Arizona republican., 1905-06-01
,,vIL SERVICE ExAMINATIoN-

CIVIL SEkVlCE EXAMINE ! iOiN- The United States civil service com mission announces an examination on June 28 and 29 for the purpose of se- curing eligibles from which to make certifica tion to fill vacancies in the po- sition of civil engineer and superin- tendent of construction. There are now several such vacancies. The sal ary is S1.50O. In this examination it is important that applicants should have practical experience.
 STORES WILL CLOSE-The clerk s mid-week half-hohday for the sum r.ler season will be inaugurated again
 on Friday at noon. Nearly all the lead ing stores will close this week and others will be ready to fall in line after this week Those who have an nounced certainly that they will close this week are Plank the natter, Me DougaU & Cassou, The Hub, H. A. DiehI Shoe Co. Alkire Go, Goldberg Bros. Co.,. NJ Goldwater & Bro., The Boston Store, The New York Store and SeIim AckeI. The harware stores and Cooper & Black and C. D. Doris an nounce that they will close after this week and some of them may this week The proximity of collection day has made it inconvenient for some of them to inauguTate the new GUS tom this week.
 STIMULATING NEWS-The fol- lowing telegram from Las Vegas tS the Los Angeles Times on the 27th is good reading for Phoenix people as another evidence of things hoped for that are materializing as rapidly as possible Ut was announced here to- day on the best of authority that the purpose of the Santa Fe in building it's
 Texico-BeIen cut off and it's Arizona
 extensions is to have in operation be- fore eighteen months two main lines between Los Angeles and Kansas City
 The southern line will go via Amar- lilo. Texas, and Belen, will utilize the
 present branch to Silver City and go
 straight west to meet the extension of the Santa Fe and Phoenix, which has been built east from Phoenix 40 miles and west from Wickenburg to the Cal ifornia line The line will be built
 straight west to a junction with the IineEnear Barstow and a double track will laid from there to Los Ange- les.
 A sHnRTHAND GRADUATE-Mi- chael Sorensen, of Burlingame, Kan sas. was granted a diploma yesterday from the shorthand department of the Lamson Business College. This is the fifth diploma granted from this de- partment since the organization of the school. Five months ago Mir Soren- sen was living at his home 3n Kansas. and was undecided as to where he should go to take a course in short hand. He had a number Of schools under consideration located in various parts of the United States, but l,e fin ally decided upon Phoenix. On the 17th of January he entered the Lam son college, and has applied himself so diligently that he has fulfilled all the requirements for a diploma. MT. SOr- ensen although but seventeen years of { age is graduate of the high school ! or BU--'-e ~~o me. He is a first class tel egraph opeI1-or, and a talented mu- sician, playing both the piano and the violin Within the last month he has | been offered two very good positions l but has decided to take a trip with ! his parents along the Pacific coast visiting the Portland exposition. lie i left on this mornings train for Pres colt, where he will spend a day and then go to Ash Fork, where he will meet his parents, and with them visit the Grand Canyon of Colorado. He eX- poets to return to his home about the i 10th of July.
 | A BRASS THIEF-A man by the name of James Cumford was around
 town on Tuesday night with a half oi