Arizona republican., 1908-01-17
OF LOCAL INTEREST
WATERMELON MEN TO MEET.-

WATERMELON MEN TO MEET.- | There will be a meeting of the West | Side and the East Side watermelon growers. at the board of trade room | Saturday Jan. IS at 1880 o'clock sharp The purpose of the meeting will be tO pass judgment upon the bylaws of the
 association recently prepared by the
 board e directors and also to arrange
 for ordering seed for the members.
 NEW COMPETITIONS. - Articles of the following corporations were filed in the office of the county recorder yesterday: Association Textile. capital stock s6O,O00.00O. incorporators l.. T. Stoddard. Celora Stoddard; Deadwood Gulch Mining Co.,; capital stock $1O,- 000. 900; incorporators, F. D. Brown. F. B. Johnson. F.. E. Morton. Jerry Gull bertsoR: Mid-Continental Development | Co. capital stock s1.000,0 900; incorpo- rators A. $. Morrill,. T.. R. Long, N. L. Silver
 A SAD JOuRNEY.-D. Nicholson. ! the tailor. yesterday left for Portland. Oregon, in answer to a summons to the bedside os his wife, who it is thought cannot live. She was in her usual good health a short time ago. and the telegram came as quite shock to MT. Nicholson. It is hoped that the worst lconjectures may prove wrong. Mrs. Nicholson has been in Portland since summer. With her is the daughter. Miss Sadie Nicholson. Arthur Nichol- son and wife recently went to Seattle and will reach Portland before MT. Nicholson.
 PRESBYTERIAN SERVlcES.-One of the most helpful and intensely prac- tical sermons of the present series was delivered last night by Rev. Campbell from the text, What think ye of Christi" The meeting tonight will be the last of the week-night services. there being no meeting Saturday ven ing The special services will close Sunday evening. Srvices this evening from 80 to S:30.
 GOOD PROGRESSES. P. Parker, who is connected with the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company, which is constructing the Santa Fe bridge over the Colorado, was in Phoe- nix yesterday to secure a few laborers and to attend to other business. MT. Parker stated that work was progress ing very satisfactorily from an engi- neer's standpoint. The putting down of the first caisson has proved to be a very hard proposition. The caisson is now down 40 feet and in hard rock, but must be. driven ten feet farther. CaissOn number two will soon be ready for the compressed air. So far all the ground on .t has been bucketed out. One hundred and twenty-five men are at work on the bridge and it is expect ed to have 200 employed within two weeks. Some trouble has been encoun- tered in getting men and keeking them. There are six caissons to be put in and MT. Parker thought they should be all ready for the superstructure by the middle of May. provided no unforeseen difficulties are met with. The steel is arriving and in three weeks the most of it will be on the ground for the bridge. When the caissons are in. the work will move much faster MT. Parker thought that the superstructure would be started when two were placed in the river.
 NO DOG PolSNING CASE-Sever- al reasons developed yesterday why the Alhambra dog poisoning case could not be tried. Justice Johnstone had already decided to dism,:Ss the charge against Mrs. May Melaney. who had been arrested on the complaint of Richard Allen charging her with pois- oning a fox terrier belonging to him. The justice had inferred from the com plainant's statement, that he had come
 
 the district attorney had directed the warrant to issue, though the district attorney afterward stated that he had not done so. MT. Allen yesterday morning stated to the court that he had rot said thatSMr. Bullard had di- rected the warrant, but he had said that he had come from the office of the district attorney. who had pointed out the statute applicable to the case. The justice recalled that that was the substance of the conversation. The case had however been dismissed, and in the course of a further conversa- tion regarding it, it was brought out that the deceased dog was not the property of Mir. Allen. but he belonged to his father-in-law who lives near. Mention was also made of the fact that this dog. as well as Mir. Aliens. had developed the culpable habit of running out after horses and people. That was so, MT. Allen replied, but that fact he said. could not be regard ed as a mitigating circumstance in the case of one who had violated the law. The defendant denied all knowledge of the causes leading up to the death of the dog. She said she had not ad- poison to him and had not in fact. been in the vicinity of the house O. MT. Allen.
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