Arizona republican., 1897-12-19

d | Other MatterS
 The home of MT. and Mrs. Robert Morse was brightened yesterday mo-n- | ing by the arrival of baby boy. A Phoenix man is wanting to bet S10O that the quarter, the half and the mile track records will be broken alt the coming races.
 The teachers of this county were paid sums yesterday aggregating 12,000. About $4,000 more remains of the apportionment.
 Mrs. W. Lambreoht died at M.lwau kee on the 11th and was buried on the 18th inst. The deceased was the mother of G. F. Lamprey of Phoenix.
 On and after tomorrow the public school noon hour will be an hour and not an hour and a half. School will begin alt 1 o'clock instead of at 1 30, and will close at o'clock, a half hour earlier
 Dr. Dufield yesterday received a copy of a Ueavenworth paper conain- ing an account of the birth to M;ls c. c. Smith, wife of Lieutenant c. c. Smith, lately stationed in this terri tory, of son.
 MT. John A. Larkin and Ms. Soph- Ionia Nelson were married yes terday afternoon at 235 East Adams street. Mir and Mrs. Larkin are recent ar ivals in the city. MT. Larkin is a. cattleman and came here from Santa Fe.
 A new furnace has been put in the First Methodist church during the past week of sufficient capacity to heat both the audience room and hase- ment, thereby assuring the, warmth and comfort of all who attend the ser vices of that church
 Frederick w. Gatke died on Friday aftern'con of paralysis -at his rssi- dence west of town. He had been in ill health long timel He was an old residenla of the valley and was ire quently alluded to as the poet of the Salt River valley
 TIhe following from the Los Angeles Times of December under the head of marriage licenses will be of Interest to Phoen :cians: Nose Drachman, aged 27, a native of California, and res ident of Phoenix, Ariz., and Ethel IL. Edmunds, aged 27, a native of Vir- ginia and resident of Long Beach.
 The regular preaching services will be held at the Presbyterian church to- day at II in the morning and at in the evening. The evening service will be varied some by the use of a re- spanSive service. Special music at both these ssrvices. Sunday school at 10 a. m. and Y. F. S. c. E. at 6 D. m. All are cordially invited to all tha services of the church. :! l
 Articles of incorporation of the Alaska Mercantile and Transportation company were filed in the office of the county recorder vesiterdav The in- corporators are w. H. Robinson of Phoenix, John M. Hayes. Jossph P. Light, J. B. Craig, A. M Whj e, J. B. Briscoe, Robert T. Holmts, Polk B. BriscCe and Frederick K. Gustin. of Chicago. The capital stock is $500 00O.
 A carload sh:pmei-t of corper cre from the Little Teda, and the Red Ok. ide mines in the Eag'e Tail mountains (Harqua Rafa) district, was made ylEs- terday by Jim Randall. This ore as- saved 60 per cent copper, with goi1d smattering of gold and silver. The principal owner of these mines is John Lyons, a Kansas man. who has shown a great deal Of energy i'm de- velCping the mining resources of Ari- zona- MT. Lyons is very modest sbou; his claims, however, and has very lit tie to say about them.
 Governor McCord and Dr. George w. Vickers, terriorial auditor, re urned yesterday morning from a visit to the penire enhiary. This was Dr. Vickers first visit to Yuma and he was h ghly pleased with the management of the institution, the progress of work on the canal and whatever else he saw. Eighty-fom- convicts are now at wo. k on, the canal and have four miles of it finished. Beside this work the prisoners have cut 1,800 cords of wood which has cost the Iterr-tory Il cants cord. Heretofore the contract price of wood bought for the use of the prison was $2.5O.
 The Phoenix Gun club wants to buy ss many live pigeons as it can cb: ain for the approaching tour ame-t
 The grand jury in recommending that the county recorders office dis pense with the certificatton on the back of recorded instruments, ecom- intended him to violate the law, for the law requires that that certificate S Salr be madel notwithstanding .he same thing appears within the document It is, of course, wholly useless and the law was passed several years ago by accommodating legislators when ths recorders office was, an office of f es The legislature would probably have sanctioned a dozen' mo.e certifc sltes if the recorders had asked them to do so and the recorders would have had no hesitancy in asking if there had been any place to stamp any more certificates. It seems to have never occurred to them thak the docum ents might have been made larged. But the recorders ,of those days were just like hogs. They never reasoned, nevar might have been made larger But straight ahead and took everything in their way.