Arizona republican., 1896-07-01

him are two cases. The other is the keeper of a Grand avenue road house,
 L. D. Richmond, against whom are three cases. They will be examined today.
 The county board of supervisors yes terday named the oficersaof election, fnominations being received from the chairmen of the central committees of the Republican and Democratic par ties. On a petition, reciting that there are sixteen children of school age resi- dent in the neighborhood and upon rec ommendation of the probate judge, the formation of a new school district was authorized at Scottsdale, east of the Arizona canal falls. Today the board will commence session as a board of equalization.
 Over at Solomonville the ambitious and enterprising residents are prepar- ing for a Fourth of July celebration that long will be remembered in a region famous for such affairs. The governor will go over to deliver the oration of the day and Judge Rouse will also speak in connection with the reading of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. There will be horse races, cowboy contests, base ball, fireworks land a ball in all elaboration. Visitors are expected from all over the southern part of the territory.
 Before the city recorder yesterday were two drunks. One was an ordi- nary local drunk and to him were all lotted the usual four days. But the other was wayfarer from Wicken- burg, where the gold is dug. He had tried to demolish a large portion of Block fl and was unduly noisy about it, otherwise it is probable the officers would have allowed him to continue in his Sampson-like task for the ben eft of the community. But as his language was far from choice, he was fined $10, and he cheerfully paid the fine
 Yesterday, while Carr's traction thresher was at work on one of the Rays ranches, ten miles west of the city, the stack caught fire from some unknown cause and in moment was beyond all hope of eXtinguishing. The engineer quickly dropped the belt and ran his machine to the separator, all ready enveloped in the sweeping
 flames, and, hooking on with all speed, dragged the valuable piece of machin- cry to place of safety. The derrick wagon had to be left and was burned and also were number of sacks of threshed grain. The loss will approach several hundred dollars and the thresh- CT will be laid up till a new derrick wagon can be secured or built.
 The merchants of the city are SUD- porting whole-souled the efforts of their clerks to secure z o'clock as the hour of closing their places of business. The movement is popular as we'll with the public, and the hope is generally expressed that the movement may be a success as the clerks are now clearly overworked. The firms signing the agreement comprise all the dry goods firms of the city save one e,that obsti- nately refuses to accede to the clearly expressed public will. The firms sign ing are: E. H. Winters, Wilson & Ward, R. H. Greene, H. A. Diehl Shoe company, Alkire company, Sam Kor- rick, Phoenix Dry Goods Co.,, Arizona Curio and News Co.,, P. A. Thoraldson, Phoenix News and Stationery Co.,, The Irvine company, Goldberg Bros, Mrs. A. M. Lee, Goldwater Bros. All agreed to close at and the movement would be success were it not for the one store noted.