Arizona republican., 1905-05-16
OF LOCAL INTEREST

BIDS REJECTED-A dispatch from Washington a few days ago says bids
 were opened today at the Indian office
 for a farm house in connection with
 the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona
 territory. But two bids were received both from Phoenix contractors Both were too high, exceeding the estimate of $3,S00 fixed by the bureau. and they
 will be rejected. D. R. Crosby bid $5,-
 523 and Thomas F. Brown $5,52O for
 the contract"
 A DEPUTY ASURER-Profes- sor J. D. Loper was yesterday appoint
 ed by County Treasurer Hayden as his assistant and the appointment was confirmed by the board of supervisors
 When MT. Hayden took the office at the first of the year he appointed Lewis D. Moore as his assistant. Something more than a month ago Mir. Moore was
 obliged by i'll health to rehnquish his
 position and the place was then offered
 to Professor LoDer. He however was
 until he was released the place was
 filled by S. P. Hoefer
 NOTHING FOR BURIAL-About a week ago a man by the name of John Raasch was found dead in a cabin
 southwest of the city. Among his eff fects there were several papers includ- ing a will in which he disposed of a
 farm near Embarrass, Wis. and several
 sums of money. His family was in formed of his death and yesterday a letter was received from his wife. She stated that she was unable to send for the body or to even send money for it's burial here. She said that before the departure of her husband to this coun- try he had mOrtgaged everything he owned so that it was impossible to
 raise any more money She directed that some disposition be made here of the remains. The will was mailed to her yesterday.
 SCHOOL FUND APPORTIONMENT Judge Layton superintendent of pub lie instruction has just made the sec ond apportionment of school moneys 1 for the year. The apportionment is
 made to the counties on the basis of
 seventy-five cents for each person be-
 tween the ages of six and twenty one
 as shown by the school census taken in 1904. On this basis 1t is divided among
 the several counties of the territory as i follows: Apache. 955 children. $716.- l 25: COchise county, 4.2I9 children, s.
 164.25; Coconino county. 773 children, S57S.75; Gila county 9SO children. S735; Graham county. 4377 children. S3.- | 282.75; Maricopa county, 5,022 children, l S3, 766.5O: Mohave county. 334 children. | $250.50 Navajo county, 1.019 children, $764.25; Pima county 3.575 children. | S2.6S1.25; Pinal county, S17 children, S612.75; Santa Cruz county. 1.512 chil-
 dren, S1.1S4; Yavapai county, 2,593 children, $1,944.75; Yuma county, l. 14s children. sS61. The total amount appropriated is $2O,493.
 INFLUENCE OF BAD HABIT | Sometime ago the wise people Of the postOffice department changed nearly all the historic names of pOstoffices in California. mutilating some of them most scandalously and running double word names together into 6he word 1 that meant nothing. They either had
 no knowledge of the significance of
 the original names or lacked the senti- ment that these names perpetuated,
 thinking meantime that they had help ! ed the country by shortening some of | the names. The result was a protest
 from California that was almost uni
 versal and it is announced that the de- partment has relented and rescinded | it's action. But its evil influence was started and is already bearing fruit. i The Southern Pacific has decided to shorten the names of it's stations and
 recently by order of the superintend- ent Chrystoval was changed to Stow al; Painted Rock changed to Piedra; | Sweetwater changed to Bon; Vanar-
 man changed to Vanar; VIadamir
 changed to Ladrim; Montezuma chan
 ged to Mobile; San Simon changed to Simon; Pyramid changed to Pyra. It
 is expected the next order will change
 Benson to Ben; Wilcox to Will; Tue son to Tue; Casa Grande to Shack;
 Maricopa to Mac; Gila Bend to Curve | Sentinel to Cop; and Yuma to Yum.