Arizona republican., 1907-10-08
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

| A BIG cLASS.-Fifteen or twenty
new members will be initiated into the
great order of the Knights OF the
Maccabees on Thursday night at Melc-
zer's hall. The special dispensation for
October enables all to take the advan-
tages all to take the advantage of this
opportunity to join for much less than
charter members paid.
/ A CHANGE OF BUSINESSMEN
tiations which have been on for some
time, will be consummated today and
the Long Hardware Company will
change hands. The purchasers will
be Frank Bennett Of Okmulgee, Okla,
and A 3. Saffell, who has for some
time been bookkeeper at the Valley
Bank. Mr.. Bennett is expected to ar
rive in the city this morning. The
Long Hardware store. taking its name
| from the fact that II was started a
great many years ago by ]. b. Long.
who is now engaged in the same bus
| mess under the title of the Phoenix
Hardware Company, has been under
the proprietorship of W. T. Smith for
a long time. Mr.. Bennett is not a
stranger in the city. He is a brother
of Guy Bennett and the late Mrs. VIM.
Christy. Mr. Bennett lived in Phoenix
about ten years ago and was for time
manager of the Phoenix Hay and Grain
Company.
A PLEA FOR PENcIL-A letter
was received at the office of the sher-
iff yesterday from Mary r. Sanderson,
a teacher at Fort Mcdowell, making
a plea on behalf of three Indians there
for the liberty of Mike Pencil, the In
dian policeman charged with crimi-
nal assault upon the wife of George
Hay, another Indian living near
Scottsdale. Miss Sanderson writes for
the three Indians that they know that
Pencil is not guilty and that the
charge was made by Hay for spite.
The writer joins with them in saying
that the character of Pencil is good
and that his influence at the post has
been for the good of the other Indians.
He has done much to suppress gamb-
ling and the making of tis-win. What
is more to the purpose they offer to
bring John Bale, his wife and two
other Indians who We're with Pencil
all the time within which the alleged
crime could have been committed.
They demand an immediate trial for
him and say that IL he should be held
to the grand jury they will stand good
for his appearance at the trial.
4 HOBo'S Exclusion Saturday
night a mining man by the name of
Terry who sat sleeping in a saloon was
relieved OF a valuable gold watch. In
place of it he found when he awoke,
a watch of the cheapest kind. Inves-
tigation afterWard pointed to a hobo
who had been hanging around town for
a day or two as the man who had
made this one-sided trade. He was
arrested and yesterday he was ar
raigned. He made the extraordinary
excuse that he had taken the watch
fer safe keeping; he was afraid that
some thieving Mexican would come
along and take it. In proof of his hon
esty in the matter he pointed to the
fact that he had left his own dollar
watch in place of il, an evidence OF
good faith. He intended to return the
watch to the owner as soon as he got
into a condition TO take care of it. He
admitted though that he had no ac-
quaintance with the owner and had
never seen him until then. His ex-
PLANTATION of the circumstance set Dis
trict Attorney Billiard 10 laughing and
the hobo glowering at him said: This
may seem damned funny to YOU but
ii is a serious matter with me-
A TELL-TALE DECORATION. =
Fred Cimi a mining man came to town
several days ago and put up with a
countryman who runs an italian res
taurant on Jackson street near the NJ.
& p. depot. Signor Cimi was well
dressed in a suit which he had recently
bought in Chicago. He had not much
use for the coat in this genial climate
and he left it hanging in his room.
One night a chill came on and he went
after it but it was gone. In his eX-
element he accused the proprietor of
having appropriated it and was thrown
out of the house. Yesterday afternoon
as he was going along the street he
saw a Mexican wearing a peculiar
Redmen's button which he recognized
as the one he had in his coat. He
close herded the Mexican whom he
recognized as a fellow lodger until
he could get word to the authorities
and Constable Murphy took the man
into custody. He gave the name of
Santiago Modeno. He denied the theft
of the coat but he was scared white
when he was brought before the court.
1t is thought that he will disclose the
whereabouts of the property when he
is brought before Justice Johnstone for
trial today.
MR.. GAGE HERE. 3. Gage Of
Tombstone was in the city yesterday
for few hours on business and left
last night for his home. Mr.. Gage says
that business is fair at Tombstone,
the depression in copper not affecting
it so much as most of the mines in
that part of the territory are producers
of gold, though many of them are
showing increasing copper values with
depth. He was in New York month
ago and could not see that conditions
were so bad sit appeared in reports.
but it is true that money is scarce and
people are playing safe till they can
see what the next turn will be. He is
rather inclined to the opinion that cop
per has about reached its lowest level
for the present and will remain there
a few months. At % cents consumers
of copper were living from hand to