Arizona republican., 1911-08-27
CLIFTON'S CANDIDATE


 Cobb of Clifton was d Phoenix visitor yesterday. IL is understood MT. Cobb has a congressional lightning rod up. tipping in the direction of the demo- cratic headquarters.
 WILL EXHIBIT BLOODHOUNDS Manager Reeves of the Coliseum Twill exhibit on the stage of that theatcr tomorrow night, the fine pair .or bloodhounds he received Saturday might from Fairmont. Va, mention of which is made elsewhere.
 TRAIN DELAYED-During the storm last evening, the switch engin" on the AL and r. railroad yard got off the track in some way and in was torn up. Fortunately it's location was such that trains were not pre- vented from coming in. and the 7:45 ltrain to Maricopa got under way about 10 D. m.
 CONTRACT FOR SIDEWALKS LET-The trustees Of Phoenix school district No. l yesterday opened bids for the construction of 5000 square fleet of cement sidewalk in front of land on the grounds of the Adams lstreet school The lowest bidder was ". C Potteiger who offered to do the work for ten and three-quarters cents per foot. and was awarded the con tract.
 SETTLERS RATES-The local Santa Fe office yesterday received announcement of a settlers rate of t$231O from Los Angeles and return during the month of october. This rate is understood to have been mad, Il for members of q proposed Russian colony expected to settle in the val Hey of the Agua Fria. The tickets are SD arranged that three persons must travel on each ticket in order to iavail themselves of the low rate.
 FINE TOBACCO PLANT-Josslyn brothers who sometime ago brought a fine tobacco plant to the board of Itradc room, yesterday brought an- bother beside which the first looks lill, | a sicllly dwarf The latest exhibit lis a stalk about ten feet tall with Leaves on it big as an elephants ears the weed being of a Havana variety jThe casual observer though not a judge of tobacco cannot help but con Iciude that better looking plant can not grow in any country
 ROOSEVELT POWER oFF-The ipower canal at Roosevelt was broken Iagain on Thursday by d storm and lever since Thursday evening the local lplant has been supplying its patrons lby steam generated power and will !continuc to do SD until today or to- morrow when the repairs on the ca inal are completed. Last night during : the storm the power was intcrf,r,G [ with for a time by bolts of lightning that put the town system out Of com mission temporarily.
 1 HOGHE SPOTTED-A letter from ] F. \. Bernal of san Diego. a forme, resident of this city to J. NJ Melen- dryz, says he saw his friend "Hogh, the Hamburg" in san Diego. care , fully examining big clock on tn, Icity hall which records the time in l. ali parts of the world. The super | visor seemed very much interested and Mir Bernal thought he was ar ranging to buy a similar clock foI the county court house Mir. Berna 1 is now employed in a big furniture store and is always glad to meet his PhocriX friends when they visit Sar Diego.
 SOME TRICKS OF STORM-Th, short, sharp thunder storm of carly Hast evening was accompanied witt considerable wind in spots. At tn. lrosidonce of George Hagcman. corner iof Palm Lane and Indian School cal | line. now unoccupicd except for tn, lcaretakcr a large screen sleeping house in the yard was blown all [, pieces. the top of the water tank wa. blown off, a cottonwood tree of con. siderable size was uprooted. and foul or five boxes of large size lying alona a partition fence were lifted over int, a neighbours yard, so The Republican ! is informed by the caretaker. That ljust simply shows what cycloni, state things are getting into in other tways than politics
 l A FARMER-MulfOrd Winsor. ev- IneWspaperman and member of th. tconstitutiOnal convention. seemed quite as much interested in agricul- ture as in politics while waiting for the meeting that didn't occur. yester- day. MT Winsor reports that he is Experimenting 16O acres of alfalfa which he owns near Yuma, and that | he likes the job quite as well as newspaper work: likewise finds i