Arizona republican., 1908-04-01
OF LOCAL INTEREST

CITY LEAGUE MEETING. - Int
 committee on rules and regulations for the City League met yesterday ant will have a plan mapped out whicf will be discussed at the meeting or Thursday night at the city hall. CENTRAL AVE. ROAD BoNDS.-
 Secretary Cowgirl yesterday received
 letter from Marcus A. Smith, dele
 gate to congress, under date of March
 25. informing him that the Central
 Avenue road bonding bill had been reported favorably to the house by the
 committed on territories.
 MESA EXCURSION. - The South ern Pacific has granted special rates
 for Friday night to Mesa on account
 of the grand ball to be given in the
 Vance auditorium by the Mesa Tent
 No. Knights of Maccabees. The
 Ray orchestra of Phoenix will furnish
 the music. The train leaves at I:l5
 city time. returning after the dance.
 ADDITIONAL SERVICE. - Addi-
 tional freight service will be given
 on Nhe Phoenix and Eastern by the
 addition of d special freight car to
 No. g. the regular passenger train on
 Tuesdays and Thursdays for perish
 able goods and less than carload
 shipments. The Saturday freight will
 run as formerly
 IS GETTING BITTERLY. A. Fin
 lev. who has been in St. Joseph's hos
 pital for some time suffering Of MeNi- can fever. IS conValescing. and hopes to bnGnifai MT
 Finley was formerly railroad agent at
 Mesa City but went to Mexico as the
 agent of the C. R. Y. X P. railway at
 Alamos station in Sonora. He was
 there seized with what is known as Mexican fever. which was further complicated by an attack of tonsolitis and came here for treatment.
 Y. NJ. C. A.-The Y. M C. A collec-' ton committee held a meeting yester- day afternoon in the office of B. A. Fowler. The association now has about SIS. .o0o on hand and the money is coming in steadily though not as fast as the committee would like. It hopes. however. to secure another Sl3.o00 by week from next Saturday. when the bids for the construction of the building will be opened. Many who are visited confess that their arreagc is pure negligence. having read and thrown away their notices and then forgotten to attend to the matter of paving. The committee adjourned to meet next Wednesday,.
 BELL STILL HELD-Archie C. Bell was brought before Judge Kent l,.H and the court held that he could not be longer retained in GUS today on the charge as then brought, but that new complaint might be issued charging him with being . fug itive from justice The court contin- ued the case until this morning 10 give Marshal Moore an opportunity tO thus perfect the regularity of the proceed nEs. and the district attorney during the day was requested to prepare the new complaint and warrant. A Seat .le officer is now on the way here af- ter Bell.
 SORELY BEREAVEO-Judge C. r. Ainsworth has received a letter from Judge Hiram D. Steele of New York. : who represented the bondholders of he Arizona Water company in the ne yotiations through which the govern , nent bought the canal system. The [ etter brings news that will excite the 1 of the many personal | friends of Judge Steel in this valley. {! It tells Of the death of his youngest 1, son. Harry. q high school student ! which occurred on March r.. the result I f typhoid fever. The bereavement is second shock to the family within 'hort' time for only little over year iso the only daughter. a young woman ! who had been married but short 1 ime before. fell a victim to the same | errible malady. There is left to Judge . ind Mrs. Steec an only son, Porter Steele also known to many Phoenix , people.
 WILL BE PAROlEO-It is the in ! ention of Governor Kibbev to parole '. frank Zepeda from the penitentiary ust as soon as certain formalities are with. Zepeda was sent to Iuma in 1904 under a sentence of sev- n and d half years for manslaughter committed at AgUa Caliente. His time would expire in about eighteen months. ms action will De taken because he las been good prisoner and because ome circumstances have developed incc his incarceration that throws lew light on the incident of the hom- eide and seems to somewhat mitigate lis Offense. Zepeda was known as a ,oOd citizen before the killing and vas at the time Q deputy sheriff under N. W. Cook of this county. He was lso driving the stage between Agua 'aliente and Sentinel. The killing was ver the wife of the victim of Zepcda. rho claims the husband threatened Ter life and she came to him for pro ection. This aroused jealousy in the hind of the husband who was in d alOOn when Zepcda approached and yhO made q movement as to draw q Il