Arizona republican., 1911-04-12

is boosting the excursion game and the Phoenix board of trade is extend ing the courtesies of the city in any way it can.
 WINKElMAN TOWNSHIP DlS- PUTE-The decision of the local land office in favor of the settlers at Winkelman has been upheld by the general land office, according to a decision of Commissioner Dennett. There were a large number of the claimants who had staked out lots and built hounes of a temporary char acter upon them. In addition to the town lots two tracts of acreage. The original decision was in favor of the townsite claimants.
 LIVING WAX WORkS-The wide pavement in front of the store of NJ Goldwater and Bro, will be found this afternoon not to be wide enough for the ladies who will cOngregate there to see a living wax figure in one of the windows which will be ar rayed in one of the latest Parisian creations. This exhibition will be from three o'clock until half past four The exhibition will be contin- ued tomorrow afternoon between the same hours.
 POTATOES FROM THE NORTH The Wm. P. Crump Hay and Grain company in common with the other | commission men have brought pota- toes in car lot shipments from Cal ifornia, Oregon and Colorado ever since they have been in business. Until yesterday. they nor no other | dealers in Arizona have had any Minnesota potatoes. Yesterday the Crump company unloaded and placed upon the Phoenix market the first
 car of Minnesota potatoes ever | brought to Arizona. They are smooth, sound and white, similar to the Ore gon stock and they meet with instant favor from the retailers
 SUIT FOR DIVORCE-Suit for di- vorce on the ground of failure to sup port was filed in district court yes terday by Elizabeth Owen against William Owen. The plaintiff also
  share of six mining locations in the Castle creek district in which she claims to have been a joint locator with her husband If he named the locations he must have had a high regard for the plaintiff at that time; in fact. she must have been upper most in his mind for all of them bear her name. The Golden Elizabeth" and "The Golden Elizabeth" Nos. 2, 3, f. , and 6.
 POSPERiTY DlNNER-Speaking of the prosperity dinner of the board of trade next Thursday night, Secretary Harry Welch said yesterday that eligi- biIity is not confined to present mem bers of the board. Any friend of the board and the town will be made wei come and will get a full dollars worth if he attends The trip to Roosevelt via the stereopticon route will alone be worth the money to those who have not had the pleasure of visiting the dam and before the dinner is over it is expected that any person attending who is identified with the city and who is not now a member of the
 
 join it. The dinner only costs s1 but applications for tickets should be made at once so ample provision may be made for it.
 NEW cANcELLlNG MACHINE The Phoenix postoffice has been sup nIied with a new machine for the .cancelling of letters that capacities business very much. The speed or the new machine which is of the Cummins manufacture is about TOO letters per minute, the machine being driven by an electric motor. The or flee had outgrown the old friction feed machine which is not a bad sort but is too slow for present day pur- poses Phoenix needs machine that can kill postage stamps with certainty and dispach and the post master thinks now that he has se- cured just what he wants. From 13,- 900 to 14,000 letters are mailed daily in the Phoenix postoffice. With steady run the cancelling could all be done in twenty or thirty minutes but it can not all be done at once as mails have to be met many times each day. However one mans time for an hour will probably do all the cancelling necessary in one day with the new machine. The machine also counts the letters automatically. They had to be fed into the old machine by hand while the new one has a moving table or a table with moving rubber belt which carries the letters into the mechanicism as fast as it can handle them.
 NIPPED IN THE BUD-A boy whose name was not learned started on a. horse stealing career yesterday but was caught very early in the pro- ceeding by a man not an officer. who gave him his freedom without learning his identity. He probably slept well last night in his own bed. more than pleased that he got out of his scrape so easily. An Indian who gives the name of Charles Rodig and who Marshal Moore knew as a convict in the penitentiary when the officer was guard. appeared at the police station and told MT. Moore that his horse had heen stolen from the court house