Arizona republican., 1906-01-27


 ma. The latest one to break up on
 the hidden rocks was the Hello Bill
 company. It really went to pieces in
 Mesa but the debris is now scattered about Phoenix. The actors and the scenery are here but Manager Mars den and his wife left the city night before last. Yesterday morning the
 actors began attachment suits in Jus tice Burnett's court and the scenery and other paraphernalia of the show
 were seized. Later in the day a suit was begun by the Maricopa & Phoenix railroad.
 SHEEP SHEARING BEGINS-The | hrst of the sheep shearing >camps to begin operations was the one at Cave i Creek which began shearing yesterday. A machine with twenty-five shears is
 in operation and the sheep to be shorn | are part of herd of Woolfolk and Richards. who have grazing lands near Flagstaff The shearing at Beardsley will commence next week and a plant with twenty-six shears will be operat- ed. From reports the fleece this year will be of a greater average weight than those of last year but this fact is accounted for by reason of the heavy rains of last year washing out the wool None of the clip at Cave Creek has as yet been contracted for by any of the buyers so the first price of the season has not as yet been made.
 QUITS THE ROAD-Postoffice In- spector Charles G. File, who is well known by the post-office people of Ari- zona from his frequent visits through these parts, has resigned his position as inspector to accept that of assistant postmaster at Tucson. MT. Fife was assistant postmaster at Sandusky Ohio, before entering the service of in spector, so he is well informed as to the demands of his new position in de-
 tail as we'll as in the general way known to all in the mail service. Last
 month he was married in Sandusky and has decided that he would rather settle down and have a good home in
 a good country than to keep travelling around the country wearing out the hotels and rubbing the nap off the palace car cushions. Ralph w. Sur ges, whom he succeeds as assistant postmaster at Tucson, has been ap- pointed court stenOgrapher in Judge Nave's district.
 FELLOW CRAFTSMEN MEET AGAlN-D. E. Bockius, a printer by trade and for the greater. part of his life a member of the mechanical force of the Chicago Tribune is a recent ar l llN al III lIlt CllA. ne met nefe HaIl OtQ friend in the person of MT. Edwards
 who resides on the Wallin ranch just west of the Murphy orange orchard un- der the Arizona canal. Some forty years ago both gentlemen while yet in their youth learned the printers trade together iR Chicago. MT. Bockius en- tered the employ of the Tribune and MT. Edwards took up job printing About three years ago MT. Edwards came to Arizona. MT. Bockius has made several honest and heroic a.- tempts to get out of a print shop but he never before got beyond the influ- i ence of the Tribune management and | he always unconsciousIy drifted back
 again. This time he decided to go so far away that he would no longer be
 subjected to the old time temptations. INDIANA NISITORS-Mr. and Mrs. 1 A. G. Briggs of Geneva, Indiana, are 1 recent arrivals in Phoenix. coming for the enjoyment of a mild winter eli
 mate, a-x1sit-with- friends and an in- | spection of the best land in the world, ! regardless of earthquakes and congress sional legislation. MT. Briggs is q 1 son-in-law of Judge Day of Ohio, who | is spending the winter here and a per | sonal friend of A. L. Doron and others some residing permanently and others tarrying here for the winter. MT. Dor l on takes pleasure in introducing Mr. i Briggs and claims him as one within 1 the pale of his influence as voluntary | immigration commissioner. for Geneva ! is just over the line from his old home 1 in Ohio and Mir. Briggs is good enough
 to be an Ohioan. He is president of 1 the Geneva bank and a prominent citi-
 zen of that town. It is not improbable that he will see something in Arizona | hot enough for an Indianian to buy wheth-
 CT he invests or not he is welcomed. A BOOMERANG AX-L F.. Stanford office manager for J. Ernest Walker. has what might well be desc1 lbed as | a boomerang ax. It is not much of curio, for it is very similar to the or dinary aX which the hoboes cont use to chop wood with. The only differ ence is that it has to be operated in connection with a clothes line. Yes terday morning MT Stanford got up be- fore daylight to chop a little wood. { He wanted to do the job before day 1 light to avoid setting a bad example | to the other married men in University | addition, who are very susceptible to | habits of that sort. He approx ched
 the woodpile with determination and more or less careIessness and delivered l a mighty blow in that direction. Part
 way to the ground the ax came in contact with a clothesline of remarka- | ble tensile strength and more or less ] elasticity. The ax flew back and the blunt end of it tore two-inch gash in i the top of his forehead. Had it been
 a double edged ax it would have split
 him in two and possibly ruined his shirt He was able to be at his desk yesterday, but will be forced to wear
 a bandage for a few days to hold his 1 head together.