Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-04-07
ROOSEVELT VISITOR.

ROOSEVELT VISlTOR-O. l.. Nc
Iptyre, the engineer in charge of the
Roosevelt dam and it's accompanying
works. has been in the city since
| Saturday and will leave for home to-
iay.
Mr.. HlGLEY HOMES w Higley
returned yesterday from a short stay
in Los Angeles and Long Beach. His
daughter, Miss Jessie, who is at the
latter place and was quite i'll when
she left here, continues to improve.
MISSIONARY socIETY-The Wo-
rams Foreign Missionary society of
he First Methodist church viii hold
its monthly meeting Friday afternoon
at $50 at the home of Mrs. Thomp-
son. $50 y. End Ave. All ladies are
invited.
OPEN EVENINGS office OF
City Recorder Thomas will be kept
open evenings from now 10 and in
Guiding April p. for the accommodate
ton of those who wish to register for
the coming city election. Registration
closes at Il;dnight of April 81.
PREPARING TO INCORPORATE
| The committee appointed by the Bust
ness Mems association. which met at
| the Commercial hotel March 20, con-
vened yesterday with full attendance
present Subcommittee were, APP
pointed to draft articles of incorpora-
| ton and bylaws
RAILROAD MAN-E. C. Mustain,
| travelling freight and passenger agent
of the I'll PasO & Southwestern, with
headquarters in FL Paso, spent yester-
| day in Phoenix He reported that he
found business duh throughout the ter
ritory with the exception of the Salt
| river valley.
GOOD TIMES FOR FLORENCE
| County Recorder Frank Watson OF
PinaI county arrived in town last night.
He said there was more hopefu!ness at
Florence than there had been for a
long time Water, it is expected. will
shortly be procured for a large area
of land in the Casa Grande valley
through cooperation among the farm
ers themselves.
BEGINS TRAINING-Under the
coaching of John Z. Lewis. Charles
Swiggett yesterday morning began
| training to fit himself for a position on
the American team that will be sent
to the Olympic games in Stockholm
next year. Swiggett is a runner and
will train with the idea of competing
for the United States in the five-mile
event. Within a short time another
promising runner, a young man named
Coleman, will start training with Swig-
gett. In order TO arouse interest in the
move to send some Arizona athletes to
Stockholm, Lewis is planning to hold
an amateur athletic meeting at East
lake park within a few weeks.
DIED IN cHIcAGo-His many
friends in this valley will be panied
to learn of the death of Clayton c.
Moore in Chicago on March 16. De
ceased came here year or two ago
for his health, and secured employ
ment with the reclamation service at
Roosevelt. Later he worked on the
transmission line and still later at Sa-
eaton, being finally placed in charge
&C surveying party on the canal
system in this valley His work here
was last summer In the fall he re-
turned TO his home in Chicago where
he remained until his death of con-
sumption. He was a highly regarded
young man whose untimely end is
deb'Oi ed by many.
RECOVERED HoRSES-The horses
stolen from the pasture of Tom Blake,
north of Glendale on Wednesday night,
We're found in the road near Peoria
yesterday afternoon and were brought
to town and placed in a corral That
the horses had been stolen is certain
for the wire fence had been cut in two
places and the-lock on the gate was
broken. Besides. the track of a man
leading the horses had been followed
for a long distance, and il was found
where the man had got into. buggy
going west The tracks of the horses
which were unshod were followed I'M
til it got too dark to see them longer.
1t is supposed that the thieves became
scared and realizing the difficulty of
getting the horses out of the country,
turned them loose.
QUICK TRfP-Driving his Hudson
car. Bert Barr equaled the automobile
record from Globe to Phoenix las;
Tuesday. With l.. G.. Knipe, George
Reed and Z. G. Fitzgerald as passen-
gers, Barr went TO Globe Monday! The
next day at 1l:15 they left Globe.
stopped forty five minutes for lunch at
Fish Creek and arrived in Phoenix at
6 p. m. Their running time was just
six hours and is equal to the best time
ever made between the two cities
While in Globe the party saw a very
exciting badger fight in which some
French noblemen who own stock in
the Miami mine took great interest
A marquis was chosen to pull the
badger but when he saw the owner of
the dog had a man to hold the animal
he wanted to detail his valet as attend
ant for the badger. Only after it was
discovered that the servant had some
money up on the fight was the marquis |
persuaded. to carry out his contract |
They say that the Frenchmen all took |
absinthe.