Arizona republican., 1897-12-15
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
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 l The News of Day In Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented in
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 The payment of city taxes without the penalty was again extended yes terday to the first Monday in January. l The deposit for bronco riding con- test between Eger Jones and Johnnie Moore for $50 side was forfeited yes Herday by MT. Moore.
 The Ingleslde ccmrsny yesterday 1 shipped the second car of oranges of the season to Chicago. This is the | fourth carload sent out of the valley within the last month. Two of them were gathered up from various or chards by W. w. Hill.
 Ed Sellers, otherwise known as Ed Bachellor, for in the delirium of pain which attended the breaking of his legs a few days ago he imagined that 1 was his name, is improving at the Sisters hospital. It is not believed that amputation of either leg will be necessary.
 In local account of a late weddil 2 i it was stated that the wedding supper was served under the direction of Mr. i Dowsing. It was a case of mistake ] 1 identity The director of the banquet was formerly head waiter at Dow sings. MT. Dowsing says he is a caterer to the fine tastes of the publ c | if the public comes to his place of | 1,11c, l., i to that place.
 1 A Mexican was arrested early yes terday morning for prowling around in the night time His very presence abroad was regarded as menace to other peoples property, and he was sent below for ten days. Georgia Redmond has given way to the nor | phine habit again. She was gathered up and will probably find her way back to the Crittenton home through an az | rangemend lately made by the city with the management of the home. | Judge Street has introduced two innovations which greatly facilitate the transaction of business. He opens court precisely at 9:3O o'clock instead eli g, but 9:3O means 9:30 and proceed 1 ings begin at once. The ether inno- i vation is the establishment of mo- tion day. The clerk of the court places all cases that have come to is sue on the calendar and they are called om Saturday. All cases by de 1 fault are disposed of and in this way everything is kept up.
 In the course of the inquest upon the body of P. F. Lynch yesterday, the l coroner's jury was examining the weapon found In the dead man's pock- 1 ct, 32-hammerletss Sm b.h & Wes- son. Some of them looked into the barrel to see if it were loaded and oth- CTS whose olfactOry nerves were more reliable smelled of it. There was a concensus of opinion that it was empty and harmless. It was handed back to the coroner, who got to eX- perimentihng with it and shot a hole in the floor.
 The westibcmnd Sunset limited was nearly laid out at Mariccpa yesterday morning. AS the train was slow ny down on its approach to the station, the dining car, Fl Globo, left the track on account of a defect in the trucks, supposed to have been caused by burning journal. The cad left the track further and further until it came 
 a side track, almost demolishing the palace dining car. It waS cut out Of the train and left at Maricopa. If the accident had occurred while the limitkd was running at full speed the train would have been badly damaged The only occupant of El Globo, a col Ored porter, was uninjured.
 MT. Edwin S. Gill, clerk of the dis fr.if if.t rf fc r | tion record to be indeXed. It had never been done with regularity. His attention was called to the need of it lately when the citizenship of a msn was called into question. His name did not appear in the index and it was only after a long and tedious search that it was established that he ! had been naturalized. Many of the names that had been indexed were diff ferent from those in the record, so that they are frequently hardly recog- nizable as the same It frequently hap pens that a foreigner who has lived in this district without having been nat uralized wishes to return to his own country. In such cases he may want to take back with him a certificate showing that he has cot forfeited his allegiance. Under the old system or non-system he might obtain it no = withstanding that he had taken cut papers.
 | The performance given at tha opeGa l house last evening by the Bittner Theater company for the benefit of the Elks' lodge of this city was we'll at tended. The opera house was dec orated in the lodge color, purple. The 1 galleries were hidden in nlIrpi.o draner- ies. Across the stage, suspended from the ceiling, was draped the national flag, caught up at the center by a wreath, in the center of which was the lodge emblem, an elk's head. The evenings performance opened with a curtain raiser, entitled My Wife" by Edward B. Kelly and Virginia Herr man. The audience was kept in a l continuous hurst of lallglal- er thrnu gh-