Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

l
 County Superintendent Grouse made official visits to the public schools of the Tempe and Rural districts yes- | terday
 Services at Trinity church this morning at Il o'clock. Chris m IS music by quartette and choir, with solo by Miss Sargent.
 Delfina Martinez, a woman living on the other side of the river, died yes terday. She gave birth to a child a week ago after which pneumonia set in.
 The friends of Col w. c. Masten, formerly superintendent of the M. & P. road, will be pained to learn that he is suffering from an attack of To- comotor ataxis at his home in Vir- ginia, with little prospect of recovery. Yesterday was the date set flor the complete organization of the Texas association at Justice Kincaid's office. A great many of the members called, but all were so busy with preparations for Christmas that it was decided to postpona the organization until Sat urday, January 8.
 Lieutenant-C Colonel John A. Black friends sent him a telegram on Thurs day night congratulatirg him upon his election, and adding, "basket champagne opsned here at your ex- pense." The reply came, ''basket champagne goes" A later dispat, h informed the gallant military gentle man, basket champagne gone"
 Each Good Templar is reque ted by the good of the order committee to bring some little present to lodge on Monday night to put in the grab bag. Every one will then have a draw for a Christmas present, a d no one will get left though many may be sold. There is lots of fun in store fer the Gcod Templars
 Messrs. George w. Hoadley and Graeme Turnbull returned yesterday morning from an extensive tour in the east in connection with valuable placer claims in Sonora, of which Hoad,ey, Turnbull & Co. obtained control last fall. The eastern trip of these ge7- tlemen was very. successful and the development of the claims will shortly fellow.
 General R. Allyn, Lewis returned last night from the Navajo country, whi uher he had been dispatched by Governor McCord to investigate the troubles between rhe Indians and set- tiers, concerning which cOmmunicl- tion was lately received from Wash lngton General Lewis will make his report to the governor today or on Monday
 George Ham1in, the mining man, Ev- ing at 321 South Center street, was almost houseless last night. Some of the Hotel Hardwick guests sitting in front of the hotel saw smoke issu- ing from the house. They ran across and gave the alarm just as the smoke turned into a blaze. It was extin- guished promptly, but not before dam age to the amount of S1O0 had bee done The fire started from the kitchen.
 A man strolled down First avenue on Thursday might, we5ried with the constant exercise of travelling from one saloon to another, and tired in his arms by the frequent occupaticn of bending his elbow. When he came to a big mortar box in front of a crescent building he was too fat'gued to go around it, so he waded through it and carried off great deal of val uable mortar that ran into his shoes over the top.
 There was a shooting event at Mesa yesterday afternoon. Jesus Arias was jealous of his cousin, Jose Arias, ov:r a woman of whom both were enam- ored. Jesus figured that if his cousin were out of the way he would be the whole thing himself Nobody had so great an incentive for removing Jose | as Jesus, and he tried to do it. but his aim was defective. He fired three shots at him, some of them so nearly effective that they frowsed his h ir Jesus was arrested by Constable ] Lewis.
 The question as to who shall pay the expenses of extradition cases, the territory or the county asking it, has been raised and submitted to the at torrey-general. He has not given an opinion yet, but the law spems to clear " put the burden on the territory The principle, though, is generally 1 recognized as bad one, for there has frequently been a gross abuse of the extradition business lately. Requisi- tons have been demanded fer per sons who the authorities knew could not be convicted, and the only purpose Of those asking them was to pile up official fees or afford the alleged cnim- inal free transportation back to the territory. If the expense of these pro- ceedings were to be paid by the count
 ties whose officials set them on foot those officials would have such a holy l fear of the taxpayer that they would not incur any useless expense.
 John B. Kennedy, A. Wilson and
 George Clark were the names of three
 hobos of a pure type, who appeared in police court yesterday morning
 They had been arrested for peddling cheap jewelry. They declined to make
 amy defense, cn the insulting ground
 that their conviction had been ar
 ranged before hand so that defense
 would involve only a useless con- sumption of time and a ruinous waste