Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-01-08
LOCAL BRIEFS.
Incidents of Yesterday or
Today.
Important Meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce Tonight-A Dam
gerouS Counterfeit.

Guns and ammunition at Talbot &
Hubbard's.
Tonight there will be good lively
music, bright electric light and good
time for all who attend the park skat-
ing rink.
There will be no charge for admission
to the race track today to witness the
$500 side quarter mile running dash
between Old Bell and Gray John.
H. G.. Adams, who was arrested on
Saturday night by Constable Bayley for
subverting things in the lower part OF
the city, was before Justice tombstone
yesterday and pied guilty to assault.
He was fined $3.50
The board of supervisors was IN
session Yesterday, the first regular
meeting of the new board. A number
of claims were allowed and railroad
transportation to Deming, n. M, was
furnished an INDECENT person.
The following transfers of real estate
were yesterday entered for record !:
Chas. E. Burton and wife to Dennis
Rice, a part of lots 4 and 6, in block 8,
Mesa; $3.50. William Ruff to Joseph
NJ. Rountree, E y Sc u section 25,
township 2, N, range l E.; $4,000.
Night Marshal Buck had a fight and
a foot race with two hobos last night.
He won first money in both events and
landed the prisoners in Jail. The last
one broke away from him at the corner
of Washington and First streets, but
was overtaken near Lount's ice works.
The only case tried on the territorial
side Of district court yesterday was that
of Kalfee vs.. Roletto. On the federal
side Valentine Landero was convicted
of polygamy and Juan Valenzuela and
Antonio Lara of selling liquor to In
dams. The defendants will be SEN
fenced next Saturday.
Sheriff Orme came in on Sunday
morning with Robert Williams, who
burglarized Joseph Peterson's house at
Mesa last week and stole $500 worth of
diamonds. The sheriff captured his
prisoner at Casa Grande after long
chase. At one stage of the pursuit he
had to walk ten miles on the railroad
track. Williams will have g hearing
before Justice Kincaid this morning.
Hon. Ii. K. Chenoweth, a member
elect from Pima county, of the assembly
of the Eighteenth legislature, arrived
in the city yesterday on his way to AL
buauerque by the way of Prescott and
Ask Fork. Mr.. Chenoweth lives at No
gales and is a level headed business
man who will help largely to make the
coming legislature what it ought to be,
a business body. Only one and not the
least of Mr.. Chenoweth's excellencies
is that he is sound Republican.
regular monthly session last night.
After the transaction of routine bust
ness the chamber adjourned until
tonight. The matter to be considered
is plan for celebrating the completion
o: the s. F. P. & P. road to Phoenix.
Some work in this direction has al
ready been done but the time in which
to complete it is so brief that what re-
mains to be done must be done expe-
ditiously. The chamber will be met to-
night by the mem bers of the city coun-
Gil.
There is another inundation of coun-
terfeit half dollars in town. Mrs. Leslie, |
proprietress of a restaurant on North |
Second street, made complaint to the |
yesterday of having received |
several within the last three days.
Later i n the afternoon complaints came
in from several other sources. The
counterfeit is an excellent one. The
work and finish is equal to that of the
genuine and the weight is exact. The
spurious coin can be detected, though,
by an entire absence of the ring"
The Florence Tribune will appear as
usual this week. That is, its appear
ance will be as regular as usual, but it
will probably be much more imposing.
There will likely be rooster at the
beginning of the editorial page and
other smaller ROSTERS, eagles and other
evidences of joy and triumph will be
scattered throughout The Tribune col
umns next to pure reading matter.
The cause of all this prospective jubila-
ton is a happy event last Sunday in
The household of Editor Cooper. A
son was born.
Misses Bessie and Marguerite Irving.
sisters OF James Irving, who is lying i'll
at Center and Van Buren, streets, ar
rived yesterday morning from New
York. They were informed by tels-
graph OF their brothers. condition a
week ago. In just twenty minutes