Arizona republican., 1898-02-15
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The News of Dayin Phoenlx and It's Tributary Region Presented In aNutsheIl-Dofngs of People and Other Matters.

Idmlly, w. Ii. Beard anu O. F. GuC- nam arrived in the city yesterday.
 The ladies of Phoenix are invited to a free lecture this afternoon at Moss hall, corner Washington street and Fourth avenue, by Dr. Astor, on Health, Beauty and Motherhood"
 Thomas Bruce died at the residence of Samuel Cook yesterday at o'clock a. m. of heart trouble. He was about 6S years old. The funeral will be con- ducted in the Free Methodist church today at 10 o'clock a. m.
 Charles c. Woolf, who was appoint ed secretary of the Arizona Livestock association last Saturday, yesterday removed from the rooms of Attorney General Frazier to the offices of the association on East Washington street
 The walters of the Ford hotel will give complimentary jubilee concert to the guests of the hotel next Satur- way night. The first part of the con- cert will be a minstrel performance The latter part will consist of songs and dances. Among the walters are several artistic performers.
 Sim Neighbors, who was indicted by the last grand jury for murderous assault, was brought in yesterday on bench warrant and put under $500 bond. MT. Lamb was indicted at the same time. The alleged offense was committed near Mesa. Neighbors, of whom all trace was lost, was lately found in Pinal county.
 A dispatch from the Little Jessie mine in Yavapai county announces the fact that they have made one run of the cyanide plant and it has proved a great success. All the tailings will be treated in this manner and also the large ore dumps. All the low grade reserved in the mine will be treated by new plants which have been erected.
 A certificate of the beginning of construction work on the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon railroad was filed in the office of the territorial secretary yes terday. The work consists in having perfected the survey of the line, which will run from Williams north to Flag staff junction forty miles, thence north to the rim of the Grand canyon, twen- ty-three miles.
 H. A. T. Hanson of this place com plains that he has been wrongfully accused of an intention to commit sui eide. On the contrary, MT Hanson says he shudders at the thought of death in any form. He is not pc pared to go and he knows it. These stories, he says, have been put in cir culation by a man with whom he has had disagreeable financial relations.
 J. R. Armstrong, mining man from St. Paul, has located in Phoenix and {o of the territory. MT. Armstrong is interested in a mine in the KoOtenai mining district in the extreme north ern part of Idaho, and he thinks that is the best mining country yet discOv- cred. The number of successful mines he says, is greater than in any dis trict he knows of, Cripple Creek not 
 General Manager J. Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific system, George CrOcker, second vice-president, and w. G. Curtis, engineer maintenance of way, arrived in town yesterday after noon on a special from Maricopa. The gentlemen remained in town only about twenty minutes and left for the south. Their next stopping place was Tucson. Their visit to Phoenix was of no significance. They came in only to catch a brief glimpse of the town. They are making hurried inspection of the s. P. route.
 A special train belonging to the Alaskan Commercial company passed Maricopa westbound yesterday. It consisted of three sleepers, din ing car and two baggage cars. It carried 112 men, boat builders from Cincinnati and other points on the Ohio river. They are bound for St. Michael's. The material for the boats has been shipped to San Francisco, whence it will be carried to St. Mich ael's and will there be converted into boats for the Yukon trade. The boats are really already made and will only have to be put together
 There is an interesting revival go- ing on in the Mormon church at Mesa. It was begun last Sunday and derives it's greatest impetus from the pres ence of Apostles Smith and Taylor of Salt Lake, who are returning from the Gila valley, where they lately in stalled the successor to the venerable President Layton. The names of these apostles are inseparably con- nected with the Mormon church. One is a son of it's founder and the other is son of the celebrated Bishop John Taylor, who succeeded President Brig ham Young. The meetings at Mesa are so important that they have at tracted the people of that faith from all this part of the territory.
 In an article in The Republican late ly describing the adoption of a system for better checking up the water tax a statement was made which might be construed by those unfamiliar with the situation to be reflection upon the care exercised by City Zanjero Wolfiey under the former system It was stated that water had been ob- tained by persons who did not pay for 1t. What was meant was that persons sometimes took the water without an intention to pay for all they used, but city hall officials say that the ZanjerO's vigilance prevented a continuation of