Arizona republican., 1908-06-15
OF LOCAL INTEREST

OFF FOR THE EAST.-Harry J. J Bennett left last night for an extended f trip to New York and New England.
 POLICE BUSY-The police had a
 busy Saturday night gathering up
 drunks and trailing bad boys, one of
 whom is reported to have imperson-
 ated an officer in one instance.
 GOING TO MISSOURI. - James { Smith of the firm of Smith Brothers,
 who have been profitably engaged in
 the business of buying and baling hay, will leave for his former home in Mis- souri some time this week on visit
 FLORENCE VlSIToRS.-L. K Dra-
 is of Florence spent yesterday m Phoe-
 nix, having enjoyed a beautiful ride across the desert to Mesa, Saturday night, behind his driving team, and looming on to Phoenix by rail. W. c.
 Truman also spent yesterday here. TO SELL MELoNS.-M. A. Stan l ford left last night on business trip through southern Arizona his mission
 being to place orders for matermelons
 to be filled by the Melon Growers as
 sociation. They are ripening rapidly
 now and the shipping days are close | at hand.
 YAVAPAi OIL WELL-The oil well
 near Valley station, on the s. F.. P. X P, above Del Rio, is now down over HOO feet and the smell of oil is said
 to be more pronounced than ever. though no flow of oil has been encoun- tered It. is also reported that the com pany proposes to go at least a thou sand feet deeper before giving up hope of striking a gusher.
 MISSING SOMETHING. - Lincoln Fowler feels like a man who is miss ing something he is entitled to have. He received a ticket to the Chicago convention the other day, but there was no railroad ticket with it, and it is, therefore, useless to him. If he had never got the convention ticket, it would have been all right, but now that he has got it, he feels as though there ought to be some way for him to rse it.
 LAKE MARITIME was suggested
 to Governor Kibbey by Lincoln Fowler, while at Granite Reef Saturday, that he should in the course of his address christen the pond above the dam Lake Hill" The governor hesitated on the theory that it would hardly be an ap- propriate name for geographical names are usually suggestive. In this case a stranger would never be able to guess whether the name stood for a hill named after a lake or for lake named after a man. About this time Mir Hill protested that the pond had already been christened Lake Martin in honor of hn built it.
 SATISFIED HERE-Mr Jones of the Gerard Jones Dry Goods company has returned from a visit of about three weeks in Chicago, New York and other eastern markets, where he went to buy the fall stock for the company's store. He had a very pleasant trip. but comes home more than ever en- unused about Arizona and especially the Salt River valley. He says that while conditions are said to be better in the east than they have been, they are still unsatisfactory and money is tight. Business and everything else. even the weather, is so much better here than in the east that he thinks the valley people have no complaint to make.
 TO BUILD A NEW DREDGE HULL. The big dredge that was bought by the government from the Arizona Water company and that for several months past has been in use in the upper end of the Arizona canal, is to be transferred to a new boat. The old hull is badly routed and torn up and it was decided that it would be cheap a,- ir, ha a,,d fra hn cry to d new one. The /dredge was run up the Arizona canal to a point just above the new head, where it now stands marooned in the sand. A force of workmen is engaged in re- moving the machinery and the big crane now rests on the nearby hill side. A MT. Baker, an experienced dredge man from Ohio, arrived here Saturday to superintend the fitting up of the new dredge.
 A GENEROUS REWARD-Charlie Bowers of the Phoenix Printing Co. lost a roll of greenbacks yesterday around which there was a rubber band. He says that anybody who will return the rubber band may keep the greenbacks; all he wants to know is the identity of the man who got them. It was in the course of a study in human nature which Mir. Bowers conducted yesterday. letting all the neighbors on the block in on the play. He found a number of bills of stage money, somewhere, that looked good on one side and had an advertisement on the other. Rolling them up and putting a rubber band around them he threw the roll into the street in front of the Commercial hotel. Then the dozen men in on the play waited for results. Half a dozen people drove over the roll