Arizona republican., 1897-11-02

There was born to Dr. and Mrs. Ancil Martin yesterday afternoon a son.
 At the Seventh Day Adventist tent tonight the subject will be What God has said about the United States"
 B. Cohen, representing the glove manufacturing firm of Tarrant & Co.,, Los Angeles, is in the city for a few days.
 Dr.. W. G. Lentz, who has been con fined at the Sisters hospital with an attack of typhoid fever, was able to be on the street yesterday.
 The family of Dan Sieden is grow | ing apace. The latest member is a bran new boy and there is consequent pride at the Siedell household. Messrs. Ed McGrath and William Pask, late attaches of the insane asy- lum, severed their connection with that institution yesterday morning. | Henry Wickenburg, justice of the peace at Wickenburg, was before the board of supervisors yesterday to pc tition for the construction of jail | there.
 Dr. David Stearns, a refraction specialist, late of New York, is in Phoenix with view to locating per manently. He has taken offices tenn porarily at the Commercial.
 Two pleasant dinner parties vera given at the Ford on Sunday night. One was given by Mrs. Clara Evans to several of her pupils and parents. Recorder T. A. Jobs was the giver of the other dinner.
 Governor McCord left last night for Pasadena, Cal, to meet Professor M. M. Parker, who will probably be elect ed president of the territorial uni versity to succeed President Billman. The governor will be accompanied by Chancellor Hughes, who had arranged to meet him at Maricopa. Professor Parker is president of the Throop polytechnic institute at Pasadena. The special registration in the Third ward, which was closed last night, included only 2S3 names. Thee are supposed to be something more than $50 voters in the ward and 321 votes were cast in that ward at the election last spring. The falling off in regis tration is attributed to the brief time within which the lists were open and the lack of interest taken in the special election.
 Articles of incorporation of the Nyack Mining company were filed in the office of the secretary yesterday at the request of Mayor W. o. O'Neill of Prescott. The incorporators are New York people, Cornelius V. A. Blauvelt, Charles A. Morrell, Charles B. Smith, Wesley W. Dewitt, Isaac B. Pye, Isaac c. Haring, Joseph P. Hehnle, Peter Morrell, Charles N. Masten and Arthur s. Tompkins. The capital stock is $1 ,0O0, ,OOO, divided into 40,000 shares. Prescott is named as the principal place of business.
 The board of control was unable to found its way to the third floor of the Fleming block yesterday and couldn't find it's way down. Finally it took refuge in the board of control rooms and refused with a show of teeth to be dislodged. An appeal for help was made to the police. Marshal Hooker rushed to the rescue of the territorial administration. With the assistance of the janitor the dog was lassoed in two places and dragged to jail, where without even the form of a trial or other judicial procedure, it was dispatched with a pick-handle, in the hands of "iBll," the useful and efficient factotum of the jail.
 "Is this an intelligence office?" in- quired young man yesterday, stick ing his head into the door of one of these repositories of general and use l ful information. That's what it is,'' replied the proprietor. Then why don't you make a display on your sign?' asked the young man. The proprietor said the sign was there all right and could be read by every man who knew the alphabet and wasn't blind. At the urgent request of the young man the proprietor went out 1 and looked at the sign on which the sign writer had practiced economy to
 the extent of emitting a superfluous "l.' It is. said that sign writers are
 as a class more unskillful spoilers
 than lawyers are.
 Charles Stokes was arrested for iD-
 sanity again yesterday. Two months ago Stokes, who was a morphine and
 cocaine f1end, was taken up and con-
 mitted to the asylum. The drug was gradually taken away from him an6
 he recovered. From skeleton he
 grew strong and healthy and when he
 was discharged a few days ago he
 said he had no further longing fol
 the poison. But what happens to al
 happened to him. Within two week!
 all that had been done for him at tht
 asylum was undone and he was a:
 much of a fiend as ever. By the tim
 he was brought before the probate
 court yesterday afternoon the imm adi
 ate effect of the drug had disappearet
 and he was discharged. Stokes cam
 here from Philadelphia and is said t
 be respectfully connected. He wa
 graduated from th- university O
 Pennsylvania.
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