Arizona republican., 1908-10-04
OF LOCAL INTEREST

MINING MANI. H. Award of ! Troy was a business visitor in the lefty yesterday.
 AT THE DESK AGAIN-Charles P. Locllhart who was for a long time em- | plOyed as a clerk in the Ford hotel but who has been absent during the summer. has returned and again en-
 tered the employ of the Ford as book
 keeper.
 MIR. MCNEIL HOME-H. II. McNeil
 returned home yesterday from Los Angeles where he went a few days
 ago to purchase fixtures for the Elks
 club rooms and theater. Mrs. McNeil
 who has been there for a few weeks | will return a week later
 RETURNED FROM COAST-C. F. Schilling returned yesterday from Los Angeles where he has been on business for several weeks. He will
 go over to Kelvin this week to be- gin some work on his mining prop erty in that district.
 A HURRIED TRIP SOUTH.-Sec- Iretary Young of the reublican terri torial committee left last night for the south. He will meet the Cameron lparty and Chairman Smith of the com mittee at Benson and will accompany MT. Cameron to Douglas. He will probably return to the city on Monday morning.
 AN OLD REAL ESTATE FIRM | On Monday morning one of the oldest ] real estate firms in Phoenix will re- sume business, E. Irvine & Co. The senior member, E. Irvine, came here ! in December, 1871, crossing the des- ] ert from San Diego, Calif, on horse 1 back Phoenix was very small at that time, consisting of six finished houses and several under way. There is perhaps no one now in Phoenix better acquainted with land values in and around Phoenix than MT. Irvine.
 THE WILLIAMS FlRE.-Secretary George L. Young of the republican ter ritorial committee yesterday morning received a telegram from Williams in relation to the fire there on Friday morning. Mir. Young was deeply inter Iested for Williams was formerly his home. The buildings destroyed by the fire were Babbitt Bros. JOhnston's HarrelTs. SweetwOod's, Saunders. and the palace restaurant which was in the Johnston building The post office Which had been located in the John ston building has been removed since the fire to the lobby of the Grand Can yon hotel. According to MT. Young's estimate the loss is much greater than given by the associated ress yesterday morning. He believed that the stock of goods of Babbitt Bros. and the building were worth s15O.0O0. The Johnston building was worth s12.000 and it contained a stock of goods late ly sold to MT. Kennedy, the value of the stock being not less than S20,000. The losses in the Harrell and Sweet wood buildings, MT. Young believed would not be less than $1S,5OO. ]
 SAW THE EAST-P. Aepli and son David who reside south of Tempe have returned from a two months visit in the east, the first trip MT Aepli has made for many years. They visited nearly all the states of the middle west, going as far east as Chi cago and Milwaukee and had a fine time. There was a great deal of com plaint in some of the states about the shortage of water, but the cool wealth CT of August and the warmer weather of September which delayed the frost
  the corn crop which was seriously threatened by the earlier drouth. MT. Aepli said he found lots of people who wanted to move to an irrigation coun- try. especially during the months of their drouth. He found quite a num- Der who are talking of coming to this valley and noted that people generally are talking about Arizona though most of them have but a poor idea of the county. the conditions. or even its geographical location. It indicated to him the need of more advertising. Much has been accomplished but only a good beginning has been made. Ask ed about political conditions Mir Aepli said the burden of the political song and chorus wherever he went was Taft, with just enough Bryan mono tone to spice the music.