Arizona republican., 1896-12-27

 pay you. And then you might capture the big dictionary and the champion ship.-Arizona Educator.
 Flows traffic on the aEmpee?" asked a Republican reporter of General Freight Agent Cotton, who was clad in his hustling garments. Good and getting better" was the reply and the causes he said were two-fold, the in- creasing prosperity of Phoenix and the efficiency and popularity among business men of Superintendent Me Neill.
 Frank Perkins, an out of town per son, came to town to spend Christmas and brought the careless and uncon- ventional manners of his neighbor- hood with him. He was arrested and sent to the county jail for twenty-five days. There are various kinds of rural manners and some are as good as met ropolitan methods. Perkins man ners were of another kind
 Hon. Frank Cox and wife of Phoe- nix were in the city Monday MT. Cox appeared before the board of su- pervisors in behalf of the Southern Pa cific company, for which he is attor- ney, and protested against the amount of taxes levied against that corpora tion in this county. He convinced the board that the amount was wrong, and went back home happy-Yuma Sun.
 MT and Mrs John Gregg entertained MT and Mrs. G. W. Motley of South Dakota, Christmas day. MT Motley is here for his health and will prob ably locate permanently in this city. He was resident of Wickenburg and the Salt River valley twenty-eight years ago. This is his first visit since that time and he is greatly surprised at the advance made in this section.
 Next to the football game the most exciting incident in Phoenix on Christ mas was an encounter between a col ored bootblack and customer. During the Illuminating process the customer went to sleep. He was allowed to sleep until another patron appeared, ! when he began to impede traffic The bootblack succeeded in waking him 1 up, but he got awake fighting and kept it up until both parties were arrested. At the First Methodist Episcopal church, c. J. Chase, pastor, this morn ing at Il o'clock there will be services appropriate to Christmas The Knights Templar will be present in uniform. At ' p. m. there will be a concert by the children of the Sunday school. The Epworth League will meet at 6 p. m Sabbath school, 10 a. m; class meeting after morning sermon. A most cordial invitation is extended to all.
 After allowing the usual holiday li- cense for misdemeanors the police and justices courts were still left a com fortable volume of post Christmas business Four drunk and disorderly subjects were fined in police court sums ranging from $1 to $5. Two | Mexican fighters got S750 each. Ma thilde Gonzalez was fined in Justice Johnstone's court for preparing for an emergency by wearing a Mexican dag ger at a ball.
 MT. J. F. Mullen, who has been in charge of the Blinn Lumber company's business in Phoenix for the past two years, will leave today for Los An geles to take more responsible posi- tion in the main office of the company. During MT. Mullen's residence in Phoe- nix he popularized himself and his company with all persons with whom he had business relations. He will be succeeded by Peter Corpstein, who has for several years had charge of the | Tempe office.
 J. H. Hicks, the Tempe cattleman, who was in the city last night, says ! there is bright outlook for the cattle | business. Trade has been brisk for ] some time. Many fat cattle have been sold from the pastures, and their places on the range are soon filled by thin ones. Flames & Winfield recently sent down, 800 head from Yavapai county. 1 The feed is excellent now, says Mr. Hicks, and the cattlemen are in hopes that no frosts will come to spoil it. The cattle business has been steadily improving for some time.
 Let me see a map of the city," said an excited taxpayer as he rushed into Recorder Jobs office yesterday after noon; I've been supporting this old corporation and I don't believe I'm in it at all. I live on Grant street, south side, and just happened to think this morning that we've never had a bridge or anything else in that locality
 Bring out your map" The map l showed that while the limit did not in clude all of the Grant street block it took in just enough of it to embrace this taxpayer. He went away swear
 ing that there would be either early municipal improvements in his neigh
 borhood or an attempted secession. Southern roads are complaining of the lack of winter tourist business, and western lines are declaring they have