Arizona republican., 1905-06-12
OF LOCAL INTEREST

office, is n the city, a guest at the IIo- tel Adams.
 A SUMMER OUTiNG-Mrs. Herbert A Taylor left this morning for a three months summer outing to be spent with her parents at their summer res fdence at Ottawa Beach, Mich.
 A TONTO DAM NUMBER-The Mesa Free Press has recently issued a Tonto Dam edition, which is hand some, interesting and valuable. IL lg illustrated copiously. There are many views of the operations about the dam site, views of Mesa and vicinity and of other parts of the valley.
 HEAVY RAlNS-While this valley had a refreshing series of showers last Thursday it was only the frazzle edge of the rain storm. The territorial pa pers report an unusually heavy rain over all of Arizona south and east of Tucson and in places it seemed almost to reach the magnitude of a cloud burst.
 A REGENT lNCoRPORATIoN-A Prescott paper announces the filing Of articles of incorporation in that city of the Castle Creek Hot Springs Co. the incorporators being r. w. Sawyer Wallace Fairbank, A. w. Edwards, F. M Murphy and Paul Burks. The cap itaI stock is $5OO,000. the par value Of shares being $1OO. The object Of tho corporation is the further development and exploitation of the Castle Creek Hot Springs enterprise. the furnishing of power, building of roads. etc
 LANDS THROWN OPEN-Word has been received at this office from the land office at Tucson that the or der of withdrawal under the irrigation f fn 2 in township north. range 3 east, and sections 34 and 35 in township 8 north. range east, has been rescinded and these sections will be open to entry under the public land laws on and af- ter September II next. The above de- scribed land lies north of Glendale and south of the Arizona canal.
 DIVERTING THE COLOaADO-B it isn't one thing it's another in this country all the time. At first there was great fear that the Imperial Canal company would be unable to divert water enough into it's canal to meet the needs of the water users in that section. Now a recent newspaper re- port says so much water is running into the lower intake head that a pile driver is at work plugging up the head for fear the whole river will change its course and run down over the I'm perial desert.
 DESERT LABORATORY-Prof. F. E. Lloyd. head of the department Of botany in Teachers college. Columbia university, reached Tucson Thursday, to take up work at the Desert Botan- icaI laboratory for the summer, says the Post. He is accompanied by Mrs. Lloyd Prof Lloyd spent last summer al h. oratory. Dr. Dalgren, who has charge Of the installation of exhibits, and Prof Wheeler, curator of invertebrate zoO}ogv in the American museum of New York, visited the laboratory re- gently. The latter is collecting desert plants for the purpose of making mod els of them. They will be used in mak- ing an artificial home for the scorpions, tarantulas. rattlesnakes and centipedes in t,a Ne-- York collection, which do better when their surroundings core spond with the home which nature provides tor them.
 FOR DEVELOPMENT MORK-Ia- jor w. c. Gates will leave this morn ing with a couple of men for Cram mountain, to resume work on the Cram Mountain copper property.
 DEATH OF ROBERT M. CLARK Robert M. Clark died yesterday after noon at 2:15 o'clock, at his home, No 392 North Sixth avenue of consump- tion. He was between 2S and 29 years of age, and had lived here for several years. He leaves a wife, formerly Miss Hadley, to whom he was married about five years ago, and four brothers in New York city and a sister in Atlanta. They have been notified, and no flu neral arrangements will be announced until they have been heard from. MT Clark was a very exemplary man, a member of the NJ F. church, south, and had studied for the ministry. He was well known here, as is Mrs. Clark, to whom her many friends extend their sympathy.
 THE .LAGUNA .DAM-Bids were again received and opened last Monday, in Los Angeles. for the construction of the Laguna dam, in the Colorado river above Yuma. The highest bid was and the lowest was that of I. G. White e CO of New York, for $797. $50. As this bid is $30,000 lower than the lowest bid ct the former opening. and $100,OOO lower than the estimate of the reclamation service en- gineers. there is a strong feeling that the White company will be awarded the contract. In this connection It IS proper to say that Yuma also has fine prospect of securing another pen eft through the reclamation service that it has long been trying to get through the favors of congress, and that is the building of a levee along the Colorado river. Concerning this, the Sentinel says: "A communication from Government Engineer Homer Hamlin. in charge of the reclamation work here. was presented to the town council for consideration at meeting held Tuesday night. Engineer Hamiln sets forth the route and plans for he government lcvae, and asked for q right of way for the same through the