Arizona republican., 1897-12-31
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
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 Interest.

Interest.
 The News of a Day In Phoenix and
 It's Tributary Region Presented In
 aNutsheil-Doings Of People and
 Other Matters.
 Supervisor John Norton Is quite ill at his residence near Five Points.
 A social ball of the Phoenix lodge of Elks will be given tonight at the Elks' hall.
 A watch night service will be held in Good Templars' hall by the Holi- ness church on Friday night, Decem- Der 31, 1897, commencing at 1O:3O.
 The Phoenix Candy company will give the gold watch away to the holder of the lucky number on Saturday, January 1, 1898, at ' p. m- Come and see the drawing
 Two large hay wagons laden with boxes of oranges were brought to town from Wards grove at midnight. They are part of a carload shipment which will be seEh to Chicago tonight by w. w. Hill.
 Deputy Sheriff Martin Buggelin of Coconino county was in town yester- day looking for a young man who IS wanted at Williams for obtaining money under false pretenses. He found him working at a livery stable.
 Professor J. Curtis Wasson's lecture on Hawaii at the Baptist church last night was well attended. It was in teresting and instructive, the material for it having been gathered by the lecturer during a trip to the islands less than a year ago.
 A business meeting was held at the Christian church last night to con- slider a proposition flor the purchase of lot north of the Methodist church. An option has been secured on the property and already half enough money to purchase it has been se- cured.
 Mamie Fick.as, the youngest daugh- te rof MT. and Mrs. B. A. Fickas, who has been ill of pneumonia, was in a critical condition yesterday, though it was not regarded that the result would necessarily be fatal. IA turn for the better or the worse is believed to be imminent.
 A union district Sunday school con- vention will be held tomorrow in the Madison school district five miles north of the city. This is a convention of the schools outside of Phoenix, but the Phoenix pupils and teachers are cordially invited to attend. The de- Alterations will be followed by an out door basket picnic
 Francisco Martinez, for whose ar rest a warrant has grown yellow with age, was picked up yesterday by Officer Porterie. Martinez was ac- cused of a brutal assault o1 a woman a year ago, but as all the complaining witnesses and everybody else who knew anything about the case had dis appeared, it was dismissed.
 Hon. A. L. Conger of Ohio, of whose arrival in the city on Wednesday night mention was made in yesterdays Re- publ. can, is so we'll pleased with the town and climate that he has decided to remain during the winter. He will probably lease the residence Of John T. Dennis. MT. Conger is accompanied by his wife and his physician.
 The annual election of the w. c. T. U for the election of officers for the ensuing year will be held on the 5th of January at the '.Romine,' Adams
  enues. The medal contest which was to come off cn New Years eve has been postponed until January 4, 1898, on account of it being the week of prayer.
 A letter was received at the Hotel Adams yesterday from Tod Ford of Youngstown, O., to make arrange ment for quarters at the hotel for the IT nn1 Tov, uary S. MT Ford is at the head of the Youngstown steel and iron works, and a member of the famous Tod family, of whom the most distinguished mem Der was ex-Governor David Tod of Ohio.
 Mr. Eugene s. Ives arrived yesterday morning from Yuma and returned last night. The great dredge has been set up and was lowed up the river yester- day to the point where the State of Arizona Improvement company will begin taking out it's big canal. Op- erations will be begun within two weeks. In the meantime work is go- ing on vigorously on the smaller canal below town.
 E. H. Winters will shortly begin the construction of a business book on the southwest corner of First aH enue and Adams street. He owns a frontage of 77h feet on the avenue and 150 feet on Adams. The part of the building on the corner will be two stories high. The rest of the front age to the Dalton building, which the property adjoins, will be only one story in height.
 General Lewis, who lately re urned from COcOnino county and the Navajo country where he was sent by Gov ernor McCord to investigate disturb ances between the Navajos and the stockmen in Coco1ino, is engaged upon his report to the governor. His nn- vestigatiOn, however, shows thae the actions Of the county officials have been misrepresented and exaggerated in reports sent to Washington, whence directions for the investigation pro- ceeded.