Arizona republican., 1908-05-20
0F LOCAL INTEREST

A RAILROAD MANIC NJ. Secrist the representative of the Pacific Fruit express was in the city yesterday or business.
 VISITING ENGiNEER.--Francja l.. SollcW. project engineer in charge of the l.aguua dam construction, was ! Phoenix visitor YeSterday.
 4 DAUGHTER-AIr. and Mrs. G. W. stewart are pleased by the arrival at their home Sunday of a nine pound girl.
 MARlCOPA VlSITOR-F. J. McCar- thy of Maricopa was a business visitor iu the city yesterday and states that business in his line is good at this season.
 M. LAMsG% WORSE.-A telegram
 received from St. Louis yesterday brought the discuetius information
 that Ernest Lamson. who is i'll in that city of typhoid fever is in very ; serious condition.
 ANNlV VERSERY SUPPSR-Nr. and Mrs. W. L. Carver who reside on South Second avenue eutertained few friends at dinner last evening in celebration of their second wedding anniversary. LEAVES FOR CHlCAGO-Curley RinderIe received a telegram yester- day that his sister in law who spent a few .weeks here last winter is Sc. riousiy i'll in Chicago. He left last night for home, expecting to return IneNt winter. VALUABLE HORSE DEAD.-A fine draft horse owned Dy the Louut Ice company died yesterday after d short | and somewhat peculiar illness. He was taken sick Saturday ,Ehile in uIe l harness and gradually got worse Un- til he died. his appetite in the mean ] time seeming to b. good almost Jc the
 last.
 TO GOLDEN WEDDlNG-Win Ab- irams. one of the popular travelling linen who regularly make Phoenix left Hast night for Seattle where he will iattend the golden wedding of his par Tents. Mir and Mrs l. Abrams. There Twill be several children and grand ichildren present from different parts IDf the country.
 IDAHO VISITOR.-A Mr. Monihan of Idaho. arrived here yesterday for ! the purpose of looking over the coun- i try with a view of possibly investing. l AIr Monihan is a long time friend and
 former business partner of C. B. King l who has invested quite heavily in
 valley realty since coming here few months ago
 NEW REBEKAH LODGE. - Mrs. 1 Margaret Julian of Tucson. president of the Rcbekah Assembly of Arizona.
 last week instituted new lodge of the Daughters of Rebckah in Stafford. The membership of the new lodge is thirty and its prospects for growth are very bright. NeW inspiration has been put
 into the order in eastern Ariozna by the recent tentative purchase of site for the odd Fellows Home at Stafford.
 EVERGREEN TOMATOES-J L. IF 4 vin yesterday brought to the board of trade a sample of 1908 lemons almost full grown though of course very
 green. and a sample of tomatoes. Both came from the Ward grove at the head of the Crosscut canal This. as many know. is just above the frost line
 in the heart of the orange belt and in that locality the tomato vines become
 an evergreen plant, instead of dying with every winter season. These to- matoes are from a. plant now well along in its second year
 GOING UP THE Engineer HuI will go Co Roosevelt Thursday. accompanied by AIr Newman, an in spector of the land office That bu- reau is working in cooperation with the reclamation service in many ways and it is desirable that its officials ! shall be in close touch with what the plans of the reclamation service. It is
 to famliarize himself with the Roosc-
 welt project that MT. Newman makes this trip. They will be accompanied
 as far as Granite Reef by Supervisor
 J. P. Orme Col NcCliutock and Mr. Clafflin. who will return to Phoenix via Mesa City, the same evening JOLLY OLD MAlDS-Miss Nellie | CoverdaIe last night entertained at the home of her father. J. W. Coverdale in
 the Patrick addition. the old Maids club of Phoenix the membership of which assembled about fifteen strong to gloat over the fact that they had lescaped matrimony so long. It is sus- lpected that the managers arranged
 this gathering to strengthen the pur-
 pose of some of the weaker sisters
 who it was feared would become en-
 unused by the privileges of leap year
 and in an evil sour succumb to the
 blaudishments of apostasy.
 WATER IS READY-The water in
 the river has indicated readiness to
 enter the canals at either end of the
 Granite Reef dam. just as soon as the government gets ready to cut the . headings in above the dam. The water
 is> now running through to the gates into the sluiceway on the north side
 and through one gate into the sluice way on the south side and is standing iabout fifteen feet deep above the dam. The dam will make quite a lake | and some good boating. If trees are | planted along the river bank and in
 places that may be moistened by the raised river he'd il should in few