Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
WICKENBURG CENSUS
 RESULTED FAV0RAbLY
Election Will Be the Next Step Toward Incorporation-Busy Day in the Su- pervisor's Office.

The board of supervisors held a busy session yesterday. At least it was bus, sor the clerks who were buried under petitions, claims and va rious specimens of typewriter litera- ture, though none of 1t was of a start ling nature.
 In the matter of the Wickenburg petition for incorporation. John Riggs, the special census enumerator, filed his report showing the population to consist of 407 persons, not counting those who have resided in the territory less than six months. The original pc tition for incorporation was signed by IF men rho claim to be voters. Ac- cording to the law the population of any town desiring incorporation, to se- cure it must be at least 300. If the report of EnumeratOr Riggs is favor ably regarded by the board, as 1t un- dOubtedly will be. the town has popu- lation to spare, and an election of the qualified voters will be called to pass on the question of incorporation.
 J. A. Rudd presented a petition signed by twenty eight residents of Glendale, asking for his appointment as constable os that precinct Among the signers was Ray Stauffer, who was elected constable last fall, but who has failed to qualify. No action has been taken on the petition.
 Sixteen petitioners in the Scottsdale district filed a request that a public road be opened to run north and south along lateral No. l of the Arizona ca nal in section 24, township north, range / east No action was taken.
 Joe McMahon of Cave Creek sent in for the inspection of the board the following pelts. which Assistant Clerk Leon Jacobs passed over gleefully, to see how much bounty the county would be privileges to pay. There were eight cat skins, four coyotes and three rae coons. One of the cats was yellow and his tail instead Of growing short, in accordance with the statutes describ- ing the lawful way for wild cats tail to grow, it had been cut off by some friend of the cat, to comply with the regulations But MT. Jacobs, who is an authority on catskins and bounty law. rejected the yaller feline as en- titled to no remuneration for his hide. There is no doubt in the minds of the board of the actual wildness of the cat but they believe his ferOcity was ac- quired by his association; that he was not a wild cat under the meaning of the law. and that his ancestry ran back to some Cave Creek fireside.
 This is not an unprecedented incl dent in the annals of the board. A Mesa City man once sent in yellow cat skin with ample evidence to prove that he was killed cDnsorting with a genuine wild cat, both being shot in a neighboring chicken house with the goods on them He was born tame but had gone wild" and while his destruction was just as desirable as that of his comuatriot in crime, he could not be paid for.
 The report of the count- recorder for the month of February, filed with the board, showed that the total of fees collected by that office during the month was s1.692.55. A similar report filed by the probate judge showed that the fees collected in his officce during February amounted to s237.20, of which :52 had been collected off gen. tlemen investing in marriage licenses.