davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
N o T 1 C E OF AWARD OF CONTRACT

Pursuant to the provisions of Sec ton 8, of the Improvement Act of 1912, notice is hereby given that the Commission of the City of Phoenix, in open session, on the 18th day of August, 1914, opened, examined and publicly declared all sealed pcopos- als or bids offered for the following work, to-wit:
 l. That the roadway of the alley in Block Ninety (90) of the Original Townsite of Phoenix, except that portion occupied by cement con- crete gutter, be graded and paved with Bitulithic Pavement.
 ?. That a cement concrete gutter be built along the center of the alley of Block Ninety (sO) of the Original Townsite of Phoenix.
 That the said contemplated work or improvement in the opinion of the Commission is of more than local or ordinary public benefit and said Commission hereby makes the costs and expenses of said work or inn provement chargeable upon a district and hereby declares that the district in said City of Phoenix benefited by said work or improvement and to be assessed to pay the costs and eX- penses thereof is described as fol- lows:
 All of Block Ninety (90) of the Original ToWnsite of Phoenix The said Commission has determ ined that serial bonds shall be is sued to represent each assessment of Twenty-Five ($2500) Dollar or more for the cost and expenses of said work or improvement, said serial bonds to extend over a period ending nine (9) years from and af- ter the second day of January next succeeding the date of said bonds, and to bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum, pay able semi annually. Said bonds tc be in the form and payable in the manner prescribed in said Improve ment Act of 1912", and thereafter, to-wit: On the 12th day of Septem- be-. 1914, said Commission of the City of Phoenix awarded the con
  regular responsible bidder to-wit:
 To the California Arizona Con- struction Company, at the price named for said work in it's proposal on file with the City Clerk, to-wit: Approximate Unit
 Quantities Prices 639.31 So. yds Bitulithic Pave
 mont (Cnoo No 00N 500.4 lin. 1t. concrete Alley
 Gutter, per lin. 1t. . 100 Cross Sec. No. 3051
 Any owner of or any person hay ing an interest in any lot or land liable to assessment who claims that any of the previous acts or proceed ings, relating to said improvement are irregular, defective, illegal, erron- eous or faulty may file with the City Clerk of the City of Phoenix, within fifteen days from the date of the first publication of this notice of award of contract, a written notice specifying in what respect said acts and proceedings are ir- regular defective illegal, erroneous or faulty. and if no notices are filed the Superintendent of Streets of the City of Phoenix will enter into contract with said company to make said improvements at the prices spe- cified in its proposal or bid.
 FRANK THOMAS,
 City Clerk
 of the City of Phoenix September F, 1914. 2t
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
UNDELIvEREp TELEGRAMs

There are undelivered telegrams at the Western Union for Leslie G. Met calf and William DoWnie
 WHERE IS MISS kNALL?-Chief of Police Rrisbois has a request from E. w. Wahlgren, of Rosedale, H., for information regarding the where abouts of Miss Lillian M. Knall, sup posed to be in this city.
 EXPECT osBURN BACK-Chas R. Osburn, secretary of the state board of control, who has been to Fort Grant to attend to some busi- ness at the State Industrial school there is expected back this evening. BACK FROM COAST-Mr. and Mrs. H. w. Daykin, accompanied by Miss Dorothy and Master Ralph have returned from the coast resorts where they have been for the past month having a splendid time. Dur ing their absence they visited nearly every prominent coast resort.
 CIRCLE NO. 2 MEETS-Circle No. |2 of the Woman's Missionary society of the Central Methodist church will
 
