Arizona republican., 1905-09-26
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

DEPOT BURNED-The depot of the
/ Southern Pacific company at Lords
i burg was recently destroyed by fire
with a total loss. Part of the mail con-
signed to Clifton and Morenci was al
so destroyed in the cOnflagratiOn. The
structure was built when the road was
first constructed into Lordsburg.
| FREE. Yesterday
the board of trade received the second
! consignment of pamphlets which have
, been prepared for distribution by ].
W. Crenshaw, the commissioner of i'm
migration. In all, the issue amounts to
| 90, 900 copies. In addition to the pam
phlets for distribution here some 5000
were distributed among visitors at the
Portland fair. Any person desiring
any of the literature may have the
same by applying the board of trade
rooms.
ANOTHER MAN GONE WRONG
Crazed with drink, Joe Ellis, who has
solicited advertisements for a business
directory of the southwest in almost
every town of the territory inflicted a
murderous wound on the face of Homer
Hit at Cananea one night last week
and as a result is now languishing in
a Mexican Jail under commitment for
a term of eight years. Hit had be-
friended Ellis when ne was out of en-
ployment and broke but quarrelled with
him when approached in drunken
condition and asked for money.
TOO MUCH CONFESSIONAL the
time approaches for the trial of Claude
Doane, who is under indictment in Nc
KinIey county, New Mexico, for the
murder OF Walter Lyons, an Arizona
school teacher, evidence against him
becomes more conclusive. He has
since mis- arrest, made three different
confessions regarding circumstances
surrounding the crime eacn time
charging a different person with be-
ing the guilty one. His last story is
to the effect that the two men who
showed the officers the trail taken by
Doane when he made his way out OF
the country are the guilty ones.
NEW TEACHER OF THE VIOLIN |
Miss Marie Mason, who will this |
winter season be in charge of the violin !
department of the Arizona School of |
Music arrived in the city yesterday |
morning from Chicago. Miss Mason !
is a graduate of the American COnser-
vatory of Music at Chicago and |
young lady who has played with great /
success in many of the eastern cities. |
Her coming to Phoenix is a decided |
acquisition to musical circles of the |
city and she VIII no doubt also be very
first visit to Arizona
PERHAPS A BOOTLEGGER-The
city police yesterday afternoon gather
ed in an Indian and a Mexican both in
a badly dilapidated condition on ac- 4
count of an over indulgence in liquor. l
The Mexican has been in custody sew
eral times before and strange to say II
he has always been arrested with an II
Indian. It is suspected that he is the II
person who has been supplying the In II
dams with the liquor and if an inves- II
LEGATION that will be made confirms i
the suspicion he will be turned over /
to the federal authorities. The Indian
when the officer appeared on the scene
at the time of his arrest tried to make
away on a pony tied near by but in this
was unsuccessful.
SUGAR FACTORY BONUS-The
beet sugar soliciting committee has
raised in all in the city of Phoenix
$4,000. The Glendale ranchers assist
ed by other ranchers of the north side
nave subscribed lands to the bonus to
the total amount of $4,000. This
leaves in all $4,000 yet to be subscribed
and five days in which to secure the
AS yet no report from
Tempe and Mesa has been made to the
main committee and with a view Of
arousing interest in those communi-