Arizona republican., 1907-10-02
OF LOCAL INTEREST
CARRIER chANeEs.- Lyman D.

CARRIER CHANGES Lyman D.
 LaTourette has been appointed carrier on Rural Free Delivery Route No. ,.
 He has been filling the position as
 sub- carrier for a number of months.
 Fred w. Leng. who has been carrying city route No. 3, has resigned to be-
 come an inspector in the customs ser
 vice at Nogales. He is succeeded on the regular roll by Sub Carrier Stan ley A. Bunce.
 SENT TO THE ASYLUM. - John
 Snowden was before the probate court
 yesterday on a charge of insanity. He
 had been brought down the day before
 from Mesa, where he had lived an aimless life for the last eight years. He
 had never been very bright. having
 kept himself soaked with liquor. but
 at last he got to seeing things. It
 was not however. a case of delirium tremens. Snowden realized that he
 was losing his mind and made no
 strenuous objection to being sent to
 the asylum.
 OF INTEREST TO ARIZoNIANS.-
 Patents have been granted to residents
 of this territory as follows: Joseph A.
 Fenstemaker Of Dos Cabezas for a
 pump; F. T. Wright of Douglas for
 surgicel instruments. The following
 postoffices became domestic money
 order offices yesterday: Arivaipa, Cave Creek, Geronimo and Navajo. On
 the same date the postoffice at Hum-
 boldt became an international money order office. The Chiricahua Tele- graph and Telephone company of Por- tai Arizona, has been granted a per init to construct and operate tele-
 phone and telegraph line six and a half miles long in the Chiricahua na-
 tional forest for commercial purposes.
 AN EFFECT OF THE cIRCUs.-It has always been believed that a circus goes a great way toward impoverish-
 ing a community. But in one way. they help. They lengthen the dockets of the police and justice courts. Jus tice Johnstone therefore had a very busy morning yesterday. The first victim was Charles Bigelow, a hobo who had solicited the price of n meal. he said, and when the solicitee declin- cd to contribute he grew insulting and applied a fighting epithet to him. DiSclbW was Scul lO Jdil StNtH days T. Lyons. another drifter-in with the show. was sent to jail for sev- en days for plain drunkenness and dis turbance of the peace. Other members of the docket were Manuel Avisa, Ro- fael Montoya, Pasqual Garcia. Fran cisco Gonzales and Estevan Valencia. They all got seven days, There was not a dollar left in the crowd.
 TRAINS AND TRAVEL. - Monday was a busy day for the railroads in these parts. The Southern Pacific had nice little job on hand. moving the circus trains around and in addi- ton it had hundreds of circus visitors to take care of The Kelvin train was delayed until last evening to accom- modate large number of the eXcJfr- sionists who wanted to return home !. after the afternoon performance. The i incoming Kelvin train was loaded to { the guards. At Kelvin station alone !. 15O tickets were sold: Florence and ! Mesa filled up the baggage car and at . Tempe 900 people had to wait until a special train was sent after them. But ! the circus was late and there was plen- ! ty of time. From the north all trains were heavily loaded and a big special i excursion train from Prescott and in ! iervening points arrived about noon.
 THE CIRCUS MAIL-The arteries | of the Phoenix post office have been | rlogging up for the past week or so. | with a surplus amount of mail ad- ! dressed to circus people and Monday 1, the pOstoffice cleaned its system of a 1, ton of it more or less. It is some | thing the average man probably never | thinks about, but when Ringlings' 1 circus appears at the general delivery i window and asks if it has a letter i there is apt to be something doing on l the inside for a while. Constantly ! moving. all of the 1900 people who get ! letters have to give their correspond ! ents the route ahead so they can have | the letters in waiting as they come |, along. Naturally, the larger towns along the route are made the greatest | so that when the circus arrives there is an accumulation of 1 several days mail. Most of the em- ployes get q letter once in a while. and the professional people as well as the circus management get lots Of them. l It is therefore about like it would be if all of Tempe should stay away from the postoffice for a week and then all appeared at once for the mail The only difference is that the mail doesn't have to be sorted quite so much as in the case of a town. The sorting is done in large part, after it reaches the circus grounds.
 MAN WHO SMOKES POWDER AND BAIl.-The following from the Florence Blade is about a man who should join a sideshow and take his place alongside the old fashioned won der who used to eat broken glass and hot lead. The Blade says: Tommy Harris. who is clerking at the Flor ence Pharmac-, had narrow escape from what might have been a serious injury. Friday of last week. He had filled and lighted his pipe out on the street and had gone into the rear room