Arizona republican., 1908-07-12
OF LOCAL INTEREST

FOR SUMMER vAcATIoN.-Mrs. ] E. Williams and Mrs. A. Aylwin ex-
 pect to leave on the 18th of the month for Los Angeles, ocean Park and Cat
 alina Island, to spend their summer Ivacation.
 CACTUS cANDY.-H. A. Devaux,
 manager of the Chicago headquarters
 of "Donofrios Crystallized Cactus
 Candy" company, arrived here yester- day morning via the Santa Fe.
 LICENSED TO WED-Marriage | licenses were issued yesterday to D.
 J. McCauley and Marguerite Mac
 Donald and Francisco Lueero and
 Anito Gonzales. The latter are res
 idents of the Yaqui village of Qua
 dalupe. south of Tempe
 HAS THE GOUT.-George A Mintz
 was confined to his bed a part of the .time yesterday by a severe attack of
 the gout in his right hind foot. It was 1 caused by the over eating of barracuda ! fish caught in Roosevelt lake by Jake Miller and sent to Phoenix by freight
 wagon.
 STRUCK BY liGHTNING.-Frank Criswell, who had "a hunch there might be something doing at his ranch Fri day night that would be dangerous to life and happiness, came to town and spent the night here. Yesterday morn | ing he telephoned the ranch and was
 informed that lightning had killed a
 steer for him the night before.
 MINOR OEFENDERS-Joaqu
 Duran was before Justice Kyle yes terday charged with drunkenness and disturbance of the peace. He was fined S5 and had the money to sat isfy the law. Juan Rodriguez was before the court similarly charged He had no money but he had a
 job and he was given permission to float out of town and attend to it.
 A TRIP TO THE CANYON-Ed Titcomb. wife and son of Nogales arrived in the city yesterday morn-
 ing and left this morning for the Grand Canyon, accompanied by George Christ jr., chief clerk in the office of the surveyor general and brother of Mrs. Titcomb. MT. Tit comb is a member of the firm of Roy & Titcomb, dealers in mine sup plies and machinery, doing an ex-, tensive business throughout Mexico.
 THE SOUTH ALL RiGHT.-Terri- torial Auditor Ely returned yesterday from an official trip through the southern part of the territory in the course of which he found things gen orally in a prosperous condition. He found that the thermometer was do- ing business wherever he went so that all of the time he was in a normal and homelike temperature. Notwithstand- ing he found his friends commiserating with him on the necessity which forced him to live in Phoenix in the summer time
 SEVERELY HURT.-It was learned yesterday that Elliot Evans was more seriously hurt in his runaway accident a few days ago than was reported at the time. He narrowly escaped hay ing his neck broken and the inner bone of the right forearm was broken and l the outer bone splintered. His head l in some way became entangled in the | umbrella cover of the buggy or the | umbrella pitched him out Anyway it | scraped his lower lip deeply, almost to | the bone and scraped on down his neck | so badly it was thought at first some | cartiledge formation in the vicinity of | his Adams apple had been broken. In | any event it left him so he could | scarcely speak out loud. He is getting | along nicely, however but is still pret- | ty badly crippled up.
 MONEY FOUND, OWNER LOST The other day an old coIored man | called at the office of Justice John | stone and complained that he had | been robbed in what he called the | "tenderline." He had been despoiled | of a s20 gold piece. There was lit tie hope of the recovery of the wealth, for there was only the word | of the man who said that he had lost | the money and that of the woman who said that she had never seen it. Nothing was apparently to be done. But Constable Murphy took the mat ter up and by the process of simple | blUffing yesterday recovered the stolen money. Now the old man can not be found. His name was not learned.
 POSTOFFICE BUSINESS.-Somel figures are seured from a report just made to the postoffice de- partment by request of the depart ment, showing the amount of business done in the estimate" year which ended March 31. The report shows that there were issued 21.370 domestic | money orders at this office and 17,719 money orders were paid. The figures relating to registered mail are even more interesting. There were .dispatch- cd from the Phoenix postoffice during the year 14,000 registered parcels while 19.152 parcels were received. In addition 10.19s percels in transit pass ed through this office. That is to- tai of over 430O0 registered parcels or letters handled during the year by the local office and of all this number not one went astray or was lost The av- craze handled was about 139 parcels daily At certain seasons the business is very much smaller than that but the |