Arizona republican., 1897-12-01
CITY IND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
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The News of a Dayin Phenlx and
 ItsTributary Region Presented in
 aNutsheil-Doingso of People and
 Other Matters.
 Rev. HI. J. Ellers, living eight miles wesu of town, is seriously i'll of pneu- monia.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to William Goehry and Stasia Grubenska.
 Gregorio Lopez and his brother, Euvijias, were arrested yesterday for an assault upon Jose Orduna.
 Walter Gregory, for the past six months city editor of the Gazette, has severed his relations with that paper to fill similar position on the Herald.
 There will be meeting of the Phoenix Gun club at the Keystone pharmacy this evening at o'clock, and all members are earnestly re- ques;ted to be present.
 A colored base ball league has just been organized in Phoenix. The off cers are w. J. Anderson, manager; P. Polk, captain; E. Thomas, secretary. and J. w. Bolton, treasurer.
 Sam KeIrick, arrested on Monday for carrying a concealed weapon, had a hearing in Justice Kincaids court yesterday and was fined $50. He com promised the affair by going to jail for fifty days.
 Miss Sadie Thoma, late of Fairfield, Ia., died November 26 of brain fever at 429 South Center street. Her funeral took place on November 29 from the undertaking rooms of Randall & Davis. The deceased after coming Ito Arizona resided some time at M h. nehaha Flats.
 Thomas w. Hine has leased his res idence for the winter to Angus Smith, president of the board of trade, Mil waukee, Wis. Mr. smith, accompa- nied by his sister, Mrs. Catherine Rainey, and his nephew w. J. Rainey, of Cleveland, O., will arrive here on December G. Messrs Smith and Rainey last spring bought section of the Churchill estate northeast of the city.
 Col. c. W. Johnstone, otherwise Tsr ritorial Treasurer Johmstone, still otherwise, justice, deacon, Sir Knight, ad infinitum, says that his hands are not extended after every passing uA Ject. He declined gently, put firmly, yesterday the office of manager of the Phoenix base ball team, position for which he is qualified by long experi- ence as representative of The Louisville club in the National league several years ago.
 The board of supervisors is eGdaav- bring Ito trade the county poor farm at the eastern end of Washing on street for a larger tract of land five or six miles out, preferably northwest or southwest of the city. The tract now owned by the county comprises only forty acres. The supervisors de sire not less than 16O acres. The movement of the beard in this matter will be endorsed and recommended by the grand jury.
 Articles of incorporation of the Seattle and Yukon Steamship com- pany were filed in the officel of the county recorder yesterday. The cap ital stock is 1000, 900 and the principal place of business is Phoenix. The incorporators are W. H. Robinson of Phoenix, Frederick K. Gustin, James P. Light, George, Prent:ss and Am shony J. Hageman of Chicago. The stated object of the incorporation is to engage in the construction of steam ships and other vessels destined for service in the Pacific ocean, Behring sea, the Yukon and other Alaskan rivers and their tributaries.
 A cat came near being the destruc- tion of the Gregory house lately. The cat has been pet for many years and in the capacity of pet has taken liberties not accorded to the average no Apoa,r ,rv,lcr j. l@ privilege of 'snoopin'" around. The other day the cat was investigating the contents of shelf in an unoccu- pied room. She knocked a box of matches to the floor and the jar was sufficient to ignite them. Some one passing along the hall was att, acted by the smell of burning cloth and smoke exuding from the door. A hole three fact in diameter had been burned in the carpet and the flames had begun to eat into the woodwork of the floor If thisvd vdiiscovery had been delayed five minutes or perhaps only one minute, that seftion of Phoenix would have been fckened ruin.
 News Of the death of J. c. Weaver of Keokuk, 1a., will be received with a shock by his many friends in Phoe- nix. He died on November 19 in a Santa Fe train just entering Kansas City. J. c. Weaver first came to Phoenix two years ago. He was in ill health, the result of a severe attack of typhoid fever. He remained at the Ford hotel until spring, ume of IS most popular guests. He went away, apparently much improved, and r5- turned year later accompanied by his sister. Mrs. J. w. Summers of Keo- kuk, and took lodgings at the Hotel Adams He had declined rapidly dur ing the summer and through the win ter was subject to many and violen. hemOrrhages. He was only 31 years old, yet he had lived long enough to prove that he was a most successful business man. He organized the 1arg- { est bank in Keokuk and at the time of his death was Ia charge of an es-