Arizona republican., 1920-09-28

SUES FOR Charging desertion, Christ P Lee yesterday brought suit against Maude Blake Lee for decree of divorce. He says they were married at Fl Reno, Okla. in De cember, 1913
 WATCHMAN ILL-Henry Johnson night watchman for the Phoenix Ma tional bank. is confined to his home with a severe cold and was unable to assume hls duties at the bank last night.
 PURCHASES HOME HERE-P. D L. McLaurin, agency organizer for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance company and formerly of Albuquerque, has pur- chased home at S33 North Fifth ave- nue. MT. McLaurin will be associated with the southwestern agency of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance com pany of this city.
 IN LOCAL AGENCY-F. B. Schwent- ker, formerly of Albuquerque, where he has been general agent for the Pa cific Mutual Life Insurance company for the past seventeen years, has ar rived in Phoenix and is in charge of the southwestern agency in the Hotel Ad- ams building. MT. Schwentl5er is at present established in the Harry Ken nedy residence at COP North First ave- nue.
 R Q o M NC coMMITTEE-The chamber of commerce will soon have working room committee, the duties of which will be to provide housing and hotel facilities for visitors in Phoe- nix during state fair week. early in November. This committee will have as members the same people who have served on the committee last year. The list was not available yesterday, but will be announced at an early date, 1t " ha nf - merce.
 RATE HEARING ToDAY-The ap- plication of the American Express company for a 25 per cent increase in rates will be heard before the corpora tion commission today. The hearing has been set for 10 o'clock this morn ing. Among those who will testify will be Traffic Manager Lockwood of the western division, who arrived from San Francisco yesterday
 ON BENCH WARRANT George Morren yesterday was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Harry Diehl on a bench warrant charging him with contempt of court and was placed in the county jail to await a hearing before Judge Stanford today. Some time ago Mar tina Morrell was granted decree of divorce from Morre1l by Judge Stan ford, and Morrell ordered to pay her $30 a month alimony and the lawyer fees at the rate of s10 month. He failed to do so, it is alleged and the bench warrant was issued for contempt of court.
 SEEKING FOR soN-Lee Blake is requested by his father to come home as his mother Is very i'll and wants him. When last heard of young Blake was working at the Gillispie dam. He is described as being 22 years of age, feet inches tall, weight 132 pounds. hi 11lf hs-Nr 1t-~I,% | complexioned, and wore a brown suit and a panama hat. Any one knowing of his whereabouts is asked to notify the sheriff's office or F. A. Blake, route No. i, PhoeniS.
 PUPILS ExTINGUISH FIRE = Quick work on the part of the pupils at the Roosevelt school yesterday after noon about 1 o'clock probably saved the school building from destruction by fire. Papers and other trash which had accumulated underneath the floor by being either poked through the ventilator gratings by pupils or blown in by the wind caught fire in some manner and threatened the building. The pupils used a garden hose and put out the blaze before the Phoenix fire department arrived. The floor in the second grade was burned slightly The amount of the damage was small. Sheriff Montgomery and Deputy Sher- if Jim Troutman went to the school but arrived after the fire was out
 IN POLICE cOURT-only s48 was taken in yesterday at the regular Mon day afternoon session of the police court. Judge Thomas found A. C. Thomas guilty of driving a motor ve- hicle with the cut-out open and fined him S10. George s. DeLuna was found guilty of gathering garbage without a permit and paid s10 into the city treas ury. J. H. Foster was found guilty of speeding and assessed $10 while An- tonic Cias forfeited a s10 bail for his appearance yesterday afternoon on a charge of drunkenness. Harry I-iplxer foreifted a bond of $1O for his appear ance on a charge of. drunkenness and D. Chamber forfeited a $3 bond for hfs appearance for riding a wheel on the sidewalks.
 SUES OVER CANAL - Declaring that they have taken possession of a canal and damsite which is his prop erty, L. c. Lennox yesterday brought suit against the New St. Johns Canal company ct al, asking that they be re. strained by temporary injunction from interfering with the water in the canal immediately and asks that it~be made permanent on the hearing of the suit. He alleges he is the owner of a ditch known as the Orange Belt of St. Johns canal, Il miles southwest Of Phoenix on the Salt river which fur nishes irrigation water to his land. The defendant he says, has taken pos session of the canal and refuses to permit him to have water for irriga- tfon. He declares he will suffer much damage unless he can secure water with which to irrigate his cotton at once.