Arizona republican., 1921-02-26
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A ANN" HERE FROM FLoRENcE-George F. Trueman of Florence is iii Phoenix for few days on business.
 ISSUES BANK CALL Charles Fairfield state auditor and Super1n- tendent of banks. has issued bank cal for statement of business as of Fehruary 21, of all state banks.
 ATTENDING M. E. CONFERENCE Miss Frances Cross and Miss Alice Chapment, connected with the voca tional educational department of the state. are in Tucson attending the Methodist conference. They will be absent until Tuesday.
 ILLINOIS COUPLE IN CITY-Fred C. Mortimer well known politician of Springfield, Ill.,. arrived in Phoenix to- day with his wife, and will spend sev- eral weeks as a guest at the Hotel Adams
 TO INSPECT WILLIAMS COM PANY-Col. John J. Boniface, senior inspector instructor of the national Colorado left last evening for Will Hams, where he win inspect Company B, 15Sth infantry, with view of fed eral recognition.
 CALLED BY MOTHERS DEATH Burt Wingar. head of the bookkeeping department of the board of directors of state institutions, left yesterday for Corona, Cal. where he was called by the death of his mother.
 VALUE ESTATE AT $2,0o0 = Peti- ton for letters of administration was | filed yesterday in the estate of Jennie c. Jeffries, who died in Maricopa county February 16. 1921 by Elmer D. I Jeffries. The estate consists of real and personal property to which the pe- | titioner gives the value of s2,000.
 1 COMMITTEE TO MEET-The cot l ton growers organization committee l and the temporary board of directors of the new cotton growers association, l representing every part of the Salt E;.ver valley, will meet at the Y. M. .. A., at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
 GUESTS OF HONOR AT DINNER l-Robert J. Pritchard, Alice Knight and
 Anna McDonough, all former editors of "The Student the school paper of the Tempe normal school, were guests lof honor at dinner given at the Adams hotel Thursday evening The dinner
 was presided over by Prof. John R.
 Mnrdock. president of the school. and Habotft-36 -guests-Twere present.
 I SON OF SENATOR KNOX HERE
 Hugh $. Knox. son of Senator Philan- der C. Knox of Pennsylvania, with his
 wife is a guest at the Hotel Adams,
 where they expect to remain for sew C.
 are quite well known in Phoenix
 where they have spent many of their
 winters, and are being extensively en-
 tertained by their friends while here T NEW DEPUTY SHERIFF-Due to
 the resignation of Deputy Sheriff Al 1 Dewitt, Sheriff John Montgomery has
 appointed Paul Jones, formerly taller
 of the county jail, to succeed MT. De
 Witt. Capt. J. Cleveland has been ap-
 pointed jailer in the place of MT, Jones and will have the shift from g
 in the morning until in the afternoon.
 MT. Dewitt has not decided yet what
 business he will go into
 FINED FOR GAMBLING - Getting
 a whiff of opium on the early morning
 breeze, Captain Sutherland and Officer
 Frazier of the police force followed
 the trail yesterday until they found
 sam Farrell and B. F. Hall. negroes,
 in a little pasteboard party at 21S
 East Madison street Failing to find
 any opium the officers arrested the
 two men and charged them with gam
 bling. They were eound guilty in po-
 lice court yesterday afternoon and
 each fined S25.
 TO INVESTIGATE COMPANIES The corporation commission. yesterday
 set March as the date for it's inves- tigation into the affairs of the Arizona
 Storage and Distributing company ano the Chambers Transfer company The : investigation has to do with the clas- . sification, rules regulations ant charges made and collected for stor- age and handling of property. Com. plaints of patrons brought the matter to the attention of the commission who some time since ordered hearing
 ASKS $10.o0o FOR BOYS INJU | RlES-Declaring that he sustained in | juries to the extent of $10,000 when h. | was attacked and nearly killed by | ram, Jesus Andreaga, a Swear -ol, boy. through his guardian, Nellie Ma | wod yesterday brought suit agains ' H. C. Gilbert asking for a Judgment l. The complaint alleges the boy wa II picking cotton for Gilbert when tn | ram knocked him down and butted hin | about the head. As result of the at tack, the complaint states the boy . mind has become deranged and he ha . been permanently injured
 HELD ON SERIOUS CHARGES = | William Evans, negro, yesterday wa | held to answer to the superior cour | by Justice Henry J. Sullivan after
 hearing on two charges of robbery an ' one charge of assault with intent
 commit statutory offense. He als \ was arraigned on a second charge ( \ assault with intent to commit a statu | tory offense and the date of the heal
 ing on this charge was set for ne,
 Wednesday. Evans was committed II the county jail when he failed to fun V nish bonds of s3,000. The complain - were made by two women who allee - Evans held them up last Sunday nigI
 and then attempted to drag them int | vacant lots nearby Both women e. | iCIa :