Arizona republican., 1917-05-22

Madison streets. Before medical aid could be summoned was dead. The body was removed to the Moore and Mcclellan undertaking parlors.
 SHRINE TEMPLE-H. A. Morgan of Wilcox, imperial potentate of the Shrine, together with Neil Bailey of Jerome, is here in Phoenix in connec tion with a conference of the building committee of the Shrine. Matters per taining to the Shrine Temple are pro gressing rapidly.
 MILD CAVE .MAN-Refugio Domin- guez is a mild sort of q cave l4l1 Lochinvar and the officers are lookinS for him. On Sunday he visited h.. sweetheart near Glendale, whose par entS are not strong for him and per suaded her to leave with him. No trac' has since been discovered of their whereabouts.
 FOUR MARIHUANAITS iN-Four young MeXicans found in possession of marihuana were before Police Magis- trate Frank Thomas yesterday. They were given suspended sentences of ten days each and warned thAt a second arrest on a like charge would result in another sentence. in addition to that originally passed.
 NO NQUEST-Ramon Serna. who had long been sufferer Of tubercu- losis, died in the street near his home at Second and Jackson streets yes terday morning, following hemor- rhage The circumstances of his death and the fact that he had long been i'll and under the care of a physician having been made known to Justice Wheeler no inquest was found necessary.
 MRS. GRAHAM DIES-J. w. Ora ham last night received a message from Miami stating that the wife of his son, Mortie Graham, had just died. Mrs Graham will leave for Globe this morn ing by stage. A few days ago word was received that all hope of recovery of the younger Mrs. Graham had been abandoned. She had been in the hos pital at Miami for several weeks.
 GOES TO WESTINGHOUSE. A. Jones. chairman of the state corpora tion commission, will leave Phoenix on | Thursday of this week for Washington where he will represent the state of Arizona in the coming rate hearing, at which time the railroads will endeavor to convince the interstate commerce commission that they should be per- mitted to advance their freight rates 15 per cent. MT. Jones will oppose
 the advance until after there has been a general adjustment of rates within Arizona.
 VANADIUM MEETING POST PONEO-An informal meeting of the stockholders of the United States Va nadium Development company had beer called for this evening at o'clock Re cent developments have made it ad Visable to postpone the meeting one
 week. A new call was issued for next Tuesday evening at o'clock at the office of the president, Dr. E. Payne Palmer, third floor of the Goodrich bnilding. All stockholders are urged to keep this date in mind and to be in at tendance
 CAUSES coMMoTioN-A woman who was so irrational that Deputy Sheriff Sam Rhodes was unable to get i her name was brought to Phoenix yes -terday from camp twenty of the South l west Cotton company. During the af- | ternoon, armed with a butcher knife she chased her daughter about the camp and help was summoned. She l finally became quiet, gave up the knife and came to town without objection | Her mental condition will be invest gated.
 | SOMEWHERE IN ToNTo-writing from somewhere in the Tonto basin,
 C. A. King and Frank Currens, popular l printers, who are afield fishing have
 sent their brothers of the craft a most | interesting letter written on the waxet l lining of diverse cracker packa ges | They are having fine sport and a goot
 time but remark that it is rather coo
 where they are. Their missive look.
 very much as though they were ship
 wrecked in Flanders. judging from tn | paper they are using.
 l AFTER RPESTS-Carefuliy conducte,
 tests have recently proved that iron
 ten to fifteen thousand prairie dogs ar
 being killed daily at cost of about on
 1uarter of a cent each by the fielr
 forces employed by the United State
 biological survey in Arizona. It is DOS sible that the work of controlling roden
 pests may be very considerably ex
 ended owing to the great need for in
 creased production of crops and liv
 stock The government wishes to ali,
 every farmer and stockman who is suf
 ering losses from this pest and val
 table assistance may be rendered D
 reporting any losses relative to tn
 growing of crops and the productio
 of forage for live stock to D. A. Gil
 christ of Flagstaff. Arizona who is i