 of Mrs Horn, SPA North First street. The meeting is called for 2:30 sharp. There is much business to be tran sacted.
 HANDSOME SON-The home of J. E. Fisher, farm foreman of the state hospital was frightened yesterday by the arrival of a handsome son. Both p,h hx Mary, the little daughter of the home says she likes J. E. Jr., but that she has sense enough to stay at home, she don't know what he'll do.
 MORE MONEY FROM TIMBER The state land commission yesterday made another remittance to the state treasurer of $5000 more money real ized from the sale of timber upon the university lands, which has been going on this summer. This brings the amount in full sent to the treas urer to $42,5O0
 OFF TO ARMY AND NAVY ADEMY-Kenneth w. Hultz, who has been spending the summer months with his mother, Mrs. Webb Hultz on the Black Canyon Road left last night for San Diego where he will again represent Phoenix and Arizona at the Army and Navy Academy at Pacific Beach. This is MT. Hultz' second year at the school.
 CHURCH ENTERTAINMENT - On Friday evening at the parlors Of the First Methodist church, Mrs J. o. Seasons Sunday school class will present the little play, "Sunbonnets, or How the Woman's Circle Joined the Ladies' Benevolent" The public is invited to attend.
 C. w. TOMBSTONE, JR., BETTER Cheerful reports of the condition of Charley Johnstone, Jr., were given out yesterday at the Sisters Hospital where he is being treated. He is now able to retain solid food in small DOT tons and was able to sit up during the day. All of which is a great relief to the judge.
 SHOOTING UPON PUBLIC HIGH WAY-On invitation of Deputy Game Warden Pettis, MT. Erickson of Phoe- nix. walked into Judge Parker's court and plead guilty to a complaint lodged against him by J. T Allen, on R. F. D. 4, for shooting upon the public high way. And while this was taking place in Judge Parker's court Deputy Pettis was on his way to Tempe to get in touch with another gentleman charged with the same Offense.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
NO BANNERS
(Continued From Page One)

ing of the cards She believed that the man had struck Mrs. Smith. Armed with the ruler she employees in her bookkeeping, Mrs Morrison hurried to the assistance of Mrs. Smith. It is said she menaced the man who had thrown the cards, threatening to strike him with the ruler. In the scuffle that ensued, the man with the banner be- came involved, and Mrs. Morrison, grabbing hold to the sign still held aloft, proceeded to destroy it.
 Those who had hurried to the as- sistance of the man with the banner caught hold of Mrs. Morrison and in the scuffle that ensued, dragged her out into the street. Some of those who
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
FOREIGN EXCHANGE WEAK

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The weak ress of the foreign exchange which fell to the lowest quotations since the outbreak of the war, was the most significant development in the general financial situation. Cables on London declined to 496h. demand to 496, chiefly as a result of buying New York city notes.
 Grain bills were in better supply. Offerings on cotton bills on Berlin constituted a new feature of the eX- change market, which embraced more activity in francs and pesetas. Cos sip centered largely around the New York city loan and its attendant features
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

witnessed the affair claim that waiter | slapped Mrs. Morrison in the face. She | also sustained several bruises about the ! arms The police, interfering about 1 this time. placed Mrs. Morrison under
 1 arrest and directed that she appear in
 police court.
 1 When Mrs. Smith returned to the {! interior of the cafeteria, followed by Mrs. Morrison, she was followed al
 most immediately by her husband, who
 | arrived at that juncture armed with
 new shot gun. The police observing Smith with gun followed him into his place of business They called to him
 /; to put up the gun and he at once i turned upon them, failing to recognize them as officers because they were without uniform. The officers grappled
 ! with him and proceeded to disarm him. | At the same time they explained they
 were officers
 {, From the opposite side of the estab l lshment Marvin smith saw his father apparently in the hands of a hostile crowd like his parent failing to recog- niZe the officers as such, and he imme- dately covered them with his gun and directed them to throw up their hands, His mother stepped in front of him and told him the men were officers and not to shoot He at once set his gun in a corner Officer Wilkerson, who
 had apparently been the object of young Smiths aim, placed him under arrest. Later in the day he was turned over to the county officers and taken before Justice of the Peace Johnstone
 where he was held in bail to answer a charge of assault with a deadly Wea- pon.
 Previously Smith had gone to the rescue of his mother and Mrs. Morrison believing they were in danger, and had knocked one of the pickets into the street and had agreed to do the same ! with any or all of the others singly. For this he was also placed under ar rest and in police court in the after noon was fined ten dollars by Judge McBride Mrs. Morrison appearing be- fore Judge Mcbride was fined twenty dollars but the fine was afterwards re- mitted
 During the afternoon there were sev- eral demonstrations the pickets con tinuing their work and the man with the banner continuing his march before the place.
 Proprietor Smith last evening gave this statement concerning the trouble between himself and the Cooks and Walters Union.
 Tt is all through an effort on the
 part of the union to compel me to classify my cashiers and salesWomen as walters. As a matter of fact I have no walters Every customer waits upon himself. I made the Cooks and Walters Union this proposition-that if they would submit their scale of wages in writing I would publish it in The Republican and would agree to pay that scale and abide by the hours absolutely. I cannot agree however, to classify my cashiers and saleswomen as Waitresses. I am willing to employ union cooks, but I won't employ union waitresses as have no waitresses. un- ion or non-union, and don't need them in conducting a cafeteria"
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
CONVERSATIONAL CLASSES

