Arizona republican., 1908-03-23
OF LOCAL INTEREST

BREEN RESIGNS.-Fred S Breen
 who has been in the forestr" service
 for ten years and who has been sup
 ervisor os several os the northern for ests. has resigned his office.
 PRISON PLANS.- The clerk and
 citizen member of the board of con
 trol has put in a busy week in tabu
 lating the cacts in connection with
 the half dozen sets of plans submitted
 for the new prison and expects to
 have the result read to laV before the governor on his return tomorrow,
 so the board can begin the work of
 intelligent comparison oc the merits of the different plans.
 DEMOCRATIC, CENTRAL COM iMlTTEE-Thc democratic territorial
 central committee will hold a meeting
 here this morning at 10 o'clock to fix
 the time and place of holding the ter
 ritoriaI convention for -he selection of delegates to the Denver convention. The Phoenix board of trade on Sat urday passed a resolution inviting the committee to name Phoenix as the convention city.
 FUNERAL OF THOMAS CRAIG.- The funeral of Thomas Craig was held 1 Sunday afternoon at 2:20 o'clock in the parlors of Easterling X Whitney. ! The service was that of the Knights of ! Pythias. directed by Chancellor Com mander Chas. \. Stauffer and Chap
 lain Tom Smith. The pail bearers
 were Joseph Thalheimer. J. II. Kinney,
 William Blankenshi@, Hans Herlick. T. U. Duncan ard C ". CiSne.-
 BAND CONCERT. - The Pioneer
 band concert on the city plaza last
 night the first evening concert of the | season. was attended hv d large crowd
 of people. which demonstrated apprOV- al of the program. Although it was ! little chilly. and the pleasure seekers imagined the icicles were forming on their brov-S. the musicians were per spring y'ith their efforts and worked | hard fo~ the>Draise they secured. The | band is now large one and furnishes excellent music A few of the num- bers were old ones, hut We're played so well the,' seemed almost like new selections
 TO DE TRIED FOR. INSANITY Robert Bowen. an old resident of Tempe was brought to the county ! jail late on Saturday night on a charge of insanity II will probably be giv- en a hearing in probate court today. The friends of Mr. Bowen have for d long time been aware of his mental derangement hut il was not until Sev- eral weeks age that there was any se- ricus outbreak when complaint was made against him for a disturbance of the peace. II was then made known that Mir. Bowen had been suffering for some time. Finally he came to be regarded as a menace to himself and the community MT. Bowen has been a resident of the territory for nearly quarter of ccntur,-. He was for long time engaged in the cattle bus mess in the Tonto Basin. After that he was the proprietor of the Bowen hotel at Tempe
 SUPREME COURT-The supreme court will meet this morning in ad- journed session for the purpose of handing down opinions and attending to formal matters. IL is also under stood that Attorney General Clark 1vill file an application today for writ of mandamus ta compel the board of su pervisors of tochise county to make the raises-oSdered on producing patented mines in that county last year by the territorial board of equalization. The raise amounted to about 200 per cent on these properties. This action is different from the famous Copper Queen litigation which was an effort to make the big mines pay. while this is an effort to make the little mines pay. It is understood the defense vii! be on a. number of grounds. one of which is that the territorial board did not fix classified valuation of these lands per acre and therefore could not arbitrarily instruct the board tO raise the entire assessment that much. The attorney general on the other hand will contend that the classification has l been made properly. The opinion will be handed down on March 27, the inter i vening time to be taken up by the con sultation and the hearing of motions. | Among the cases to be decided is that 1, of Joseph Thalheimer against the board /. of supervisors. better known as the | local option case.
 THE MOUNTAIN VALLEYS. -I While Arizona is busy calling the at ! tention of the world to the vast acre age in her large agricultural valleys. | it should not be forgotten that there | are hundreds and thousands oc little | mountain valleys that will some day i afford 2 living fo- one or more fami ! lies. many of then whole settlements. ] when better methods of water supply , are devised and mining town markets | are multiplied. And these valleys will | doubtless prove just as prolific as the ] larger ores. though in some of them a | different sort o. crop win be raised. i Here is a fine testimon- of what one | man iS doing Tn the HuachuCa noun l tains. remote s-om the larger towns. | and unhcard of b,- the throngs that | cross on tkc transcontin"nta; raid roads. Tie facts are from the Doug !. las Dispatch: "R D. Hall came in [ from the Chiricahuas yesterday and .