Arizona republican., 1910-09-12

Hughes, son of Dr. II. A. Hughes, i!
 planning to leave Wednesday fo
 Georgetown. Texas, where he will en
 ter the preparatory department O
 Georgetown university
 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING ! The board of trade building on Sec
 ond avenue and Adams street is now
 practically enclosed as the mechanics
 are putting on the roof. It is a two
 story building with concrete founda- l tions and brick above and makes a
 very attractive structure
 RETURNS FROM VACATION- l Miss Aggie Benenato, boOkkeeper of 1 the Western Union Telegraph office | in Phoenix, has returned from the | coast where she spent the last two months. She reports having. had q | most enjoyable time, but is glad to be back in Phoenix. She will re sume her position in the Iocal teIe-
 graph office.
 PROBABLY A STOLEN WATCH.- Costable Murphy yesterday took from
 d Mexican prisoner a watch that he
 believes was stolen That kind of a
 man would not likely have a watch
 of any kind and no man would likely
 have that kind of a watch. It is
 lady's watch. gold, Elgin movement and the case bears the number. 406,
 419 The word. May" is engraved
 inside the case and outside is the let
 ter "J" or "I" An attempt had been made to obliterate both the word and the letter.
 POLITICS VERSUS WRESTLING- While an eloquent labor agitator was addressing s gathering in the east side of the city hall plaza yesterday afternoon, two wrestling enthusiasts pressed the southern side of the plaza into service as a mat and gave very, creditable imprOmptu exhibition of the art The crowd which had been listen ing to the speaker deserted their benches and formed a dense ring around the friendly cOmbatants and cheered them on. The orator addressed empty benches for few minutes and then gave up in disgust.
 ScHADE IS IMPROVING George Schade, the Maricopa and Phoenix fireman who was seriously burned by the explosion of .an oil can on his engine at Maricopa on July l3, IS nearly recovered, having received the best of treatment at the sisters hos pital in which institution he was placed under the care of Dr. Win Wylie following the accident NIT. ! Schade had been employed as fireman but a short time. having but shortly l before returned from the United States | army in which he had enlisted for | three years service. During the time 1 Df his enlistment he saw service in the ! as well as in other for ! eign lands.
 SECOND AVE. STREET CAR Second avenue now has a street ear | line It isn't d very long one yet | but it is d husky stub and though | it onty reaches from Washington street to Van Buren it will grow l rapidly. The first rolling stock passed | over the line Saturday. as much as a couple of hundred yards. It was | d construction train, being car | loaded with rails \ pliabe insulated 1 cable was hung over the Washing | ton trolleys and attached to the car | which was switched to the side line | and pushed out to the end of con | structiOn by means of the juice in l the cable lying on the ground As | soon as the car unloaded it was | brought back and the cable taken | down and coiled up by the roadside |
 A BAD SPLlNTER-Harold, the ! 7-year-old son of H. A Bustrin who i lives two miles west of Phoenix had | d very serious encounter with red ! wood splinter on Saturday that will | keep him laid up with q sore foot for ] sometime. He was running when he i hit redwood board with his bare | foot in such a manner that a splinter | was driven into the ball of his foot | 215 inches, entering just back of the | toes. Dr. SWetnam was summoned | and found it impossible to withdraw | the splinter SD he had to chloroform | the boy and make d long incision in the foot in order to take the splin- ter out. The wound was carefully l dressed and no trouble is anticipated | beyond the natural soreness of the i foot for some time.
 DEATH OF j. M. HOOBER-Mr. Button of the Berryhill store has re- ceived word of the death of his Rev. J. NJ. Hoober, which occurred on the night of Sep tember in Kansas City, where he had been operated on sometime be- fore for cancer of the stomach. The nterment will be or by this time has been made in the for mer home of the deceased in Iowa Mrs. Hoober expects to return to Phoenix but cannot say how soon Mir. Hoober was a highly respected ,itizcn of Phoenix, owning a home 1t the corner of Second and Taylor streets and though a minister had
 ractically retired. He was the pres dent of the humane society of Phoe-