Arizona republican., 1894-10-20
PHGNIX AND YESTERDAY. News of Recent Date and Local
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 A performance will be given tonight at the opera house by the Spani sh Dra matic club.
 The Standard Iron works south of the capitol grounds are now connected with town by telephone 57.
 Jos. Clarkson, chronic vag, was in police court yesterday morning. He got fifteen days on the chain gang.
 Fine samples of fruit from the Ari- zona Improvement company's orchard were brought town yesterday by Mana ger Tait.
 A young girl wanted to assist in light house work. Could if she desired, at tend school. Apply at THE REPUBLICAN office or at Rectory in rear of Episcopal church.
 cure handsomely bound volume by standard author as premium with mere $2 50 purchase. Yet that is what the Alkire Dry Goods and Clothing company is doing.
 The property owner is warned to bear in mind that the city taxes are now due and payable and that Collec- tor Wood is already beginning to figure how long the delinquent list will be.
 The beautiful gifts of books of standard authorship which the Alkire Dry Goods and Clothing company is giving with every $2.50 purchase, are attracting many customers to their store.
 Another hearing of the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation company mat ter will take place in district court today. Representatives of ail the par ties in interest have been in the city for several days.
 The wind of Thursday evening played havoc in the nelghborho hood of Tempe. Southeast of town school house and the house of a colored woman were thrown down, and in town buggy and several small buildings were over turned.
 Francisco Yoles, aged 38. died yeater- day morning in th9 southern part of the city of pneumonia. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon under the direction of w. H. Smith & Go. A child, Dan Siguero, died of brain fever the day before.
 With commendable zeal the Alkire Dry Goods and Clothing company is striving to elevate the literary taste of it's patrons. Books of poetry, prose and philosophy by renowned masters of our language are being given away with each $2.50 purchase.
 An Chung. employed at mining camp north ot the city, was brought to town few days ago suffering from an attack of typhoid fever of three weeks standing. He died day before yester- day. W. H. Smith directed the funeral which was attended by the usual devil soaring cere monies.
 On Thursday night as quartet of Democratic orators Were fioundering along in the mud and rain toward Peoria they met a man going in the opposite direction and one of them said to him: "If you meet the fool killer anywhere along the road tell him to hurry up. There's business here for him."
 The washout on the Maricopa and Phoenix was found to be more exten- sive yesterday morning than was ex- pected. The train ran out again yester- day afternoon but the gap was not re- paired and it returned to the city. Work was continued on the gap last night. The train will leave for Mericopa at o'clock this morning.
 The school house at Glendale was filled last night by nearly all the voters Tn that district. The occasion was a Republican rally at which the principal speaker was Hon. JohnY.T T. Smith. Oth- CT speakers were the candidates for the county offices. The addresses were re- ceived with loud and frequent applause. The Dbpaniv al, tuted pleasing feature of the meeting.
 There is one Spartan father living on the Pima reservation near Tempe. He is the father of Pedro Johnson, the In. dian student horsethief who escaped from Chas. Genung at Wicken berg a few days ago. Pedro struck out straight for the reservation. AS soon as he reached home his father bundled him up and started to jail. The father says Pedro is bad boy and ought to be punished.
 The following transfers of real estate were yesterday entered for record Wm. Limbrook, ST., guardian of Wm. Linn brook, Jr., deed under an order of sale from probate court, to Geo. Benia- min, lot 23 and e115 lot 21 in block Is Grand Avenue addition; Chas Gold man wife to Alice Maud Stroud lot 4, block 4, Churchill's addition, $500; Mary E. Battin to Clara E. Battin neL sec 23 twp ? nr 3 e, $3,200.
 Billy Blankenshlp early yesterday morning discovered an ingenious device for discouraging drunkenness in heads of families. It is employed by wo- man on Blank street whose husband frequently reaches home incapacitated. MT. Blankenship saw it work, for he assisted the inebriated gentleman to his front gate and watched him mount the porch. The invention consists of