Arizona republican., 1910-03-31
RAILROAD POLICEMAN AZ

| TEO-Govcrnor sloan yesterday appointed Jeff short d railroad police ] man at Maricopa at the request of the | Southern Pacific company. and under the authority of q statute providing for such officials. his remuneration to
 he paid by the company recommend | ing the appointment.
 THE DEATH OF 4 PIONEER James NJ, Sanford of Williams died in l this city on Tuesday night The funeral will take place at 10 o'clock this morn 1 ing from Moore & NcLellan's. MT. Sanford was SS years of age and was
 among the earliest white residents of the territory. He had lived in Arizona for more than fifty years. He came here from Williams about six months ago.
 SAYS BOY IS TRUTHFUt-Mrs. M. NJ Butts. the mother uf Floyd Butts. who testified in the liquor cases Tues day. takes exception to the sweeping
 characterization "f the young man made bv Captain lily Mcdonald un tn"
 witness stand. Mcdonald said that he
 would moi believe the boy under oath
 and Mrs Butts says that he has always
 been truthful and that Captain Hy's criticisms were severe and unWar
 rdntCd.
 BOARD OF TRADE LECTURES
 There was a large aSSemhlage at tn"
 board of trade room yesterday {" listen tu the address of Dr. Toss on the ad- vautages of homebuilding and invest meut in the Salt river valley. on Sat urday it is expected there will be two ar more lectures on timely topics. on" nr which will he on tho Thompson's
 scedlcss grape. by C T. Hirst- The
 name or tho other speaker has not been announced
 THE CAPTURE OF A THIEF-Con- stable Murphy returned ycstcrdaN morning from Tucson. having in charge Estdnas Salada Jimcnez. pretty
 much of name for common thie:. Jimenez was concerned in the hide house robbery with the other one of whom. Francisco Curlcy was already in
 iail Jimenez was just sitting down
 to breakfast at Tucson when the con
 stable came. Both he and Curley were arraigned before Justice JohnStone yesterday morning.
 "FLoATED" oUT-A hurry call for the police was sent in yesterday from the Francis on East Monroe street back
 Of the postofficc The woman in charge of the place said there was a
 man attempting to gain entrance. and
 Marshal Moore hurried over. The man had gone but the marshal caught him about two blocks away and
 brought him back for identifica- ton. He gave his name as Bas- ton and said that he wanted [" see man who lived at the Francis. He appeared tO be a hobo and was given ticket of leave. which he accepted gladly.
 FINE sEETS-Some early sugar sugar beets brought in from Glendale yesterday show fine maturity for this
 time of the year. They are ten or eleven inches long and two inches in diameter. At this time last year the
 beets had not attained this size. but
 many of them were planted earlier last
 fall than the year before. They are showing mp well in the Glendale cOun- try and the fields are solid with them. some that were brought in yesterday from sam Stouts ranch two miles east or Glendale. were left ai the F.. II. Ben nitt office and are fine specimens.
 OFFICIAL BASEBALL - Phoenix has had more or less amateur baseball and has had hard work trying to Sc cure any appTeciable quantity of pro fessional baseball. but it is soon to bc favored with season of official baseball. That means that the officials and clerks at the territorial capitol and the officials and clerks in the Phoenix National bank have all become infect ed with the baseball bacillus and arc now milling around in feverish way. showing very decided symptoms of breaking out into baseball organiza- tion representing each aggregation. A convention of the able bodied capitol crowd was held late yesterday after noon to consider the matter. and it is understood the bankers are seriously considering retaliation for the tauntS of the office holders [" the effect that they have the best material.
 MOTORCYCLE VERSUS STREET CAR-An interesting speed contest was pulled off yesterday morning about o'clock between a street car. west bound. and motor cycle driven by Curtis Wilson. moving picture operator at the Wigwam theater. The street car won. Wilson was going south on First avenue and figured that his ma chine was fleet enough to pass d given point at the intersection of First ave