Arizona republican., 1906-07-18
OF LOCAL INTEREST

RURAL CARRIER RESIGNS-B. A. l Grant, who has been rural mail car rier on route l. Phoenix, for long tune, has resigned, to take effect August l. There will be an examina- | tion for rural carriers on July 21. after ! which his successor will be named. l FINE PEACHES-Hau Bros. who reside southwest of Phoenix. yesterday | brought to the board of trade room a line lot of Alberta Clingstone peaches. l which will be preserved for later dis play. The unusual thing about these peaches, as well as almost everything l else grown in the valley this year. is | that they have ripened about three weeks earlier than eyer before.
 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS-A| meeting of the Knights of Columbus will be held Sunday in Prescott which, will be very largely attended from diff ferent points in territory where there are lodges of the order Several knights from Phoenix will attend as will also several candidates for initia- tton. Those who attend from Phoenix will leave the city on the Santa Fe ex- cUrsion which will be run Saturday af- ternoon.
 GOT A HARD FALL-A man under took to alight from a street car yes terday in front of the Fond hotel. while tiiN NeNi NdS OIhlllS Oli d NIlEOuBn schedule. The first part of his an atomy to touch the ground was his eyebrows. and those who saw the per formance thought for a moment that they were witnessing tragedy But it was not to be thusly. He was too | near the life saving station in the Ford | grill room and had a couple of brass checks in his pocket he wanted to cash | before departing this life
 A LABOR ORGANIZER-L. R. Bar | row of this city yesterday received his | commission as organizer of the Amer | ican Federation of Labor for this dis ] trict. MT. Barrow will at once begin [ the forming of a federal labor union in | this city, composed of all labOrers who | are not affiliated with unions of their | craft. The American Federation of | Labor has a membership of over 2.00O.- 1 000, and practically all unions in the ! United States are affiliated with the | order with the exception of the West ern Federation of Miners.
 THE WHITTEMORE cASE-J. ;. | Whittemore, who was arrested here | last week on the complaint of Hotel { Keeper Smith of Wickenburg, was ar raigned before Justice Riggs at Wick | euburg on Monday and his trial was set for July 25. His bond was fixed !
 
 town to secure it, as he was unac- l quainted at Wickenburg. It was final l ly furnished by the Universal Bond ! and Guaranty Company, Unlimited ! which has recently been reorganized 1 and licensed to do business. Dr. H. A. l Hughes has succeeded Eugene Brady | O'Neill but w. T. Smith is still pres | ident of the company.
 EXCURSION TO THE cOAsT-A large excursion for the coast left last night over the Maricopa & Phoenix | road Among the passengers were: John Grayburn. for Pittsburg Pa; Tom Desmond. W. P. Watson. Sylves- l ter Roche, Ashley Hawes and Mrs. J. ! M Swetnam and daughter, for san Francisco; Mrs O. C. Watson. w. c. | Pendleton and wife, Reba Lobie Price | Brown and wife. Mrs V. F. Churchill | C. W. Casner Mrs. A. C. Henry. Rob- l ert Gilliland, Mrs. F.. Crowley. Francis | Crowley and Bennie Crowley. c. A Mcdonald and wife, Miss Lizzie Green. ! Mrs Willis Graham. Mrs Frank Aims ! worth, !. D. Marian, L. O. Wiley and f wife, May Wiley, Lawrence Wiley, Mrs. { L. T. Mansfield. Ross Mansfield and | Lucille Mansfield, Mrs. C. c. Gilchrist. ] c. w. Bishop and Dr. Neil Mcintyre l and family. for southern California.
 POSTOFFlCE CHANGES-The lat | est postal guide received at the local ! postOfiice records a number of changes in Arizona pOstOfices. Some of them | may have been announced before. but . some have not, and all of them are re- cent. The name of the pOstOfice at | Martinez has been changed to, Congress Junction. thus doing away with the double name that has handicapped that | village for years. The name of the 1 postoffice at Acna has been changed to 1 Gold Road. The name of the Wall Verde pOstofFice has been changed to 1 Humboldt. The following named post offices have been discontinued: Blais- | dell, Yuma county; Gisela, Gila county: Heber, Navajo county: Matthews, Gra- ham county, and Sweeny. Mohave county. New postOffices have been es- tablished at BraVtOn Yuma county.