Arizona republican., 1906-08-29
Of Local Interest
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BREAkDOWN-A wagon from
 the Phoenix Indian school. driven by
 two Indian boys, yesterday afternoon
 broke down on West Washington
 street, one of the wheels caving in.
 The team showed a disposition to run
 away and was unhitched and taken to
 the school The wagon was afterward
 removed by putting new wheel on in
 the place of the broken one.
 SCARCITY OF BRlCKLAYERS- Advices received from Ash Fork yes terday say that the iron for the library
 building had arrived there and would probably be brought to Phoenix today. If this is done, work on the build
 ing will be resumed Monday morning by Valentine & Perry, the brick con- tractors. One serious obstacle in the way of making great headway with the
 brick work is the inability of the con- tractors to secure bricklayers. Wages of $7 a day are being offered here. and
 there is plenty of work at these wages. Letters have been written to different
 points on the coast and it is likely that several men will be imported. num-
 Der were in Phoenix at the beginning
 Of the summer but left here on ac- count of the hot weather.
 PROTECTING HIS DATES-George
 IT. Smith, gardener at the capitol
 grounds, is having a very strenuous
 time protecting his dates. This does not mean his engagements, for all the engagements he makes are taken care of by the almanac. but it does mean
 that all kinds of thieves are trying to
 rob him of the fruits of the date trees
 on the capitol grounds, which at the
 same time are the fruits of his own
 labo:s. It was he who planted the trees, and a peculiarity of the date tree
 is that it has to be artifcially fertilized to secure a crop, and he attends 10 that matter also every spring. Last i Thursday night some person drove up to the grounds and cut from one of the six trees that are now in bearing one of the finest punches of dates. Now that they are beginning to ripen, the
 birds are giving them attention and yesterday MT. Smith and his men
 were busy wrapping each bunch on the l trees in thin muslin, to protect it from the birds and insects. Passersby who
 may think the trees have had their el-
 bows skinned and are being bandaged
 under the care of a surgeon are ad- , vised that they are wrong. The trees are only wearing gloves on their fruit stems.
 THE INDIAN FORGER-Following a days discussion over whether the courts of the territory had jurisdiction to try the case, a decision was finally i reached, and John Lewis was yester- l day arraigned before Judge Johnstone on a charge of forgery. Lewis, it will | be remembered is an Indian and had been employed at the Eastern Sugar | companys factory At the time he l quit their employ he was given a check ] for $7.3O He took the check to the | restaurant of Leo Hoghe and offered it l in payment of a 30-cent meal. Hoghe ! did not have sufficient change to cash l the check, so he drew a check for S6 and gave it to the Indian with s1 in ! silver. The Indian is accused of rais- i ing this check from SC to $16. He came | to Phoenix and offered the check in l payment for Q saddle at a local har- | ness shop. MT. Hoghe was telephoned i to regarding the check and he said it | was for only $6 and if offered for more | it had been raised. The Indian was
 arrested, and now offers in explanation
 that he did not raise the check, but
 that it was done by Mexican whom 1 he does not know. Lewis will be eX- amined at o'clock this afternoon. i During the afternoon Judge Johnstone i issued a warrant for the arrest of | simon Serana who works at the sugar factory. charging him with grand lar 1 ceny. his alleged crime being the theft i of d bicycle. the property of A R. l Kunz The wheel was found in the Ii possession of a Mexican, who said it II had been traded to him by Serana.