Arizona republican., 1905-11-22
OF LOCAL
 INTEREST

A BAD DAY-Yesterday was a bad day for street grading and the men who have been thus employed took a rest. but Marshal Kinney says he will get one trainload of gravel into town this week. rain or no rain.
 GONE EAST-President F. M. Mur- phy of the s. F. P. & P. and associated
 railroad lines left Prescott for New
 York yesterday. He was accompanied by Governor and Mrs. N. 0. Murphy
 who are en route to Washington.
 BROUGHT HIS WEATHER WITH
 HiM-C. B. Goodell, former manager
 of the Western Union, arrived from
 San Francisco yesterday to look after
 his property interests in the city. He
 will De here for several days. He dis
 claims any connection with the pres
 ent atmospheric conditions which so
 closely resemble those that obtain at
 the Golden Gate during most of the 1 winter months
 CITY TAxES-Up to last evening City Tax Collector Barnett had ab-
 stracted from the pockets of his city
 friends, the common people, $43,934.95,
 but he says that is not near enough.
 He wants more money than that CT
 he can't keep the city running as he "CNiN int bO. hOIc lIltH lildl Ilc pro-
 poses to have it. If more people don't
 come in of their own accord and con tribute to the good of the cause, he
 will be forced to sell off somebody's
 property.
 POLICE DOlNGS-Officer Moore
 yesterday laid official hands on Frank l Lyons again and led him away to jail. He is such notorious character that | at some of the saloons his money is no good but he got whisky elsewhere and then wandered into one of the l places from which he is quarantined and started a rough house. when the i officer was sent for. Lucas Leon also had a few hours in jail for creating a disturbance in a Chinese restaurant, while under the inspiration of ''high leap
 TO BORE FOR BEDRocK-A few weeks ago a drill expert of the recla . nation service in company with En- , gineer Parish visited the Salt river at the Arizona head for the purpose of learning through MT. Parish where the government had decided to explore bedrock conditions. having in view the construction in the near future of q new and permanent diversion dam. Yesterday A. P. Garner, who is to iAeNN SiiSiA Se OL lilS DOIiIS cHlGTDIlSG arrived here and es soon as the wea- ther settles will begin operations
 NEW ATlONS-Articles of | the following corporations were filed | in the office of the county recorder | yesterday The Gold Coin Mining and | Milling company, capital stock $600,- | OOO incCrpcrators J. IT. Staver and w | J. Howe; the Mutual Mining and In- l vestment company, capital stock $100,- | 900, incorporators J. A. Rankin. A | Clarke and P. H. Lund; Standard oil | company capital stock $600,00O, incor- l poratOrs J. D. Archibald, w. H. Til | ford and s. C. T. Doll; the Sterling | Copper company, capital stock S1,000,- 900, incorporators N. Meewen, I. E. Nelson and J. A. Elliott
 WANTS NFORMATION-T M Neal, cashief of the Russellville Ark Bank. writes C. A. Van der Veer sec rctary of the board of trade, for in formation concerning these parts. Mir | Neal writes that he is one of the car window tourists who crossed Arizona | from Los Angeles to Fl Paso on a | train and from what he saw he formed II anything but pleasing opinion of the territory. However, he says that since II then he has had some literature On T
  lieve that he probably did not see the whole territory from the train where fore he has become interested and wants the latest and best booklets available, which of course will be sent to him.
 SOME SUNDAY RACES-There was quite a race meeting Sunday af- |. ternoon on the old target range be- yond Eastlake park, in which a sur prise was sprung and quite a roll of money changed hands. It was an inn promptu affair and most any old skate that wanted to got into the running the races being made up on the ground. Among the horses that were entered was Molly Daly, an old nag that used to do big stunts on the Phoenix track years ago. She was not recognized by her old friends for she is now a venerable dame and not so trim of figure as in days of yore Nevertheless she remembers some of her old time running as the boys found out who put their dollars up against her for she sailed down the road like a thoroughbred.
 STANDARD OlL-The Standard Oil the filing of whose articles in the office of the territorial auditor was mentioned in The Republican about three weeks ago came as far down the line yesterday as the office of the county recorder where they were presented for filing. The appointment of Lloyd B. Christy as agent for the company was also recorded. This is the first time that the Standard Oil company has ever been regularly rep resented in this part of the country. When it is generally learned that MT Christy is the representative of the oc topus in this region it is likely that a mass meeting will be held to ask him to l.~e his influence with MT Rocke- feller to reduce the price of oil con- 5iderably below thirty cents a gallon where it got stuck in the early days of he territory and where it still persist ently remains.
 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS The United States civil service com mission announces several examina- I