Arizona republican., 1895-07-28

Assessor St. Claire was able to be at the court house yesterday after a few days spell of sickness. A few days ago he stopped with a bucket to get some water from a canal when he was seized with pain in his back and had to be carried into the house.
 The Yuma Times office will shortly be sold to satisfy creditors who have attachments on the plant. It is rumored that democratic syndicate will purchase the sheet and install as editor Samuel W. Purdy, an exper fenced newspaper man.
 Arthur Rulings returned yesterday from Paradise valley. He reports that the new road made by the Pennsylva- nia Irrigation company for the county in lieu of the regular county road being used by the company, has been com pleted and accepted by the supervisors.
 W. H. Griffith, member of the cigar manufacturing and importing firm of Glazier, Frame X Co.,. Reading, Pa.. arrived in the city on Friday night. He went north this morning on his way to New York. He will return to Phoenix on his regular trip about the holidays.
 MT. Lewis Meeker and Miss Lizzie Finney, both of Phenix, were married yesterday afternoon by Rev. G. L. Pearson at the parsonage. The same minister also united at the residence of MT. and Mrs. Chauncey Clark, Mir. David b. Miller, of Phoenix, and Miss Ella Merritt of Peoria, Ill.
 The Southern Pacific company is having made twelve passenger coaches, built for the local service in and out of Los Angeles. They will be on duty early in September. They will have high back seats, improved closet accom- modations for ladies in fact they are to contain all the modern. conveniences in that kind of coaches.
 Frank D. Humes died yesterday morning in his room at the Lemon hotel of consumption. The deceased was 55 years of age and an ex confed crate soldier, having served with dis tinction throughout the war under | Gen. Robert E. Lee. His funeral will be held thls morning at 9 o'clock under the auspices of the confederate so- ciety.
 It is reported that four men have been executed by Mexican soldiery near Bavispe, Mexico, in manner similar to that of Tribolett's, on a charge of being implicated in the killing of pros pector for no other ap- parent cause than to get possession of his mine. The name of the prospector is not known, but he was an American citizen.
 Officer Hooker set his chaingang to work yesterday tearing off the various signs tackled on the telephone poles of the city. A city ordinance reads that all telephone poles must be painted. but the telephone company refuse to do so unless the city has the signs torn down. An ordinance also makes it misdemeanor for anybody to tack signs on the poles.
 T. J. Moriarty. the attorney, who has just returned from g trip along the coast as far north as British Colum bia yesterday made the statement that although he enjoyed the trip immensely, he is nevertheless glad to be back in Phoenix. He claims that Phoenix is about the liveliest city of any he has visited on the trip, in spite of the fact that this is dull time of the year in this city.
 Word was brought in from the head of the Arizona canal yesterday that the water in the river was slowly rising. The water in the Arizona canal was rising steadily ell day and late in the afternoon the big canal was running bank full. Tho farmers will now be jubilant, for it has been raining heav. fly in the mountains for the past two or three days and an abundance of water may now be looked for.
 The following transfers of real estate reported by Coggins & Brown, abstract. CTS, were yesterday entered for record: L. L. Plank and wife to Mrs. Agnes E. Isaacs 12 acres on north end of e115a, ne114, nwI, sec 1, tp n, r2 e; Mar thine Hanson to Antonio Salcido lot 2, block 2, Farmers addition to Tempe Louis Hammer and wife to L. A. Ami- rault 50xl50 in sw114, se14, sec 5, tp D, r3e.
 A man who answers to the euphon- ious name of John Henry Clay was gathered in at the Five Points yester- day evening by Marshal Clark for being drunk and disorderIy. He enjoyed a tree hack ride to the city dungeon. He was in jail five minutes when 8 tele- phone call announced that another individual with sweet-scented jag aboard was making things unpleasant in the same neighborhood, and Officer Bailey went after him in hack. He gave his name as Jose Berdego. II W. T. Gwyn, chief engineer of the s. F., P. & P, surveying corps arrived in the city yesterday morning from Tue son. He says that the surveying party , had reached Tucson the previous day and that they would remain there a couple of weeks yet locating depot , grounds and yards before proceeding to Calabasas. No difficulty was encoun-