Arizona republican., 1906-08-29
OF LOCAL INTEREST

HSRiSO ' OnAG EAh bOON- At the board of trade Secretary Van
 der Veer still has a number of copies
 of the 1905 year book Of the depart ment of agriculture for free distribu-
 ton. They were sent into the valley
 by Delegate Mark Smith.
 MADE A MISTAKE-Frank Grif- fen, who was held several days by the
 city police. thought to be an accom-
 plice in the conspiracy to rob a man
 named David Bailey of a sum of
 money held in checks was yesterday
 released. He established the fact that
 he was in no way connected with the
 conspiracy. Griffen has worked the greater part of the time since he came to the territory and last night left for Globe where employment awaits him. He acknowledges he made a mistake
 in the company he kept but attributes
 his mistake to liquor
 CALIFORNIA ARRIVALS - Miss Lallah ROokah Gillum, Miss Prudence Gillum and MT. and Mrs. Biggs re- turned to the city yesterday from Cal ifornia. The Misses GiIIum have been spending the summer on the coast and report having had a most delightful outing. MT. and Mrs. Biggs conte to Phoenix to live and will this winter reside at the home of Mrs. Biggs' par ents MT. and Mrs. Thaddeus Gillum of North Second avenue. MT. Biggs will have charge of the Los Angeles Examiner bureau in this city and han de their te egraphic correspondence from the territory.
 KILLED BY THE cARs-Accord- ing to the Yuma Examiner. which ar rived in the city yesterday morning a man named John McGraw, met a most horrible death under the cars of an east bound Southern Pacific train Sunday night. The affair occurred near Blaisdell. McGraw had formerly been employed on the work being car ried on by the California Development company. The body was brought to Yuma from the scene of the accident in two grain sacks. At the inquest which was held, partner Of the dead man stated that they were pushed off the train by trainmen and that he did not know of his partners fate until Monday morning. when he was awak- ened by a trackwalker. The case was adjourned until today when the crew which was in charge of the train will have returned to Yuma and they can be. examined.
 PAY DAT-Company B. N. G. A, Captain Parks has received the terri torial pay for his company of guards men, and is prepared to issue it on Thursday night at the regular drill hour The members of the Mesa company who joined forces with company B at Camp Mabry, Austin. have had theirs mailed to them. It is expected now that the local company with its camp uri r,fp f., standard. Recruits are wanted. Sev- eraI n-commissioned officers will be appointed and it is likely that in the near future one or two commissioned officers will be elected. At the next meeting of the company plaus will be discussed for the benefit of the members this winter. Target practice will be caught up, that has been neg lected during the summer months and other features that will build up the company will be brought out
 AN ARIZONA MINE OWNER-Joe Torres, who owns a valuable mining property in the Harcuvar mountains in Yuma county, was a Phoenix visi- tor yesterday. He leaves on this mornings train for his mines, going via Wenden. MT. Torres has made the Harcuvars his scene of operations for years and believes there is no richer mining section in the country. Since the railroad has penetrated it and brought many properties within the influence of cheaper freights it's value is fast coming to be known. MT Tor res sold a group of mines not long ago to Sanguinetti and Moline of Yuma, and has also been shipping val uable ore for some time. He is now returning from a two months visit in Los Angeles and vicinity. He says he had d good time and during his visit managed to reduce his surplus several thousand dollars. Automobiles come high, but they are none too good for the Arizona miner who is in town and he kept the wheels moving while he was seeing the sights. But he has money left and also two or three groups of good mining claims that capital is looking at with anxious eyes.
 TRAIN SCHEDULE RESUMED Set on fire by lightning, six spans of a bridge across a ravine near Skull Valley on the line of the $. F. P. & P. railroad were destroyed about 10 o'clock Monday night and the entire structure would have in all probability been destroyed had it not been for the arrival at the bridge of the south bound Diamond Jo train. At the time of the fire a heavy wind was blowing and rain was falling. The trainmen extinguished the flames, backed their train into Prescott and reported to the dispatcher's office. The Diamond Jo south of Prescott was annulled. both north and south bound trains for twenty-four hours. Yesterday morn ing's Daylight Express did not leave the city until three o'clock in the af- ternOon It carried the regular passen-