Mary Edna Styles, teacher of ex- pression at the Arizona School of Music is forming classes in the art of cOnver- sation the present week. Both the manner and the matter of conversation will receive special attention. This course will include conversation upon books, men, art and current industrial, commercial, philanthropic and sociol- ogcal topics. also topics of local inter- est For information regarding terms etc. call at the Arizona School of Mu
 sic or Phone 9-Advertisement It
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

If you want to sell your Real Estate call up Dick Erdmans & Co.,, Phone 652. We have sold hundreds of prop critics and can also sell yours.-Adver-
 tiSement. ds
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

loo Boxes Extra Large Belle F1eur Apples $1.25; Fancy potatoes, S185; New Shipment Cal Hams, 22c Me kees. br
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

25 per cent off on our line of Rocky Mountain ready mixed Paint. Bennett Co-AdvertiSement.. db
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

TENNIS GOODS. Pinney & Robin. on.-AdvertiSement.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
Of Local Interest,"
STORED WATER SUPPLY

Water service department report for Sept. IT:
 Elevation of water in reservoir
 feet .......... 11760 Contents of reservoir, acre it. .1S5,S0 Less preceding "A hours, acre
 feet ........ ............ 695 Normal flow of Salt and Verde,
 rivers at Granite Reef dam,
 M. I. ..................... 2S,4O0 Normal flow wate.r for lands
 up to year ............... 1886 Amount of water used for irri-
 gation, north side, M. 1. .... 34,9S0 Amount of water used for irrl-
 gation, south side, M. 1. .... 28,610
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

100 Boxes Extra Large Belle Fleur Apples $1.25; Fancy potatoes, $1.S5; New Shipment Cal. Hams, 22c. Me Kee's. br
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
LOCAL WEATHER YESTERDAY

month, A degrees. Accumulated excess in temperature since January l, 345 degrees. Deficiency in rainfall yesterday, .O3 inch.
 Deficiency in rainfall since first of month, .59 inch. Accumulated deficiency in rainfall since January 1, 2.96 inches.
 Data for Tucson Highest temperature yesterday .... 96 Rainfall yesterday ................ Q
 ROBERT R. BRIGGS,
 Section Director.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18

GUNS for rent. Pinney & Robin son.-Advertisement.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
C. w. TOMBSTONE. JR. BETTER

Cheerful reports of the condition of Charley Johnstone, Jr., were given out yesterday at the Sisters Hospital where he is being treated. He is now able to retain solid food in small DOT tons and was able to sit up during the day. All of which is great olI of tA thn ;,,Ir
Arizona republican., 1914-09-18
OFF TO ARMY AND NAVY

CADEMY-Kenneth w. Hultz, who has been spending the summer months with his mother, Mrs. Webb Hultz on the Black Canyon Road left last night for San Diego where he will again represent Phoenix and Arizona at the Army and Navy Academy at Pacific Beach. This is Mr Hultz second year at the school.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
Special Gable to The American.


ROME, Feb. lathe police of
Rome will breathe freer when Mrs.
Ira Nelson Morris and Mrs. John
Hays Hammond have left the Sa-
cred City with their Arabian Nights
display of Jewels,
The police perturbation and the al
women and their gems" began with
the Queen Mothers summons of Mrs.
Morris to the Quirinal, there to dis
play her wonderful collection to Mar
gherita.
II eliminated when Mrs Hammond
and Mrs. Morris daZ2led the Court
BAH with a $4,000 glory of glitter
To these matters the local press
and the foreign papers have given
such publicity that some of the keen
est and most INSCRIPTIONS thieves in
the world have gathered in Rome,
and the police have the time of. their
lives watching and guarding the
owners of this fortune in gems.
What Queen Margherita wanted
most to see was Mrs. Morris neck
lace of uncut emeralds, each huge
stone set separately and connected by
hand made links. The necklace was
part of the collection of an Indian
Maharajah, who sold it to Mrs. Nor
ris, and Queen Margherita, who has
some remarkable emeralds OF her
own, confessed that she possessed
nothing to approach those of the
American woman.
Among other tritles which the wife
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
ASQU|TH HOUSE
TAKEN FOR YEAR
by LADY CUNARD
Mrs. Page Sees King Open Par
liament-American Visitors
FIocking to India.
Special Cable to The American

