Arizona republican., 1897-12-09

| The annual election of officers of J. w. Owen post, G. A. R., occurs tonight. A full attendance of the members is desired.
 John H. Kirby, the young man un- der arrest and in detention at the county jail for issuing fraudulent checks, was not prepared for exami- nation yesterday. He sent word to Justice Kincaid that he was too sick to put on his clothes.
 Assistant United States Attorney Franklin yesterday afternoon received a telegram from Nogales requesting his earliest presence there in an i'm portant seizure of smuggled goods. No particulars were given in the tele- gram. MT. Franklin left for NOgaleS last night.
 There is an advertised letter at the postoffice for $. $. Gish. Gish is one of the many missing men reported to have been drowned in the Salt early last summer. The tragedy was re- ported in this paper with great at tention to details of the tragedy, but it was denied However, MT Gish has never been seen in Phoenix since and nobody knows where he is.
 A meeting of the Arizona society of the Sons of the American Revolution was held last night at the office of MT. J. Ernest Walker. The object of the meeting was to consider the unifi- cation of the Sons of the American Revolution with the Sons of the Revo- tuition, a movement lately considered at a conference at Cincinnati of rep resentatives of the two patriotic so- cieties.
 Tickets for tomorrow's excursion to Mesa are now on sale at the office of the M. & P. R. R., Center street, also at the Irvine company's and the Phoenix Grocery company, good on either of the regular trains to Mesa, and return by special at 1O:30 o'clock The fare is 60 cents for the round trip. To accommodate the Good Templars the evening train will Dot start till 6 o'clock, city time.
 A little girl, the 4-year-old daughter of MT. and Mrs. c. Madsen, living in the southern part of the city, died yes terday mourning of croup. She had been ill for several days and recently an attempt had been made to save her life by insenting a tube in the throat below the membraneous obstruction On the way to the burial ground yes terday afternoon the corpse of the little girl was photographed
 The ladies of the Christian church are preparing one of the incest exhib- it's of fancy work ever displayed in Phoenix for their bazaar winch opens at o'clock tomoirrow in the Sherman building, diagoraaly across Washing ton street from the Ford hotel. A great variety of useful and ornamental articles will be offered for sale, suit able for Christmas presents, includ- ing dolls of all shades of complexion. At noon and again at o'clock a good home-cooked turkey and chicken din- ner will be served at 25 cents The organization of Texas society has proceeded so far that register has been opened at the office of Jus tice Kincaid, and former residents of Texas are asked to come in and enter their names, though not necessarily the names they bore in Texas. Jus | tice Kincaid and Captain Fly McDon- aid have prepared a blank form to be filled out and signed. The form states among other things, the circumstances | under which the signer left the Lone tTs sworn to and no questions will be | asked.
 A prize fight is impending at Prescott and Jimmie McVey of this town had 1 been employed as trainer of one of the parties at handsome salary and | his expenses. Trainer McVey was conscientious and wanted to make the expenses as light as possible. Con- sequently he boarded lumber car which lay on the track and seemed to be headed toward Prescott, last night. The brakeman forgot to attach it to l the Pullman of the solid passenger 1 train. This oversight on the part of the S. F. P. & P. system will not de- lay the prize fight. It will come off as advertised, but one of the fighters
 will be short one days training. Col. sJohnstone has prepared an itinerary for visiting customers through the valley, which he believes
 would impress them as favorably as the delightful climate and the orange
 orchards and would surprise them
 more. He would take them first to
 the Fowler school house and show them it's equipments. From there he
 would go to the Isaacs school house
 thence to Alhambra, the Murphy dis.
 trict, Glendale, Osborn, Poenix, Tempe
 and Mesa, beside to some of the
 school houses lying northeast of the
 city. The1e is, Col. Johnstone be-
 lieves, no other county in the United
 States that can show so many hand
 some and e0cellently furnished schoo
 houses.
 A large. fine looking horse in ar
 eight-horse team belonging to c. E Goddard, of Goddard station, suddenly
 fell on Center street near Washington
 yesterday afternoon. A considerable part of the population of Phoenix