Arizona republican., 1913-06-17

they became broken and a menace to
 horses hoofs and auto tires, P Eld
 redge was fined five dollars in police
 court yesterday afternoon.
 OSBURN TO LORENCE-Charles
 F. Osburn will make flying busi-
 nes strip to Florence today to attend
 to some matters for the board of
 control at the state prison.
 FROM ST. .OUIS-Charles Kir-
 cher, of St Louis, one of the best
 known dry goods salesmen west of
 1 the Mississippi river. is in the city
 making his regular tour Kircher is
 q great believer in the southwest.
 LOOSES HIS kEYS-D. R. Petrie has ordinarily bunch of keys, quite a large bunch at that. but he has
 them no longer. Last evening he went to the postoffice and shortly after
 missed them Since that time he has
 not been able to either get into his postoffice box or into his room with out asking assistance.
 TO BEGIN ON THURSDAY-Ed gal A. Brown, the newly appointed
 rate expert for the Arizona corpora
 ton commission has returned to his
 home in COconino county to prepare 1 to move to Phoenix to make his per
 manent home MT. Brown expects to | begin his new duties on Thursday l lmCrning.
 i SCUDDER KEPT BUSY-B. H. i Scudder, superintendent of the Glen l dale schools, was in the city yeSter- | day conferring with the state school
 authorities regarding the second term
 ot the Glendale high school which op- | ems next fall Glendaleites are very ! enthusiastic for their new high school | and are seeking to do all they can | to keep it up to the standard set l by the Phoenix schools.
 FORD HOTEL-Karl H. Vesper | san Francisco; P. Groame, Washing
 ton, D. C.; Virgil Moore, Berkeley; l George Westervelt. Tucson; F. D.
 McCune. Denver; F. w. Krompe, Los Angeles; L. c. Bronson. Kelvin; II P Schurenbeck, Cedar Glade; Ed and | Mrs Bertram Tucson; Russell Bert ram. Tucson; Miss A C. Mcintyre 1 Tucson; A. J. Davidson, Tucson; T.. i H. Cooper, Los Angeles; NJ A. Mayor 1 Florence.
 SURVEYORS HERE-J. B. Wright, w H Elicit, and C. C. Knight. all members of the United States sur
 veying corps. who have been engaged l in the southern part of the state re turned to Phoenix yesterday for the 1 purpose of filing their field notes and | getting ready to make another tour l of field service. They will go to the 1 Maricopa, Red Rock and Casa Grande 1 sections of the state in a few days | tC take up work.
 1 BOY IS HURT-A young Italian, named Antonio. narrowly escaped being l killed on First street near the city hall l yesterday afternoon when a pony he was riding while his father was lead I ing the animal. threw itself on its back pinning the boy underneath. For an | hour the boy lay unconscious on cot | in the city hall plaza. but the efforts or I pr. Dameron to restore him to con | sciousness were finally rewarded with success and the lad was taken home FIREARM AFFAiR-Max Sterritt was in police court yesterday charged with discharging firearms in the city l limits He was arrested upon com plaint of J. R. La Valley who says the offence was committed on April l 25 at 1889 East Jefferson street. La Valley alleges that Sterritt took shot at the La Valley family cat inflicting wound which necessitated putting the animal out of its misery. The case was continued to Thursday after La l Valley had presented his side and Ster- 1 ritt had entered general denial.
 CLANS THERING-There was l a perfect gathering of the clans in the office of State Engineer Lamar Cobb yesterday, when the engineer returned from his trip to the north. l J $. Barlow and J. C. Ryan. the two l field assistant engineers. were in to 1 confer with their chief. while F. $ 1 Twitcnell, in charge of the road con structlon at the Tempe bridge exten- sion, also came up for the same purpose. With Assistant Engineer J 1 F. Nichols there was a regular eX- | ecutfve session held in the engineers 1 offices. After a few days in the city Ryan will return to his bridge
 building proposition at Fairbanks and I Barlow will go to Fl PasO to visit his | mother who is said to be quite sick. 1 FREE TELEPHONES-The propo- sition of free telephones has been be othering the corporation commlsslon
 and the telephone companies quite 1 a deal of late. In many cases the 1 telephones are operating in the cities and towns under franchises granted 1 when Arizona was q territory, ana which contained provisions requiring | free telephones for the city and or ficials This however has been re
 garded as discrimination and great | deal of complaint has been heard be- cause the telephone company has in l sisted on collecting for the telephones l used, and in some cases the users of | the phones have refused to pay the l regular rate for them The whole matter was therefore put up to the | commission and q hearing was had | on the fact and advice was taken as | regards the law, so that yesterday the commission issued an. order all lowing one free telephone in those l fTY~ n | habitants. The telephone is an of | flcial one absolutely, to be used Tor official business, and not for private | or social uses. It will be located in l a place agreed upon by the telephone 1 company and the city or town de-