Arizona republican., 1913-03-16
Stry Topics From Little
 Old New York

an incredible amount of evidence of il the equally incredible cOrruptneSs of | the New York police department. The II confessions by Ashley Shea, who had H been one of the intermediates be- tween the men higher up in the II police department and the gamblers ll and keepers of disordcrly houses, have II caused score of gamblers ill Har- il lem to disappear from the city after closing their establishments. Two eX- mayors of New York, Low and Me Clellan. appeared as witnesses before the Curran Investigating committee and it appears from their testimony il l that they had Knowledge of the cor l ruption among the police officials. In i view of this it seems strange that 1 Mayor Gaynor managed to remain in 1 bliSsful ignorance of the rottenneSs of II 1 his police department-as must be \ | inferred from his statements to the 1 press and before the Investigating 1 committee. Even now he secems un- l willing to admit that there is some
 thing radically wrong with the po- | lice department. Muckrakins is neither l a particularly pleasant nor elevatinG | occupation and District Attorney | | Whitman's job is by no means envi- able: but somebody had to do the | | work and Mir Whitman has shown 1 by his fcaricssness and efficiency i that he is the right man for his pO- | siton.
 The annual report for 1912 of the ! Jewish Agricultural and Industrial 1 Aid society of this city contains some interesting information which will probably be surprising to great many persons. It shows that Jewish farmers are fast becoming inn portant part and factor in the agri- cultural life of this country. Accord ing to the figures of the report there are about 7,50O Jewish families, with an aggregate of about 5000 souls in the United States. The society ! has been established to promote farming among the Jews and 10 give | financial assistance to Jewish families who wish to become farmers. Dur ing the past. year the society made loans aggregating sl.494,437 to 2,266 farmers occupying 1856 farms. The loans were distributed over twenty eight states of the Union and several Canadian provinces The largest num- Der of Jewish farmers with whom the society has had dealings live in
 
 in numbers. then New York and then [ North Dakota The society has also supplied Jewish farm laborcrs to many farmers in various parts of the country and the men supplied are re- ported to have given good satisfac ' ton.
 III Mother law jokes have gone out
 of fashion but that does not prove | that the relations between son law
 and mother -in-laW are always per
 fectly harmonious. r A Stillwell. a book keeper employed at the Wal
 dorf had been cOurting young lady | who had several other admirers, for | some time. The other day he per | suaded her to meet him secretly down II town and to go with him to the Little II Church Around the Corner, where
 they were married. After the mar | riage StillwcH communicated with his II mother-in-laW by telephone and broke | the news to her She expressed her | self "dclighted' which rather sur II prised Stillwcll as she has been op- \ posed to his aspirations. She asked | him to come to her house with his | wife and he accepted the invitation | When he arrived at the house later ' in the afternoon. however, two men one of whom rejected suitor fo' Il the hand of Mrs. StillWcD, received him in the hall and gave him d ter rifle beating. Stilwcll is still won derng whether his mothers -lav had arranged the little surprise o whether the encounter was accldenta
 Helen A Dewitt lost her mother q the time of her birth fourteen year ago. Six years ago her father die and her uncle Joseph H. Dew was appointed her guardian. For Tn maintenance and education of the gil
 $12OOO a year Was allowed froI
 the estate but recently the girl
 guardian asked to increase the amour
 to $20,000 a year, as the girl Wa | now fourteen years of age and Al-
 900 d year was no longer sufficier U for her maintenance and education
 The increase was allowed hN il
 Surrogates' Court. The income frol
 the estate is estimated at SJ2."oo
 year.
 Col William r. Morris. commandit
 the Ninth Artillery District. x.
 x Y. is strongly opposed to u
 turkey trot" bunny hug and sin
 ilar freak dances and has issued O.
 ders prohibiting these dances at II II reSlmental balls from now OIL v
 lending couples will first be Warne and on a second offensc will be p off the floor. If members of the rei mcnt are among the offender charges before the regimental delll quency court will follow.
 boy of five years in South angc, N J., was killed by hailston the other day. The haflstones q not kill him by their weight or | | force of their fall. but by causl an attack of acute indigestion. T boy. after the fashion of chlidrt gathered up d handful of the ha stones and Ereedily swallowed the
 The sudden chill caused congcSti
 of the stomach and the boy dl
 few hour later.
 permanent exhibition of |
 country life conditions in WeStches
 county will be opened early U
 spring on the floor over the m;
 | waiting room of the new Grand te