Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-04
BOARD OF COVERT

1 ~ iiN' bNNyt eAAAtiltliliS lilt lJll
Macon academy for the past year.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
| regular monthly meeting of the board
of governors of the Water Users as
ISOLATION was held yesterday. there
| being little outside of routine bust
| ness.
A LOST HORSE-Joe Lambeye re-
| ported to the sheriffs office yester-
day the loss OF a horse which dis
| appeared from the hitching rack of
the court house plaza on Saturday
night The animal is a valuable
saddle horse and when Mr.. Lambeye
| tied him to the rack he had on a
| good saddle, almost new.
FIELD CLERKS, U. S. r. S.-A
special civil service examination of
applicants for the position of field
clerk in the reclamation service will
be held in the office of the Water
| Users association Wednesday, begin
! ming at a m. The examination will
be under the direction of the local
reclamation civil service board, which
consists of Messrs Sprague. Reed and
Stannard.
CLEAN AND SWEET-The city
Jail of Phoenix has received a coat
of paint and varnish and whitewash
throughout. and is clean and sweet
with none of that peculiar smell which
SO often characterizes such places
The colored friends of the friendless
did the work and did il well. One
woman prisoner is now confined
there. and her quarters are so palatial
compared To what many people of
good name occupy that it is feared
she would want to come back soon
when her term expires were IL not
for the lonesomeness
AN AUTOIST'S TROUBLE-Tha
cause OF the Territory VS.. Luther
Graves of the Standard Auto Co,
driver, for exceeding the auto speed
limit in the municipality of Phoenix.
in doing which he fatally injured "a
pony and knocked off two children
who were riding it, in his efforts to
avoid a dangerous cuvert, was de-
cided by Recorder Thomas. yesterday
afternoon, after additional testimony
from Attorney p H. Hayes. James
O'Malley of the O'Malley Lumber Co,
and other bystanders as To things
said To them at the time by Burt
Hartwell. Graves assistant had been
taken. The judge found that the evil
dence showed Graves guilty but SEN
tence was reserved until another time
PARA CAUGHT AGAIN-Consta-
BILE Murphy arrested Ygnacio PARA
last night for stealing several pairs of
shoes of the Morales Commercial
Co. He was observed i'm secreting
the plumber and when chase was Civ
en- he threw the shoes away. The
property was all recovered PARA
simply cannot help it, He's got to
steal or die 1t is about the only di-
version he has had in late years and
nearly all the local stores have been
victimiZed at one time or another
Formerly PARA used To amuse him
self shooting at Marshal Moore, but
one day they had it out for gooc,
and as result, PARA spent a season
in the territorial penltentiary. Since
he has returned to Phoenix he has
lost his high ideals of being a gun
man and has developed into a very
ordinary sneak thief.
PREPARING THE WAY-Dr. E
Mcqueen Gray. president of the uni
versity of New Mexico. and foreign
secretary of the national irrigation
congress, is energetically devOting
himself to the work OF stirring up an
interest in the congress. in other
countries. He writes b. A Fowler,
president of the congress. that ne
has prepared letter calling atten
ton to the work of the congress and
it's mission. for circulation in foreign
countries. preliminary To the circula-
ton of the formal. official call for the
next congress. This circular letter
DR. Gray has translated into the
various languages and is transmit
ting il to the American consuls for
distribution among the leading citi-
zens of the countries in which they
are stationed The state department
and the Pan American union of which
John Barrett is director. are both
cooperating with the congress in its
effort to broaden its field of useful
ness
FIFTEEN PER cENT-If postof
flee business figures here may be re-
lied upon, Phoenix is growing stead
ily at the rate of about 10 per cent
per year The income of the postof-
flee for the fiscal year ended June
30. 1911. was s75,53761, as against
s65.24122 for the year before, a gain
of s10,29639, close to is per cent.
There was nothing abnormal about
the increase" said Postmaster NC
Clintock yesterday. We had no
freakish months. 1t is the new ac-
tual settlers and not any great rush
of winter visitors to whom response
bility for the increase belongs one
does not realize the amount OF such
increase until he takes pains To
travel around through the suburbs
The loss OF the Adams hotel ana
the closing of many copper mines
for the present made the general cir
cumstances against an Increase rath-
er than for it," so that the increase