Arizona republican., 1906-10-01
oFlL0CAL INTEREST

ATTORNE' JONES ILL-Edwin F.
 Zones. deputy United States attornev
 who makes Ds headquarters at Tue
 son, is reportd to be very i'll. He has
 peen confinedto his home for a week.
 THE Y M C. A.-Yesterday after
 noon a large attendance than usual
 was present at at the Y NJ. c
 meeting. Re. George F. Smith made
 good prac cal talk on the seventh
 eommandme1. In closing he prom
 ised when tn Y. M. c. A. building was
 built to furnsh the reading room.
 PENSIONIO ARIZONIANS-Per
 sions have .ecentIy been granted to
 the folIowtg Arizonians: C. J.
 Moore, SIP month; c. H. Thayer.
 $12; s. c. Fes, SIP; Thomas J. Gal
 legher s1O; Hiram Breeding, SIP; T.
 H. O'Brien. S6; Mulford Winsor. SS:
 Henry Sevens, $10; s. J. Matth-
 ews, SIP.
 A MEDAL CANOIDATE-Dr Walter A. Hyley arrived in the city Yesterday Iprning for the purpose of Baking an examination before the board of teritorial examiners. He has Tor some tire been located in Cochise county, conrcted with the hospital de- partment O the Calumet & Arizona company.
 COMING BACK FOR THE WIN TER-WOrdwas received from Detroit yesterday tat E. w. or Pop" Wig gins is at roosevelt hospital New York undergoing special treatment but that he will return to Phoenix in December accompanied by Mrs. Wig gins and ueir son. William Wiggns and his wife
 IN A CRITICAL CoNDlTIoN- .TfF, I-IgJ men in the county, is at the Sisters hospital, in a very critical condition. He was takH there Saturday noon by his friends suffering from an attack of appendicitis. An operation was per formed, but his illness had come sud denly and had lasted considerable time before he had the proper attention.
 B. p. O. E. APPOINTMENTS-The first official circular to be issued by Henry A. Melvin, the grand exalted ruler of the Elks, for his present term of office. w4s received here yesterday by parties Interested. It contains the announcement of the appointment of O. C. Park,r of Tucson, as district deputy and of SeIfm Nicholson of this city as a r1dmber of the committee on credentials. MT. Nicholson has #served as a member of the credentials committee O. the grand lodge for sev-. eral terms.
 FoRGER RAPIER cAPTURED-I Word was received in the city yester- day by the authorities here of the ar rest at Bisbee of l.. P. Rapier, who is wanted for the stealing of a number of time checks at Roosevelt. The warrant is returnable in Gila county. and he will likely be taken to Globe. Rapier. after stealing the checks. fCroa1 ,,rrr,Iav Of rT1ar,, and Sfrzssi I them. He will be tried on a charge of forgery. Tie arrest at Bisbee was made Saturday night by Hank Snod- ] grass, the ci1y marshal.
 IN REAL TRAGEDY-The friends ! of c. W. Sta K. the well known news i paper man, will learn with interest ] that he has graduated from the drama | and has gone into real tragedy. He !. is now in Q regular place on the De ! troit Free Press. MT. Stark was at one time employed on The Republican ] and was in the news paper business at 1 Williams He was a brilliant news paper man but a longing for the stage ! always more or less interfered with | his work He has had his fling at 1t ! and is now satisfied that nothing is l more dramatic and tragic than a daily 1 newspaper grind.
 ARIZONA NATIONAL BANKS An abstract of reports to the comp 1 troller of currency shows the following 1 condition of the national banls Of this , territory: LoaIs and discounts, $3 ! 495, ,965: United States bonds to secure | circulation, $5s1,5OO; United States | bonds to secure United States deposits ] $150, ,000; bonds, securities, etc, S521,- | S55: lawful money reserve in banks ! gold coin, $24,04O; legal tender notes. | $4SS,697; capital stock paid in, S755. 1 O0O; surplus fund, S315705: due to ] other national banks. S1S641; due to | state banks md bankers, $53157; due 1 10 trust companies and savings banks, ! S1S.941; due to approved reserve 1 agents. $6.4J2; Individual deposits. s5.- | 774,425; peIcentage of legal reserves to | deposits. 1I7O.
 SKATIN9 ON SIDEWALKS-TheE | police request the boys and girls of | Phoenix not to engage in roller skat- | ing along he cement walks on Wash | ington and other downtown streets. IL ! is obvious hat such a practice is more | dangerous to pedestrians than the ] riding of bicycles on the sidewalks, ! against which there is an ordinance, | for the a' craze sidewalk skater is a ! beginner md has little control over !. himself. Zone of the youngsters mean | any harm but they are liable at any [ time to wheel into elderly men and l women and hurt somebody seriously. | The pOlica recognize the fact that the ] only way to entirely restrain an Amer l ican kid when there is a fad going is ! to kill hin. and that remedy is too se- rious, bu they politely ask the skaters ! to take their exercise on the back