Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1896-05-07
Interesting Paragraphs.
From Mondays Daily .

of Mr.. Henry Orme, left yesterday
afternoon for Tempe where she entered
the Normal school today.
Col. Herring arrived this morning from
| from the south to attend the session of
the Supreme Court which convened
This morning.
Quite number of our carpenters,
painters and hrickleyers are talking of
| going to Cripple Creek to assist in re
building shat city.
The City C3uncil this moroing at an
informal meeting appointed Mr. E.
Bennitt IS an expert to report upon the
b Ioks OF the late City Assessor and
Tax Collector, Mr.. L. J. Wood.
The Board of Supervisors this morn
Jog made contract With Nc. Stursie
for placing sign boards on the Cave
! Creek ard Bleck Canyon road giving
distances to Phoenix and direction and
distances to water.
Judge Baker opened the District
Court this morning end ordered 8
venire issued for a Grand Jury return
IDLE next Monday morning Mr. Lse
Gray was elso admitted TO practice in
that court.
Saturday afternoon an attachment
was levied on the store of B. NJ. johnson
& Bros, of Mesa City, by an eastern
firm and the house closed. This morn
pg the matter was satisfactorily ad-
justsd and the firm opened for business
as usual.
Mr.. o. q. Lands, formerly agent
at Peoria, for the s. F. P & P. railroad
company has been transferred to Phoe
nix where he will assume the position
vacated by Mr.. Gillett. Mr.. Lands
10 thorough railroad man and will be
found most obliging and courteous.
The Hon Thos Davis has again re-
| turned to his old position with IL S.
Bridges & Co., and will proceed to again
build up the fortune be has lost 10
politics and irrigation the past few
years There is no man better qualified
| to restore losses than Mr.. Davis.
Judge Betbuue arrived this morning
|
| Supreme Court bench. He is much
stronger than he has been but he has
not yet entirely recovered from the &C
cident which occurred at the last ses-
sion of the Supreme Court in this city.
Chaplain Scott of Soottsdale, under
the Arizona canal is the fret
man in the valley to report ripe
sprioots. Ysstei day spricots were
! picked in his orchard ripe enough for
shipment. They are of the New Castle
Early variety. Grapes on Mr.. Scott's
place are ripenlng nicely and give prom
Use of an immense crop.
Mr.. j. F. Cham plon, of Silver Krg,
arrived this morning and will leave this
| evening for Denver, where he goes on
mining business. MIR. Champion states
hat there are but few men at work on
the great Silver King mine, but that
the prospects are good for the reopening
of that property.
Among the outgoing passengers on
this mofniog's train for the north were
Miss Palmer, Albuquerque; Mrs. s.
Lindsey, Atchison, Kansas; G o
Roberts, Trinidad; Geo. R Riddle, Den
yer; B Stenehe, Chicago; and S V
TAFT, Joliet, H.; j A McIver, Chicago;
Mrs. a B Goodwin. Canadian, Texas;
Mrs. J. A. Bennett. jamestown, N. D;
Mrs. H W Adams, Scranton, Pa.
Chaplain Scott is still conGned to his
bed from the injury be received two
weeks ago. His hip was quite serious
y injured, and it will be some time be
fore he will be able to be around sgsin
The physicians decided that there ives
no displacement or bones broken, bur
the shock was so severe as to put him
| entirely hors de combat. He says there
is no glory in being knocked cut by
% 90 borse.
The citizsns OF Phoenix, Arizona, are
making the struggle of their lives to
keep out OF the clutches of T. j. VOL
fay. That notorious politicali free
booter wants the Governor of the Ter
ritory to name him as q mem Der of the
Board of Control God help the people
if Wolfey wiua. The newspapers there
have turned on their batteries and are
making a s&pifaent fight in the in
tsrest of 6ecsDcy and good government. |
Seneca, Kansas, Tribune.
This morniag the bondsmen OF the |
defaultine K assistant clerk OF the |
Board of S s,.-rvisoFs, E. B Kirkland, |
oailed on ttA Board ard paid the
amount uaIswfuiiy taken from the
county sreasns! 10y Mr.. K'rkland The
three bondsmsu we're Jerry Millay, j.
Y. T. Smith and Beverly Cox and each
of them paid s74 4o, making total of
1921 so. County Treasurer Murray will
pay the sum OF SOB AZ which wss paid
to Mr. kirkland on warrants endorsed
by that offic al unlswfuiIy ard which
Mr.. Murray bad becone responsible for
This moybiag when Mr.. w. F. Nc
Nulty opened his grocery store on East
Washington street be found that dur
ing the night some persons bad entered
the store and etoleu shout $50 worth of
goods Eatreuce bad been effected
through rear door, which had been
pred open with chisel, the marks of
he chisel being plsinly visible on the