Arizona republican., 1910-07-25
BOY DIES OF DRoPsY-Edward

be any permanent injury
 BOY DIES OF DRoPSY-Edward Doggett. aged II years. son of MT.
 and Mrs. w M. Doggett, who live
 upon a ranch south of the Mesquite
 school. died early yesterday morning
 of dropsy. The funeral will be held
 this afternoon from the undertaking
 rooms of Easterling & Whitney at ?
 o'clock. Everett N Phillips of the | Christian church officiating. Burial
 will be made in Greenwood ceme-
 tery Mrs. James Bacon of Phoenix
 is surviving sister.
 HOTEL ADAMS soUVENiR-Th | police yesterday arrested man
 named Kirby on the charge of drunk | enneSs. When he was searched sorority pin was found. having the
 letters TT. w, 14." engraved on the back Kirby said he found the pin
 in the ruins of the Hotel Adams. It
 is recalled that after the fire some I one advertised for the return of a sorority pin lost in the hotel, and | this may be the one in question. The
 owner can secure it at the office of | the city marshal.
 Y. M. C. A. FOR PRESCoTT-C. G. Titus, special field secretary of the ln- ternational committee of the |. Nj. (. | A, is in Prescott, says the Courier, Tn response to requests by citizens or Prescott to organize a branch of that society in this city. The gentlemen who made the request have conferred with MT Titus and the following local executive committee has taken hold of l the matter: II. D. Aitken, w. A. Drake, j. I. Gardner, Nj. B. HaZeltine, J. A. Hope. T. G. Norris, H. T. Southworth and E. w Wells
 i COLORADO RIVER FIGHT. - The Yuma Examiner says: The war depart
 ment has given the go-ahead signal for | the construction of the temporary dam at the lower heading of the California Development company and Engineer C. K. Clarke will immediately organize his force of men and temporary structure will be thrown out into the river to throw the water into the in take. The piledriver is here and the big dredge is now ready to start to
 work. and 1t is expected that within
 very few days now the Imperial valley
 will be over their water famine. WANTS TO START SOMETHING. -sThe Wickenburg Miner seems to be
 keen to start something" It offers d prize of 8. to be paid next Christ mas, for the best paper submitted showing why women should vote. and ho shn why women should not vote. It also l invites correspondence from it's sub scribers on the subject of the initiative. referendum, and recall, and why these measures should be adopted. The Mi-
 ner might further add to the gayety of nations by making a final attempt to discover who struck Billy Patterson ! and who discovered the north pole.
 A BIG PlCTURE-Probably the biggest picture of it's size that any body ever saw can be seen in the
 window of the Santa Fe office. It is sort of map picture of the A. X C.
 railroad Q It is on g. card a couple Of feet square and, like all railroad ad- vertisng, emphasizes the point de- sired The A. X C. is shown in a way that makes 1t look bigger than all the rest of the Santa Fe system. all important points being shown from l the Grand Canyon to San Francisco on the north, and from Phoenix via Yuma to Los Angeles on the south. 1 The comprehensiveness of the picture, ! though, can best be understood when
 it is recited that the artist has un- | dertaken to show a bird's-eye view of
 the topography of all the country be- ! tween the points named.
 RAIN ON THE DESERT-Frank | Criswell says he has had advices from 1 his desert range between Mesa and | Florence that good part of it is under water deep enough to sail 1 boat, or was a couple of days ago.
 when his message was received. He 1 is accordingly happy. Six years ago when the summer resembled this one 1 in point of aridity he lost large 1 part of his cattle. This year as soon
 as the range began to dry up he began gathering the poorest cattle
 and bringing them into the valley pastures where he nov has several
 hundred head. The dry weather has
 kept him from making a lot of money | but he has his cattle left and that | is something that he thanks the res
 ervoir for. Only for the stored water
 there would have been no valley pas
 ture for the cattle. As soon as the
 desert feed starts he will take the back to their grazing grounds again.
 or part of them at least. And
 speaking of rain he is confident there
 will be lots of it in the next month
 or so.
 DEFENDING HER RIGHTS-There
 is one colored woman in this com l munity who is not making any loud | talk about the law protecting the people Of her race. She Is big