Arizona republican., 1906-01-24
OF LOCAL INTEREST


 SOLD A LOT-The firm of Greene & Griffin yesterday disposed of another lot in the Irvine addition for seventy five dollars. It was lot in block 10 The buyer was J. R. Encinas.
 SHE IS OUT OF DANGER-The friends of Mrs. A. F. Turner. who has been seriously i'll in California will be pleased to learn that she is on the way to recovery having passed the danger line
 CLUB DATIoN-Tonight the Maricopa club will hold a special meeting of the stockholders at 7:30 D. m. for the purpose of discussing the consolidation of the Maricopa and the Hassayampa clubs. A similar meet
 ing will be held soon by the stockhOld- CTS of the Hassayampa club.
 SUPREME cOURT-The case Of Steinfeld appellant against l.. Zecken- dorf appellee was the only matter be- fore the supreme court yesterday. It was argued on behalf of the appellant by Attorney E. s. Ives. Arguments for the appellee will be offered this morning by Messrs. Hereford and DIeserve.
 OTHER PROTESTANT AGAINST JOINTURE-Ther is re- joicing at Troy. Pinal county MT. and Mrs. Thomas Kavanaugh are the proud and happy parents of young son born on January 16 Tho little heir will be known as Charles Richard Ka- vanaugh and he is an exceptionally fine baby. Being superintendent of the Troy Manhattan Copper company, Mr. Kavanaugh has had many reasons for rejoicing in the past few months but the smile he now wears has all pre- vious ones paled into insignificance MT. and Mrs. Kavanaugh are now re- ceiving the congratulations of the com munity.
 WOMAN LIQUOR sELLER-Juana Cruz, a Mexican woman who lives near Mesa City was yesterday afternoon ar rested by Deputy U. s. Marshal Walter Gregory on a charge of selling liquor to Indians. The woman has for a long while given the authorities of Mesa and the federal authorities trouble by sell ing liquor to the wards of the govern ment but heretofore no direct evidence could be secured against her. It is said however that the present case is a strong one and it is quite probabla the result of the examination today will be her being bound over to the fed eral grand jury.
 PETITION FOR A MORTGAGE A petition was filed in district court yesterday on behalf of the trustees of the Salt River Baptist church for per mission to mortgage the property. The church is the Owne~ of an acre of ground which has been all paid for ex- cept Q. balance of $2OO. A church edi- flee has been erected at a cost of about $1.O00. There has been paid on it $500 and the balance has been subscribed. It is desired to mortgage the property to the American Baptist Home Mis- sionary society for $2OO in order to pay off the balance O< the purchase price.
 ADJUSTMENT OF MESA LOSSES R. T. Tower the adjuster of the Mesa fire losses spent yesterday in the city having arrived from Mesa in the morn ing and left last night for the coast. Tn all there was S33, 1000 worth of in surance on the property for which a loss was claimed and of this sum ac- cording to the adjustment made $16.- 900 which will be received from the insurance companies. Two of the burned and their stock were declared a total loss and the balance of the insurance will be paid for stock damaged. Appraisers were used only in adjusting the loss of the Toggery. The claims will be paid in the next ten days.
 WICKED WORK-Two or three days ago a COW was discovered along the Yuma road, hobbling round with a broken leg, the break being so serious that the bone protruded through the skin. Various passers-by saw the ani- nal but no one cared to take the re- sponsibility of killing the COW, else had no wea Don to do it with and whoever the owner was seemingly did not know of it unless it might be that the owner had been present at the time of the in jury and went away leaving the COW 10 her fate. The COW after a couple Of days of misery finally managed to crawl through a gate on the ranch of F. H. Parker. None of the ranch peo- pie could discover the Owenr and yes terday morning after communication with an officer of the law one of MT. Parkers employees was instructed 10 shoot the COW, taking along a witness and reporting any brand that might be found. This may be an unimpOrtant item but it is related to point a les son. From time to time various town boys who desire to be known as experts with a rope have been caught in the pastures of various farmers west of the city, trying their skill in roping the feeding cattle. Sometimes the eX- periments end in injury to stock in which event the boys skulk away and say nothing about their cruel sport, for fear of being punished and leaving the injured victim for such relief as may follow a chance of discovery. There is a suspicion that this COW may have been hurt by mischievous boys while thus engaged though it is possible she was injured and cut out of a passing herd. The latter supposition however is hardly tenable for there are few mature cowboys who would be so cruel as to leave an animal long in such dis tress. There should be severe punish