Arizona republican., 1894-10-02
NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
Brief Mention of Many Hap
 peningS.
Contributions to the Chamber of Commerce The Board Of
 Supervisors.

The board of supervisors met yester- day in regular quarterly session. The reports of all the county officers were received and the cash in the treasury was counted. The remainder of the session was taken up in passing upon the current bills.
 Suits were begun in district court by J. H. Guyer, Thompson Walker and r. B. Carley against the bank of Tempe, the Daggs Bros., w. L. Van Horn and the assignee of the bank. The plaintiffs .were depositors and the amounts sought to be recovered are deposits in the de- funct institution.
 A mysterious shooting took place on the city hall plaza last night. Soon after it occurred 8 young woman en- ploved as a singer in a Washington street saloon was found in the vicinity greatly agitated but she refused to say anything about it.
 MT. Geo. Craighead, Sr., yesterday contributed to the chamber of com merce display two sweet potatoes, one weighing twenty pounds and the other seventeen and half pounds. These tubers are not of abnormal growth, but represent the easy possibilities of a com bination of Salt River soil, sun- shine and intelligent cultivation.
 Mention was recently made in 8 Phoenix newspaper that MT. w. K. James had decided to leave PhMnix He desires to say that he is not going and has no intention of leaving. Even though he had an inclination to change his place of residence, and he has not, he says, he would certainly not leave now on what he believes to be the eve of the city's period of greatest pros perity.
 The following transfers of real estate were yesterday entered for record: Edward D. Bloomer and wife to Willis c. Norton, lots 8, 4, 5, and 6, in block 25. Mesa, $2,500. Carrie A. Foster and husband to Jos. Mayer, part of lot II , in block 25, Mesa. Joseph Young to W. A. and E. R. Blackmer, lots 5, in block 2, Brill's addition, $500. Frank Miller and wife to Edward D. Boomer, sw I, nv 4, sec 27, tp n, 5 e, $2,500.
 It has happened that great many names are being entered twice upon the registration books They will not of course, appear in the great register, for the duplication will be detected be- fore the list is finally made up. This doubling up of names Is not intentional, but comes about by persons registering in different places and forgetting that they have already registered. So far as known there are about sixty double registrations.
 Governor Hughes yesterday issued an. order for the communication of the sentence of Branlio Costillo, sentenced to Yuma for eighteen months from Pinal county last November. The ap- plicatlon is made on the grounds that the prisoners wife and two small child ren are destitute and wretched. that he has been 8 model prisoner and that previous to the commission of this crime he bore good reputation. The communication is heartily recommended by Superintendent Gates. The offense consisted of the theft of donkey, which, whatever the value of the prop erty, is under the territorial law grand larceny. The original sentence would expire by limitation next March, talk ing into account reduction for good behavior. Under the communication Costillo will be free man next March,