Arizona republican., 1908-06-04
OF LOCAL INTEREST

LEAVES FOh WGNOCN-L J. Court, manager and president of the 1 Glorioso mine. leaves today for Wen
 den to place several men at work | in the main shaft of the mine.
 SOLD OUT-Hans Herick has sold
 his business in the city to Wm. Red
 man, who came here recently from Oklahoma and likes the country. Mir. 1 Herlick will now devote his time to | his ranch interests.
 TO ENTERTAlN-There will be a social meeting of the Philathea and 1 Baracca classes of the Central Meth odist church on Thursday evening at | s o'clock, at the residence of Mir. and Mrs. E. NJ. Spawr, S69 North Fifth Iavenue. The members and friends are | invited.
 ; SUMMER IN PRESCoTT.-Thomas Francis Hughes and Frank Lloyd Stuchal and wife left yesterday morn ] ing for Prescott where they will spend 1 the summer, and where large classes | in vocal and violin have been arranged for them. These superior instructors 1 and musicians will return to the Ari- zona School Of Music in the fall. SECOND cROP.-J. T. Chapman, who resides north of Phoenix. has cut his second crop of alfalfa this season on a ten acre piece. The second cutting | yielded well and the alfalfa was about four and half feet tall on the aver 1 age The first crop was cut along in the spring. The piece is one year old and located under the Arizona canal.
 BUSINESS MEETING-A short business meeting of the board of di- rectors of the Watermelon Growers association was held at the office of Green x Griffen yesterday afternoon. The appointing of salesman was one of the things considered. Mir. Singleton had resigned from the board and Phil Woodring was named
 in his stead.
 ELKS TO MEET-At the Elks meeting tonight there will be initia-
 tion work of new. candidates. The consideration of the plan for taking
 in twenty more candidates at the next meeting will be one of the business
 features of the evening. The Elks
 will meet but once a month during the summer and it is proposed to give the work to the entire class and have no extra sessions.
 FIRST CANTAlOUPES - Henry
 Mitchell who resides on Rural DeliY-
 cry No. l, yesterday brought to the
 board of trade rooms the first canta-
 loupe of the season. It is of the usual size and thoroughly matured. The seed was planted February 2Sth. The
 outlook for a good yield is very fav- orable at this time. Mir Mitchell also
 brought in some fine specimens of black wax beans which were preserved for exhibitions purposes.
 THE LOST RETURN.-It is under stood that R. L. Cox the merchant who
 it was thought was lost or had wan dehed away from Tucson while he>and Mrs. Cox were on their honeymoon will return to Phoenix this morning. It was learned yesterday that he had not gone from Tucson to Los Angeles as had been expected, but that he had gone in the other direction only as far as Benson where it is understood he had some business to look after.
 LONG LOST BROTHER WANTED Sheriff Hayden yesterday received letter from Mrs. Mary A. Clark l of East Auburn, Cal, making inquiry about her brother, Martin V. B. | Rowland from whom she has been long estranged. He is now sixty two years of age and about six feet tall His hair when she last saw him was black. The sheriff started ! an inquiry but so far he has not found any one who had ever heard 1 of Rowland.
 WORK AT PHOENIX MINE.-l Work at the Phoenix mine in the | Cave Creek district is progressing sat | isfactory and a large force of men are | now employed. Two shifts are run 1 and it will not be very long before | things will be in shape for a clean0p | II. F. Mckinley of Bisbee arrived in | the city yesterday and will go to the | mine today to take the position of | night superintendent. Fifty stamps | are running day ard night and the ore | is turning out fine.
 MAKES INVESTMENT.-A letter was received yesterday by Consul Pima | from Gates NJ. Fowler who is now To- cated in COlonia Seattle in Mexico, | stating that he liked the country and | hoped to see many Phoenix people | when the big excursion leaving here | June 2Oth arrived in that country. The following clipping from the MexicanI Herald was enclosed: Gates M. | Fowler, formerly of Phoenix, Arizona, | this week purchased 5000 square met CTS of land in the Colonia Seattle. He l expects to make Gualalajara his home | and he will build on the land purchas- ed. MT. Fowler. who has spent the last | twenty-five years in California and | Arizona, said yesterday: Not since the | early days of Los Angeles have l seen | anything like the opportunities that | exist here. Guadalajara has undoubt- edly the greatest future of any Mexi- can city, and predict that the devel- Opment here during the next several | years will be extraordinary. People | who have made money in California | and Arizona are now turning to Mex ico as a field for future investments, | and the opportunities of this city and | fribnfgTV fprritnrN will undnnbfadIx-