Arizona republican., 1906-05-15
OF LOCAL INTEREST

year on June the lESl 1ne SCnOOl children will then begin a four months vacation.
 JUDGE KlBBEY AT BIsBEE- Judge Kibbey has accepted an invita- tion to deliver the Memorial day ad- dress at Bisbee on May 30. Yesterday afternoon he returned from Prescott, where he had gone for the purpose of attending the funeral of the late Hon. J. C. Herndon
 DEPARTURE OF MIR. WRAGO- VICH.-J. J. WragoVich of New York City, who has been in the city for seV- eral days visiting friends, returns to- day to the east making the journey by way of Fl PasO. MT. Wragovich is the secretary of the Development Com pany of America but was formerly au- ditor of the S. F. P. & P. railroad with offices at Prescott
 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIoN.- The United States civil service com mission announces an open competitive examination for the positions of clerk and carrier in the Phoenix, Arizona postoffice to be held on June 9, 1906 For application blanks and further in- formation apply to H. P. Reynolds. To- cal secretary at the Phoenix postoffice.
 SUNDAYS AGGREGATION OF RlMINALS.-Rafael Gomez, charged with grand larceny, will be given an examination before Judge JOhnstone this morning at 10 o'clock. Seven breakers of the police law were tried yesterday. Four of them were sent to jail for five days eacn, two paid fines of five dollars and. one paid fine of seven dollars.
 A. 6 c. TRACK LAYING.-The work of laying ties on the Arizona and
 
 week and it is the plan of the contract ors/ to continue the work until the river is reached. At present the grad ing is but twenty miles from the river but the track is fifty miles. The de- lay in the laying of the track was oc- casioned by the inability of the con- structing company to get ties from the lumber camps in the mountains
 SALE OF A CATTLE RANcH.- A deal was consummated several days ago but just made public whereby w. J. Ferris, a prominent cattleman, sold his ranch and a bunch of mixed cattle that was on the ranch to Leon Bou- vier. MT. Ferris will remain in the city for some weeks, his plans at pres ent not being fully made up. MT. Bouvier is now at the ranch ne pur- chased, which is located in the Verde
  was not made public.
 OPEN POSlTIONS-The United States civil service commission has announced the holding of the following examinations: On June 6, for the po- sition of assistant agriculturist, salary $1,O00 year; on June 13, engineer and carpenter in the Indian service at Winnebago, Neb., salary $66O; assist ant dairyman in the bureau of animal industry department of agriculture ten positions, salaries ranging from $1,400 to $2,50O a year; mechanical superintendent bureau of prisons, Ma nila, P. l., salary s2,5OO.
 WATER USERS IN ARREARS Secretary Parker of the Salt River Valley Water Users association is pre- pairing a list of delinquent members, that is members who are in arrears for their assessments for the maintenance of the association. Under the provis- ions of the bylaws this list of delin- quents must be published not later than June 25. However, this mention is to remind the delinquents that there are yet few days in which they may pay up if they choose to and avoid the extra penalties that will be attached after publication.
 SELLER OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS Marian OrObaya was yesterday ex- amined before United States Court Commissioner C. w. Johnstone on a charge of selling liquor to Indians and bound over to await the action of the federal grand jury, his bond being fixed at s200. The liquor, it was brought out at the. examination, had been sold to Claude Ennis and consist, ed of three bottles of winea Ennis had in turn divided the liquor with two other Indians, one Black Eagle and an other named Hoghe. The trio then proceeded to get hilariously drunk and were arrested by a United States mar shal's deputy. along with Orobaya. This is not the first time the accused has been in jail on such a charge, hav- ing served six months at previous date
 THE BoTHERSoME ENGLISH ARROW.-Attention is being called to the increasing prevalence of the English sparrow. This pest has had some trouble in getting into this val ley but he is coming fast now and un- less something is done for his suppress sion it will not be long until there will be no other kind of birds here. The sparrow multiplies with alarming rap idity and is in all ways a nuisance with very little that can be said to his credit. It would be a good thing to turn him over to the tender mercies of the small boy who should have a bounty on each scalp. In a year or two unless something is done the spar row will be entirely beyond destruc- ton.
 WATER IN THE ARIZONA-The pleasing news was telephOned down from the Arizona mead yesterday af- ternoon that there was then flowing into the head of the Extension canal $500 inches of water and that by this morning there would be a flow of at least 4,000 inches. The water has been raised at least a foot since the building of the rock dam commenced and it is expected it will be raised two or three feet more by the time it is finished. The head of the Extension is about fifty feet wide and gradually tapers down to the canal width several hundred feet below, giving the river a