Arizona republican., 1906-06-01
GRAMMAR SCHOOL COMMENCE

MENT-Tonight at the Doris opera bOuse the graduation exercises of the grammar grades of the city will be giv- en to which the public is invited. There will be no admission charge and the seats will be free with the eXceptio1 of the few seats reserved for the par ents of the children who have cOmplet- ed the school work, the members of both the boards of education and the teachers of the high school and of the city schools. The exercises will begin at o'clock.
 | SELLING WATER.-Secretary Van der Veer of the Board of Trade. assist i ant secretary of the Arizona Cana! Water Users association. has been quite busy for day or so receiving money for water. Many who hal i signed their lands but were slow in paying for the acreage, now that the water is in sight are now inspired tO pay up and get the benefit of it. Sev | eraI parties have also placed their names on the list that have hitherto held off and quite a number of shose who had signed for a part of their acreage are now signing up an I1d:- tionaI acreage. The volume of water iT the canal is increasing daily. NIT. Collins yesterday reported 9UO inches at the intaEe and $500 inches Ut Ever green.
 REFUGEES FROM RUSSlA.-Ycs- ter&ay morning there arrived in the city the father and mother and seven bro thers and sisters of Adclph Herzberg an employee of the New York store. TEeic home was western Russia, very close to the boundary line between that country and Germany. In the settle ment where they had lived for many years on account of the strike many riots had occurred so the brothers who live in America were communicated with and arrangements made for their coming here MT. Herzberg met them at MaricOpa It had been nine years since he had seen any of them and
 some of the little tots had been born
 since he left Russia The family will visit here for about two weeks and then
 leave for San Diego there to join an
 other son and brother, who is in busi- ness in that city. They will reside there. Besides Adolph Herzberg two other children have made Phoenix their home for the past four years, Lucille and
 Louis Herzberg.
 THE DEMOCRATIC TERRITORIAL CONVENTlON-Hal C. Kennedy. who represents a large powder concern and who has sold goods all ever the terri tory for several years and who is a member of the territorial legislature from Pima county arrived in the city yesterday morning after completing d tour of the territory. Politics and par ticularly the campaign among the democrats for the nomination for dele gate to congress is exceedingly warm and exciting. Throughout the north there is an organization at work which favOrs the nomination of Henry Ash urst at present district attorney of Co., conino county and prominent for sever al years in the councils of his party. His followers. or at least the leaders of his support are men who were at the head of the Hearst clubs of two years ago. With the exception of Va vapai county which is doubtful, MT. 1 Kennedy thinks that the entire north l will send delegates to territorial con p
 ventiOn instructed to vote for Ashurst. II In the southern counties there is an en- tirely different situation. There the politicians have commenced a cam
 paign for Will Webb. a member of the
 legislature from Graham county and last year the speaker of the house His supporters have been at work for many