Arizona republican., 1908-09-22
OF LOCAL INTEREST

A PRESCOTT VISIToR.-Charles
 Hinderer of Prescott was a business visitor here yesterday.
 FLAGSTAFF VISIToRs.-E. B. Newman and A. H. Bearsley of Flag
 staff were here yesterday on a business
 mission.
 TO FRISco.-Mrs. Charles Lane.
 who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs.
 Henshaw, left yesterday for San Fran l cisco.
 FROM QUARTZSlTE. - A. W. Adams and H H. Lohn of Qaartzsite lwere in the city yesterday on mining 1 business and registered at the Hotel Adams.
 COMING TOMORROW. R H.
 Greene, of the Greene Si Griffin real es-
 tate and investment company, who has
 been spending the summer on the
 coast. is expected home tomorrow
 morning
 CIRCUS CAR.-The second adver- Using car of the Barnum and Baileys Biggest Show on Earth arrived in the city yesterday to bill the town and country There was a crew of twelve men registered at the Ford Hotel.
 DISTRICT COURT-Yesterday was the time to which district court had been adjourned and yesterday morning it was opened by Court Commissioner Johnstone. It was then adjourned again until october 1, by which time Judge Kent will have returned.
 CAR FROM GLOBE.-Genera1A Agent L. H. Landis announced yesterday that during fair week the Southern Pacific would run a through car from Globe each day to Phoenix, and reports are to the effect that a large number of. Globeites will take advantage of the convenient arrangements offered for travel. The rate is one and One-half fare, S9.40 for the round trip.
 THE GARDEN LEMON.-A w Miller, who came here from Kentucky last spring. has introduced a new kind of fruit which is destined to be much in demand. It is called the garden lemon on account of its resemblance to the lemon in size, shape and color. It is though a kind of melon. MT. Miller was not sure that it would thrive in this climate but it has done so admir- ably in a garden on the Leander Utley place northeast of the city. The garden lemon makes en excellent preserve, being for that purpose far superior to citron on account of its taste and fla vor
 4 GROWING -POPULATIoN-An- other line on the rapidity with which Arizona is settling uo is secured through the operations of the land of flee. In the regular annual appropri- a+ fgv H,o ssr4y-rraVrir,rr surveying of public lands, an allott- ment of S2OOOO was made to Arizona, This became available about three months ago and since that time a suf- ficient number Of surveys have been ordered to almost exhaust this appro- priation. It is believed that at least another S1O,O0O will be allotted to Ari- zona to space out the other nine months with. Tine chief interest in the news item lies in the fact that sur vey of any particular township may be ordered only on the application of three or more settlers. As a sufficient number of settlers have applied for surveys to exhaust fund designed to run a year. it is very evident the work | of home-buildins on the public lands i is going ahead much faster than ever before.
 A BLUFF AT SUIcIDE-Frank Cal l lahan, an inmate of the county jail | went through the motion of hanging | himself yesterday morning. Callahan | is awaiting the action of the grand ] jury, having been held by the justice ! of the peace at Mesa on the charge of | at d man with intent to kill. | Callahan has been acting strange for | several days and yesterday other pris oners noticed him kneeling in his cell | with a handkerchief around his throat | He had taken a piece of rope and fas- tened it to the bars near the top of his | cell. The rope itself was not long enough for hanging purposes, but Cal | lahan had made a loop in the lower ! end of it and in this he had fastened ! his handkerchief If he had really in tended suicide his effort could not have i been successful even if he had not been | disturbed, for the rope was so rotten | that it would not have borne his | weight Beside among thirtytwo | prisoners who in the day time have | access to every cell, one could never | find time to choke to death,
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