Arizona republican., 1910-07-15

|
 Latham went to Santa Barbara yes
 terday.
 COUNCILMAN LEAVES.-Charles
 Stauffer left for Los Angeles last
 night for a short vacation
 GONE TO LOS ANGELEs-Mrs
 Sims Ely. and daughter. Miss Helen,
 left last night for Los Angeles for a
 summer outing.
 ROBBED.-A pair of opera glasses
 worth s7 and a safety razor were
 stolen last night from R. Newgretto,
 who was staying at the Gregory house.
 The police were informed of the rob
 bery.
 GONE TO LOS ANGELES-How- 1 ard Baxter and wife left for Los An geles last night on an outing trip.
 WILL VISIT 'FRISCO-Mrs Frank
 Connelley and her sister. Mrs. Price.
 left yesterday afternoon for visit in
 San Francisco.
 NEW BARBER-James Evans. one
 Of the best known barbers in the ter
 ritOry. for eleven years past resi- l dent of Prescott is now in the employ
 of the Fashion barber shop of Phoe- | nix, having come to the Salt River
 valley to try its mild summer climate.
 ENGINEERS TO MEET-The asso-
 citation of civil engineers of Arizona | will hold a meeting Saturday night in the office of Captain P. P. Parker. The purpose of the meeting is to effect a
 reorganization preparatory to adding
 new members and injecting new life
 into the association.
 RAIN AT ROOSEVELT-News came from Roosevelt yesterday that close observers had seen evidence of 1 precipitation thereabout. From all that could be learned it was about such | rain as Phoenix enjoyed. just enough l to thicken up the atmosphere and | make it a little hard for the sunshine | to get through. It was valuable main | ly as proof that raining is not entirely
 lost art and that vfhen it gets good
 and ready it will rain some more. THE INSECT NUIsANcE-For the ! last two nights those who work at 1 the midnight hour have been pestered | by d multiplicity of winged insects, | some looking like flying ants, numer- l ous other species being also well rep rcsnted When the matter wsa taken up with The Republicans entomolo- ! gist he said it was a very important i sign but he had forgotten just what it ! meant In other years these insect visitations have been either just before
 or just after a rain from which he de- | duced that there will be a lot of rain very soon, or else there won't THE JUNTA'S PlANS-The Junta | Patriotica held another meeting last night and further perfected its plans | for the celebration of Mexican inde pendence. The oratorical exercises will i take place on the evening Of the 18th | of September. special committee | headed by Gustavo Levy, Mexican | consul. was appointed to invite Gov
 ernor Sloan to preside as chairman l and to invite the following named gen | tlemen to deliver addresses: Judge J. 1 IT. Kibbey, George P. Bullard and B. 1 E. Marks. to speak in English and | Martin l.. Guzman to speak in Span ish. It is the purpose of the Junta to
 make this the most notable celebration
 of that anniversary, ever held in Phoe- | nix.
 SPREAD ALL OVER-Just rain
 enough fell here yesterday to start the { drainage pipes from the roofs of the | city and until that occurred no one
 really appreciated how generally the ruins of the Hotel Adams were spread all over the town only for the iron | roofs over most of the houses in the down town district it is not unlikely 1 that with all the good work of the fire department the business part of the l city would have been wiped out. The l pipes from the postoffice building washed down more charcoal than wa | ter and it was very much the same along Washington street. Some of the | chunks were six or eight inches long. 1 remnants of huge cinders that were | carried away on the morning of the | fire.
 | FAREWELL PARTY-Mr and Mrs | Herbert Sharp of 1903 North Center
 street gave a farewell party last even l ing in honor of B. J. Jarret of West l Virginia who will leave Saturday night in the continuance of his western 1 tour. He expects to go to Los An | geles. San Francisco and Seattle and
 thence travel toward his eastern home 1 over the Canadian Pacific. At the party last night there were games and
 singing, followed by the serving of re- treatments The merry company as-
 sembIed included beside Mir. Jarrett 1 and the hosts: Mir. and Mrs. C. A. l Massie. MT. and Mrs. F. Irwin. Mir. 1 and Mrs. James Aldrich. MT. and Mrs.
 Arthur Higgins Mrs. Everett Reed, l Mrs. Clara Watts. A. H. Barbour | Thomas Bacon. George Hanford and 1 Harry Shedd.
 TRAVELLING INCOG.-Very little is accomplished except embarrassment | when one changes his name temporar- fly just for fun. unles she does his
 travelling in an unknown country. A Los Angeles paper relates q little joke on Hugh Knox. son of Secretary of 1 State r. C. Knox. Hugh Knox spent d portion of last winter in Phoenix and is now rusticating in Southern ! 4I S.fN \ Tal