Arizona republican., 1908-08-10
OF LOCAL INTEREST

A PIANO TO BE PROUD oF-The family of ]. j. Myers is in enjoyment { of a fine piano received last week from Milwaukee.
 DOWN FROM REScOTT.-Dick | Newton of Prescott was in the city yesterday on a business and pleasure trip. ON VACATION.-Mis Bessie M. Stark left Saturday afternoon on the Santa Fe for California, where she will spend several weeks on a vacation
 A MEDICINE cRY.-Old Chief ! Sherum and many of his tribe in the northern part of the territory have gone to Fort Mohave where com | bination pow wow and medicine cry i will be held. This is an annual event. ! A UNIVERSITY CAREER-Miss i May Hurley left on Saturday night | for Berkeley, Cal, where she will enter | the University of California. Miss ! Hurley is a graduate of the Phoenix 1 high school near the head of the class.
 TO REPEAT PERFORMANCE | The Raymond company will repeat the play The little Minister at Eastlake ! Ddlh lbllSlll I HIS BisAS lAelo AAielNt tA 1 decided hit with Phoenix theater-
 goers. The company does exceedingly will. On Tuesday and Wednesday
 nights the play presented will be Lost | Paradise" or Capital Verses Labor" i STORM AT BUCKEYE-G. F. Cald- | well one of the rural carriers was in | Buckeye Friday night and on his re- ] turn reports a heavy storm in that | section which did considerable damage
 to alfalfa cut for seed. Telephone | system was put out of business and communication with outside world was l cut off The storm lasted about two | hours.
 LOOKING UP HOMEs.-A. II. 1 Gunnett, superintendent of the Chil dren's Home Society of Arizona, has been travelling in the northern part of the territory the past few days looking up homes for children. The society has cared for TO homeless waifs during the past year, and has found permanent homes for many
 of the foundlings. During the month of June eight children were placed in | good homes in Arizona. Any reputa | ble family can get one of these chill idren to raise Three months trial will be given before the child is per Imanently established. The home is a Ipurely charitable institution.
 i AT KINGMAN.-Frank Dudek, who 1 was formerly in business here, is now in the Kingman district He has hubnerite claims twelve miles east of Yucca. He and his partner,
 Frank Sperl, have been at work on the mines for the past three months and have a fine showing of tungsten
 ores. These ores will be dressed up for shipment. There is an abundance of water close by. These gentlemen also have some interest in the cop per claims in that vicinity. It will be remembered that Jan Kubelik, the Bohemian violinist, is interested with
 Mr. Dudek in these properties. AN ALMOST BURDENSOME BOND-The contractors on the ter
 ritorial prison work learned something yesterday new to almost all cOntrac- tors That was that the bond they would have to furnish must be for the full amount of the contract. Perhaps it never happened anywhere in the United States, but that is a provision of the bill making the territorial pris 1 on possible. The amount of the bond in cases of this kind is usually only about twenty-five per cent of the con tract but that was something that the legislature did not think of. Beside no member of the legislature was a con- tractor This discovery however will make no difference except in the ex- tra amount of trouble to which the successful bidders will be put