Arizona republican., 1915-09-25
RETURNING FROM THE COAST

''@ SFhiNiiN1 ThOm SOA0t Frank Hilderbran is expected in town today from San Diego.
 GARTH CATE BAck-Mr and Mrs. Garth w. Cate have returned from a motor vacation spent in the north of the state.
 MINIMUM GAS RATE-The cor poration commission yesterday fixed a. monthly minimum charge for the Douglas Gas Corporations The min imum was fixed at 75 cents per month.
 FLORAL ENcAMPMENT - Floral encampment No. ?, r. O. O. F. will have short 7 business session and work in the Golden Rule degree this evening. All visiting patriarchs are invited to attend.
 DRIVES FROM FLAGSTAFF = Carl Dickinson, driving his big Packard car, came overland from Flagstaff. arriving here yesterday.
 He will remain here for week or ten days, the guest of friends SALWAY PEACHES Some fine Salway peaches were donated to tffe exhibit department of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday by William , F.. Thomas. The supply of such ex- hibit material is running low, and with the state fair coming on some replacements are necessary. Also, d | big consignment was sent to Denver l for the International Dry Farm Con- gres..
 PARTICULAR PRINTER T. G. Puckett, a well known printer, at one
 time connected with The Republican, has branched out for himself, estab-
 fishing a printing establishment at
 
 himself Particular Printer,' and he has the reputation to back it up. He carries the union label and is alto gether in shape to make a success of lis venture.
 | PARDON BOARD MEEr'NG-The board of pardons and paroles will meet in Phoenix this morning to con- slider the case of a bootlegger, who is serving sentence in the Greenlee county jail. The man was tried and convicted on two charges. the second sentence to begin on the expiration of the first next Monday. Applica- = ltion has been made for clemency on account of the prisoners age. INSTANCES OF LlBERALlTY-The call of Humane Officer Canning for clothing and other supplies for the needy has been heard all over the state when he expected that only the people of Phoenix would respond. They have ] responded libcrally. But he was sur prised yesterday when he received two packages of clojhing by parcels post. one from Higley and the other from l far-off Seligman.
 PROTEST ADVANCE Protest against a proposed advance in the rate on poultry and stock food from Chicago to Arizona points was for warded yesterday by the corporation commission to the interstate com merce commission. The commission also asked for suspension of a pro- posed change in the tarirf winch would do away with the shipment of windmills and gasoline. engines in mixed carloads. thereby advancing the rate. The proposed advances are to become effective about the middle of october unless suspended
 THE EccENTRIcITY OF A JURY It is hard to say what a jury will do until it has been done as was proved again in Justice De Souza g court. In the case of Zuniga against ? Johnson, the jury after brief delfbera = tion returned a general verdict for the plaintiff who had sued to re- cover $4S.75 and had assessed the costs equally between the plaintiff and the defendant Before the jury had left the court the attorney fol the plaintiff called the attention oi the court to the general form of the verdict and suggested that it be made more definite. The jury was recalled and the defect of the verdict wa: pointed out. The jury went into SC. cret session again and when the yer dict was again presented it was de finite enough to meet the former ob- jections of the counsel for the de fense but it was even less satisfac- tory than it had been in it's origina form. It read: We the jury finC (nothing) for the plaintiff. etc" The iattorney moved for a new trial on the
 ground that the verdict was contrary Ito the law and the evidence anC especially contrary to the instruc
 lions of the court.