Arizona republican., 1896-06-20

cording secretary. Miss Nettic 'arricr: financial secretary, Miss Ida Wilson; treasurer, Miss Lillie Crumb.
 The officers of the Methodist church south are now making arrangements for the annual campmeeting of the church. They are dissatisfied with the spiritual results of the last meeting, held in Phoenix park, and this year will return to the use of Gods own temple, a shady cottonwood grove, situated several miles distant from the city.
 Judge Collier of New Mexico, has rendered a decision holding that all station houses, depots, switches and other improvements situated on the right of way of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad company are subject to taxa tion. He holds that the bare land constituting the right of way is the only thing exempt from taxation under the law granting the charter to the railroad company.
 H. w. Mowrey, of the Irrigation Age of Chicago, left last night for Ell Paso where he will remain several days, going thence to New Orleans and w was active in securing data relative to the next session of the irrigation con- gress and to the city, Phoenix, in which it will be held, and the Age may be de- pended upon to aid the movement with all power.
 Praaott Journal-Miner: J. c. Kip per, popular young railroader, who has been with the s. F., P. & P. for some time, has been given a passenger run during Conductor Carey's lay off. T. E. Carey, the oldest conductor now in the employ of the s. F., P. & P. rail- road, is taking a thirty days lay off, the first vacation he has taken since engaging in the company's service. He will leave tomorrow with his family for Los Angeles.
 The apricot crop of the Salt River valley is practically over, the Royals having followed the Newcastles out of the market. The only good apricots left on the market are the Moorparks and of this variety there are but few in the valley. In California apricots are just beginning to come into market. The only ripe peaches yet to be seen in the Phoenix fruit stalls are of the ] Briggs variety, not to be highly com mended for quality. Crawfords and other more toothsome varieties will be ready for consumption in about week.
 The morphine victims who have been confined at the county jail for the past few, days. broke their hypodermic needle Thursday night and had no funds wherewith to purchase another They had morphine in solution in plenty. Taken internally it would have nauseated them. So with a com mon pin they pricked their arms in a score of places and rubbed the drug into the circulation. They were not averse to going to the insane asylum, though the woman expressed fear that the treatment might be so severe as to kill her.
 Fred Hough, the Tempe creamery man, has received letter from w. Stowe Devol, of the agricultural col lege, Tucson, advising him that Pro- lessor H. E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the department of agri- culture, will soon visit Arizona, and asking that to take proper advantage of his visit there be called meeting of the Maricopa County Dairy associa- tion, and intimating that session would also be called about that time of the Agricultural association. Pro- lessor Alvord is rated as one of the most distinguished of scientists in his especial field.
 Tucson Star: There was entered for record in the office of the county re- nOr6pr in1o I1, AT Il. Fernandez of the City of Mexico. Among the similar records is the di- ploma of Chinese physician, Low Man. It is in Chinese characters and as the law requires that the record shall be an exact copy of the original, Recorder Shibell was embarrassed. His study of the Chinese language and literature had never been completed and he had really forgotten almost everything he knew about it. He got over the difficulty by deputizing Chinaman to make the entry.
 Prescott Journal-Miner: The ther- mometer yesterday scored one point higher than it registered at 1 o'clock. when The Journal-Miner received it's report, going to the unprecedented height of 104 degrees. At o'clock to- day it was up to 102 or one degree lower than at the same hour yester- day. James Collins returned this morning from a visit to California. He stopped at Needles for three days while en route home, and during his stay there the thermometer registered 127, 12S and 129 respectively. He says that in one place thermometer in the shade indicated a temperature of 136.