Arizona republican., 1920-09-21

RETURNS FROM EAsT-P. R. Helm, general manager of the Pratt Gilbert vehicle company, has returned froma business trip to eastern cities.
 ARIZONlANS IN SANTA BARBARA Word was received yesterday that among the guests at the Hotel Am bassador, Santa Barbara, Calf.. are lthe following Arizonans: Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Ryan. Phoenix; MT. and Mrs. A. J. Godschmidt, l.. A. Goldschmidt, Mrs. F. Mansfield and Thomas Dewitt TaImage
 HERE FOR WINTER Arthur Scull of Wilton. Iowa. arrived in Phoe- nix yesterday to spend the winter with his brother. John SculI.
 SPECIAL NURSES MEETlNG-A special meeting of graduate nurses will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the nurses home on Polk street.
 ENGINEERS MEET-Phoenix chap ter Of the American Association of En- gneers held it's first meeting of the fall last evening The summers ac- cumulation of business was cleared away and plans land for an Sctive fall and winter The program committee announced it's irtension of bringing several good educational speakers to ] the city this season | COTTON CONSUMPTION Cotton consumption in August was 4S3,o00 bales as against 497 000 the same ] month last year; spndles active de- l creased 275, 5000 from last August; cot ton exports were 146.000 bales as com pared with 47e,0o0 bales in August last year The United States chamber of commerce makes this report which was received yesterday at the Phoenix chamber of commerce.
 l CONTRACT APPROVED-The state l corporation commission yesterday or dered that the contract entered into between the Yuma Gas and Electric ftF.v, fIln rtifx of n reference to the street lighting system there. with specified sizes of lamps and under specified rates. be ap- 1 proved. The contract is to run for two years.
 SUES FOR GES-Declaring I that he suffered damages to the eX- tent of s299999 through injuries to his arm and hand when they accidentally came into contact with a saw. Eutemio 1 Trujillo yesterday brought suit against the Consolidated Copper company for 1 a judgment Trujillo alleges the acci- dent occurred on May 8, 1919 while he was saving certain timbers for the company. A timber became loosened. he says, and struck his.a knocking it into the saw.
 l BACK FROM TAX CONFERENCE Charles R. Howe, member of the state tax commission. returned Satur- day from Salt Lake City, where he at
 tended the convention of the National
 Tax congerence. and where paper by
 him on The Assessment and Taxation
 of Livestock on the Open Range" was
 read. He reports that the convention
 was we'll attended and that definite
 results were attained by it. Commis-
 sioner Zander. who also attended the
 conference, will return some time this
 week.
 GILLETTE RETuRNs-Ben T. Gil . lette has returned from summer va -.4T-
 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Leslie Gill;
 lette was reared in Phoenix and for
 merly was well known as high
 school football star. He is now state
 engineer for the state of New Mexico
 and has under his direction the state highway construction work of that
 state. He represents the state of New
 Mexico in the conferences of the
 League of the Southwest. Ben T. Gill
 lette upon returning found that he had been nominated on the Republican
 ticket as justice of the peace in his precinct.
 SUES RAlLRoAD-Declar tha' as a result of the rough handling oi stock cars by the railroad company he
 lost sheep to the value of $1,360 and
 was forced to buy $500 worth of feed
 w. A. Thomas yesterday brought suit , against Walker D. Hines and the At chison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway company for Judgment. He alleges , that on November g. 1919. he shippel 1,706 head Of sheep from Winslow tC Mesa and says that when the sheel N reached Phoenix on November 2T, 2s of the sheep ware dead. Five more died. he claims. on the way to Mesa ! and the remainder were in such con dition from the trip that he could no herd them on the resert and was forced ! to buy $500 worth of feed for them He says he lost 1000 worth Of lambs Elect Stoddard state senator. adv.1 Elect Stoddard state senator. Adv.1 T -0-