Arizona republican., 1907-12-06
: Of Local Interest

MISSIONARY sOCIETY-The Wo-
 mans Foreign Missionary society of the First M. F.. church, which. it was announced would meet Friday after
 noon. will meet instead. week from
 Friday. December lS. in the church parloTs.
 THIS IS NO JOkE.-Your water rent is due The water man at the city hall says so and he knows. He also calls attention to the fact that it is now Dec. 9th. and there are only four more days before the door is barr ed. ne can get whiskey anytime if
 he has the money. but he cant get water for either love nor money. after
 Dec. 10. until the man with the wrench
 comes and turns it on. And then it will cost more money than it does now
 and the love between the patron and the cit.- will be lost
 THE WILD BEAST PELTERS.-
 The office of the board of supervisors
 is again being filled up with trophies
 of the chase in the form of skins and
 scalps of wild beasts killed the bounty.
 Jose Buena yesterday brought in the
 four wildcat skins and one raccoon
 skin. West Walker contributed wildcat hide. The other day the clerk of the board received notice from
 a Wickenburg man that he had ship
 ped a cat skin and the clerk was noti-
 fled to take it out of the freight office. That presented a problem. for the law authorizing the payment of bounties make no arrangement for the payment of transportation by the county author
 ities.
 STORK PAYS A VISIA.-Wednesday
 night the stork called at 52O East Adams street. the home of MT. and Mrs. Y w Richards and left an eight pound baby girl. People in the north and west cart of the city wondered why they found no milk as usual at their doors yesterday morning, but Mir, Richards cmiling face and somewhat embarrassed explanations soon made things all right. He runs the Valley Pride Creamery wagon, but would rather stay at home and admire the new arrival. Mother and daughter are reported as doing nicely.
 FOR WANT OF WITNESSES The hearing of the priority suit was sus- pended yesterday for the reason that there were no witnesses concerning the lands under the Arizona canal. the in- VeStigatiOn having reached that sec ton. It was announced that testimony would be taken concerning the lands at the east end Of the cultivated dis trict and proceed westward until all the lands had been disposed of. Judge Kent announced yesterday that the hearing would be resumed on Monday and that testimony concerning any part of the lands under the Arizona would be taken.
 PHOENIX GIRL WEDS-Miss Mary J Webb and Virgil Patterson were married at the Methodist parsonage in Imperial. California. Monday evening. Dec. ?. The bride is a daughter of MT. and Mrs sam r. Webb. who live near this city. and was born and rais- ed in this valley. graduating from the Phoenix high school. Recently she has been teaching the school at Meridian. which school il may now be mentioned incidentally is on the lookout for a capable successor. Miss Webb met Mir. Patterson in Imperial early last spring when she went there to attend the family of her brother. Sam Webb, Jr., during a visitation of typhoid fev- CT She remainded there several months. returning home in the sum- mer. MT. Patterson is the resident agent of the Cudahy Packing company in Imperial. buying stock for that com pany in Southern California. He is a capable young business man and has aSquired an cstimable young wife from the best section on earth. not eX- cepting Imperial. California.
 RYAN WAS NOT LOST John Ryan. who left the county hospital the day following his arrival there suffer- l ing from wounds in an attempt to | murder him by Jim Kennedy. has been | located. It was feared at first that | Ryan, in a demented condition from his l had wandered away where he l would be likely to die for want of at | tention. But yesterday he was found ! at private house in greatly improv- ed condition and in his right mind. He | said that he knew what he was doing | when he left the hospital He did not | like his surroundings and went away | where he could be more to himself. He | secured the services of a physician and | remained at his new qaurters. That | is why he could not be found by those ]