LONDON, Feb 14.-Lady Crr,
formerly Miss Maud Burke. Of Na u
York, has taken No. 20 CayapSi.wS
square\ for the year. The homsa
which belongs tosMrs. Asouith n,isa
of the Prime Minister, is one Of the
finest examples of Georgian decorae
ton in London
Mrs. Page, wife of the Ameroor
Ambassador, with her husband VII; WI"
messed for the first time an opening ~
Parliament by the King. She wore u
velvet dress in shades of imperial mn,
pie, with pearl and diamond orna.
ments.
Miss Marie Corelli is to be the suext
of honor of the Lyceum Club Mondov
at a dinner given by Ambassador and
Mrs. Page. ''N
Mrs. w. B. Leeds, being in dean
mourning for her father, has put a
damper on American entertaining As
she is an acknowledged leader of the
smart coterie of Anglo Americans tho
members out CT respect for her ara
keeping quiet temporarily.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Wood Rpss
have gone to Paris. where Mr. Bliss IL
to resume his duties as secretary of
the American Embassy.
Henry Dunstan Baker, American
Consul at Bombay, who is now in
London on vacation, told The Amer
lean correspondent day that India
as a winter resort for Americans was
growing rapidly in popularity
1T is really remarkable the num-
Der Of American tourists who are Wis.
iting India this winter" he said. They
even outnumber the English visitors
and their influence is strongly felt
For instance, hotels have begun 10
make many improvements demanded
by Americans"
Among the prominent Americans
recently visiting Bombay, Consul Ba-
ker said. were Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Letter, of Chicago; ex-Speaker Can
mons two dauehters and son-in-law,
Mr.. Leseur and former Congressman
w. B. Mckinley. of Illinois.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
Present Session Promises to
@k Beginning of New PoIiti-
cal Era in England.
WOULD ABOLISH ENTIRE ARMY
Tories, Although Hopeless, viii
Contest Home Rule in Ire
land to the Finish.
Bv PHILIP EVERETT.
iai Gable to The American.

Special Gable TO The American.
LONDON, Feb. 14.-Parliament mas
begun a session which can not help
but leave it's mark upon English his
tory not only because IL will see the
birth of home rule for Ireland and
the passage Of at least one other I'M
portant law--that Of Welsh dlSestab-
lishment-but because it viii marx
the beginning Of a new political era
in England
The first results OF the Parliament
act having been accomplished, the
next step Of the Government will be
to propose reform OF the House of
Lords which viii make that anti
quated chamber somewhat more up TO
date.
Tories to Fight.
There are undoubtedly a great
many people IN England who would
like to see the hereditary Lords ca
rcer as legislators come 10 an end
right now. but even Lloyd George
will hardly dare propose such thing
and the people Of England will have
to be satisfied with a less radical re-
form ANYTHING, indeed, which viii
change the present House of Lords
from a body. the only purpose OF
to block the way Of progress, into one
which. al least partly, is in touch with
the people. viii be a blessing
The home rule fight promises 10 be
interesting to the very last. for al
though the Tories realized long ago
their cause was hopeless, they viii
go down fighting Sir Edward Car
son. who Is as fierce as ever, is still
ranting about civil war and of his
500 machine guns and 100000 armed
men that he has under his command
at Belfast, but as | have said often
before, no one believes that his
promised civil war will amount TO
much more than one OF these merry
fights so dear to the hearts Of Ma
tionalists and Orangemen alike.
Money Bill Up.
Nothing more is heard Of the
threat made in some of the Tory pa
pers short while ago that as n last
resort the conservative leaders would
ask the House of Lords to throw out
the annual army bill. which the Lords
have the constitutional power and
right to do, and II has probably been
realized that such an action on the
part of the Tories might prove very
dangerous boomerang.
BY defeating this bill the House Of
Lords would deprive England of her
whole army, which would Immediate
~. officers and ALL become a body
unauthorized under the Constitution.
This would, of course. rob the Gov
eminent of the troops that may be
needed to maintain order in Ulster
and place Ireland at the mercy of Sir
Edward Carson's bloodthirsty volun-
tcers. but a party that is constantly
maintaining that England is ever
Iastingly in danger of being swal
lowed up by the ferocious and greedy
Teutons could not very well abolish
The whole English army, leaving the
country at jhe mercy OF the German
Invader, who is supposed to be wait
ing for just such a chance. So the
matter stands at this time.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
WIDOW LEAVES
HERS1,000,000
CROWN BEHIND
Mrs. vanVoIkenburgh Homeward
Bound Minus BaubIe Which
Troubled Diplomats.
Special Gable to The American.


