Arizona republican., 1908-05-21
0F LOCAL INTEREST

LEFT FOR cALIFoRNIA.-Ben Butler left Tuesday night for northern California on a business trip to be gone several weeks.
 CATTLE SHIPMENT-Ten cars of cattle were received here yesterday over the P. and F. from Winkelman, about 400 head of feelings being in tie shipment
 FIRE AT COCHRAN-A small fire at Cochran on the Phoenix and East ern sunday consumed the houses oc cupied by the laborers on the section. The monetary loss was not large but the inconvenience will be considerable
 in view of the fact that it is only d station and houses are very scarce.
 THE CRITTENToN HOME-The annual election of officers for the Crit tenton Home board will be held to- night in the Darlor of the First M.. F.. church at 7:3O o. m. It is necessary to elect a president, vice president, sec retary and treasurer, and every one should be interested in this election and attend this meeting.
 A SMALL FlRE,-The fire depart ment answered a call yesterday after noon to the corner of Washington and Eighth avenue. The blaze was in a small cottage on the northwest corner and was caused by a little child who was playing with match in a bath room. \ few buckets of water was sufficient to eXtinguish the fire and neither the hose OF the chemical was called into service.
 CROP WILL BE LARGER.-A. $. Frankenburg of Tempe. who was in the city yesterday, reports that the in- dcations arc that the cantalouDe crop on the southside will be larger this year than last. It is figured that there will be about 200 car loads from Mesa and about sixty from Tempe Last year there were shipped from the southside section approximately 1S6 cars. Two heavy rains in the sum mer were partially responsible for the falling off in the amount which was anticipated in the beginning of the season Melon growers are now mak- ing active preparations for the hand ling of the crop for the coming months.
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY-The La dies of the Woman's Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Society most cordially invite all the friends to meet with them in the lecture room of the Baptist church next Friday at 2:3O pm. The literary program will be short and interesting and pre- senting the last chapter in the Home Mission text book for discus sion. At the close of this meeting the society will adjourn for the sum mer and refreshments and a social hour will close the afternoon.
 LOOP ABOUT cOMPLETE-Sup- erintendent Scott of the M. and P. reported yesterday that the loop which is being built. connecting the M. and P. tracks and the Phoenix and Eastern tracks in Mesa, will be finished by the end of the week and that trains will be running over it on Monday. The road will soon be able to boast of a kiteshaped track as is now done in California. There will be only one depot maintained in Mesa and the evening train will go over the M and P and return by the P and F. The tracks are about three quarters of a mile apart, one coming in on the south side of the city within the city limits and the other on the north. For the present the schedule of the trains will remain the same as before.
 DISTRICT COURT-Tom Johnson, who had been convicted of assault with intent to kill in shooting Mexican at Gila Bend last spring was yesterday sentenced by Judge Kent to two years and six months in the penitentiary. Yesterday was the time fixed for passing sentence on Alberto Arvisa. who had pleaded guilty to the burglary of the New York store last December, but the matter went over until tomorrow. The case of C. Garcia, who was to be tried for engaging in a shooting affair with D. C. Amos at Cave Creek a couple of months ago, was postponed until today.
 NOT GUILTY BUT SAID HE WAS. Louis Varnes who the day before had pleaded guilty in Justice John stones court to having voted illegally at the fourth ward election was dis missed yesterday on the payment of the costs. S1O.15. But for his plea the court said he would have been dis charged without the payment of any thing. From all that could be gath cred there was an entire absence of criminal intent. Narnes had no right to vote in the fourth ward but it was clear that he thought he had. He had lived in the ward long enough to vote if he had lived in the city long enough.
 eHhad for several years resided just just outside the eastern city limits and felt that he was to all intents and purposes a resident of the town all that time, though he had actually re- sided in the limits about eighteen days. The cases against Julius John