Arizona republican., 1896-02-25

Mesa last Saturday evening was es- pecially devoted to the gossipers and it is said the doctor took them down the line to suit the taste of her maj esty. The hall was crowded to it's ut most
 There will be Lenten devotions every night at 7:30 during the time of Lent l at St. Mary's church on East Monroe street on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fri days and Saturdays. the stations of the cross on Sundays and Thursdays, a sermon in English, and on Tuesdays a sermon in Spanish.
 A feature of the carnival celebration lay in the repeated attempts of a num- Der of the redskins to purchase liquor of the local dealers. Several of the h. dians went So far as to cleverly dis guise themselves as MeXicans and in one case, where Spanish was almost perfectly spoken, the Pima nearly sue ceeded.
 William Mcfarland had the experi- ence of his life yesterday afternoon when he sailed down crowded Wash ington street with himself and wagon at the mercy of a pair of frightened horses. But Providence seemed to clear way through the traffic of the street and the horses were cleverly stopped by a mounted Mexican after a run of several blocks.
 Says the Florence Tribune, in all comendable local patriotism: The day is not far distant when every acre of level land between Florence and Mesa "a distance of forty miles-Will be brought under cultivation through the construction of reservoirs at the Box canyon on Salt river and at the Buttes on the Gila. Then Florence will be ip the center of the grandest body of ifR rigated land on the American conti- nent, and it will not be long in taking its proper position as the leading city between Los Angeles and Denver
 The game of baseball, Phoenix vs. Indian school, yesterday at the park was won by Phoenix, score, 21 to Il. Until the sixth inning the Indians looked all over winners; but after that they fell down. The special features were Jack Cochran's good batting for the Indian school, and Shortstop Smiths magnificent @ throwing to first base. The game Sunday between Phoenix and a picked nine was won by the first named; to 5.
 The session of the irrigation con- gress in December will probably come next in the way of public gatherings in which the citizens of Phoenix are par ticularly interested. While it will not necessitate the expenditure of tithe of the amount needful to the carnival and. while it may not bring as many visitors, yet those who come will be representative of the best in the land and their coming will be of inesti- mable benefit to the community.
 The people of Phoenix are especially commended by the visitors from the fact that the extortion usual in such as carnival times was almost entirely lacking. Restaurants neither lowered quality nor raised rates and the only raise in lodging rates was to put two beds where but one had been before Only single case of unreasonable charges was reported to the accommo- dations committee. The city was shown capable of housing and feeding even a far greater crowd than the multitude that came.
 In the course of an editorial refer ence to the formation of chamber Of commerce in the ancient pueblo, the Tucson Star says: "The Star believes the time has now come to say some thing to the world about Tucson. It does not hesitate in the first place to make this prediction: That within the next five years Tucson will be the chief city in population and conner cial importance in Arizona It so far commits itself to this prediction that it asks its readers to cut this prediction out and file it away for reference at the end of five years"
 An important suit was tried yester- day in the district court. It deter mines what an Arizona jury thinks of insurance companies which attempt to avoid their policies. It was the case of Alice A. May vs. The Bankers Ali ance of California, in which a verdict was rendered against the company for $5000 and interest and costs, the full claim of Mrs. May. Mrs. May was ably represented by Street & Frazier and the company had on hand an array of counsel consisting of the company's counsel from Los Angeles, Millay & Bennett and R. M. Ling of Prescott. Nogales Oasis: Had the prize-ight- CTS contemplated pulling off the fight at Nogales, Monday, as was rumored Saturday, they would have met with disappointment, for Sunday evening Col. Emilio Kosterlitzki of La Gen darmeria, rode into town from Mag da1aua at tha haad of ciytu man tn