Arizona republican., 1896-11-18

morning a small party left for the Gila with enough ammunition to last a month.
 Grand avenue is becoming popular driving thoroughfare since the high way has been graveled. It now only needs a heavy rain to settle and pack the gravel, when the road will become one of the best driving highways in the county.
 A band of antelope is reported feed ing on the desert between Florence and Mesa City. The driver of a stage between those two places reports hav- ing seen the antelope nearly every day for a week. Here is an opportunity for local nimrods.
 The board of supervisors was in ses sion yesterday to recount the vote. Several candidates were so close in the race that for fear a mistake may have been made a recount was made. The figures did not differ from the re- suits of Monday
 The United States grand jury will go into session this morning in the dis trict court. There will be very little business for the jury. The cases of fornication that have been very nu- merous in the past three years are now entirely ignored.
 News has been received that George D. Tantau of this city, who has been lying seriously ill at Florence for sev- eral weeks with typhoid fever, is in a precarious condition and unless a change for the better takes place i'm mediately he will not recover. The high school students have formed a literary association which meets every Friday evening. Interest | ing debates, recitations and the read 1 ing of papers on various subjects form the programme at these meetings. In the near future the society will give public entertainment.
 | Inspector Fredericks of the postoffice department will arrive from Denver today to inaugurate the rural free de- livery mail system ordered by con gress. Postmaster Thomas is absent from the city, but Inspector Fredericks
 will proceed with the arrangements for the extension of the free delivery of mails.
 The territorial grand jury yesterday returned indictments for burglary against Thomas Simms, Lewis Haley and Peter Lyons. The charges against Isom Ayres and Jose Maria Rodriguez
 were ignored. Fred P. Gotta was on trial in the district court for grand lar
 ceny, but at the time of adjournment | ho
 Not for many years have cattlenen
 of the territory been so prosperous as
 now. The heavy rains of last summer
 were a blessing, for the ranges are
 covered with grass and cattle are sleek
 and fat. This in connection with the prevailing demand and consequent
 good prices for range cattle causes general satisfaction among cattlemen Architect Fred Heinlein, who left Phoenix about two months ago to take
 up his residence in Los Angeles, re-
 turned to Phoenix yesterday. MT
 Heinlein has just completed plans fol the erection of hospital at Prescott for the Sisters of Mercy. The building
 will cost when completed $10,00O. MT
 Heinlein has already let the contrac [ for the brick work. He will remain here several days looking after his in
 terests in the city.
 Will H. Gregory has secured a leas' on the Depot hotel, owned by MT Hardwicke of Mexico. The hotel is be
 ing enlarged, fifteen more rooms bein. added, making total of thirty rooms Everything will be fitted up regardless , of expense. MT. Gregory will assum
 charge of the hotel on the first of tn,
 month. The influx of visitors thi year will be unusually large and n, ! doubt every hotel in the city will b. taxed to it's capacity.
 Several people of the city have re ceived circular letters from the Saliva
 tion Army National headquarters a
 New York. The letter is signed b. : Commander Booth-Tucker and wife and is an urgent appeal inviting al ] to deny themselves some pleasant lux y ury during this week, which is calle a in army parlance, "Self-denial Week s The money thus saved is devoted t the extension of the Kingdom of Coo
 and the relief of suffering.
 Estimates for the entire Indian ser vice for the fiscal year ending June 8 - 1898, to be submitted to congress a the opening of the session, call for a y appropriation of $7,290,000 in roun
 numbers. This is s19O,0O0 more tha = the appropriation of the current fiscs : year. The increase is due to the DO c icy of the government adopted at tn d last session of congress abolishin e gradually the contract Indian school
 and to- place all the Indian schools al l. solutely under government control. e The first irrigation fair in the his If tory of the world was formally opene l. Monday at North Platte. Neb. EXtrs