Arizona republican., 1907-11-30
oz LOCAL
 u INTEREST

TEACHERS ExAMiNATION-Ths | regular quarterly examination of schoo ] teachers will be held Monday and l Tuesday. Dec ? and 3 at the court house.
 EXPECTED THIS MORNING.-En- 1 gineer Hill is expected home this
 morning from d visit to other recla-
 nation projects being developed un- der his jurisdiction.
 SURVEY APPRovED-The Survey 1 or General has approved mineral sur 1 vey No. 243S, Peerless lode mining
 claim. situate in the Silver Bell Min ing District, Pima county, claimed bv The Imperial Copper Company.
 FUNERAL. OF HARRY eRookS.- The funeral of Harry Brooks was held at 80 yesterday afternoon from
 the parlors of Easterling and Whit ney, and the remains were buried in
 the Jewish cemetery. Harry Freidman officiated. The Pythian Sisters and quite a number of friends were in at-
 tendance. The paIl bearers were Ike
 D. Diamond, Tobias Lichtenstein. Bine Lewis. Lewis Baswitz. G. w. Stokoe, and Harry Friedman.
 THE DEATH OF O. C. SMiTH.-O.
 C. Smith, a well knoHn peace officer
 of Tempe and Maricopa, died at Tue
 son Wednesday night of complica- tion of diseases from which he had been suffering for some months past
 MT Smith was a native of Connecticut and had resided in Arizona for 30 or 8 years past. He was for number oi years justice of the peace at Tempe, and for d year or two past had been deputy sheriff at Naricopa. He was d man of sterling quality. steadfast in his friendships and jealous in his duties. He formerly lived in Tombstone where he will be remembered by all the older residents.
 DISTRICT coURT.-There was a brief session of the district court yes terday in which the case of Charles A. Bacon against VIII. Channell and others was disposed of This was an action by the plaintiff against the de- fendants for the recovery of wages for services as a mine superintendent at mine in the Cave Creek district The mine owners are not incorporated and judgment was ordered against all of them The foreclosure of a lien on the mill of the property was ordered.
 HE HAD A SCALP WOUND.-An | unknown Mexican was badly hurt in a manner which has not been explain ed. at the Star lodging house on i Thursday night. He was taken 10 the l sheriffs office suffering from bad | scalp wound. He said it was inflicted | upon him by Pedro Martinez, but he | would not relate the circumstances of | the affair He was later removed to | the county hospital. Martinez was | taken into custody and said that the | man had been making a nuisance Of | himself about the lodging house and | that in pushing him aside the man fell | and received the wound. The doctor i who examined him said that that kind | of wound could not be made in that | way.
 is a chance for horsemen if they are prepared 10 deliver the goods. NJ. s. | wirebach. 490 Center street. Schnecta- dy, N. Y, writes to a member of The staff asking for the address of the man who has the horse with the horn hoof" The writer also states that he wants to get a horse with a long mane and tail. and his manner of writing leads one to believe that he has heard of a couple of freak horses nere in Arizona and would like to se- cure them. The Republican has no in in the premises and if any reader has he is invited to correspond with MT. Wirebach.
 CHANUkA.-Chanuka or the feast Df lights, will begin at sundown this evening and will last for eight days. This is a Jewish festival that is uni 'ersally celebrated though there is no service A connection with il. II least not in these parts. The ob- ,erVance is merely within the families 1f those of Jewish faith. The chief eature and the one from which it gets ts name is the custom of keeping one ,andle burning the first night and the lext night another candle is added. In ike manner one is added each day un- il the last night, when eight are all turning at once. It is a bodily as well IS "a spiritual feast and during the : tight days the daily menu is the best 'vailable and usually more luxurious { han the ordinary diet. The feast eel brates the victories of Judas Macca- )aeus over the Syrians. With few { hOusand followers he defeated four ( Syrian armies in succession two of ( hem immensely superior to his own in ' lumber, and was able in December. I 65 B. C.. to restore the Jewish wor- : hip at the Temple, which had been discontinued for three years.
 -o-
 To the West End grocery trade: You an get your groceries delivered and carefully by E. E. Pat on, 1908 w. Washington. Phone Red, I AeA .