Arizona republican., 1897-09-17


 It's Tributary Region Presented in
 IN Itsheli-Doings of People and
 Orner Matters.
 F. B. Devereux has opened a real estate and mining bureau in the Fleming block.
 The car of apples lately received by Buxton & Co. weighed 31 ,000 pounds and consisted of 600 boxes, all of which were unloaded yesterday.
 Mrs. Maury, the nurse, was badly hurt by falling from an electric car at the corner of Pratt and Washing ton streets on Tuesday night. She was injured internally, but how seri- ously is not known.
 The livestock sanitary commission met yesterday i'll its new quarters in the Gazette office building. In the absence of Secretary Charles w. Pugh by reason of illness, Professor H. H. Brown was appointed temporary secretary. No other business was transacted.
 The mule was resurrected yesterday. When folks got up and saw him drag ging a street car they looked as if they had seen a ghost. But the mule was genuine and the street car com pany needed him. The storm of last week had wrecked the dynamos and played havoc with armatures. so the compaJ5 had to fall back on the mule. He if not quite so swift as a dynamo. but he is reliable and lightning proof The company hopes to be able to retire the mule again today and resume electricity, but the mule will always be treasured up as reserve fund.
 There is a man in this town who is going to become entangled with the United States. It is said that for more than a year he has levied a tribute upon ignorant Mexican wood cutters, representing to them that he was an officer of the government authorized to collect a. dollar apiece for each wagon load of wood cut on govern ment land and $5 on each carload. The Mexicans have been complaining of the hardship imposed upon them, but until lately their complaints have been made to persons who took no interest in them. The matter will be investigated.
 Messrs. Richard H. Barker, citizen membec of the board of control, and H. J. Lee, clerk of the board, visited the territorial asylum yesterday to collect material for report to be in corporated into the governors report to the interior department. The ap- pointments of the asylum 4were found in good shape. The interior of the building was somewhat dilapidated, but Dr. Hambifii H os rapidly as pos7 sible repairing the result of neglect. He is also engaged in exterior inn provement, laying sidewalks and beau tifying the lawns. Preparation are also being made for the erection of a dining hall with a capacity for seat ing 300 persons.
 Justice Johpstone yesterday ren- tlered judgment for the Japanese plaintiffs in the case against the ca naigre company. The joy of George P. Bullard, one of the plaintiffs at torneys, was alloyed by a single in cident. For days he has been em- ployed in collecting authorities in support of the plaintiffs contention. Yesterday morning he had his plain itffs carrying arm load after arm load of Jaw books into court They rose like\ a mountain from the justices tablA When MT. Bui1ard began his argument, the court agreed with him on every proposition submitted, so that it was unnecessary to refer to the authorities so laboriously col 1ected.
 MT Jay Cummings, a special agent of the general land office with headquar- ters at Los Angeles, arrived in town yesterday. He has been detailed to Arizona for the purpose of investi- gating the evidence in the Dawes case, of which The Republican made ex- tensive mention lately. He will also in vestigate a decision by the supreme court of this territory couple of years ago, wherein it was held that mesquite wood was not timber within the meaning of the law, Awhich pro- hibits the cutting of timber on gov -ernment land. In this connection. it is stated that prosecutions will be instituted against persons who have violated the law. MT Cummings Is regarded as one of the most efficient agents in the service. He served during the Harrison administration and was the first official reinstated under the Mckinley administration
 The survivors of the Phoenix deg population held meeting last night in the rear of the city hall plaza and con- sidered preambles and resolutions touching the crisis attained yesterday. Resolutions condemnatory of the late conduct of the city council were passed and others thanking the territory for its interference at a critical juncture was adopted There was still aD- other esolution with a preamble re- citing that whereas, it had been fore ordained in all well regulated com. ms.sities that unlicensed dogs should die, Ms meet and proper that like immoi4 4al Caesar they should die with decenx Mar the close of the
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