Arizona republican., 1896-12-12
BITS OF LOCAL NEWS.


 T. R. Gable, formerly general man ager of the Atlantic & Pacific road, and R. S. Ebert, president of the Cali fornia & Eastern railroad, of Los An geles, will be here to attend the irri gation congress.
 The local committee of the irriga- tion congress has received badges rep resenting the event. The badge is similar in design to the carnival badges of last year. The colors are red, white and yellow.
 At the fifth annual meeting of the Society of Irrigation Engineers in Den yer yesterday, E. M Boggs of Tucson was elected one of the directors, and Surveyor-General George J. Rosk- ruge, also of Tucson, was placed on the nomination committee for the fol- lowing year. .-..
 The case of Gilson vs. Sturges and Hewlett, was decided yesterday in the district court in favor of the plaintiff The case was a suit for damages, the plaintiff having been injured in a col lision with a team owned by defend- ants The jury brought in verdict giving plaintiff damages to the sum of $175.
 The Y. P. S. c. E. of the Christian church last evening rendered a recep- tion to c. A. Norris. Mir. Norris has just returned from Missouri accompa- nied by his sister. They will spend the winter in the city. The reception given in honor of MT. Norris was well attended and a splendid programme was rendered.
 You mustn't imagine football game is going on just because you see eight or ten people rushing frantically about and falling over each other in their anxious desire to get people to affix their autograph to a longer-than-wide piece of paper. Postoffice applicants are after bigger game than football but the petitions will be found to be worth much less than a football Watch the people who keep quiet and don't say something.-Silver Cliff Rustler
 The Mexican Central railway has re- ceived a proposition from a man in Peoria, H., to have a railway collis- ion with some of their rolling stock the affair to be arranged in an enclOs ure, between empty cars and engines and spectators to be charged a stated price for admission. The railroad company will advise the citizens of Pc oria that they can put their locomo tives to better use in hauling freight and passengers and will decline to en ter into a partnership arrangement
 
 Today the Good Templars will mee in the Cartwright school house at o'clock in their regular quarterly dis trict lodge session, and it is expected that every lodge in the county will b. represented There will be an even ing session also, which will be largel attended by the city members. MI Wilson of the Phoenix Grocery com pany and MT. Mullen of the Bee Hiv will take loads down at o'clock, an members desiring to go should SC them. At the close of the afternoon session a basket dinner will be spread
 John Baggiore left Thursday nigh for his mine, located in Riversid county, Cal, fifty miles west of Yuma The mine in which MT. Baggiore is in terested with Dave Balz of Yuma wa discovered several months ago by Mexican named Antonio Apecto. Tn Mexican disposed. of the claim to th present owners, who at once had de velopment work done. From sample assays were made that ran $33.92 i gold. The shaft is now down twent feet and the ore body" grows riche and larger with depth. The distrit where it is located is remarkably ric in mineral. 4 <.. .r.
 Sid Peterson and Charles K1eck, ( Kerrville, Tex, are the owners of very remarkable animal. It is a GOV about 5 years old, which has eightee horns. She has been running in pasture until month or two az, when her owner noticed her. She WE taken to the Fredericksburg fair an exhibited. MT. Peterson bought ht and has been exhibiting her unt now. The COW has no hoofs, but il stead, two horns extending in frol from each foot. These horns are b. tween twelve and eighteen inch,