Arizona republican., 1896-12-31

Nutsheli-Doings of People and
 Other Matters.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to Estefano Gotta and Guadalupe Moraga.
 The last session of the present board of supervisors will be held today. The new board will hold meeting on Sat urday.
 The banquet and ball announced to be given tonight at the Hotel Adams was postponed by the management yes- terday until the night of January 15.
 Business in the county recorders court yesterday consisted mainly of the filing of mortgage releases. Eight of these instruments were recorded, against a single new mortgage.
 Mr. E. c. Palmer, a prominent man. ufacturer of Cleveland, O., accompa- nied by his family, is stopping at the Ford On account of ill health they will remain in the city some time.
 A physical culture entertainment will be given by Professor H. Hey mann at the opera house on the night of January l. A feature of the en- tertainment will be the swinging of dumb-bells with fire.
 The Arizona Improvement company, which has for six years occupied rooms in the Monihon block, will shortly move into the Gilson block into the offices lately occupied by the Maricopa Loan and Trust company.
 Mrs. Clara A. Evans will deliver an address before the teachers institute tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. It will be of peculiar interest and value to the teachers, as Mrs. Evans is among the foremost teachers on the Pacific coast and is well trained in institute work.
 Come to the watch-night service at the Free Methodist church, corner Adams and Fifth streets, commencing at 8 p. m. At g o'clock Dr. Berson of Mexico university will give scientific address on the nature of the books written in heaven, entitled 'The Re- production of the Earthly Theater on the Heavenly Stage,' demonstrated from physics, chemistry, anatomy and astronomy. Especially unbelievers, atheists, indifferentists and scientists are invited.
 At the First Methodist church next Tuesday evening, January 5, will be presented the second of a series of musicales for the benefit of the pipe organ fund The event is an assured success, with the assistance of many of the city's best musicians, among others the Treble Clef club and Pro- lessor Lester Payne; also the charm ing reader, Miss Anita Yaeger. Tickets for sale at Irvine's stationery store, and from many of the young people of the church.
 Colonel Cotton of the M & P. yester- day received a telegram from Super intendent Randolph of the Southern Pacific at Tucson announcing the death of Frank Brown at Newport, Ky, last Monday afternoon. Mr. Brown was a close personal friend of MT. Randolph and year ago, being in i'll health, was induced to spend the winter in Arizona. He resided chiefly in Phoenix and by his kindly manner
 
 news of his death with regret.
 The Los Angeles Times says: The dispatches indicate that the little Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix road con- meeting Phoenix with the Santa Fe line at Ash Fork has passed success. fully through its first year of opera tion. This is a fair evidence of the practical value of home pluck and en ergy. The road was projected ant constructed almost entirely through the efforts of Arizona people and i has already done much to reduce tht burden of high and Drohibitivt freights.
 Assistant Superintendent R. D Wells of the S. F., F. &. P, took party of friends out for drive to in teresting points in the valley. Tn party was made up of MT. G. w. Kret ginger, general counsel for the road his wife, son and daughter, Mrs Spence of La Crosse, Wis; Mrs Well and Mr. E. J. Cursor, president of tn Crescent Coal company of Gallup, N M, and Mrs G. M Sargent The tri was made in a four-in-hand and in cluded the orange grove, the Hole-in the-Rock and other localities of inter est
 D. c. Warren has a claim agains the county which he has presented |