Arizona republican., 1908-01-01
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AT THE PHOENIX KEY.-Mrs.
 Rogers. formerly night operator for the Western Union in Phoenix, has re-
 turned after residence of some time in Douglas and is assigned to duty with the day force in the Phoenix of flee.
 DISTRICT COURT.-There was brief session of the district court yes terday at which judgment was given by consent for the plaintiff in the case of the Meridian Canal company
 against x. w. Haggard. the parties to
 the dispute having found a modus viv- endi.
 AN ILLINOIS socIETY.-The Sons
 and Daughters of Illinois will meet at Pinney X Langston's in the Creighton Building on North First avenue Fri day. January 3rd, 1908. at o'clock p. m., for the purpose of organizing so- ciety and to fix the time and place to
 hold a picnic of all nlinoisans living in the city and valley. All Illinois peo-
 pie are urged to attend this meeting. PLANTED A TOWN.-I. T. Stod- dard returned yesterday morning from
 his mining property in Yavapai coun- !
 the seeds of the new town of Stod-
 dard by laying out the townsite. and arranging for the immediate construc- tion of several buildings for which the lumber is now on the way. He has also employed carpenters and yester- day engaged the services of a painter to follow up the carpenters. The new town is two and a half miles from the
 old one and is near to that portion of the company's holdings that is now | under rapid development.
 DIED SUDDENLY.-A Phoenix friend yesterday received letter from Elvira H. Bells. announcing the death
 of her sister Isadore, in Denver on ! Dec. l3. The letter was written from | Evansville, Ind. where the body was taken for interment. The two women
 were quite well known in Phoenix. having spent several winters here for
 the health of the late deceased. Mrs. Bells writes that her sister seemed to
 be doing well in Denver until suddenly seized with acute pneumonia which ended fatally.
 TWO FINE PICTURES-Two of
 the panorama pictures recently taken here by the representatives of the ! Calkin's Syndicate, samples of those ! that are to be given as premiums with [ club subscriptions to The Republican
 and Orchard and Farm, have been re- ceived by Secretary Cowgirl of the board of trade and framed, and now ornament the walls of the board room | One of the pictures is an Indian school scene and the other a fair grounds ! rH-fl1 I. hsr in a | few days to resume his canvass of the i county for subscriptions to the two ! papers.
 4 PICTURE OF THE SHOOT. - ! Mayor Coggins yesterday received from | the United States Cartridge Company photograph Of the encampment at ! Camp Perry at the time of the shoot there last August The picture is sew en feet long, and twenty inches high. ! showing the entire grounds. The To- 4 cation of the camp of the Arizona , contingent is shown but so much is | embraced in the picture that the faces of none of the men can be recognized. 1 The picture is on exhibition at the of | fees of the Phoenix Abstract compa- ! ny. where those who took part in the
 shoot are invited to call and see it. | AN ANCIENT INQUEST-Acting ' Coroner Johnstone yesterday receiv- ed an inquiry from Burton Jackson | Wyman. an attorney of Oakland. Cal. regarding the death twenty or twenty ] five years ago. of a woman by the i name of Valcan or ValcOns. She died l suddenly, the attorney writes. in an adobe building on the road between