Arizona republican., 1906-07-06
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to the grand jury by Justice Riggs of that precinct on a charge of grand lar ceny. Aguillar was one of a trio of Mexicans who engaged in plundering after the fire at Wickenburg last Mon day morning. The other two men were captured in Wickenburg the following day and were brought to jail on Tues day. Aguillar had left town, but was arrested between here and Wicken- burg.
 THROUGH REoIsTRY-The post office department has authorized the making up daily of a through registry pouch between Phoenix and Kansas City That means that instead of each postal clerk between here and the Mis- souri river being required to handle and receipt for each registered pack age, all packages for points east of the Missouri will be pouched in Phoenix and the pouch receipted for. It will not only be greatly to the convenience of the postal authorities, but will give registered mail a quicker time schedule.
 THE BUCKEYE JAIL-T. L. Edens. who has the contract for building the branch county jail at Buckeye, return ed to the city yesterday and said his work was complete with the exception of installing the steel cages which have not yet arrived from the manufacturer
 MT. Edens also has the contract for the construction of the Carnegie library
 The stone work on the foundation is s.bout half completed by the sub-con
 tractors, Valentine and Perry, the force at work now numbering eight men. The
 brick men will begin their work it is
 thought, in about fifteen days.
 THE ENTERPRISES NEW MAN NT-Tba uRpOtfa fC11S fOy. tba
 transfer of the Phoenix Enterprise have been practically completed and
 by Saturday the newspaper will be ad- ded to the string of newspapers main tained by the Kellys of Bisbee. There
 remain yet to be adjusted certain claims against the Enterprise. but that will probably be accomplished today 1 The paper will be, it is understood un- der the editorial and news nagement
 of Frank DeSoua, and it will be great lay improved and strengthened. It will
 also be strong anti-toint statehood
 paper
 THE SONS OF REVOLUTION BANOUET-Most of the Phoenix rep Fesentatives al the banquet given by Judge Sloan to the members of the Sons of the American Revolution at Prescott on the night of July 4. re- turned to the city yesterday morning. They united in saying that 1t was one of the most pleasant events in the his tory of the order in this territory The banquet took place at the Yavapai club whose unsurpassed facilities for func- tions of this kind insured the success . of 1t. It was attended by the leading citizens of Prescott. Among the speak CTS was former Governor N. o. Mur- Dhy. who said that while it was prop CT to recount the patriotic achieve ments of the past, there was now con- fronting the people of this territory a very urgent patriotic duty that of de-
 feating joint statehood.
 THE JULY RAlN-The rain storms which have visited nearly every other point in the valley at some time during
 the past three days, reached Phoenix
 last night and beginning in the early part of the evening, for several hours there were showers intermingled with quite heavy downpours. The result was that the atmosphere was cleared and the dust of the streets disposed of. On the Fourth of July wInkleman.
 Tempe, Mesa City and all the stations on the s. F. P. & P. road as far south as Beardsley, enjoyed rains and from the appearance of the sky last even Ing there was rain in all the surround ing country. The heaviest storm of the past twenty-four hours Is reported from Williamson valley, where the rain was accompanied by a heavy wind storm which did some damage It was nothing, however, in comparison with the good resulting to the range from the rain.
 NEW coRPoRATIoNs-Articles of the following corporations were fled in the office of the county recorder yesterday: Gold Medal Mining com pany, capital stock, $60O,OOO. incorpor- ators, J. w. Crane and A. H. Swallow: As You Like It Manhattan Mining company, capital stock, $1OOO, 900. in corporators, Chas. E. Drucker. L. M Sullivan and A. R. Dearborn; Henry c. " aeger Realty company. capital stock $3O,OOO, incOrporators, Henry c. Yae- ger and Benjamin H. Yaeger: East Comstock Mining company. capital stock $l,OOO.OOO, incorporators H. T. Bragdon, A. H. M Mayne and Richard zoe; Rudd- -McQueeny company, capi- tai stock $2,0O0.OOO, incorporators. Charles R. Rudd, John McQueenv and Frank J. Breshnahan; Baltimore Bull frog Mining and Milling company. cap- ltal stock $1,500,O0O incorporators. T. +. King, Con O'Donnell and F. s. Kel- Iy; Arizona Consolidated Development company, capital stock. S2,0OO, 900. in  corpOrators, H. w Hamilton, J. C.l I)obbins, T. w. CamberIain and T. | Cornell.
 AN AFTERNOON FIRE-An alarm of fire yesterday afternoon about five l o'clock called the department to South | Second avenue, where a small frame | house of two rooms was burning The | run of the department was a record | breaker and although the house was wholly of frame and very old and es- Decially inflamabIe, the department | was on the scene before the roof was very badly burned. The chemical hose was stretched to the house and the flames soon eXtinguished. The house. however, had been so badly damaged that 1t will be of no further use as a dwelling. It was owned by J. H. Ladd ! n non resident and was unoccupied | Carlos Aldai, who lives in an adjoining house was the first tO nOtfce tbe flames