Arizona republican., 1908-03-16
OF LOCAL INTEREST

| FEAST OF PURiM-This evening
 al sundown will begin the Jewish feast | of Prlim. or sometimes called the
 feast of Esther It's usual celebration Is by the giving of presents and the
 remembering of the poor.
 THE PRISON PLANS-The terrlto-
 rial board of control will hold a meet
 ing today at which it is expected there
 will be present the representatives of
 at least a half dozen architects and probably more. with plans to present 1 for the proposed territorial prison to
 be built at Florence.
 WATER USERS ELEoTION.-Nat-
 urally some interest is being aroused
 in the election next month of officers of the Salt River Valley Water Users
 Association. Judging from the street
 talk however and the petitions that
 are out, in conformity with the rules placing prospective candidates in nom- | nation. very few changes are contem- plated by the stockholders. There was
 an intimation sometime ago that Dr Chandler of Mesa might be candi- date for election to the office of vice president, but il is understood now | | flee of vice president, but it is under stood that the only candidate is George Christy. the present incumbent.
 whose petition for reelection is being circulated in several districts.
 1 CLEANED HIM OUT.-Arnold Coonen. who lives three miles this side
 of Tempe. reported to the office of the
 sheriff yesterday that he had been rob bed blind. He presented himself ar
 rayed in a shirt. a pair of old trousers
 and a pair of shoes which he said were all that some burglars who had raided
 his place the evening before had left him. He owed his possession of them ! to the fact that he was away from home at the time of the visitation. The
 robbery occurred about dusk while Mir Coonen was down at the river fishing.
 Among the property, carried off was weeks supply of groceries, a suit of clothes, a razor and a pair of shears. | The groceries were in some flour sacks | bearing the brand of q Tempe mill. l Two men evidently tramps were later seen along the railroad tracks burdened
 with such sacks and just below Phoe-. nix it was found that they had torn a lot of letters belonging to MT. Coonen !
 | in fragments
 CATTLE SHlPMENTS-W. A. Tot ! ty shipped seven carloads of cattle 10 the Los Angeles Packing company on { Friday night and George Pusch ship ! ped a carload to Tucson. H. NJ. Lewis will ship six carloads to the South
 western Packing company of Los An
 geles tomorrow These cattle are of | with John Casey. a previous half dozen carloads Of which were valued approx imately at s7.50O. This shipment will aggregate a little more in value The approximate value Of the entire num- Der of cattle contracted for is S40,Oe0. Incidentally it will be pleasing news to those who still have cattle left to sell. that the price is not only firm
 but slightly higher for a recent pur- chase was made at $4.35 as against
 s4.25, the former high figure for the year in this valley.
 WATER STORAGE PAPERS President B. 4. Fowler of the Water Users association has been notified by the reclamation service headquarters 1 in Washington. D. C.. that there are on hand available for distribution in accordance with certain rules quite a number of copies of the original edi- tions of Water Paper No. T3 and Wat CT Paper No. 136. Water Paper No. g is entitled Water Storage on Salt River Ariz.." and was written by Ar thur P Davis. now chief engineer of the r. s. R. S. No. 136 is entitled Underground Waters of the Salt Riv-
 nd
 W. H. Lee. a geOlogist of the reclama- tion service. who spent several months
 in this valley. in a study of the man.
 ner of it's creation and the details of it's underground water resources Both are some years old but both are fine reference books for those who care to study this valley in detail. and will also be interesting reading for those who have not had the pleasure of their perusal heretofore. They are govern ment publications and for obvious req sons they will not be sent out in bulk to any person or organization. for it is not desirable that anybody shall se cure them either for "hOarding' or for later sale. They are designed to be of value to the people of this day and age who are intelligently engaged in developing the country and to such are furnished. one at a time. free of charge. The Water Users assOcia- tion. however. will take pleasure in acting as the agent of the L. $. R. s. and anybody who desires copies of these papers can secure them by leav- ing his name and address at the office of the association, which will forward it to Washington. requesting that the copies be mailed direct.
 What has been known as the Alamo house, 27 East Monroe, is now under new management and will be known