Arizona republican., 1913-09-20
DR. STEPHENS ID
 GO ID MANILA
Assistant Superintendent of Arizona State Hospital Leaves October 1 to Ac- cept Medical Post in the War Department

Dr. c. w. Stephens, ~for more than two years assistant medical superin
 tendent of the Arizona State Hospi- tai for the Insane, during which time he has been associated with three different superintendents and gained wide recognition as a psc chiatrist, has rendered his regination, effective October 1 to accept the post of medical inspector in the United States army with rank of first lieu tenant. He has been assigned to service in the Philippines with head quarters at Manila and is due to sail from San Francisco on the Mongolia leaving the Golden Gate city on Wednesday, October 1.
 Despite the fact that he has been out of the service for several years, his work both in the Arizona asy- lum as well as in institutions in Mississippi and other states has ever kept him faVorably before the eye of the war department. Recently Brig. Gen. Frank w. Mcintyre, chief of the bureau of insular affairs of the war department, rendered the posi- tion to pr. Stephens. The actual ac- ceptance was made while Dr. Steph- ems was absent recently upon a well earned vacation and by telegraph he was instructed to hold himself in readiness to sail on October 1 for Manila.
 In his new position at the outset Dr. Stephens will receive d salary and emoluments which will be d de- Ci qGN while employed at the Arizona State hospital and in addition will increase the scope of his work There is abundant opportunity not only for advancement on merit but he will be privileged to conduct research work in the United States research Iabra- tory located at Manila, an institu- tion on a par with any institution of it's class in the world.
 In accepting his new position. Dr. Stephens is not engaging in work with which he is not familiar He was formerly connected with the quarantine service being stationed in the tropics. For d time he was To- cated in Panama, Nicaragua and elsewhere making a speciality of the study of diseases peculiar to the tropics Later he was assistant su- perintendent of the Eastern Missfs- sippi State hospital coming here in August, 1911, at the earnest sOlicita- tion of Dr. Ketcherside. then super intendent of the institution He was the choice of Governor Hunt for the position of superintendent, but at the time the executive was about to make an appointment to the posi- tion, 1t was discovered that under the state laws none but a bona fide resident of Arizona could be named for the position. Dr. Stephens had been in Arizona less than one year and was therefore then ineligible to the office.
 Tn leaving Phoenix pr. stephens does not go with the intention Of giving up this city and the Salt River valley. He announces that in due time he expects to return to this city and to engage in the practice of medicine here. He has had wide travel experience and is convinced that there is no place on the face of the world where the prospects are better and where the people are more hOspitable than right here It is his desire that before returning here he take advantage of the opportunity to make a gIObe-encircling tour While his host of friends in ~shis section regret to see him go they wish him god-speed and success in his new field and will look forward to the day when he carries out his inten- come q Phoenician.