Arizona republican., 1908-08-19
CONVENTIONS AND PRIMARIES.

i--After struggling for two or three days to secure from party leaders an idea of their wishes in the matter. and from party organizers the necessary facts as to representation and the names of persons desired to serve as election officers, the board of super visors yesterday fixed the date for holding the primaries and county nom- will be held September 26 and the con- ventions on October g. That will give little less than month for the mak- ing of the county campaign.
 DAMAGE TO FAIR PROPERTY Secretary Kirk yesterday learned of the damage done by Sundays storm to buildings at the fair grounds and went out in the afternoon to investigate and learn the cost of repairing The fair grounds appeared to have been the storm center. Local residents stated that the lightning played merry dis play about the building during the dis turbance. Two hundred feet of fence on the north side of the grounds was blown down. Lightning struck the pole on the woman's building, ran down inside, separated into three cur rents, which burned woodwork in diff ferent parts of the structure. One freakish trick of the bolt was the cut ting in two of a rafter. The wonder follows the information that the build ing was not burned. Secretary Kirk estimated the loss at about S10O
 INVALID IMMIGRANTS - The practice of coast cities in furnishing
 
 Phoenix on the theory that they can find both health and support here, has become such a burden on the local authorities that the board of super visors is contemplating the issuance of a circular letter on that subject to be sent to every important place in the west. Yesterday morning a young wo- man presented herself to the board for relief She is very i'll and had been sent here by the Oakland authorities and had just one dollar on arriving and knew nobody here. The conditions at the county hospital are not inviting for one in her circumstances. She was almost in a state of physical col lapse when she applied to the board. Supervisor Hoghe took her in his
 
 Swill at once be taken up with the Oakland authorities. The day before a man in very similar circumstances arrived here from Fresno, where he said the authorities had furnished him transportation to Phoenix, telling him he would be cared for here He was sent to the county hospital for the time being at least
 WHOM DID HE RoLl?-A copy of the Boston Post of August l3 has been received at The Republican of flee, in which a page is devoted to incidents of the convention of the I. T. U. then in session there Among them the following is noted: James A. Ball, a stalwart delegate from Phoenix, Ariz., has a novel proposi- tisn which he. will make at today's session of the convention in Ford hall. He will move that a tent san atorium be established by the inter national union in Arizona for the use of consumptives only. Any place in the territory can be selected, he says Tt is the>best place in the world for said Mir. Ball last night to a Post reporter. The pres ent printers home in Colorado. Springs should be reserved for old or decrept men and not used at all as hospital for victims of incurable There are too many there now In the up- per right hand corner of each of MT. Balls visiting cards is printed the words The Bah is still rolling"
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