Weekly journal-miner., 1913-04-30

dS WOi piy do iHdt Oi any ONhSi SeatS in the Union. Anthing less would not be worthy of Arizona's name"
 Mrs. Burmister, the wife of the president of the society is also an Arizonan, well known socially in her home state as we'll as in San Fran cisco and Oakland where she has made her home for the past eight years. Mrs. Burmister was formerly Miss Martha NJ Gage, daughter of MT. George N. Gage of Tomb stone, Arizona, where as a child Mrs. Burmister was brought up. Her uncle was the late Mir E. B. Gage who died recently in San Francisco.
 The society is fortunate in having for its secretary, MT Herbert A. Drachman, formerly of Tucson. In Geary street, San Francisco, is a store where all visitors to the west flock to purchase genuine Arizona relics. That IS Drachman's store and something may be learned about everything that has anything to do with Arizona in California" in the little back room of that store. It is the Arizona Mecca at San Francisco. Mir. Drachman was once a Rough Rider He knows his home state as boy knows his own playground. And the best of 1t is that he knows San Francisco and California just as well as he knows his native state So that, for a secretary, the Arizona California Society has about as cap able a worker as it could get outside its own home.
 Mir. w w. Jones is chairman of the executive committee of the so- ciety and, like the president, is con- nected with a bank He is the cash fer of the Merchants National Bank MT. Jones halls from Phoenix where he was associated with numerous movements that had for their pur- pose the bettering of the welfare of the community.
 One of the vice presidents of the society IS Colonel Alexander O.. Brodie, adjutant general of the Wes- tern Division of the United States Army. Despite various popular rum ors, the origin of the famous regi- ment of Rough Riders is said to have started with Colonel Brodie's corps of expert borsemen which he him self organized in Arizona some years ago. To this corps belonged form CT President Roosevelt who made the organization famous throughout the world. As vice-president of the Arizona California Society in San Francisco, Colonel Brodie is a com manding figure. He is highly con- nected socially and is held in great respect in army and public circles.
 In his work in the interests of his native state, Colonel Brodie is ma terially assisted by his wife who was formerly Miss Hamilton of Wal nut Grove Mrs. Brodie will be re- membered by her heroism at the time of the Walnut Grove disaster when, through her bravery, she say ed the lives of several residents in the afflicted town. Mrs. Brodie was closely associated with the colonel when he was governor of Arizona and helped to make his term of gov ernor one of the most popular in the history of the state Both Colonel Brodie and Mrs. Brodie are among the most highly respected of San Francisco's social circle.
 Mir. Charles NJ. Burkhalter is an other well known Arizonan acting as vice-president. MT. Burkhalter holds a responsible position in the services of the Southern Pacific Rail road. He is a prominent figure in various enterprises in the city and wherever he goes, he carries the name of Arizona with worthy dis tinction
 Mir. and Mfs. George H. Cook who are well known in Prescott. Phoenix and Tucson, where MT Cook was the president of large firm of jewelry dealers, are now living in retirement at San Francisco They are also working as members of the Arizona California Society for the promotion of Arizona intereofs in California.
 Few Arizona women are better known outside their home state than Mrs. A. w. Pike, who, before she came to live in San Francisco, was the wife of former Governor N. O. Murphy Mrs. Pike was formerly a ! U L