Arizona republican., 1897-12-10
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.

The News of a Dayin PhBnix anc
 It's Tributary Region Presented In
 Nutehell-Doings of People and
 Other Matters.
 A meeting of the normal schcol board will be held in this city this afternoon.
 The Phoenix Social club will give it's first dance tin the Elks' hall on Saturday evening, December il.
 The Bittner company will begin a rleturn engag cement at the opera house on December 13. They return with new plays, including that delightful comedy, Charities Aunt"
 John H. Kirby, charged with issuing a fraudulent check, was brought be- fore Justice Kincaid yesterday and ar raignedl At his request his exami- nation was set for next Thursday.
 Remember the sale of dolls and fancy work by the ladies of the Chris tian church today and this evening in the Sherman building on West Washington street, opposite Redewil] hall.
 Turkey and chicken dinner for 25 cents at 80 o'clock today, served by the ladies of the Christian church in the Sherman building on Washington street just west of the court house Take it in. Supper at 5:50 p. m.
 The mary friends of MT. Abe Hey man will be pleased to leairn that the rumor on the streets yesterday after noon of his dangerous, if not hopeless. illness is untrue. MT. Heyman has been for some time and is now a very sick man, but his life has by no means been despaired of.
 Attention is especially directed to The Republicans job rooms which, wih their new type, new presses and skilled mechanics, are better equipped than any other in Arizona. They are under the charge of Charles H. Morris, who is by far the most artistic job printer in the territory.
 Owing to the Good Templar excur- sion to Mesa today, the evening trair which leaves regularly at 5:30 o'clock. city time, will not start till 6 D. m. The morning train will go at 10 a. m. and excursion tickets will be good on either train. The special will start on the return at about 10;30 o'clock.
 County teachers certificates were issued yesterday to W. B. Adams, Alp bic McKinzie, D. D. Collins and Frank Dougherty, a nesult of the examination last Monday and Tuesday. There were four applicants for territorial certificates whose papers will be passed upon later by the territorial board of examiners.
 Phoenix assembly No. 109, United Artisans, held it's annual election of officers Tuesday night and elected the following: Master artisan, Charles W. Barnett; superintendent, Lillian G. Jeffries; inspector, George R. Bruister; secretary, F. B. Gabbert; treasurer, Louise Lightner; senior conductor, Charles H. ReibMng; master of cere- monies, Lillian B. Harlan; junior con- ductor, Reno Rudd; medical examiner, Dr. H. V. Clymer.
 There is an economical German liv ing on John Eyrich's ranch west of the city. Not long ago he had a horse on which a ringbone developed. It grew so rapidly that the German, despairing of curing it, decided that
 
 would be worth more dead than alive. He accordingly killed him and con- verted such parts as were suitable into jerky. The rest was saved for chicken feed. He says that the flesh is much more palatable than the av- craze beef and the chickens also seemed to be pleased with the charge of diet, for they have established a new egg laying record.
 There is likely Ho be a conflict be- tween the cattlemen and sheepmen in the northern part of the territory. There is already more or less bad feeling growing out of the passage cf large bands of sheep from Coconino, Navajo and Apache counties to the Salt River valley. The cattlemen complain that they are devastating the cattle ranges A band of say 4,000 sheep moving at rate of about seven miles a day leaves little in it's wake, and that little is disdained by the cat tie. If the sheepmen would follow one trail, the eattlemen say they would not complain, but instead of doing that the focks parallel each other and the waste and ruin is ex temsive.
 Some time after midnight last night woman was seen fooling with a Gamewell fire alarm box at the corner of Center and Adams street. Her movements were rather deliberate for one who wanted to turn in an alarm. but bystanders began looking around in the immediate neighbMhood for signs of a fire. One man hurried to the corner of Center and Monroe and looked in all Attractions. Ano her made journey to Adams and First and surveyed the surrounding territory When they returned the woman was still investigating the box. Where's the fire?" asked one of thel men. There ain't no fire,' she replied. "Well, what are you monkeyin' with that box for, then?" he asked "I'm goin' to put this letter in,'' she said.
 Deputy Sheriff Charles Slankard re- turned yesterday morning from Gull lens wells with M. L. Grover, agai in st whom an indictment had been found