Arizona republican., 1909-03-04
OF LOCAL INTEREST

ON ALL SIDES-Dr. Whiteside of Kingman. a former efficient member of the council from Mohave, was a
 visitor in the legislative hall yesterday.
 A singular coincidence was marked. Dr. Ketcherside entered and they were
 seated side by side.
 ASSESSMENTS OUE-The second | half of the assessment of 10 cents an acre uoon all lands signed under the
 Water Users association became due
 March l. period of thirty day is
 given in which to pay up. If at the
 end of that time the money is not paid | in the land becomes delinquent in the
 same manner as land on which taxes have not been paid.
 DEATH OF CAPT. LEGRO-Capt
 E. Legro, aged S6 years, died on Sat urday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the
 residence of his son, James Legro, at | Thirteenth avenue and Gilbert street.
 MT Legro has been very sick for the past five weeks. Shortly after his re- turn from Dakota in october he was trimming a palm tree and in some way stuck a thorn in his right eye, causing
 him to lose the sight of that eye. MT.
 Legro was a republican and good citizen. He was an old soldier, having
 served in the Civil, the Florida and the
 Mexican wars He leaves a widow and
 four children to mourn his death. The children are James Legro of Phoenix.
 Mrs. Charles HaXby and Mrs. Will Leedy of South Dakota and Mrs. Geo. Hoke of Melrose, Idaho. MT. Legro faf fhav- of Irn nhflhrnn has eighteen grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Interment was made in Greenwood cemetery Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock He had many friends who will regret to learn of his death His wife, aged SS years, will remain in Phoenix until warm weather, when she will return to her former home in Dakota and to her daughters She will make her home with Mrs Sim Davis until that time.
 ANONYMOUS LETTER-The fol lowing anonymous communication was received at The Republican office | quite an axident last ewing. They | started to the country to dance on a motorcycl their names will not | be menshioned on account of the | embarrassing position they were biased | in on going out the wheel was puncherd once and the young lady | sprand her ankle in trying to mount | but this was nothing to compair | with what happened coming home the | ladys riding skirt got caught in the | wheel & threw her of & also the | young man but fortunit they didn't | get hurt but she was wound up in | the wheel so tite she could scarcely | moove. try as she mite she could | not get her skirt lose so her friend | says if you cant get your skirt out | of the wheel cant you get out of the | skirt. and l will try to get the skirt l out but she told him she did not wish | to do this as she would be exposed | to the mite air as luck would have | it he had a pare of Overhauls over his pants which he told her he would | loan her & would also oblige her by hideing his face while she maid her toilet but there was not much left of the skirt however a young man was out makeing an early call on a young lady this morn asking her to pay back what she had borrowed"
 COUNTY DIVISION - There has been some speculation as to the motive of MT. Finley in introducing the bill for the creation of Smith county out of a rib taken from MaricOpa. Tester day one democratic politician account ed for it in this way: He said 1t was feared by the friends of segregation that the governor would veto the bill and that Councilman O'Neill would vote to sustain the veto. In order to line Mir. O'Neill up the bill was intro- duced as a club. Another theory, ad- vanced by another politician, was that by dividing the county the dry" peo pie could move over in the east and leave the Phoenix end wet, settling the prohibition row temporarily at least. Still another politician objected to the Finley bill on the ground that the new county south of the river, that Is. the tillable and valuable part of it, would
 be so narrow between the river and the Salt River mountains. at point little west of Tempe. that it wouldn't take much of a shock to break it in two. Its tensile strength would be further weakened by the Double Buttes
 which crop up in thIs narrow neck, and the slightest jar caused by the re-
 publican members of the legislature might break it in two and cause the creation of another new county to be called Cameron" with Gila Bend as the county seat. As a democrat he objected to taking such a chance. There are still other politicians fin
 town who were not interviewed, where fore it is quite likely there are still other opinions.