Arizona republican., 1918-05-03

mentS.
 TO HEAR coNTRoVERsY-Com- plaint having been filed with the state loan board concerning the leasing of certain land in Graham county, the board yesterday set June at 10 o'clock a. m., for the hearing of the contro- versy at the state house.
 ATTENTION, WooDMEN.-Mem- bers of Phoenix camp, No. 11462, Mod ly requested by those in charge to meet at thme K. of P. hall at o'clock Saturday evening in order to take part in the parade.
 CHANGES HANDS.-The Franklin hotel, corner Adams and Second street, is now under new management. Mrs. l.. Brown is the proprietor now in charge. The hotel is being refurnished throughout with new furniture and one of the new features will be elec- tffc fans in each room.
 J. c. ADAMS GOES BASIL. c. Adams left last night for New York to meet his son-in-law, Foster Rockewell, who is in the Red Cross service and has been ordered to France. Mrs. Rockwell and her mother, Mrs. Adams, are in Washington where Mrs. Rock well is also engaged in war work.
 CHARGES DAMAGE = Charging that he allowed the waste water from his place to flood their property to the destruction of five acres planted in long staple Egyptian cotton, L. E. Seeber and w. L. Seeber are suing Y. Yoshinouchi for $1,000 damages. The case is being tried before jury in Judge Lyman's court, the plaintiff be- ing represented by F. H. Swensen and fhn dnfnndonf 1N1yC rl yUoo1f LIEUTENANT COMAN.-Lieuten- ant James L. Conan of Camp Kearny will arrive home this morning on a few days furlough for a visit with his parents, MT. and Mrs. B. Conan, north of the city. Lieutenant Conan, who is a graduate of the local high school, where he took prominent part in athletics, has many friends in the city Who will welcome his return.
 RECITAL SATURDAY-A recital will be given at the Arizona School of Music tomorrow afternoon by young | pupils from the piano, violin, express slon, and dancing departments. The l program, which will begin at 3:3O o'clock, is open to the public without 1 charge. The management is more | than glad to have visitors and friends I or the pupils attend and remark the | progress being made in teaching the youthful musicians.
 PUMP COUPLING LoST-Wheu the big American La France pump al | Central fire station was sent out the other morning to answer the call for heip from Mesa, its complement was complete. When the machine rolled into the station an hour later it was discovered that valuable brass coup ling which had been carried on the tootpoard was missing. It had evil deptly dropped from the machine While the long run was being made Now Captain David Mercer is anxious that the finder of this coupling notify nlm or return it to the Central sta tion.
 CASE IS DIsMISsED.-Fred Rich. ards was arrested yesterday by Po- lieeman Strathy after he had narrow ly missed running his motorcycle into a machine at Second avenue and Washington street. A charge of reck. less driving was lodged against him when he appeared in police court yes- terday afternoon he appeared so peni- tent and so anxious to observe the law Tn the future that he was allowed tf go with a warning from Acting City
 Magistrate Trevillian.
 1 DECREE GRANTED-Sensati charges were made by husband an,
 wife in the divorce case of Mrs. Ellel
 Balden versus w. H. Balden, whicl
 was heard in Judge Stanford's cour yesterday. Misconduct was charged b
 both although the wife asked for a de
 cree on the ground of desertion an, non-support. In granting Mrs. Baldel the decree the court made an equa distribution of the property and gay
 the mother the custody of her 13-year
 old son.
 CITY TAXES DUE.-The period i, } which the last half of the present in , stailment of city taxes may be pail } without delinquency fee added ex pires on Wednesday, May 8. Afte that time the penalty will attach. Ia Collector Baptist said yesterday tha l payments are being made at this tim
 Tn surprisingly good order and tha
 when the final day comes he expects t
 see the books pretty well cleared a I 10 this year. In order to do this, how 2 even not few property owners wi nave to visit the city hall within tn i. next few days.
 V STOLEN CAR FOUND.-w c. Pol 2 ing reported to the police some day
 ago that his new Ford car had bee
 stolen from the Christian church. Yes i terday R. L. Tyson reported that a ne, ford was standing near the river bot
 tom some distance north of the ol Tempe road, two and a half miles eas ol central avenue. Chief Brisbois an a Deputy Sheriff Charles Nafziger wen
 out and brought the car in. When
 was examined it was found to be Pol z ings missing car. It was in goo . shape except for mud and sand. EIGHTH GRADE ExAMS-Eight
 grade examinations throughout tn
 county will be held May 15-16, accord : ing to the announcement made yestel a day by A. H. Fulton, county school su
 perlntendent. Despite the fact ths
 schools close on different dates tf i examinations will be held at the san . time. Superintendent Fulton state
 yesterday that he advocated the pla
 whereby all the schools have the san & opening date in the autumn whether f or g months schools, in order that tf