Arizona republican., 1906-05-30

! FARM SALES.-CharIes E. Kir. and wife have sold to B. II. Fuqua, foI
 $6,00O, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 90, town
 ship north, range east Mr. Fuqua l is a new arrival in the valley and pro poses to engage in farming. But | though MT. Kirk sold this forty acres | it was not because he was tired of Ari- | zona, for he immediately made two other investments. One was the pur- | chase of L. r.. Hewins for S4 OO0 of the east half of the northeast quarter oi | section 13, township north. range q east The other was the purchase from A. C. Gaylord Of lot 8 and the soutt | half of lot of the Elvey tract. a sub division of section 1. township 1 north. range ? east. MT. and Mrs. Kirk left | last night for Oregon, where they ex- l pect to spend the summer. returning next fall.
 DEATH OF MRS. MILLER.-AIrs. Clara $. Miller died yesterday at the family residence, No. II North Sixth avenue. She was siXty-eight years old and was well known in both Phoenix and Prescott. these two cities having | been her home for the last twenJy-o years. She was respected by all who knew here as a good woman and a de voted mother. The funeral will be held this afternoon at o'clock from the family residence and intermeut will b. made in the Masonic cemetery. She is survived by the following named chiI-
 dren, all of whom will be here to at tend the funeral; Will Miller and
 Charles Miller. both of whom are en-
 gineers in the employ of the $. r. r.
 & P. railroad; B. O. Miller of Douglas.
 an engineer on the E. P. & $. w. rail road; Mrs. Fred Haas of Douglas and
 Otto V. Miller of this city.
 A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION. Thomas Wilkes, the inventor of the Wilkes automatic cash register and change making machine, yesterday gave very successful all-day demon. stratiOn of the working of the machine to those who were interested at the Berryhill store. This is of local inter est for two reasons. As a cash register il is superior to any other machine yet it was invented and is the product ot
 the genius of q Phoenix man. Mr
 Wilkes having formerly been an em- plOye of the surveyor generals office. His first crude model was made m
 Phoenix. Last winter he went to De | Jroit, expecting to make a more perfect
 model in some one of the big machine
 shops there. He was progressing very nicely when he was practically run out
 of town by the automobile boom. De-
 trOit is the storm center of the auto
 mobile business and the demand for
 the various machines built there has been so great the past few months that
 the factories cannot supply it and are
 now behind in their orders to the ex-
 tent of many thousands of machines.
 The factories are not only running to
 their fullest capacity and enlargiug
 rapidly. but to help them they havs
 turned over work in great quantity to
 every other machine shop in the city
 that can make any important parts re
 Quired in automobile construction. MT.
 Wilkes figured that if he had to build
 his model by hand he might just as
 wei come home to do it, which he
 did. A large part of the model ke is
 now using was therefore made since his
 return. Though it's appearance in cer-
 tain parts is somewhat cumbersome. it
 does the work and when arrangements
 are completed for manufacturing it of
 polished materials and with perfect construction, there will be something
 worth while doing in the cash register
 business.