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 The Marie Tavary Opera company will not come to Phoenix after all, as the management of the local opera house seem rather dubious of fnan- cial success at the prices charged. Saturday, therefore, will be filled by the Payton Comedy company. c. D. Thompson is preparing for the carnival and has secured a great stereopticon, the property of c. D. Adams, with which he will give nightly exhibitions for two weeks in February. Of course the scheme is not entirely philanthropic, but is an interesting an mex.
 William Dodenhoff has again as sumed charge of the dining room of the Commercial hotel and in his place as night clerk has succeeded T. L. Gray, better known as "Wanamaker." Gray is conversant with his business and is well acquainted with the travelling public at large.
 Hank Wiley and Robert Wiley, aged 14 and 12, were arrested yesterday for maltreating a 9-year-old son of w. H. Hatcher. The lads seem to be veri- table imps. They have been expelled from school as incorrigible and of late have found their chiefest pleasure in beating the Hatcher lad.
 Again was the opera house crowded on the production of that familiar old play, ''The Octoroon," last night. As Manager Bass has it, That play never yet failed to bring us a full house, and the sign of standing room only.'' To- night the Payton company give Dion Boucicault's Irish melodrama, Inch navogue."
 Friday evening, January 31, will be held a musicale at the residence of Mrs. Clark Churchill. The price of tickets has been fixed at 50 cents and the proceeds will be for the benefit of the Trinity church funds. A large number of the leading ladies of the city's society are named as patronesses of the affair.
 In the supreme court tomorrow will i come up the case of Sharp against Maricopa county, involving the legality of the construction placed locally up-
 
 last legislature. If the decision of the lower court be reversed the usefulness of the Phoenix Union high school will be materially abridged.
 Recorder Jobs yesterday had but one lone drunk and six hobos to deal with. The half dozen had been found stretched out on the flat and sanded ] top of the boiler battery at the electric light works, where the chill of the weather was counteracted by the 1 genial warmth of the bricks beneath i They all were given the usual ten day i dose.
 l In the Chicago Times-Herald of January 10 appeared a telegraphic item dated Phoenix, wherein it was i stated that Governor Hughes and the board of control had been charged by the grand jury with criminal mal- 1 feasance in office, the statement being i entirely without foundation in fact. i The governor in wrath, has been do- ing not small amount of telegraphing g since that date and the Times-Herald in turn telegraphs that full retrac- kion has since been published. The item emanated from Denver. The local office of the Maricopa & Phoenix and Southern Pacific compa- nies will sell round trip tickets to the Fl Paso fistic carnival at the rate of one fare for the round trip, $21.75, the sale to begin early in February and with time limit of about week. Full particulars may be had of Com mercial Agent W. J. Cotton of the S. F., at his office on North Center street. He has in view the chartering of a special sleeping car and believes there are enough sports in Prescott and Phoenix to fill it on this occasion.
 There is something mysterious about ''El Dormido," the Mexican cowboy, who reported having seen the body of the individual shot by Blacksmith Velarde a month ago. ''El Dormido''
 told the story to a number of his close friends and the tale differed in no par ticular as related secondhand by them. But the young fellow when
 seen by the peace officers insists he
 knows nothing of the affair and ayers he never told such a story That he
 told the story there is no doubt, and
 the only question in the minds of the
 officers is whether he had not had some
 connection himself with the Velarde
 burglary.