Arizona republican., 1896-01-10

shall ever be remembered with grati- tude by the Sisters.
 Tempe News: l.. w. Jimmie has bought the furniture of the Gregory hotel and will move it into the Daggs building as soon as the new rooms are completed. In the meantime the rooms in the Gregory hotel will be kept open for the accommodation of the travelling public.
 The delinquent tax list of the city of Phoenix appears in this mornings issue of The Republican. As a rule city taxes are rarely allowed to go de- linquent and of the list as published it is probable that sale day will find all save a dozen or a score paid up The day of commencement of sale is set for February 5.
 George Schornick, chairman of committee for that purpose appointed, writes that during the coming session of the agricultural association steps will be taken to organize some sys- tenn of handling and disposing of our fruits. He therefore hopes that a full representation of fruit growers may attend the sessions.
 The Gregory house at Tempe is closed and L. w. Jimmie the sharp and polite little Americanized China man, seems to have the hotel busi- ness of the butte city all to himself. He has fitted up the upper floor of the bank building with lodging rooms and on the ground floor has one of the largest and neatest of dining rooms.
 Pinney & Robinson yesterday se- cured communication with their city customers by securing telephone No. 146, and the Phoenix Grocery com pany entered the procession as No. 1855. The telephone service of Phoe- nix is creditable to the city and it's extension is rapid. The city is one of long distances and the telephone con- tributes much to a proper enjoyment of life.
 The "big excursion wagon" was called into use yesterday and in it a party of eighteen were driven to the Union mine and back, a round trip of something over thirty miles, The participants were largely late arrivals from Kentucky, and they are enl-husi- astic over their view of the desert primeval and their glimpse of practi- cal mining.
 Probate Judge Grouse only a couple of weeks awo apportioned over $20,000 to the public schools of the county Of the amount the Phoenix high and public schools secured SS,792 This lit tie sum is now gone and to represent the total apportionment Judge Grouse has a neat stack of 225 warrants, up- on the issuance of which he is prepar- ing a regular report to the board of supervisors,
 Mrs. Mary Miller was lodged in the insane asylum Wednesday under com mitment from Yavapai county She is fairly comedy woman of 40 years and her main hallucination as set forth in the commitment is "an in- clination toward matrimony." She is a widow, filling all the English points of perfection, flair, fat and forty and now that leap year is at hand the handsome attendants of the male wards deem themselves in danger.
 Tucson Star: Nearly all the mem bers of the Tucson Gun club returned J ment at Phoenix last Saturday and Sunday. They were we'll pleased with the result of the trip, for they won some trophies and a great deal of pleasure. They were effusive in their praise of the hospitality of the Phoenix club, whose members left nothing un- done for their entertainment unless possibly they neglected to shoot badly and so kept the championship prize at home.
 Tucson Star: The case of Wolfey vs. Leitch, transferred from Maricopa county by the way of Yavapai county, will come up today. The object of the plaintiff is to prove the validity of an act of the Eighteenth legislature, appropriating $1,OOO in payment to i him of expenses while governor in promoting the passage of the funding act. The defendant as territorial au- ditor believed the act to be invalid and declined to issue a warrant in pay ment of the sum appropriated
 The finance committee of the car nival association tackled the board of supervisors yesterday for a donation l of county funds, In the sum or Sl,OOO, to the carnival purposes. Under a recent decision of the district court the supervisors could not see their way clear to the appropriation, though in full sympathy with the movement and desirous of aiding it in every way. So the committee started out on the street again and in few hours had rustled up matter of twenty-one $50
 subscriptions that will compen-
 sated for the disappointment