Arizona republican., 1897-12-16

| Other Matters.
 | MT. F. J. Sarmiento of Chicago, au- ditor of the Santa F'e, Prescott & Phoe-
 nix railroad, arrived from the north
 last night. He is 8 guest of the Hotel ! Adams.
 1 The Ladies Aid society of the Pres | byterian church will be entertained at | the residence of Mrs. Norman Lack 1 land, three miles north of town on
 Center street. Friday afternoon. The colored people of Phoenix are l making preparations for grand ball to be given at Redewill hall on the night of December 23. J. W. Bolton and Theodore Wilson have the matter in charge.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to John A. Elvey and Lizzie C.. Muller. The ceremony was perform ed last night at the residence of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris
 Miller, living eight miles west of the city.
 Says Hualapai Charlie of Kingmam: Major McCowan heep big chief. He keep talkum good sense aM time. In juns all heep likum. He tellum good talk He makum Injuns plerty happy He heap big chief all sameme-heap savvy plenty"
 Bob McCann rode in from the coun- try last night and tied his horse to a rack near the court house plaza When he went after it it was gone, but on his second return it was there again cov- cred with foam and sweat. MT. Me Cam is not superstitious, does not believe in witches and is therefore per- plexed about the disappearance and reappearance of Hhe animal
 Judge Street will name the receiver of the Arizona Canal company this morning. The varied and importa ana interests involved in this case have made it a difficult one to decide. Tn fact, no other case of equal import ance has ever been presented to a judge of this district. In spite of inn portunfties of all parties in interest Judge Street has taken time for de- liberation.
 Among the outgoing passengers on the s. F. P. & P. train last night was noticed the genial face of Major H. E. Howe, who for the past year has faithfully served the Saginaw Lumber company in this city in the capacity of bookkeeper. He goes to their main offices in Williams, and while his many friends will regret his absence here, they wish him much success in his new field of labor
 Clarence Eddy, the celebrated or ganist, who played at the openi of the organ in the Methodist church here, gave an organ recital in Oswego. N. Y., on the evening of Dec. z, On the organ in St. Paul's church, the
 finest instrument in the city. MT. Eddy IS called Ame,ica's greatest or, ganist and has recently returned from a trumphal exhibition of his powers in the great musical canters of Flu rope.
 Perry Williams hot water we'll at Maricopa is getting hotter all the time. Unless it moderates before' May the climate about the junction will be unbearable for it has always held about as much coloric as it could stand. Scientists who come along that way regard it as a phsnomenon The we'll at first contained ice cold water. The change of temperature occurred in a night. The water is quite odorless and when permitted to cool has no peculiar taste. The Phoenix foot ball team will meet the Indian eleven at the park this afternoon at 2:30 in a sanguinary struggle. It is nearly a year since these teams met and the Indians con quered. But since then the Phoenix boys have improved and they imagine, too, that some of the ginger was taken out of the abOrigines in the encounter with Prescott on Thanksgiving day. The Indians claim to feel no loss of confidence At any rate it will be a hotly contested battle.
 Assistant United States Attorney
 Franklin left last night fer Tucson on receipt of tele- gram from United States Mar shal Grif1ths saying that the cowboys who tried to hold up a Southern Pa cific train at Stein's Pass last week had been captured and brought in. The telegram evidently means that | the United States rather than the territory will bear the expense of the prosecution on the theory that the
 mail car and not the express car was l the object aimed at by the embryo | bandits.
 A slineman named Nelson Cecil climbed an old telephone pole on the
 west side of the city hall plaza yes | terday to remove the Wires prepara-
 tory to putting them on new pole. I If he had waited a little longer he
 need not have climbed alt all for dthe
 pole had rotted at the base and appar-
 antly held it's position only by balanc- i ing. The lineman seated on a cross
 arm destroyed it's equilibrium and the
 pole began to fall. The hneman with
 a presence of mind worthy of a lion
 tanner and the skill of a circus rider
 crawled around on the side opposi Q
 the direction in which the poll was 1 falling. He sat astride of it and rode 1 it to the ground. The surrounding
 territory including the lineman was
 jarred by the contact with the ground He was picked LID and cauried to lhe