Tombstone epitaph., 1909-08-22
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF IN.
 TEREST CONDENSED.

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 "The prettie.t who have been to tn
 fair, IS the verdict of the manager o
 newspaper contest parties visiting tb,
 Seattle exposition after viewing tn,
 young ladies sent out by the Arizoni
 papers.
 The Arizona National Guard will g,
 into camp at Camp Brodie Sept 6
 Camp life will last 10 days and elgh1 companies will pitch their tents. Governor Sloan will be present a the meeting of President Tsit and President Diaz on the internationa bridge crossing the Rio Grande at El Psso.
 The Tempe public schools will open on Sept. l3.
 A Mesa man, according to the news epatches, has shaved of his beard The prominence given the item per haps rests in the fact that this IS the gentleman's third cutting of alfalfa this year.
 John r Storm, ex-treasurer of Yav- apai county, must spend four year. in the peniteItisry. The court of appeals has sustained the lower courts.
 Tucson volunteer firemen are in the market for a new fire team. There is A good deal of sentiment attached to the old team, which has been with the company for years. and it is likely that some member of the de. partment will purchase the animals and see that their remaining days on earth are not days of hard work and ill treatment.
 Tucson is gathering statistics to prove to the world that the cost of living in that city is not beyond the reach pa lucu WitI iIltllOHe.
 The Charles Green ranch in the Salt River valley has been sold for $40,000. Mr Green will take up future residence at Long Beach, Cal.
 F J Sullivan, a well known educator of Tennessee, has been appointed prin- cipal of the Tempe school.
 The cantaloupe season is at an end iu the Mesa district. One hundred and fifty cars were shipped to the east.
 Fifty laborers are advertised for at the Roosevelt, dam. Eight hol-s day at S2.50
 Arizona dealers expect raise of at least 10 per cent in lumb
 E 5 Kirkpatrick of Yuma, has re. ceiyed his commission as head of the Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias in Arizona.
 Yuma is preparing to take over the light and water plant in that city.
 Seventeen thousand freight cars were handled in the Espee yards at Tucson during the month of July.
 The Southern Pacific will spend $l,. 000, 900 on the extension of the Twin Buttes railroad from Tucson.
 The terms made by the last legisla- ture have been accepted by the own CTS of the territorial fair grounds and they have passed to the ownership ci Arizona. The price paid wes S30 1000; s50O0the first year, SIG, ,OC0 the second year, and sl5.OOO the third year. There is an indebtedness of $I0.OOO against the fair association and this will be taken care of out of the pro- cseds of the first payments.
 Oleander, common throughout Ari. zons, and quite profuse in it's growth here. has been declared by F W Will son of the Univeraity of Arizona, to be deadly poison to both man and beast, if the juice is swallowed in even 8 very small quantity. Dry leaves are poisonous as well as green oues.
 A party of fifteen millionaires Chi nese merchants and clerks. two of them accompanied by their wives and children, passed through Nogales a few days ago in bond, from different points in Sonora, to visit the Flowery Kingdom.
 In her new Lincoln school, Pres. colt claims the finest educational in- stitution in the southwest. This boasting of schools Is a mighty good sign of the times.
 Ysvspsi county is brsgging of its fruit production. Now, what do you think of that?
 Summer vacations of Young Amer ica are drawing rapidly to a close, and many schools of the territory are an. nouncing the opening of the fall term next Monday.
 A consolidation has been effected between the Jones Dry Goods store and the Peoples Cash store in Pl,oe-