Arizona republican., 1904-06-16

4 NOTARY PUBLICLY notariaI commission was issued yesterday to R. w. Wingfield of Huron, Yavapai county.
 OIL AND GAS-Articles of incorpor- ation Of the Anchor Oil and Gas c0m- panyo were filed in the office of the county recorder yesterday. The capt. tai stock is $2,OOO,OOO and the incor- porators are J. D. Neidinger and c. A. Benson.
 FIRST SHlPMENT-The first ship ment of supplies. purchased on account of the Tonto freight road fund recent ly guaranteed, was sent forward from Mesa yesterday, having left Phoenix the night before. It was, camp sup plies to the amount of 2.64O pounds.
 GOT TWENTY DAYS-Placida So- lares was sent to the county jail for twenty days yesterday by Justice Rob ertson. for beating his wife, the details of which incident have been previously published. He would most likely have been held to the grand jury had the facts brought out at the trial been testified to by more reliable witnesses. The offense was proved but its degree was a matter of some doubt. In addi- ton the previous record of the man vas against him as he has on various Cc- casions made trouble for the officers
 AID SOCIETY SOCIAL-The Ladies' A9d society of the First Methodist Episcopal church will give the last en- tertainment and social of the season to- night in the basement of the church. Refreshments will be served for which a small charge 2yill be made. No ad- mission fee will be charged and a coz dial invitation is extended to ali. The following is the programme: Piano so- To, Mrs. Shirley Christy; solo. Mrs. P. H. Cooper: duet, Miss Ruebel!e R2th- bone and F. P. Wilson; reading, Mrs. Mae French Cooley; solo, F. P. Will son.
 ThE DOG TAx-There is a misun derstanding among the owners of dogs as to what they shall do in order thaa their dogs may be saved. There is an impression based upon former practice that the tax on a female dos is $4, twice the tax that raUst be paid ons her brother. There is also an CT roneous impression that no tax is re- quired at all on dogs of a tender age that they are exempt until they get to
 
 All this is wrong. The dog catcher makes no distinction of age and sex. Every dog must have paid for him or her a tax of S2. A dog ten minutes old is subject to taxation or the pound and ultimately a violent death.
 A DUST STORM-Acting Governor Nichols lately returned from a visit to Wilcox. The train on which he left that place was chased by a monster dust storm which took a great range. The storm loomed up in the east just as the traSn was ready to start. It was a particularly black and forbidding at mospheric disturbance It travelled as fast as the train and part of the time a little faster. The train ran in it all the way to Benson when the main body of the storm diverged from the right of way but the fringes of it hung about the train until it reached Tucson. Speaking of the drouth in the southern part of the territory Judge Nichols said that the ranges were generally in bad shape though in certain regions th= stock is not suffering.
 ST. LOUIS AND ELSEWHERE Excursion rates for St. Louis and Chicago were 7on again yesterday via. the M. S P. anG the southern route, and about thirty Phoenix people bought tickets for those cities. The follow ing names of excursionists were secur- ed. For Chicago: Mrs. J. F. Murray, Mrs. E. J. Jenkins, Fred Levy. Frank Powell, Mir and Mrs. LoGis MeIczer. IsidoS Melczer, Eddy Melczer, Joe Melczer, Gertrude Melczer, C D. Dor ris and daughter, Mrs. Wallod, Ambrose Obermuller, c. D. Hulse John Peterson, Alexander Reynolds, Joseph Bascom and A. D. Rogers. For St. Louis-R. l.. Smith, G. J. Arnold, Maud Perley, Arthur Richmond, Ethel Avery, r. Max well, Arthur Gormon, Mrs. NJ A. Ham mond and Joseph Williams. Among