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turned verdict for the defendant.
 Mrs. Steel alleged that she was knocn- ed down and run over by the automo- bile driven by Fink. JL-sge Lyman sal in the case.
 PROMINENT MINING MAN - F.. H. Wilson, an attorney of New fofk City and irtei ested in mining in Arl- zona and New Mexico, is in Pho eniX for a day or two on business. lie IS stopping at the Hotel adams. Air. Wll- son was visitor yesterday at the state house.
 RIFLE PRACTICE Members of Company C of the police reserves afe requested to meet at the armory at o'clock Sunday morning, in order to attend rifle practice, which will be held at the Rifle club range on Me- Dowell road.
 CORRECT LlST.-In the announced list of chairmen for the womans work section for the Liberty loan. serious error was made. The chairman for ward two is Mrs. Selm Nicholson ant! women in this ward who wish to aid
 or who want information, can com municate with her and receive instruc-
 tions or information as the case may be.
 APPEAL CASE - Two appealed cases came up before the stote supreme court yesterday. That vr Ge 1rge fAIrk .
 land and J. l.. Williams vs. A. E. | Spriggs, appealed from Maricopa county, was argued and submitted. The case of J. H. MoXey and others against the board of supervisors of Yuma county was submitted on briefs. TWO OF SAME NAME-William of
 is regretting that there is another man
 in Maricopa county who bears the
 selfsame rame. The other Higgins re-
 gently appeared in court proceedings,
 the case having to do with the alleged
 lest love of his wife. The MT. HiS- gins Of Sixth street is d perfectly good married man, he says, and ideally happy with his wife.
 AGREEMENT REACHED - Mrs Maria Blancarte, who brought sdis against the Union Bason Mining com pany which she charges is responsi- ble for the death Cf her husband was given judgment for $5,150, the amount for which sine sued. Counsel for the plaintiff and defendant in Judge Stan ford S court yesterday stated that an agreement had been reached and upon motion of the plaintiff s attorney the older for judgment was made.
 DENY HOG RUMOR-Food Admin istrator T. A. Riordan has a telegram tiom the national offices specifically denying a Chicago report that an ar bitrary reduction of $l0 is intended in hog prices. This is absolutely untrue. The food administration will take no steps to Jeopard diZe the interests of i've stock producers. "All ou- pN'''0' I,o at alhed and governmental puicAs-ses ...e made on plan that gives assured re- turn of cost and profit to producers of meat animals. In our opinion, the best market obtainable at present for the corn crop of the country will be through livestock. We need increased production of beef and pork. The only way to secure this increase will be by profit on production"
 FRATERNlZE WITH NORTH - Secretary lac au of the state fair commission left last night for few days visit in Prescott and Flagstaff. The object Of his trip is to farther accelerate the campaign in behalf of the big state fair which is now rolling along very satisfactorily. He viii at tend the northern Arizona fair al Prescott and interchange ideas with it's management, all the time keeping a weather eye open for the high lights and the best exhibits, with the gentle and constant urge that the big show should be moved along as nearly as possible en masse to the state fair grounds. hearty spirit of co-opera-
 tion exists between the state fair ana all the earlier sectional exhibits as all are working for the same big ends and doing all they San 10 help each other