Arizona republican., 1896-11-25

calls for quiet relief, and the business men and the public generally are asked to respond by purchasing chances on a watch which will be rallied at an early date.
 The Phoenix minstrels will give their initial performance at the opera house on Friday night. A delightful programme has been arranged and carefully rehearsed, and lovers of re- fined minstrelsy will be given a rare treat. The full programme will appear in tomorrow's paper.
 The stage trip from Mohave to Randsburg, the mining camp that is drawing treasure seekers from far and near, consumes ten hours. Three daily stages go over the line. The one daily stage from Kramer makes the trip in four and one-half to five hours. The chief drawback to the latter route is that there is no water between Kramer and Randsburg.
 Mr. and Mrs. George w Hoadley, Mir and Mrs. B. J. Bennitt and Miss Anita Yaeger report having had a most en- joyable time recently at Tempe visit ing MT. and Mrs. Gage, MT. and Mrs. Brigham, Major and Mrs. Schultz and Judge and Mrs. K1ngsbury The party were delighted with the cordial and wholesouled hospitality of which they were the recipients.
 The Phoenix football team is for tunate in securing the attendance of Dr. Scott Helm for the game Thurs day with the Indians. Dr. Helm will act as surgeon-general of the team, with appliances and restoratives on 1 hand for broken bones and lost wits. The effect of the Indians revolving wedge calls for this precaution on the part of the Phoenix team.
 For the rural delivery system be- tween Tempe and Mesa, Postof1ce h. spector Fredericks has appointed Fisher Bailey carrier No. 1, B. J. | George, carrier Mo- 2, and Frank E. Empey as substitute. They were re- quired to furnish bond of $5OO Of the six applicants one was rejected on account of being too old, and the bids of the others were too high for consideration.
 ] The United States court cleaned it's docket yesterday by trying five cases. All the defendants were charged with selling whisky to Indians. Two were found guilty and two were acquitted, and one pleaded guilty. Ramon Lo- peg and Juan Joaquin were found guilty; Crecencio Romero and Antonio Ochoa, not guilty. A Chinaman, Sam Lung, pleaded guilty. The date has not been fixed for sentencing them. It is reported by John Elder that the men employed in developing the Os- borne group of copper claims, which are located about ten miles west of the celebrated Vulture mine, have struck a large body of gold ore in a copper gangue that runs $2O to the ton Colin Timmins of Prescott, who holds a bond on the property is in Europe en- deavoring to raise money to place a ! reducing plant at some convenient point to treat the ores.
 The local irrigation congress com mittee held meeting last night in the Fleming block. After discussing ways and means and progress, the follow ing named gentlemen were added to the committee: Thomas Hine, Frank Alkire, P. W. Butler, E. Irvine, Gus Hirschfeld, D. L. Murray, B. N. Pratt, R. H. Greene, Henry B. Kemp, c, L. Eschman, J. w. Dor ris, Dr. Ancil Martin, John T. Den his, L. L. Plank, Aaron Goldberg and Geo. W. Hoadley. A committee from the chamber of commerce, headed by Gen. Sampson, waited on the irrigation congress committee and rendered the services of the members of the cham Der to assist the local committee in en- tertaining the visiting delegates. There is, perhaps, no court in the territory that dispatches business with such promptness as that over which Judge A. c. Baker presides. The criminal dockets of both the terri torial and United States courts have been cleaned up in the short period of week. There have been twenty-five cases tried, covering crimes from mur- | der, rape, burglary and robbery, down to selling whisky to Indians. This morning at g o'clock the following prisoners will be sentenced: Jeff and Jack Hannigan, horse stealing; Abram | Dinwiddie, petty larceny; Ramon Or tega, rape; H. L. Scott, assault with deadly weapon; Pete Lyons, burglary in the first degree, and Trinidad Mon tanyo, for burglary in the second de-