Arizona republican., 1897-10-27
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of Day in Phoenix ard It's Tributary Region PreSenten .o aNutshelI-Doings of People and Other Matters.

Sheriff F. J. Wattron of Navajo county and Deputy Sheriff Bargeman arrived in town yesterday morning with two young men, each sentenced to two years at Yuma for burglary.
 The ladies of the Christian church will give another one of their delight full dime socials in the church on Friday evening. At the close of the social refreshments will be served. All for 10 cents.
 Judge Truesdale seemed to be better yesterday evening than at any time since his condition became critical. His physicians were rather more hope full than they were a week ago when the first favorable symptoms devel- oped. Mrs. Truesdale has sent back to Minneapolis for an old nurse of the family who is expected here soon.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to Refugio Gomez and Antonia Garcia. The wedding was set for 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but the bridegroom was unable to say whether it would transpire on the minute, or even on that day, for the prospective mother-in-law, with obstructive ten dencies, had to be considered. The bride was of age and legally her mother had nothing to say. Still she was saying a great deal.
 The board of supervisors yesterday made the annual apportfonment of the road fund which is distributed as fol. lows: District No. 1, $1,2O15O; No. 3, $2, ,002. .52; Nos. 3 and 4, each $SO1. .O1; Nos. 5 to 12, inclusive, and Nos. IA and 15, each $S0.10; No. 13, $1, 1,O41 30; No. 16, s160.20; No. 1T, $1,361.7 70. Many of the districts had balances left over from last year, but more of them had deficits. The balances are: No. 1. s127.33; No. 4, $159.20; No. z, $3O4. No. 8, $6S.5S; No. 10, S7.36; No Il. s6S.23; No. IT, $252.90. The deficits are: No. 2, $67S7S; No. 5, s337. .9S: No. 6, s114.90; No. g, $66.62; No. 12, $269. .97; No. 13, $1 ,523.5 No. IA, $171.42; No. 15, $223.53; No. Is, $155.06.
 Yesterday morning Officer Doheney went down to block Al to hunt for Fayette Morrell, who knocked Charles Stokes down and kicked him last Sun day night because he disliked the style s6f his cap. While he was looking for Morrell he saw E. Deicheimer and John Peterson sparring. Peterson led a vicious right and missed Deich- eimer, who is evidently an expert in the savette, missed with am equally vicious kick. When the officer arrest ed them both claimed to have been playing. Justice Johnstone, before whom the matter was adjudicated yesterday, also agreed that they were in fun and fined them only $75O apiece. If Officer Doheney could have proved that it was fight they would have been mulcted in the sum Of about $500.
 It was reported on the street late on Monday night that Miss Gypsy Ashton had taken a large quantity of 1audanum. There was an inference that the poison had been taken with suicidal intent. This report was given wider circulation by malicious persons who suggested the suicide theory and even offered the motive of unrequited love. Miss Ashton and without foundation. The physician was called to treat her on that night. and he says that she was at no time suffering from poison. Her ailment was nothing more than an intolerable pain, to which she has been subject for nearly year. Regarding the un- requited love theory, Miss Ashton au- thoriZed the statement that there is no one on earth whom she loves with sons who set afoat and kept in cir culation the story of her attempted suicide.