Arizona republican., 1908-08-03
OF LOCAL INTEREST

WINsLoW NIsIToRS.-W. ". Per-
kins of winslow was a visitor in the
city yesterday.
DOWN FROM FLAG.-E. S. Gosney
lof Flagstaff was down from The sky
light city yesterday.
WINkELMAN VISlTORS.-S. H.
Snider and C. C. Werner of Winkel-
man were in the city yesterday on
business.
ROOSEVELT REslDENTs.-J. B.
Atkinson and wife and j. F. Gay of
Roosevelt were in Phoenix yesterday
and registered at the Ford.
TUCSON VISITORS.-Among those
taking advantage of the excursion yes
terday to visit Phoenix were Miss Per-
ry, Miss Georgia Richey, c. Gunter,
/ a. F Hezeltine.
| COUNCIL MEETlNG.-Tonight is
{ the regular monthly meeting of the
city council. Mayor Coggins is at
ipresent out of the city, being at the
,encampment at Camp Brodie, and
councilman Yaeger is enjoying the
Flagstaff climate.
AT WlNSlOW-J A. MeCahill the
territorial deputy of the Independent
| Order oG>Foresters has been at Wins
low the past week in the interest of
that order. He has secured quite a
membership in the northern towns of
Arizona. He will return to Phoenix
about the first of September.
BUILDING SHAkEN.--The heavy
wind of yesterday afternoon shook
down a part of the building in the rear
L l1aY. ri nv
Jasper Dobbs for hay storage. 1t was
built of cement blocks and part of the
wall toppled into the alley. The build
ing was prOpped up but may have to
be torn down entirely.
WORKING MEMS MEcCA-Par-
| ties who have recently returned from
Cananea state that workingmen are
flocking to that camp with the expect
alton of securing employment. 1t fur
| them added that several hundred men
are already on the ground enough to
| fill all needs for sometime. as the
| force will be increased slowly.
A VISITING NEWSPAPER MAN.
Among the visitors from Tucson yes
lterday was George w. Pittock. at one
time employed by The Republican. but
for several years connected with the
| Arizona Star This is the first return
of Mr. Pittock to Phoenix. Mr.. Pittock
| is brother of Henry Pittock, one of
the owners of the Portland Oregonian.
BACK TO PHOENlx.-A. C. Cater.
general freight and passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, was among
the fans who took in the Tucson-P hOe-
nix ball game yesterday. Mr.. Cater
was personally in charge of the ex-
cursiOn. The special pulled out last
night about s O'Clock, following the de-
parture of the regular train to Mari
cOpa.
| TOO MUCH OF 1.-THE other day,
Judge Phillips, who is in Long Beach
with his family, took his little girl
down to the. beach for a bath. She
had been used to bathing in the Mari
cOpa canal, its laterals cornered by
bitches. Appalled, by the great width
and length of the Pacific ocean. she
"backed IN" and said, mo, papa, 1
/ don't want to go into that big ditch"
i A SAD CASE-Afflicted with lep-
rosy contracted in California Mrs. d.
K Wardwell wife of former Arizona
legislator who had been ordered de-
| ported to the leper colony on Molol1i
/ been taken from Los Angeles hospi-
tai by her husband. He will spend the
remaining days of her life with her in
Il Mexico it is stated. in spite of the
danger to his own life. Wardwell rep
resented Cochise county in the early
days of the territory when Prescott
/ was the capital and has many friends
4 among the old timers. He was at one
H time postmaster at Fort Hauchuca.
II Old timers will remember Wardwell
known throughout Arizona as the
II warhorse of the Huachucas" because
H of his reputation for fighting on the
f floor of the Legislature. Just how Mrs.
II Wardweil contracted leprosy the au-
thorities do not know. With her hus-
band she went to Sawtelle. Cal from
Il Tombstone, AriZ., Wardwell entering
the soldiers home there. Mrs. Ward
Il well has a son residing in Tombstone.
BROKE WORLDS REcORD-Justo
\ the already famous three-year-
II trOtter is almost daily proving that
his mistress, Mrs. ]. c. Adams is a
| good judge of what is in colt Last
Tuesday at Springfield, Ills, he broke
the worlds record for three-year-old
trotting a mile in 2:10A. The next
heat he went in 2:1115. Either figure
would have smashed the record. A
h few days before that at Pekin, Ills. he
broke the worlds record for his class.
Justo was a somewhat neglected colt
h down in Kentucky little more than
a year ago when Mrs. Adams who was
accompanying her husband to Lexing-
ton in search of horse which he had
4 heard great deal, saw Justo and de-
termined to have him. He was in most
of the big futurities but he would
I probably never have started in any of
them if Mrs. Adams had not become
his owner His progress this year has
been one continual triumphal tour By
the time he returns for the races at
the territorial fair he will be one of