Graham guardian., 1910-05-06
TERRITORIAL NEWS
Interesting Items Condensed
From the Columns of
Our Exchanges

| Arizona Wool brought 60 cent
per pound in the Boston marke
last week.
A force of fifty men are fighting
forest fires in the Santa Rita noun
tains, near Tucson.
The Prescott Auto Club has taker
up campaign for better roads ir
Yavapai County.
The Jewish population of Tucson
will erect synagogue in the near
future.
Glendale merchants have taken
up campaign for better rates to
the beet sugar town.
The democrats outvoted the re-
publicans two to one in the prim-
ary election held in Douglas, Sat-
urday, April 23d.
Hooker & Fain, stockgrowers of
Yavapai County, have sold 1000
head of cattle to a Colorado buyer.
The price was about $40, 900 on the
range.
At the annual meeting of the
board of education of the Tempe
Normal School, President A. j.
Matthews was for the eleventh time
elected as head of the institution.
F. c. Dezendorf, chief of the Ari-
zona field division of the General
Land Office, will have charge of the
auction sale of the Parker townsite
May 10th.
John McNeff, a pioneer of Ari-
zona, who came to Prescott in 1870
and is well known throughout the
territory, died Monday, April 25th,
at his home in Prescott.
AS the result of prevalence of
pear blight in the Salt River Valley,
nurserymen of that section say there
will not be ton of Bartlett pears
mature in the valley this season.
The Southwestern Chautauqua AS
sociation, which gave a series of
lectures the Territory last fall, is ar
ranging to repeat the same, begin
ming at Phoenix early in September.
The Greene Cattle Company has
begun the annual spring shipments
from Hereford, and it is said that
within the next ten days 10000 head
of beeves will be shipped to market.
An invitation to participate in the
fifth annual reunion of Rough
Riders Association. which will be
held in New York, June 18th to
10th, has been extended to the
rough riders living in Arizona.
The next session of the Presby-
terry of Arizona will be held on the
third Friday of April next year in
Duncan, this village having been Sc
lected as the meeting place at the
session held in Tucson last week.
Word has been received of the
death of w. T. Gam, pioneer cat
tleman of Gila County and well
known over the southern part of the
Territory. He died in San Francisco
April 10th, at the age of 60 years.
George Bragg has been indicted
by the Pima County grand jury on
charge of intent to commit mur-
der, by placing dynamite at the resi-
dence of Superintendent w. H.
Whalen, of the Southern Pacific Co.,
last fall.
&. &. Hampton, son of retiring
President W. A. Hampton, of the
recently suspended and later re-
organized Yuma National Bank, has
been chosen president of the new
concern, which has already been re-
opened for business.
Dispatches from Washington an
nounce the introduction in the
House of a bill authorizing Tempe to
issue bonds to the amount of $780,
600 for the purpose of installing an
electric light plant and $4,000 for
the building of city hall.
A factory for the making of mixed
feed and alfalfa meal, with capaci-
ty of 100 tons daily, will be located
in Phoenix. The new enterprise
will cost 100000 to install. The