Arizona republican., 1896-07-02
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Happenings of Streets and Town. Epitome of the City's Local
 Intelligence. The Doings of a Day in Phoen ana
 It's Tributary
 Region.

Ramon Ortega will be examined this afternoon by Justice Johnstone at 5, for the theft of horse.
 Chicken thieves are working around the outskirts. The officers believe they have them located.
 Joseph Encinas has been appointed by George l.. Compton to be deputy constable of Tempe precinct.
 Ben Buffers new palace, The Vel lington, opens this evening, it's glories then for the first time being unveiled
 A. Sanchez was brought down from Tempe yesterday under a sentence of twenty days for drunk and .dlsorderly. The county board of equalization met yesterday in the beginning of the. reg ular annual session. prescribed. by the territorial laws.
 The territorial board of equaliza- tion held it's regular quarterly meeting yesterday, the main business being the auditing of the regular bills h
 District court has adjourned over for several days and it is probable that within a week Judge Baker will go to California on his Christmas vacation.
 Charles Neil, the epileptic drunkard who created the disturbance at the gas works Tuesday was turned over yester- day to the care of the superintendent of the territorial insane asylum.
 Sheriff Orme went to Sacaton to bring up the two Indian lads in the calaboose at that point, held for the theft of a horse from another Indian on the sacred soil of Maricopa county.
 A private telegram received yester- day announces that Reavis has been convicted of felony in the United States court at Santa Fe and that sen tence would be rendered in a, few days.
 A marriage license was issued yes terday to Linwood Salter and Miss Florence Shrine. The, prospective groom is the bookkeeper of the Consoli- dated Canal company and the bride one of the fairest of the daughters of Mesa.
 Fred T. Graves, E. B. Johnson and Albert Cooper are expected from Tue son this morning to ride in the Fourth of July races. As the Tucson men are in the pink of condition, it is locally expected that the bulk of the prizes will fall to them.
 Justice Johnstone yesterday ren- dered his decision in the case of Ed Peck, under examination on a charge of unlawfully branding calf, the property of one Tompkins. Peck was held to answer, with bail fixed at $250, and the calf was turned over to Tomp- kins.
 It might be said that taxes, like the poor are ever with us. Notice has been given by the city assessor that the assessment of scity property for the current year has begun and that all property owners should hand in their statements at the assessors office in the city hall.
 Yesterday the two assistant mail carriers went to work in the outlying districts of the city. The effect even at first is very satisfactory. The new men not only relieve the work of the old carriers, but aid the central office at the office windows. The new move is expected to make few vacancies in the boxes.
 The clerks of the city have won theil movement for early closing and the new hours will go into effect next Mon. day, when the shutters will go III promptly at '. Every one of the prom inent houses of the city are now agreed upon the proposition and the utmos harmony prevails between employer and employees.
 The Good Templars have arranged