Arizona republican., 1894-10-27
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Records of Local Events
 Yesterday.
The Emptiness of Fame.-The Story of a Dead Duck and
 Other Matters.

day to Ismal Maldonado and Yginata Daniel.
 Six bits for 8 white laundried shirt at Alkire's. Ye Gods! Buy four and get book thrown in.
 No matter how large or heavy 8 man IS he can be fitted with pants at AL kire's. Books given away.
 With one of the new gentlemen's ties at Alkire's on, a fellow could propose without fear of rejection. Invest $2.50 and get book.
 Orlando and Seth Merrill and their wives of Mesa and o. D. Merrill and wife of Lehi, were registered at the Lemon hotel yesterday.
 The cerksl of the city are preparing to organize o'clock closing cam paign. A meeting for the consideration of the matter will be held at an early date.
 Mir. A. F. c. Kirchoff and Miss Ber- tha Lichtenstein. whose wedding has been annouced, were married on Thurs day night by Justice Kincaid at his residence.
 An importaht meeting of the stock holders of the Teme canal will be held in Tempe this morning. M. Wormser went up last night.
 There is on exhibition in the show window of J. A. Plattner the harness dealer, $40 saddle purchased by the fiesta management as a prize to be awarded ln the great steer-tying contest tomorrow.
 A man wearing patch over his eyes to stimulate public and private sympa- thy in his behalf, was before Recorder Schwartz yesterday morning for begging on the streets His needs will be sup piled by the city for the next ten days.
 Thos. Bryan committed for ten days from Mesa precinct for a misdemeanor was brought down to the county iail last night. Bryan was one of the three men arrested on Thursday suspected of having held up and robbed John Jones 8 farmer near Mesa on Wednesday night.
 The board of supervisors on the ap- plication of John Montgomery have or dered vacated the plat of Montgomery addition except that part of it south of Grant street and block IS more parti- cularly described as blocks Il to r and 19 to 38 both inclusive. Permission was given to file an amended plat. A recent survey of the addition showed an irregularity of streets and blocks which appeared to have been thrown together by sort of cyclone.
 A man was exhibiting on Wall street yesterday afternoon can of milk con- taining two "wiggle tails" He refus- ed to divulge the name of the dairy he patronized though It would have been no more than right for him to do so for any man who will permit his COWS to drink impure water deserves the great est publicity. One bystsnder suggest ed that the wiggle tails might have been in water which had been used to dilute the milk and said that it should be made misdemeanor to use unfiltered water for this purpose,
 Suit was begun in district court yes terday by J. L. Cant, assignee of the estate of R. G. Andre, against Barbara Jordan. The defendant resides in Ger many and is the mother-in-law of An dre. Among the claims against the estate is a note in her favor for $3,840. She also holds mortgage for $500 on certain real estate pear Tempe belong ing to the estate. The petition hints that the claims are not genuine and the defendant is asked to make visit to this country during the ensuing term of court and show, if she can, that they are genuine.
 Solaman Ivy, of the Riverside country was in town yesterday to consult the authorities with reference to the control of Indians on the lower reser- vation. MT. Ivy's desire for informa- tion on the much mooted and vexing Indian question grows out of a recent raid on his apiary resulting in it's con- plete destruction. He had fifty stands of bees and now he has none. He be- lieves that the Indians took the honey. They did not want the bees but they asphyxiated them to facilitate matters. He was advised to make complaint to Indian Agent Young.
 Oh, the emptiness of fame! For nearly month letter addressed to J P. King lay in the postoffice and mo- body recognized it as the address of one of the .proprietors of that religious periodical, the Saturday Review. In the course of time the letter was adver- tised and Mir. King called for and re- ceived it yesterday morning. The un- familiarity of the postofice people with his identity naturally burt Mr. King and when the lady who handles tran sient mail matter gave him the letter he asked her if she knew who was the president of the United States. "Grover Cleveland" she replied. That's SOL remarked Mir. King sadly.
 During the storm yesterday afte rnoon dead duck lay in pool of water on Wall street. Chairman Williams of the Democratic county central committee jumped at the conclusion that it had just been killed by hail and had fallen