Arizona republican., 1909-04-19
Of Local Interest
CAME BACK AFTER YEARs-l

JAMIE 6HSN AT w. Armstrong, former resident Of Phoenix. having been engaged here in the r.al estate business fer a time, ar rived in the city yesterday morning. Mir Armstrong Is now residing in Den yer. and for some years has been rep resenting the Wheeler Publishing com pany throughout the mountain and Pa cific states
 BASWITZ NINE DEFEATEo-The BaswitZ baseball nine was defeated by the Phoenix picked nine. The score was 14 to 5. For the first five innings the Baswitzes held Phoenix down to 1 to ,. In the first part of the sixth, the BaswitZ players tried to play too fast and made many errors, this be- ing the first game they have played together. They never expected to win their first game. but are now confident of giving the next nine they meet a run for their money.
 NEW YORK vISITCRS-Hon.I Isaac T. Stoddard was accompanied home from the east yesterday by his niece. Miss Marguerite Gilbert. and a cousin, Mrs. A Switendick. The latter will join her husband at the Stoddard min ing camp in a few days. he being in the employ of the company there. Miss Gilbert, who is from Binghamton, N. Y- visited in Phoenix six years ago. and comes this time expecting to make her home with Mir and Mrs. Stoddard for a year.
 THE GRAND JURY ToDAY-The April term of court will open this morning. and the United States grand jury will be imDaneled. There is not a great deal of business before the federal side Of the court, but the ter ritorial side will have its hands full. There are about thirty felony prison CTS in the county jail besides those out on bonds. Only ene of the cases Is, however, of more than ordinary in- terest, and that is the matter of Tom ascita Lewis, colored. charged with the murder of a colored boarder and form CT lover one night last spring at a lodg ing house she was running, near the corner of Van Buren and Center streets. The other cases are those of persons charged with forgeries on a small scale, embezzlers, cattle, and horse thieves.
 CRAFTSMEN WANTED - The United States civil service commission announces an examination on May 19 and 20, in Phoenix and elsewhere, to secure eligibles from which to make certification to fill vacancies as they may occur in the supervising archi- tect's office in the position of archi- tectural draftsmen. at salaries of s1.20O per annum and upward, and in the po sition of junior architectural drafts man. at salaries ranging from sS40 to s1, 900 per annum. As an insufficient number of eligibles to meet the needs of the service resulted from the ex- aminations held on March 10 and II for these positions. qualified persons are urged to enter these examinations years or over on the date of the ex- animation. Applicants who fail to show in their applications that they have had sufficient training and experience to entitle them to a rating of at least SO in that subject will not be admitted to these examinations. Competitors in the above examinations will be fur nished with whatever drawing paper and tracing vellum is necessary. but they must supply themselves with a drawing board not less than eighteen materials which they may deem neces- sary Unless otherwise stated on the sheet, the use of handbooks is forbid den. These examinations are open to