Arizona republican., 1904-11-13
LOYAL PRECINCT
The Election and Other Events at
 Peoria Last Week.

Peoria. Nov. 11.-(SpeciaI Correspon- dence of The Republican.)-T result or the voting here last Tuesday showed that the men in this village stood nobly by the candidates on the republican ticket. If the other towns in this county had done as well, the straight ticket would have been elected Some of the candidates received twelve votes out Of the fifteen cast. Notable among these was Mr. Cook, for sheriff. and Mr. Richardson, for district attorney Mir. Lee, candidate for schoOl-superin- tendent, made a good showing here. For delegate to congress. Mir. Fowler received nine votes. and Alr. Smith five. The other vote was for the prohibition candidate.
 Mr. Erickson. Glendale constable. was reelected to that office by the -Tlurality he received in Peoria, the vote in Glendale being a tie. About time to treat, Mr. Erickson.
 Peoria's population has been in- creased by two the last week by the arrival of MT. C. F. Iifsey and colored servant, of Atlanta. Ga. 2rr. Isfsey has pitched his tent on the desert here, and his intentions are now to spend a year in this locality.
 Mrs. W. J. Osborn and Mrs F. W. WaggOneT left this morning for a visit to Tempe and Mesa, expecting to be gone a few days.
 A meeting of the Ladies Guild was held in this village on Thursday after noon.
 MT. Calvin Goodrich, a late arrival from Minnesota. has accepted a posi- ton in Beardsley, and left yesterday. for his new field of work
 The crack shots. Of Glendale want to get out their rifles and do some Drac- ucing before the turkey shoot, Thanks giving day, for Peoria is going to come down and just wipe up the earth with them. so far as shooting goes. We ex- pect to hire a special train to bring our turkeys home. and in view of the fact that Glendale will probably feel bad over not getting a single turkey. we will invite them all up to help eat ours. We are polishing up our guns and lay ing in stock of ammunition. so Glen dale is advised to get a hustle on if they expect to do anything.
 As one drives along the roads in this vicinity, he cannot help but notice how utterly deserted and forlorn some or the ranches look. Weeds are growing in great prCfusion everywhere. with out one single thing being done to check their rapid growth. Waste water djtches are filled almost level with sand and debris, so that they are practically useIess,-an when a freshet comes. or there is an extra large run of water, the water overflows the roads, making travel or them any thing but agreed ble. What is the mat ter? Do not the ranche!s here take any pride in their farms? It is either because they do not care how their places look, CT else they are too busy to attend to them. The latter proposi- ton is hardly a good one. They cer- tainly can find time to clean out these obnoxious weeds, and they ought to take enough pride in the place to do it. Now. whats the matter with forming general improvement society here in PeoFia. Let the men get together one day in the week, or even half day, and have a general cleaning out oE weeds and repairing of ditches. They could take up one section after anoth- CT, and by all working together the de- sired result could be obtained. There have been one OF two individual att tempts at this work. and the results obtained show that a great change could be made by concentrated effort on the part Of the ranchers here. Why not get together and give it a trial, any how it certainly wouldn't do any harm, and will probably do consider able good.