Weekly journal-miner., 1913-01-29
(From Fridays Daily.)
 PHOENIX.
Big Wool Clip.

Big Wool Clip.
 The Arizona wool clip this year will according to President John Hennessy of the sheep sanitary board, who has been paying a short business visit to this city from his home in the Flagstaff district will reach over 100000 pounds. The sheep interests are in excellent son dition all over the state. The vigi- lance of the sheep commissioners themselves, together with that of the inspectors and the state veterin- arian has prevented any inroads into the flocks of any disease. and this years sheep are singularly free from scabies or foot and mouth disease, the pest that keeps the wool men of other states awake nights.
 The record this year is as a result of this work better than it has been for years. Secretary George H. AL len of the commission has kept thoroughly in touch with the situ- ation, and any signs of trouble in any section has been thus promptly stamped out.
 The next annual meeting of the commission will be held in Phoenix on June Both next. This was decided by Mir Hennessy and Mir. Allen at the conferences held in the city dur ing the past two days. The last meeting was held in April, 1912, this shortly after the appointment of the new commission, but 1t was thought best this year to make a definite date for the wind-up of the years busi- ness, and to keep to it. Fiscal years in many sections end with the end of the month of June The state fiscal year does, so 1t was decided to have the sheep commission year end thus also.
 Widow Can Collect.
 The supreme court yesterday af- firmed the opinion of Judge ]. H. Campbell of the Pima county district court in the case wherein Margarita de Aguirre sued the Hispano-Ameri- can Alliance for an insurance benefit of Sl200 which that organization had issued upon the life of her husband Feliberto Aguirre a number of years ago The defense maintained that in giving his age upon the application blank for admission into the order, Aguirre has wilfully misstated his age giving it at A instead of 4, when he knew that if his age was 4 he could not be accepted as a mem- Der, 45 years being the limit.
 In support of this they brought afidavits that in registering to vote he had stated his age was forty seven. Tn the lower court these af- fdavits were upon the motion of the defense, stricken from the re- cord, and a judgment ordered in behalf of the plaintiff, the widow of Aguirre.
 in affirming the judgment issued by Judge Campbell, Judge Cunning ham, who rendered the opinion, be- ing unanimously concurred in by his colleagues on the bench. drew at tention to a long line of authorities showing that admission and state ments made by the deceased as to his age and health aside from the record of the application are not to be considered a lawful part of the evidence upon which the case may be tried, and do not show the falsity of his statements made in applica. ton and medical application.
 Women Want Voice.
 Insisting that the women of Phoe- nix as well as the men should have representation on the committee of one hundred named to select the candidates for the charter commits sion as well as the commissioners for the city government when the commission form shall have been adopted, the Civic League adopted resolutions declaring for women on this committee and a strict adher- ence to non-partisan political me rhods in the approaching general city and charter election. Inciden- tally the league took the first step looking to the inauguration of campaign against the high cost of living, naming committee of three to visit the merchants and others who fix the prices of food stuffs and endeavor to ascertain just why prices prevailing in Phoenix today cannot be materially reduced