Arizona republican., 1908-05-26
OF LOCAL INTEREST

ON LEGAL BUSINESS.-B. E. , Marks, attorney at law, will leave for Pinal county this morning for stay of a couple of days on legal business.
 EAST END ScHOOL-The closing | exercises will be held in the East End school Wednesday afternoon beginning | at 1 o'clock They will be followed by | a meeting of the Mothers Child Study 1 Circle.
 THE SCOTTISH RITE.-A class lcomposed of Masons from Maricopa, Mohave, Yavapai and Gila counties, which has been taking the Scottish Rite degree in this city, finished its work yesterday.
 BACK TO STAY-Mr and Mrs. E. Hackett have returned from Prescott and Humboldt where they have been living for the last year and expect to remain here permanently. MT. Hack ett was for a long time connected with the Hurley market in this city. He expects to engage in business here the coming fall.
 SUNDAY SCHOOL PIcNIc-Thurs- day. May 2Sth. the Sunday school of the Christian church viii have it's an nual picnic at Eastlake park. All members of the school and their friends are urged to attend. There will be games and other amusements for both young and old. Don't forget to bring well filled basket, but if it is not convenient to provide a lunch, come anyway and you will not go away hungry. Let all meet at the church at 9:S0 a. m. The children will be in charge of competent committees.
 THE WEDGEWORTH HUNTERS The Wedgeworth brothers who have been ridding the county of all pro- scribed animals made another raid on the county treasury yesterday. One of them brought in enough pelts to show that he was entitled $109.75 of the county's money and the other pre- sented a claim backed by belts for more than $167. Most of the hides were those of wild cats for which & apiece are paid. There were thirteen raccoon skins and a few jackrabbits. The brothers have drawn down over 5000 within the last year.
 TRAFFIC BLOCkEO.-The street car system worked under difficulties a while yesterday afternoon owing to the laying of the new water pipe on Washington street. A heavy coal wagon tried to cross one of the filled ditches at First street and mired down blocking one of the tracks. Soon aft CT this wagon was dug out, either the same one or another one similar to it became stalled in the same way on Fourth street. The cars were forced to double back on a single track dur ing this time.
 YAVAPAI DEMOCRATS Je- rome delegates to the democratic ter ritorial convention which meets in Tucson on the 2Sth, are in the city and will be joined today by a lot more of them from Prescott. The Jerome del egation includes Tom Taylor, c. V. Hopkins, J. J. Shaw and C. H. Ruth erford. Yavapai did not neglect to name favorite son for national com mitteeman any more than the other counties did and it is announced that his name is Reese M. Ling. No effort was made to canvass the delegation as to its presidential preferences as that is a mere incidental matter but it is supposed William J. Bryan may de- pend upon Yavapai for a fair measure of support.
 A DEFINITE PRICE FIxED-There had always been a little doubt as to the price man should pay for lam ming his wife over the head with the butt end of a billiard cue. The fee had never been definitely determined. The figures Weer fixed by justices of thet peace on the spur of the moment and they were seldom twice alike. The The amount always depended upon the state of mind of the court. Justice Johnstone perceived the injustice of such a varia6le scale and yesterday when the final disposition of the case of Rufus Randall, colored, was before him he determined to arrange a sche- dule and stick to it in the future. It was the judgment of the court that the fee should be S20 for each stroke. The evidence showed that Rufus had belted his wife twice when she called at a saloon where he was passing an idle hour to coax him to go home. The friends of Rufus raised the
 money and he escaped a jail sentence. If the court had known of his happy financial condition he would probably have fixed a higher price
 A FINE PICTURE-F. P. Howard has just completed the painting of an other fine picture which will be dis played in the window of the Boston store today. It is considered by many the best work he has done since com ing to Phoenix, though it is not so pleasing a study as some as it paints human agony instead of pleasure. It is entitled Lost on the Desert and is the picture of a man perishing of thirst, his clothes torn to shreds by himself in his insanity. hopelessly dry and a constant reminder of that which the victim so desperately craves. The wild look of the dying man is a fright. full countenance behind which there is an appeal for help that is most pitiful yet hopeless The dropping shoulders 4