Tombstone epitaph., 1908-06-14
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF iN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.


 the mayor 10 proclaim holiday for the purpose of allowing the town to visit the recently finished Granite Ree' ,m in body.
 Douglas at its Fourth of July cele- bration will have a drilling contest consisting Of six events with prizes ranging from s25 to $500 aud sggre- gating Si l50.
 The watermelons of the Yuma val ley have beaten the ,sntsloupe into market and are bringing fancy prices just now.
 Marshal sam Brown of Tempe has served notice on the bibulous ths: he will arres. every man found on the streets in au intoxicated condition.
 Athrough standard sleeper over the NJ & P out of Phoenix to Chicago has been started.
 Judge Phillip. of Phoenix has taken Charlie Baldwin. II year old boy away from his parents and given him temporarily into the charge of a rancher near the city. It vas charged that the parents had been unduly en- thusiastic in the matter of punish ment and the lad had refused to live at home.
 The will of the late Col. H. H. Me Cord has been probsted in rhoenix. It conveys all Of his property to bis wife.
 The famous Breninger collection Of mounted birds, numbering over 1000 specimens Is for sale. and the Repub- lican suggests that the territory take steps to acquire it. The most inter esting species native to the terrtOry are included and the collection is of great historic value. The collection includes also anout jO0 eggs and said to be worth at leas. 5000.
 Ten Chinese merchants passed through Benson Friday Tn bond for Cuba. All were in charge of the Southern Pacific and under the sur veillance of the special guards on the train.
 PC Warner, one of the original California forty miner and s pioneer of Arizona, died last week at his home at Florence He came to Flor ence 2S years ago.
 At Fl Centro, near Yuma, from 300 to 75) college and high school men are taking the places of the Japanese. They get g day with 9 cents day bonus If they pick through the sea- son.
 The big oat field of forty acres at ScOtt-dale which holds the banner for the talle5t oats feet inches, and the longest heads 35t inches, was raised on Chaplain Scott's ranch rent. ed and farmed hy Justin Butts and bis brother. Chaplain Scott says while his land brought thecrop; Butts brothers should have the credit due them for doing the farming.
 Fully three hundred people attend ed the Woodmen of the World picnic at Duncan Grsbam county, last Sat. urday.
 Yuma shipped her first car of cants. ioupes for the season yesterday. They 20 to eastern markets and will bring fancy prices.
 Seutheru Pacific officials have an- nounced that a new union depot vii be built st Tempe.
 A movement is on foot looking t,
 the consolidation of the Grape grower
 association and the Mesa Meiol
 growers association in the Salt Rive
 valley
 Tucson school board hss approve
 the list of teachers proposed by Super
 intendert Nesson for the comin year. The total number of teacher U is fifty-uine.
 0 Citizens oi Solomonville have ofgar . ized an independent telephone con 0 psny which is now going through tt 't process o. incorporation. A branch of the Arizona Human |, Society has been organized ID Cliftc .. with the following officers. Mrs E s William president; Mrs Ivan Ho al field, vice president; Mrs Lamar Cob n, secretary; Mrs c A Van Dorn, trea