Arizona republican., 1906-06-04
OF LOCAL INTEREST
RACcALAuREATE sERMoN-Rev

BACCALAUREATE SERMON-Rev Harold Govette. pastor of the NJ. F.. church, south, yesterday afternoon al 4 o'clock preached the annual bacca 1 laureate sermon to the graduating class at the Phoenix. Indian school The 1 sermon was preached in the open air i and was an excellent one. There was a | large number of Phoenix people pres ] ent to hear it.
 AN ABUNDANCE OF WATER.- James Collins came in from the Buck eye country yesterday morning. He said that the water problem there was
 now one of the things of the past. The canal is running full for the first time in months and the end of the supply is out of sight. The water has been running for the last four days. A run like that of two weeks will so thor oughly saturate the country that by
 the time the stage of low water is
 reached the ranches will be in shape
 to get along without irrigation for a long time.
 DEATH OF MISS IDA sHANKLIN. Word was received in the city yes terday of the death at Colorado Springs on Tuesday May 29th, of Miss Ida Aus
 tin Shankin, who spent the past winter at Phoenix, making her home at the ClaysOn ranch. The funeral was held
 three days following her death at her home in Trenton, Mo. After leaving Phoenix, Miss Shanklin spent several weeks at Albuquerque before going to Colorado. and it was in making the journey that she contracted a very se- were cold, which with her delicate con- dition caused her death.
 FUNERAL OF JAMES EWING The funeral services of James Ewing
 were held at the A. NJ. l.. church Sun- l day at g D. m., Rev. A. WagOner hav- ing charge. Mir Ewing came to Phoe- nix three years ago to better his con- dition financially. He engaged in the rooming house business for two years and then disposed of it at a fairly good ! profit. Then he took the position O. | head steward at the Hassayampa club 1 His work was principally at night, ant 1 while there he contracted a severe cold which finally caused his death He i leaves to mourn his loss a devoted l wife, brother and sister who reside i in Kansas City, Mo.
 | GLOBE TRAGEDIES.-M. J. Pitts employe of the Globe Ice and Cold ! Storage Co.,, was so badly wounded las5 l Tuesday in an explosion, that he died
 in half an hour. He was engaged in
 charging bottles of mineral water and
 was close to the carbonater, which ex-
 lied, hurling him against a nearby
 wall and crushing his skull. He was a highly esteemed young man and is sur vived by a wife and brother in Globe | William Mitchell an American aged 32
 and a miner by occupation, in a Tt ot
 remorse succeeding a debauch, killed himself in Globe few days ago by taking cyanide of potassium. He leaves
 a wife in Rockford, Colo.
 A PERJURY cASE-Bisbee Ina
 rather an interesting perjury case o
 the boards just now, c. F. Buster O 1 that city having been held to the gran l jury on that charge. The interest il
 the case is not so much whether Bus ter personally has no regard for tn
 truth, as the effect of his perjury, if i
 be established, on others Not lon.
 ago a man named J. c. Campbell she
 and killed a man named James Me
 Laughlin. the homicide being the re
 suit of an altercation between Camp
 bell and a son of Mclaughlin the nigh