Arizona republican., 1906-02-05

up his partner and report to him later. He had not reported last night, and the police are inclined to believe that he was drunk in the morning and either had nothing that anybody could steal, or that his partner took charge of his property when he went to sleep.s re- storing it later in the day after the incident at the city hall
 VISITING OLD FRIENDS-Harry Griffin, formerly in the employ of B. Heyman, in this city, returned Satur- day morning and left last evening for the coast, after a couple of days very pleasantly spent with friends and rela- tives. MT. Griffin is located in Seat tie, where he holds a very responsible position in a furniture establishment backed by George Vanderbilt of New
 York and personally conducted by T relative of MT. Vanderbilt He has
 been with the firm for some time and has prospered well, having had charge Of one department after another until
 he finally graduated from most of them
 and was given the position of buyer for the firm. He is now en route home from two months visit in New York and other eastern markets where his time was devoted exclusively to buying goods for the store. He is greatly en- unused over Seattle and her future prospects. He believes that in ten years more that city will be giving San Francisco a hard race for first place on the coast. He enjoyed his two days in Phoenix very much meeting many | of his old friends but not all of them, of course, for he was widely known and very popular during his residence here All will be pleased to learn of his prosperity.
 NEW CORPORATIONS - Articles of the following corporations were fiI- ed in the office of the county recorder : on Saturday: Manhattan Leasing com pany. capital stock. $25O, ,OOO, incorpo- l rators. R. F. Daggs and A. L. Fryer jr.: Searchlight Free Gold Mining and Milling company, capital stock. s1.- 5OO,000, incorpOrators. w. H. Board man, J. H. Pape, and A. L. Miller: Red ! Peak Mining company capital stock. $1,000,000, iHcOrporators, C. Mitchell, C. w. Chase, and w M. AIberti; Buck ] eye Montana Smelling company, capi-
 tai stock, $5,000,O0O. incorporators, F. i F. Powers and A. F. Peebles; Mont gomery County oil and Gas company, 1 capital stock, $30O,OOO, incorporators, J. 1 J. Huer, R. F. Miller, and H. w. Earth :; i Pyramid Mining company capital stock s1 900, 900, incorporators, W. Siebet, w. | O. Tegenmeyer, and J. A. MacMahon. | Rapid Creek Development company, capital stock, $5,00O 900, incorporators,
 J. B. Guthrie and s. F. Ockerland; ;
 American Self Heating Iron company, capital stock. $25O,OO0, incorpOrators, J. M. Currier, E. c. Gates and others; Roosevelt Diaz Mining and Agrucul- turaI Development company capital stock, S6OO, 900 incorporators, A. $. Ar
 thur and R. S. Arthur; Paducah Bull frog Gold Mining company, capital stock. $1.0O0,000, incorporators R. E.
 Ashbrook, F. L. Scott and c. H. Good
 man.
 ANOTHER CoNTESTANT-C. l.
 Justus, who lives three miles west of 1 Phoenix, believes that when the books are opened and all truth is known, it will be snown that he is the man en- titled to first place as the cham pion early snake destroyer. His snake, ! though, was not a rattler, but a chick
 en snake, a reptile harmless to men,
 so far as he knows, but a regular glut-
 ton for young chickens. MT. Justus
 runs a chicken ranch and his place is | located between two large laterals that
 are grown upa with brush, offering q fine hiding place for reptiles and var hints. Last season he lost many l chickens by snakes and killed quite a
 number of snakes also but they seem
 ed to come to his place from miles
 around having an instinctive knowl- l edge of where to go for safe retreat and good provender. About three weeks ago, during the cold weather MT. Justus moved a haystack. taking
 some of the straw on the bottom foI bedding for his horses. The next morn ing he went to the stable before 1t was hardly daylight, and while doing his chores, piled the hay out from the horse stalls. In doing so he ran Inc fork against a wriggling mass o1 chicken snake, which had been warmed
 to life during the night by the horse on the hay above nim. According tc 1 scriDtural injunction, he bruised the