Arizona republican., 1908-05-28
OF LOCAL INTEREST

TO SOBSCRl6EhS.-l1 you uo iol get good delivery service of The Re publican phone us, if you miss your paper any morning and phone us be- fore ten o'clock we will send special messenger to you with the paper. The Republican has determined that its de- livery service shan be the very best possible. and all Kicks will be cared for at once. Phone Main 47.
 TO BEGIN PRISON WORK
 Thornton Fitzhugh the contractor for
 the territorial prison at Florence it is
 expected will arrive in few days to
 begin work on the prison wall.
 AN OCCASIONAL VISIToR-V. E.
 Anderson a Los Angeles commercial
 traveller and formerly resident of this
 city, is in Phoenix on one of his
 periodical business visits.
 POLICE COURT-Recorder Thomas
 sent Frank Marshall to jail for five days for drunkenness and John Doe ; on the same charge forfeited $7 yes
 terday
 OFF FOR THE SPRlNGS-T. M. Earnhart of Kirkland spent yesterday in Phoenix leaving last evening for
 Agua Caliente Hot Springs where he
 goes to seek relief from an attack of rheumatism.
 ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED - MT. and Mrs F. l.. Howard of this city wish to announce the engagement of there son, Percy Howard, to Miss Carrie Rye. daughter of L. C. Rye of Johnstown, Wis.
 THE CLOSURE-On Monday En-
 gineer Martin will place a force of teams and men at work in making the closure at the Arizona head connecting that canal with the Granite Reef dam. The water will be turned out of the north side canals an the night of May 31 at 6 o'clock and will be out prob ably not to exceed ten days though the
 farmers are asked to prepare for drouth of two weeks in order to be safe.
 BOARD OF EQUALIZATION-Gov- ernor Kibbey yesterday appointed Mayor Charles F. Slack of Tucson, a member of the territorial board of equalization to succeed Andres Rebeil,
 who resigned last January and whose resignation was accepted just before the governor left on his last trip to the east. MT. Slack represents the Second Judicial district, composed of
 Yuma and Pima counties. The board
 will meet next Monday, June 1st, to begin the consideration of assessment values of railroad property in the ter ritory
 4 HIGH SCHOOL EXCURSION- Manager Mitchell of the street car company gave the pupils of the high school an excursion over the lines of
 the company last night in a special car A committee from the school yes terday decorated the car according to i its own notions The most important 1 feature was the color scheme embrac- ] ing the school hues. The car was big enough for eighty passengers. It was run over all the lines of the system and the excursion included a stop at l the theater. The committee took the | liberty of giving the car a new num- 1 ber '0S. the number of the class. JUST JAMMED UP-Edgar Fergu- l son an employe of this newspaper was not killed yesterday though he was ] sorry before his shift was over last night that, he had not been. He was riding home with a number of friends from an afternoon trip to Tempe and when the wagon stopped suddenly he turned a double somersault backwards and alighted as gracefully as a hippo 1 potamus. He had his feelings and his shirt ruffled. was abraded. confused. l bruised. skinned. scraped, shaken up and finally cussed by the driver but ] was not sufficiently injured to miss a l days work or an invitation to take ! something
 THE BICYCLE THIEVES The I two Indians who escaped from Officer . Connors Monday night, mounted on stolen bicycles, at the same time he | captured another Indian with a stolen 1 wheel, were appreheHded in Peoria and brought back to the county jail Tuesday night It transpires that they ! were attending the Indian school here l instead of having just come from | Yuma as at first stated. One of the ! wheels they were supposed to have l taken, belonging to E. C. Glasscook. was stolen by someone else. taken as ! far as the e. H Christy ranch and l thrown beside the road where it avs i found by MT. Christy.
 ! LAUNCHING IN BUSINESS-Rav StauffeE- who has beer the mailing
 clerk for The Republican for some
 time, and John Tuckey, with the Relief Gold mine, have formed a 1 partnership and will engage in bus mess at Glendale, where they have irented the corner building opposite
 the pOstoffice and owned by Charles i Stauffer. In this room a good fresh stock of groceries will be installed. +The opening there seems to be a i promising one. The big factory will
 some day, probably not a far distnt | day either, be again in operation and
 that together with the natural growth
 of that rich agricultural section, will make Glendale d more important