Arizona republican., 1896-08-28

force of men at work tearing down the wall of the Goldman adobe on the corner of Center and Adams street, which was condemned as unsafe. The old landmarks are gradually disap- bearing to make room for modern and substantial buildings.
 The bicycle boys who will enter the Labor Day races are daily training at the park Among the list of local rid CTS will be Horace Slater, Mark Long, Byron Hartwell, J. Freeman, Ed Jones and Lou West. Besides these boys it said several from Tucson will attend to try and capture some of the prizes.
 Among the Phoenix people who will attend the Normal school at Tempe will be Misses Flora and Calla Mills, Adele and Ella Hauxhurst and Lillie Murray The school will open this 7ear with greater number of stu dents than ever before and the capaci- ty of the building will be taxed until the new building is ready for occu- pancy
 Snakes must be common in Tempe, tor cne visited the mayor the other night and treated him to some excel lent rattle music and yesterday morn Ing as a saloon keeper opened his vault where the liquors gre kept he was surprised to see a snake glide therefrom. The n''ality of the whisky kept in Tempe must have something to do with it.
 Ben e9rd Lao Goldman, Jake Miller and Dick George returned yesterday from a three weeks trip to the north e1-n part of the territory. Perry Wild man, who was with the party, will remain at Flagstaff for a couple of weeks before returning. All look healthy with the exception of Dick, who lost avoirdupois and cannot account for it.
 The Salvation Army had hallelujah time last night eating ice cream and exhorting sinners in the audience to enter the shepherds fold. From a financial standpoint the ice cream so- cial was @ success, but the list of the saved was not swelled whether it was because the ice cream dampened the religious ardor of the audience or they consider themselves saved is a ques- tion. At any rate a pleasant evening was passed.
 A merry gathering of youngsters surprised Master Ray Gamble Wednes- day night at his parents residence It was the occasion of his eleventh birth day. Hyhe lad was equal to the occa- sion and acquitted himself as a host admirably. Those present were Vesa Rosson, Ora Osborn, Ella Murray, Minnie Gieges, Susie Leonard and Laura Fickas; Clyde Rosson, Ernest Stroud, Frank Mayor, Tom Purman and Ray Gamble.
 Drs. Gasdon and Cuff of Tucson will in a few days perform a very delicate operation on the head of Paul Noriega, lad formerly of this city. Young Noriega fell from horse while back and the inner table of the skull had been broken and a portion of the frac- ture Is impressed on the speech centers of the brain, causing temporary fits of paralysis of the organ of speech. The doctors will proceed to lift the skull and force the inner table back into place.
 El Paso Herald: The Arizona militia men are after territorial encamp- ment of the militia and are getting up a big petition to the governor with that end in view. New York, Pennsyl- vania and even little Connecticut have annual militia encampments, and why not Arizona? New York and the ef- fete east have mo business with a mo- nopoly of such things Arizona is be- coming real civilized and enlightened, and the next thing will be call for an Arizona naval militia to operate on the Gila.
 The public schould prepare for a shock, not an electrical shock or one brought about by seismic disturb ance. This one will be caused by a moral earthquake and if what is said is true the parties interested will find that justice is not always blind, and though they will be clothed with the mantle of shame they will wish for the earth to open and swallow them and their supposedly secret knowledge, but no longer a secret when the merciless tongue Of islander will wag fiendishly and tear shred from shred the char acter of hitherto respectable people
 Let the guilty blush, unless some pow
 erful influence is brought to bear
 in twenty-four hours longer exposure will come.
 A fatted calf was slaughtered yes. terday to celebrate the return to Phoe.
 nig Of Moritz Rosenberg. Moritz Jeff
 here three weeks ago with a compan
 ion to locate gold mines, or any othe1
 kind of mines in the mountains. Ht
 started on iburro, but the patient lit tie animal was also Iburdened with picl
 and shovel and other incidentals neces
 sary in the kit of prospector. Every
 body knows a burro is slow, so tn,
 average rate per day was about ter
 miles, which is rather irksome to
 jealous prospector who has his mint
 filled with discoveries of promising
 claims. Moritz had several mishap