Arizona republican., 1921-08-05
REALTORS MEErINc-rhe ne:


 regular meeting of the Salt River Realtors association will be held at the American Kitchen on Monday noon, Aug. 8. John J. Phillips will be chairman of the day. Fred Tait and Walter Hayden will be the speakers.
 TO RETURN TODAY n Colonel Hanigan, inspector instructor of the national guard for Arizona and New Mexico. will return this morning from his vacation at Ramona, Cal. He will heneeforth have some assist ance in Sergeant Inspector J. B. Eel met. who is enroute here from Eagle Pass, Tex.
 ARRAIGNED ON cHARGE-Pearl | Skelton yesterday was arraigned be- fore Justice Nat T. Mckee on a charge of grand larceny. The pre- | liminary hearing was set for Aug. 9 and he was committed to the county l jain under a bond of $500. He is 1 charged by D. L. Morrison with talk 1 ing s90 worth of machinery from the 1 Portland Cement company.
 l GOES FOR PRlsONER-a. C
 Parson, deputy sheriff. left las. night i for Flagstaff to bring E. J. Stillson
 to Phoenix, where he is wanted on
 charge of grand larceny. He is being
 held in Flagstaff for the local au- I thorities. Enroute back, Deputy Par l sons will stop at Prescott to get 1 c. M. Roberts, charged with passing l bogus checks. who is unGer arrest in ] Prescott.
 l COTTON GROWERS MEET-The I cotton growers Of the valley heldJ a I meeting with Immigration ComEis- sioner Mines Wednesday night on
 the matter of the prIce of cotton picking the coming season. A little 1 while ago it was understood that the
 price would be cents a pound. But I the growers are not sure of that: 1t
 will depend upon the future course of cotton in the market ana the action
 of congress with respect to tariff
 on cotton Accordingly it. was de-
 cided to put this subject over Tor
 developments. s
 i NEW RECORD MELoN-Water-
 melons, each bigger and better than
 the one that has preceded it, continue
 to come into the chamber of com merce. the latest being a 51-pound beauty brought in by J. ". Haskell of the Heffner- Haskell ranch at Higley
 The melon was grown on new land Il A new pumping plant has been 1n- r stalled on this ranch and about q , quarter section is being farmed this , year with various crops. The owners , plan to put in large acreage in , grapes next year.
 INSPEcTS BATTERY-A Adjutant | General Ingalls, returned from Flag l | staff more than ever pleased with the 5 battery company there, the armory : and the general equipment. The pat tery has 32 horses, all black. The 2 | stabling facilities are excellent sbu ? these horses have to be fed and there will shortlS be requisition for so,oo' 5 pounds of hay. 10000 pounds of oat' 2 and 24,000 pounds of straw. Ihl' e requisition will go to the mlhia pu. reau and it will be accompanied D. e a recommendation to give Arizons a merchants an inside chance Fl ASK REDucTlON--A delegation h of lIaricopa county taxpayers ap Q reared before the state board o
 equalization yesterday in the matte : of the irrigated lands of this county e urging a 25 per cent reduction Iron t the previous assessment. The mem n bers of the delegation were John : Norton. Dave Goldberg, Supervisor d J. R. Bradshaw and Guy Vernon. Cit, : Manager Thompson, City Assesso y Trevillian and Commissioner Barnett l, The same subject had been presente' e at the tax conference at Nosales, S l, that it's presentation yesterday Wa J fo,'mal.
 d CASE DIsMIssED-The case Q y the Arizona Packing company agains d the Apache railway seeking reduc s ton in the rate on livestock. ha | been dismissed for the reason tha Ie it has been discovered that tn
 Apache line did not raise or attemp to raise it's rates under the recen | ruling of the interstate commerc
 commission allowing an increase of
 per cent. Only four other small rail | roads in the state are in the sam J class They are the Ray & Gil
 Valley, the Arizona & Swansea tn v Mascot & Western and the Verd 'el Tunnel and Shelter. The last tw d named. however. were granted an in l. crease by the Arizona corporatio ot commission.