Arizona republican., 1897-10-08

Buxton & Go. yesterday received the second carload of apples from Watson vile, Cal.
 Members of the order of the Elks and others intending to take adyap- tage of the excursion rate to Tucson will find tickets at the Palace cigar store.
 Preparations are going on for the presentation of the drama, 1.-The Con- yict." The matter is in charge of Fred B. Mussey. The date has not yet been announced.
 Commissioner Crenshaw opened court yesterday morning on the date to which it had been adjourned, and adjourned it again until next Monday morning, when it is expected Judge Truesdale will be able to be present.
 The next regular term of the terri torial court in Pinal county will con- vene at Florence on October Il, for which date the territorial grand jury has been summoned. The trial jury will be called three days later. The federal grand jury will meet on De- tober IS and the trial jury on De- tOber 20
 President E. F. Ripley of the Atch- isOn, Topeka & Santa Fe: General Manager w. e. Nevins of the Santa Fe Pacific, Chief Engineer Dunn of the Atchiscn, and MT. Ed E. Ayers, with party of friends, have lately arrived at Flagstaff with a special train of seven cars. They are taking view of the Grand canyon.
 The Santa Fe Pacific has just awarded a contract for furnishing hewn ties to be preserved in the pick ling plant lately established at Belle mont twelve miles east of Flagstaff From 300 to 800 men will be kept at work in the pine forests of Coconino furnishing the ties, to say nothing of the men engaged at Bellemont in filing them for future reference.
 United States Attorney Ellinwood came in from Flagstaff yesterday morning. Speaking of the climate in that delightful part of Arizona, MT. | Ellinwood said: ''It is nice and cool in the day time, but warm at night" !" He was thinking of the late second | fire in the skylight town which was undoubtedly warm. On the same night there were seven desperate ! iIS, iNCS dUu Cu0 IuuIUST.
 l Harry Johnston, arrested on a charge 1 of forgery on complaint of M. J. For ster of Mesa, was held to the grand jury yesterday by a justice of the l peace at Mesa. His bond was fixed at l $250. He was unable to furnish it and was brought over to the county | jail yesterday afternoon. The check forged by Johnston was for s, a pitt full sum compared with the apparent intelligence of the prisoner.
 The Elk parade tonight at ' o'clock 1 is something that should not be avoided. It is the first demonstration 1 Of the sort ever seen in this territory and may be the last. The paraders are going to Tucson an hour later and will take their regalia and the five-horned goat, whose scientific name is the guyastafarmaritzky, along. ! Tucsonians are a long suffering, for bearing and patient people. but it is possible that the Elks of Phoenix may not be permitted to return to their range in the Salt River valley. There is limit to all things.
 Clerk Lee Gray yesterday turned 1 over to the territory the amount col lected from the leases of school lands in this county, $500. MT. Gray is also engaged 1n the preparation of g report showing the amount of taxes to be turned over for territorial pur. poses. The county valuation is $8,791 ,942. The rate of taxation iI this county is s2.25 on each $1O0. The total tax is s197,S1S.691a. Of this the territory's share at rate of .S71a or each $100, will amount to $76,9294 49 nearly one-third of the whole amour derived from the territory for terri ltorial purposes.
 Hon. w. c. Barnes of Holbrook, tn, newly appointed member of the live stock sanitary commission, is ex pected in town this morning. Tn appoin tment of Mr. Barnes is regardet as one of the wisest made by Gov ernor McCord. He has been closely . extensively and successfully connectet with the cattle interests of the terri tory and further has the advantage 0 previous experience on the board. MI Barnes has brought the cattle range of the territory to the notice of tn readers of the Cosmopolitan in stor Of the Turkey Track Range a cou pie of years ago.
 The Arizona Antiquarian associa tion meets in Flagstaff October g
 The good accomplished by this asso
 citation has already been felt in tn
 repair of Montezuma's castle, and i
 is hoped that the interest manifesto
 will be commensurate with the neces
 sity of the existence of such an as
 sociation. Our relics of sue
 great ethnolOgical value are fast bein
 vandalized by unscrupulous tourist
 and it is high time to take the nece;
 sary steps for our own protection
 The president of the association, D
 J. Miller, is making strenuous effort
 to make this meeting a success, an
 he should receive the hearty co-opar.
 ton of all.
 2 McKelligon's, where you can g.
 the finest hand made sour mash, bou
 bon and Pennsylvania rye whiskie