Arizona republican., 1906-08-07

here was from Columbus, Ohio. He
 leaves a wife and two young sons. | Winfield and George. MT. F'laharada
 was a member of the K of P. lodge. A PROPRIETOR NOW-C. B. Tom lin. who spent the greater part of last winter in Phoenix as a linotype opera
 tor is now located at Berthoud. Colo, where he is the editor and business manager of the Berthoud Bulletin, a weekly newspaper. MT. Tomln had come to Phoenix from Washington, D.
 C., and was a newspaper man of ex- perience.
 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The board of supervisors met yesterday
 in regular session and spent the day ih
 auditing current claims against the
 county. There will be another session
 today at which all the business of the county will be brought up to date. Chairman Orme of the board will leave tonight for the coast. where he will take a vacation of a couple of weeks.
 A MUSICIANS VACATION Elmer
 Todd. in charge of the piano depart
 ment of the Arizona School of Music
 left last evening for the east, where he
 will spend a vacation of several weeks.
 Part of the time he will be on a camp
 
 ern Michigan. He will return to Phoe-
 nix before the first of September when
 the fall term of school at the School of Music opens.
 A BASEBALL ENTHUSIAST
 mar Cobb Jr.. of Clifton. a prominent
 democrat of the territory and a mem
 Der of the present territorial leg.sla-
 ture. has been in Phoenix attending the meeting of the territorial central com
 mittee. He left for his home last eve ming. Mir. Cobb is a great baseball enthusiast and also greatly interested
 in the success of the territorial fair. During his stay in the city, he took oc- casion to urge the fair officials to pro vide a trophy of some sort for a base | ball tournament which in his opinion
 would attract a large number from the Clifton and Morenci section that would not otherwise possibly visit the fair. Clifton, however. is not the only town
 in the territory that has good team
 and other towns interested are re- quested to write the fair association. It was suggested that the prize be a purse of about $500 open to any com peting team. It is argued that not less than six first class amateur teams would attend and compete for the prize.
 DEMORALIZING ICE WATER Homer Barker was yesterday given a hearing in the city police court. The story he told the judge was one of hard luck. For some weeks past he
 had been employed as a cook at a
 mining camp in the Cave Creek dis ! trict. By drinking a large quantity of | ice water at a time he was overheated. i he was made sick and came to town for the purpose of resting up and re- i gaining his health. He had his wages.
 sum amounting to $65. After reach | ing the city he went to a corral. where the teams for the mining company
 were kept and left his roll of blankets. From there he went to saloon and 1 took about two drinks of liquor That was the last he remembered. He was found in the alley back of the place asleep the next morning, all of his money gone with the exception of for ty-five cents. He was found there by the police and locked up and yesterday | afternoon the police judge allowed him to go. He had served three days since | he was arrested. Barker claims he
 was drugged-in one of the two resorts
 he visited and the police are making
 an investigation of the story.