Arizona republican., 1908-09-11

new work on the south side canal head They will also look over the operations just this side of Granite Reef where force. of men is engaged in recon strucing the old dredger which will be
 ready for work again in a month or six weeks.
 PHYSICIAN TO INDiAN.-Dr. Roy
 Thomas has been appointed as physi-
 clan to the Indians at the Phoenix In-
 dian school till the selection of a reg
 ular medical attendant who will reside
 at the institution. Dr. Thomas e. will visit the school in the early morning
 and retain his office up town.
 UNEARTHING CRIME. - Deputy
 Sheriff Jeff Adams has two lads fin the
 county jail, and a head full of clews
 which may result in uncovering a big
 cache of stolen goods. For some time
 complaints have reached the sheriffs
 office that buggy whips, robes and
 other property is being regularly stolen
 from vehicles hitched near Eastlake
 park in the evening during the theatri-
 cal performances. Until last night no
 reward has followed the vigilance of
 the officers. but there is something
 doing now. Last night MT. Adams
 secreted himself behind building near
 the park and observed youth system
 atically investigating the contents of
 the buggies hitched near by and ap-
 propriating such things as he wanted He placed the lad under arrest and in |
 quired his abiding place. The boy took
 him to a camp not far away where he found an elderly couple named Rafael Flores and Felicita Mehre. the latter presumably the wife of the former, and another boy. He also found two | buggy robes a parasol. some tobacco and other articles. The boys told him | they had a burro camp not far away. which will also be searched, and it is expected more stolen property will be found. The boys who are in jail are
 named Juan Flores and Francisco Flores. MT. Adams says he thinks the | campers are Yaquis and are recent ar rivals here
 BY WHAT AUTHoRiTY?-A cor respondent of the Los Angeles Times sends in a letter from somewhere up | that state called the Midway Field, via l"Maricopa." The inference is that some upstart of a place in California has had the nerve to name itself MaricOpa, and The Republican rises to demand an explanation. Maricopa l is one of the most important places on earth, Con the map and all the more important because it is one of the two leading gateways to Phoenix. l It was a gateway even before there
 was any Phoenix though it was then known as Maricopa Wells and was near the Gila river not far from the Gila Crossing. Later it was on the lrailroad five miles west of where it is now. But it was always a gate way and it has always been MaricOpa since the time to which the memory of man runneth not back. Maricopa his historic. More than that it is prehistoric. Nobody knows how long ago the Big red bat" was first dis covered in MaricOpa. Everybody
 knows there has been many a bat there since. They were not all red either. MaricOpa is a notable geo. graphical name. It is somewhat nov able to be sure and Maricopa can be picked up and set down wherever such a place is found to be most use full to humanity, providing always that it shall not be moved out of Arizona. The outside world has no more right to steal MaricOpa than it has to steal the Hassayampa river Maricopa is strictly an Arizona insti- tuition and if California has got one it is counterfeit, an infringement on the copyright. Maricopa is the most useful place in the world of it's size. l One man said he had lived in Arizona twenty-five years and had spent fif- | of Maricopa. What would he have done l if there had been no town there? Mankind as a race has probably lived | longer, that is spent more hours | there than at any other place in the | world of the same population. There l are few people west of the rockies | who have not lived more or less in | MaricOpa. And it's the healthiest | place in the world. Nobody dies | there except tramps who drink wood | alcohol or get killed by the cars. | Why should anybody die there so long as MaricOpa has no undertak CTS? It would be offensively uncon- ventiOnal. There are no dead ones" in Maricopa, not even among the live ones and the oldest of them are able | to "go some" yet. Individually the population is very much alive but | the town is too dead to attract even an undertaken. Califor- mia may trifle with Arizona in many | ways and still seek and gain forgive ness, but any effort to parade a cheap | imitation MaricOpa before a confiding public. a Maricopa without any Perry Il Williams in it, or any gasoline pump to measure the passing hours between dark and daylight, for the benefit of travellers who are stimulating sleep II in the nearby hotel, is a betrayal of the high trust the world has hitherto placed in the honor and integrity of r,oI;Forr;o