Arizona republican., 1908-05-30
OF LOCAL INTEREST

| SUNDAY HOURS.-Today DelnS ' holiday the Phoenix postoffice will ob- 1 serve Sunday hours.
 CHRISTIAN cHURCH.-Cor Fifth avenue and Monroe. Sunday school, I9:45, J. M Stewart, superintendent; III a m, subject sermon, Conversion
 of the Jailor;" GAS, Christian Endeav-
 or prayer meeting; 7:45 D. m. sermon, 1 theme: How to Find Life"
 1 GONE TO YUMA.-George Christ | left for Yuma last evening on a busi- ness engagement and will be gone | over Sunday. During his stay he will take a run up to Laguna and see if 1 the United States is building the dam | as # should.
 RETURNING RED MEN-Richard ! Sumid of Prescott and Messrs. Ed wards and Meade of McCabe, Yavapai 1 county. passed through Phoenix yes | ter on the way home from Tucson, ! where they have been participating in i the Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men of Arizona.
 LECTURE BY DR. FOSS-Dr John w. Foss will deliver a lecture before
 the r. NJ. C. A. Sunday afternoon on The Elements Necessary for the Young Mans Success" The mems quartette will sing and Ben Massie will render a piano solo. Strangers are cordially invited and will have an op- portunity to meet the men of the city. | JOSE BARCELON FOUND DEAD. Jose BarcelOn. an old man living alone in a hut in an alley between Madison and Cleveland and Sixth and
 Seventh streets. was found dead yes terday shortly before noon. Coroner | Johnstone was notified and an inquest
 was held. The jury found that death had resulted from natural causes, probably old age. Barcelon was 72 years of age and had been a resident of Phoenix for at least quarter of century. He was a native of Sonora. INCORPORATION FEES.-Yester- day was the last business day of the public offices for the month of May, today being a holiday and tomorrow being Sunday. The auditor therefore called time on incorporation business for this month, at o'clock yesterday afternoon. The sum total of fees re- ceived for filling articles of incOrpora
 tion during this month is s3.SS3.60.
 This is not so much as a year ago bul lN lN bCAAtl A4leill II Has b0Sll III lt- cent months. showing a return of nor nal conditions It is about S4OO more than was received last month
 THE MYRTLE RA.-The Myrtle Orchestra has disbanded for | the summer. The pianist, Mrs. May Porter leaves on Sunday night for Flagstaff where she will enter the em- ploy of C. M Applestill for the next l six months. The remaining members, Miss Plough and Mrs. E. C. Hartmann | leave shortly for an Eastern trip ex- | pecting to spend the summer in study also playing for the Empire theatre in | St Louis. The ladies finished the sea sons work here by playing for the | Elk's banquet and the Normal school l dance at Tempe their last two en- | agreements.
 l LAST OF ELECTION cASES.-An i the cases growing out of alleged il- | legal voting at the fourth ward cleo | ton have vanished into thin air The i last three of the ten were dismissed
 yesterday on the motion of Assistant
 District Attorney Lyman. The cases i had been set for trial for the fourth
 time and as on every other date the !
 appear. Yesterday morning. even J
 H. Langston. the attorney at whose in-
 stance the cases were begun. was ab-
 sent and it was said he was out of
 town. NIT. Lyman moved for the dis
 missal of the cases. The fruit of all this prosecution has been the cOnvic- i ton on his own plea of a single de- ifendant. Louis Varnes. In his case it
 was evident that he had not intended
 to violate the law and it is certain
 that his plea of guilty had been made under a misapprehension like that un-
 der which his vote had been cast.
 ALLEGED DELINQUENT PAR | ENTS.-The case of Charlie Baldwin.
 the little son of Charles H. Baldwin. will be heard in probate court on June II 2 on the complaint of neighbors who
 say the parents are unfit persons to have charge of the boy. It is charged
 that the mother is given to drunken
 ness and that the boy is beaten by both of them shamefully. When he was brought before the court he was covered with welts and cOntusions. In case the complaint is sustained an ef- fort will be made to find a home. for
 the boy who is said to be a bright little fellow. The Baldwins came into notice some time ago through a com ! plaint by Truant Officer Slankard. It
 was found that they were not sending
 their children to school. When they
 were remonstrated with and threaten
 ed they said that they would not per
 init their children to attend a school where triggers" were allowed to go
 they would leave town first
 Il TROPHY OF A PHOENIX HUNT
 RESS.-Miss Della Burson, a Phoenix
 girl is anXiously waiting for the next
 meeting of the supervisors, when she
 expects to call on the board to come
 through with a legal tender silver dol