Arizona republican., 1906-02-26

r FUNERAL OF W hS. SMOO The funeral of Mrs. Mary D. Shoot, moth- CT of A. c. Shoot. who died at her residence west of the city on Saturday will take place at ? o'clock this after noon from the Christian church. The interment will be in the L O. O. F. cemetery.
 A SMALL JAPANESE ARMY Another instalIment of Japanese for work on the beet sugar lands arrived in the city yesterday and were imme- diately sent out among the lands on which they will be employed. There were about forty members of the parry.
 BAND CoNCERT-f there is one thing that would be missed more than another by Phoenix people it is the Sunday afternoon band concerts. Yes terday an especially well arranged program was rendered by the Pioneer band several cf the pieces being en- cored. The crowd was a large one that spent tLe afternoon on the city hall plaza.
 LATE CONFERENCE WITH MIR. RIPLEY-Mr. F. M. Murphy, presi- dent of the s. F. P & P. road and F. A. Jones. general freight and passen- ger aren't of the road, were expected to return to Prescott this morning af- ter a trip into California where they had gone to confer with F. P. Ripley president of the Santa Fe system.
 GOOD DAY FOR ERS-Birds are still plentiful in the outlying dis tricts Of Phoenix and yesterday a large number of sportsmen spent the day hunting. One party was composed of J. M Aiken. D. F.. MorTeu, H. E. Wheelock and w. L. Pinney The last named party spent the day across the river and returned in the evening with a hundred birds each getting the limit PETITION FOR DRAlNAGE-Since the grading of Center street there -s a place at the intersection of that thoroughfare with Fillmore where the drainag1 is defective and following a rain large pools of water stand and become staonant entailing danger to the health of residents of that locality. The property owners have taken the matter up n the form of a petition and will call the attention of the city council to the situation. Several Of them will curb their property if the question of drainage is settled.
 A JOURNALISTIC MOVE-The Inn perial Press which has been published at Imperial since it's establishment at years ago. last week moved to the new town of Fl Centro. It will hereafter be known as the Imperial Valley Press. Its parting words to it's readers was that it had been informed that the Southern Pacific would succeed in checking the flow of the Colorado into the valley and in about six weeks or sooner 1t would nave that trouble some stream flowing through che channel in which God intended it to How.
 A SUNDAY VISITOR-J J. Frank lin, who has charge of the store and plant of the 'sheepmen at Beardsley, spent yesterday in Phoenix partly on business and partly on pleasure. He says everything is going along smoothly and the sheep men are grat- flied at the success of their shearing plant which was something of an ex- pertinent this year It wiu take an other month to finish the shearing of the flocks in that vicinity. after which the machinery will probably be talk en dowl and carefully put away for use next year
 A SOLITARY SLEEPER-Conside able excitement was caused in the southeast part of town yesterday morning by a hurried trip made by Constable Troops to the warehouse of the Phoenix Hay and Grain company At first it was thought a whole army Of tramps had been captured sleeping in the stored grain but either the rest heard an alarm and made their escape or there was but one solitary tramp there to begin with for the one indi- vfdual was the result of the haul He will be tried before Judge JohnstOne this morning for vaSrancy.