Arizona republican., 1905-07-19
w. c. T. U. MEETING

w. c. T. U. .MEETING-The regular
 meeting of the w. C. T. U. will be
 held at it's rooms, corner of Center and
 Monroe streets, this afternoon at 2:3O.
 FIRE COMPANY MEETING-The
 Five Points fire company will hold
 meeting this evening in the firemen's
 headquarters at the city hall Busi- ness of importance demands attention.
 TWO MONTHS OUTING-Irving
 w Hill and family returned on Mon
 day from a trip through tEe widest and most beautiful part of the terri tory. The Hill family left nere two months ago. making an overland jour
 ney to Prescott. They remained there for 9 short time and crossed to the Verde. Thence they have traversed a part of the Clear Creek and finally went into the Oak Creek country. where most of the time was put in the United States.
 A LUMBER STOREMAN WANTED The United States civil service com mission announces that on August 16 an examination will be held for the purpose of securing eligibles from which the appointment of a lumber storeman for service on the Panama canal will be made. Salaries for the position range from S1,000 10 S1,50O a year. No educational test is required but there will be taken into consider ation, age, physical condition and ex- perience. Applicants between the ages of twenty-five and fOrty-five are preferred. Each applicant must submit with his application a photO- graph of himself taken within the last three years.
 DIDN'T LIKE THE TESTIMONY-l Jose Maria Montoyo was given a pre- Iiminary examination before United States Court Commissioner Johnstone yesterday afternoon on the charge of violating the Edmunds act. The wO- man in the case. Angelita SOnOqui, l has not been arrested and is supposed to have left town. There was a good deal of testimony by eye witnesses of | the crime charged. to al of which MontOyo objected on the ground that thepersons who swOre against him 1 were no better than they said he was. He said further that he would never be satisfied that he had had a square deal until it could be proved that he was guilty. His bond was fixed st $500.
 AN ERRONEOUS REPORT-For l two or three days the report has been l current that the Superior mine in ! Pinal county. which promises to be- 1 come one of the largest gold and cop | per producers in the country has been | sold, though the names of the purchas- l CTS could not be learned. It appears | that the story reached Prescott, where | it was rumored that the property had | been bought by the Development Com | pany of America, which is behind the ! operation of the Congress, Imperial. ! Tombstone and Poland mines. A rep l resentative of the Prescott Herald in | terview MT F. M. Murphy who is | largely interested in the Development l Company of America. and was told | that there was absolutely no fOunda- | tion for the report so far as that com | pany is concerned.
 DIED TO SAVE FRIENDS LIFE-
 A telegram of the 18th from Needles | has the following to say concerning a 1 young man vel known in northern | who lost his life in trying to | save that of a friend: While assist ing his exhausted comrade to shore, 1 J. E. Dennis of Maine, Ariz., Stan | ford student, was drowned in the Col OradO river near here this aftern OOn. | His body has not been recovered. Den 1 his was son of J. NJ. Dennis Of | Maine, Ariz He was a student of the i class of 'O8 at Stanford university. In the vacation time he made money as . travelling lumber salesman his fath- er being heavily interested in the lum- Der trade. As far as can be learned. | the two men were in bathing Dennis