Saturday | night he began to despoil the other 1 guests of their goods. From one he | from annt her. nI