Arizona republican., 1895-10-01


 viewing teachers in regards to the joint institute to be held at Prescott. Out of forty eight teachers interviewed thirty seven are Eot in favor of going to Pres colt, but agree on holding Maricopa county institute.
 Mrs. Pearse died Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. She WAS S3 years of age and the mother of Mrs. Shieck and Fire Chief Julius Pearse of Denver. Chief Pearse will arrive on the morning train ard will take the remains of his mother back to Denver for interment. Some persons attempted to break into B. Heyman's furniture warehouse above the M. & P. depot Satur1 day night. The would be burglars were frightened away before they could gain an entrance into the building. The locks on the back door were bent out of shape.
 Loretto Garravo is so much attached to burros that he could not resist the emptation to steal one of the Rocky mountain canaries from a neigh Dor. The result was his arrest for the theft and he will be given an examination to- morrow before Justice Johnstone.
 White, the eccentric character who for long time past has preached night | ly to motley crowds on the corner of First and Washington streets, has de- cided to extend his field. He intends to go travelling through Texas and will make the entire journey on foot, preach ing en route.
 The Commercial hotel arrivals yes- terday were MT. and Mrs. Lane, San Francisco; James Murdock, San Francisco; Robert A. Woods, St. Louis; H. Thompson, Kenosha, Wis. !; Dr. J. E. Garry, Aurora; E. R. Wright, E, Copeland. St. Louis; J. 0. Cribb, Los Angeles; R. R. Coleman, Prescott.
 Sheriff Owens of Navajo county ar- rived yesterday morning from the north, having in charge John sDuce, sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for burglary. Duce is hard character. He was arrested about year ago and escaped from jail. He made Fl Paso with his shackles on but Sheriff Owens was on his track and captured him in ] nine days.
 The following real estate transactions, reported by Coggins & Brown, abstrac- tors, were yesterday entered for record :: Joseph Horn and wife to G. H. Huff man. sw Ii of se14 of swI section 27, 1 n, 5e; Chas. A. Tweed to E. Irvine, se4 section ', n, e; Frank Baxter and wife to J. D. James, lot 4, Porter & Baxter's sub.; James B. Lamb and of lot l, block 25, Mesa.
 Ed Tovrea has purchased two bear cubs from Andy Cooper. The cubs are very tame and attracted considera ble attention in front of Tovrea's meat shop yesterday, where they were tied. One of them is cinnamon and the other 8 black bear. Cooper captured them in the Tonto basin. He ran four of them up tree. He shot the old bears and chopped the tree down and caught the youngsters. Tovrea is debating whether to make pets of them or cut them into steaks.
 An encounter occurred yesterday evening in front of the Ivy Green res taurant in Adams street between Chas. Whitfield and negro named Bill Phil ] lips. Whitfield was under the influence of liquor and, drawing razor, made a slash at his dusky opponent. The keen blade of the weapon cut through Phil | lips shirt and made an incision about four inches in his left side under the arm. The razor cut the negro's euspen- der strap in two and broke on the buckle. Special Officer Pete Wofiey ar. rested both the fighters and placed them in jail.
 Charles Lamson and Charles Lowe are two brakebeam artists who came to Phoenix to enjoy the lovely winter climate. As usual with characters of thelr stamp, they have not plethoric purses and depend on the generosity of the public for their victuals. They have been sleeping in boxcar at the Santa depot and there were they gathered in by the officers. Both the recorder and city marshal are down on people of this kind, so in order to frighten away oth- CTS of the same class the recorder made an example of Damson and Lowe by giving them fifteen days apiece on the chain gang.
 1 Yesterday evening as Mir. Smith, who lives near the capitol grounds, was re- turning from his work he observed 8 man sitting in his front yard, eating some food. MT. Smith asked the man what he was doing there, who replied that some person in the neighbood had given him a handout and he stopped on that spot to eat it. MT. Smith said no more to him, but continued to the rear of the house, and was astonished to see man making an exit from the building through window. Smith had shovel in his hand and made & dash for the intruder, who easily eluded him. They ran around the house three times and the thief made his escape along with the man who was in the yard. Mrs. Smith was away from the house and MT. Smith is not positive