PARIS, Feb 14.-Leaving behind
her a new million dollar diamond
crown, which last week almost be-
came the subject of diplomatic pour
parlers, Mrs. Philip VanVolkenburgh
suddenly sailed Wednesday on the
kron Prinzessin Ceceilie in a rush for
Putnam, Conn, to comply with the
final formalities necessary to obtain
the divorce decree against her hus-
band.
When informed recently by a Rus
sian grand duke that the finest crown
in the world was that worn by the
Czarina, the ten million dollar wild
ow," as she is known over here, i'm
mediately dispatched a leading Paris
jeweler to st. Petersburg to make a
faithful copy of the Czarina's crown.
regardless of cost, and when the bill
of Sl,000,000 was presented to Mrs.
VanVolkenburgh she paid it without
a murmur
Paris society first saw the copy of
the imperial crown at a Turkish En-
bassy reception, where it made a bril-
liant throng of diplomats and their
wives gasp.
When, however, a day or two later
Mrs. VanVolkenburgh again wore II
to an affair at the German Embassy,
the diplomats held a hurried confer =
ence in the ante-room as to whether
it was polite to allow an American
widow to continue to wear replica
of the Czarina's crown, but they came
to the conclusion that her dazzling
headpiece did not Infringe the comfy
of nations, although she will never
be permitted to display it at the Rus
sian court.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
Mrs Morris and Mrs. Hammond Share in Glory
of $2O00,000 Display at State Ball.

of the Chicago packer showed the
Italian Queen were these:
A rope of pearls and diamonds
worth 100000.
A rope of emeralds worth $4,000.
A single emerald, once among the
crown jewels of Maharajah of In
dia, worth $4,000.
Eardrops of immense pearls worth
$4,000.
Necklace of pearls worth $4,000.
A diamond necklace, also purchased
of the Maharajah of the emeraldS,
and valued at 100000.
Most of those pretty things Mrs.
Morris wore at the state ball while
Mrs. Hammond wore the famous
jewels which she assembled for the
ceremonies attending the coronation
of King George, at which her husband
was Special Ambassador from the
United States. The great tiara, all
diamonds and emeralds. with bril-
liant rays extending from the CEN
trail band much in the style of the
rays about the head of Bartholdi's
Liberty, the great stomacher and the
necklace, all fashioned from the same
jewels, had lost none of their splen-
dor. Mrs. Hammond wore as pen
dants from her earrings eardrops
which We're once worn by Catherine
IL of Russia. Those gems collective
ly meant a value of millions of
dollars.
Is it any wonder the thieves found
their nimble fingers itching and that
the police kept their eyes open?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
England May Have
Great Radium Mines
Pitchblende in Cornwall Found by
Sir William Ramsay to
Have Value.
Special Gable to The American.

Special Gable to The American.
LONDON, Feb. 14.-England may
yet prove to be the richest producer of
radium ore in the world. Possibili-
ties are row opening which scientists
surely dreamed of few days ago.
Pitchblende was discovered ever so
long ago in the Trenwith tin mine,
Cornwall, but it is only quite lately
that one of EnglandS most eminent
scientists. Sir William Ramsay, and
his assistant, chemist, Mr.. Whitehouse,
have really got down to work there
Now radium is being turned out in a
dingy back street in Limehouse, Lon
don 1t is valued at $3,750,O00 an
ounce
1t is anticipated that at the end of
March an output of something like
1000 milligrams year, valued at $50
milligram, will be placed upon the
market.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
Mittens for Men Are
Popular in London
Special Gable to The American.

LONDON, Feb 14.-Mittens as a de-
tail of mems evening dress are a Curl
Gus innovation, or revival, here.
A correspondent, in letter to a daily
paper, says: MANY elderly people are.
of course, wearing mittens just now,
owing to the GOLD weather, but / have
noticed several men, by no means old,
wearing these 'grandmother's comfort
ers' out of doors.
At a West End theater this week a
man, about so years of age, took seat
in the stalls. l noticed, as he read his
program, that he was wearing black
mittens of a fine wooden material. They
covered the fingers of his hand up to
the middle joint. and, as he dallied with
a monocle, the effect was certainly
rather pleasing"