Arizona republican., 1913-03-17
BOARD OF CONTROL MAKES

AFTER NESSES-Sheriff T. E. Pulliam. of Flagstaff, is a visitor l in town and is looking up the wit 1 nesses in the Ash Fork and Williams 1 burglary cases. He expects to leave 1 for the northern city this evening. ARIZONA ORANGE GROVES NOT BADLY DAMAGED - The orange 1 groves did not suffer so severely as was first predicted. Hundreds of trees thought to have been killed have with the advent of warm weather budded out and show every sign of Vgor.
 LIME FUNERAL-The funeral of Mrs. Dinah Lime who died on Friday evening will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the undertaking par lors of Merryman x HaYt. Rev. Henry Martyr Campbell officiating. Burial will be made in Greenwood cemetery COBB SOON TO RETURN-State Engineer Lamar Cobb who has been absent from his office for the past week attending to the many activities of his department in other parts of the state, notably Cochise, Greenee, and Graham counties is expected to re- turn early this week to Phoenix
 FIRE PROTECTION-The many vi Sitors to the state house are now greeted with the sight in the halls of 1 the building with new hose and fire eXtinguishers. These have been in stalled during the last day or so, and | follow the order by the board of con trol entered following the recent fire 1 in the basement of the building
 THE CORPORATION COMM SSiON EQUIPM PMENT-Secretary Osborn of | the board of control has been instruct 1 ed to advertise for bids for new steel ! filing cases for the corporation com mission. The work of the commission is so varied and the records of the of flee so diversified that additional 1 equipment of this character is needed LEAVE FOR JEROME-D. T. Fen nell, division agent of the Colorado ! Fuel and Iron company, accompanied by H. E. Stuard, assistant manager of sales of the same company will leave this morning on the Santa Fe train for Jerome. MT. FenneI is from Fl Paso and Mir. Stuard from Denver Both gentlemen expressed themselves as 1 highly pleased with the prosperous l condition of Phoenix
 BORING FOR BRIDGE FOUNDA- TlONS-The state engineers depart ment has been engaged recently in l boring for bridge foundations at Fair banks in Cochise and Antelope Hill in Yuma county. The Antelope hill l bridge is destined to be put across the 1 Gila river and will make another link 1 in the chain of roads to the sea coast. 1 The same may be said of the Fair | banks bridge with regard to the Ma l tiOnal old Trails route to the east
 ELECTRICAL HEARING-The cor ! pOration committee yesterday held a 1 public hearing in the senate cham 1 Der on the senate bill calling for the l standardizing of construction of all l electrical work throughout the state. 1 The bill was introduced by Senator 1 Davis of -MaricOpa and is senate bill ! 46 It is claimed by the contractors
 and the owners of electrical companies and organizations that the bill is inn 1 practicable, but the hearing was held 1 for the purpose of finding out what 1 the bill neded to make 1t a first rate
 one and likely of passage and accep- | tance of the electrical contractors PROGRESSIVE WOMAN FIRST TO
 1 REGlSTER-The general registration
 of voters, provided for in the act re-
 l gently passed by the lgislature to en-
 1 able the women voters to make the
 final qualification as Iectors. began on
 Saturday all over the state, and will
 be continued until May 15. The first
 woman within the state to register un-
 der the provisions of the act was Mrs.
 J. L. B Alexander, wife of Chairman
 Alexander of the progressive party for
 Arizona. Mrs Alexander went about
 ! the task quietly and answered the
 1 questions on the registration blank as
 | if 1t were the regular thing and as if
 she were not the first woman to quail
 " to vote after the passage of the re-
 l cent constitutional amendment