Arizona republican., 1898-04-05

Avery vs. Avery was taken yesterday bfore District Clerk Gill as referee.
 Mrs. N Maury, a professional nurse of this city, has offered her services to the government in the case of war
 c. Campbell was yesterday given the contract for building the new house of H. B. Leighton. It will cost S1,S00.
 Manuela Robles, arrested a couple of days ago for stealing a tent from another Mexican woman below town, came before Justice Johnstone yester- day and pleaded guilty.
 The board of supervisors spent yes terday counting the cash in the treas urer's office. There was S53,58593, of which s3O,525 was gold, $66O93 silver and copper, and $22, 2,500 currency.
 The county treasurer will begin in earnest today selling delinquent prop erty for taxes. The sale, according to law, began week ago yesterday and will continue twenty days As a matter of fact, no property has been sold yet. There remains now only twelve more days of the sale.
 MT. J. B. Jacoby and Mrs. E. c. Eastman were united in marriage last night by Justice c. w. Johnstone. MT Jacoby has been a resident of Phoenix for some time and is connected with the McDougall-Gag company. Mrs. Jacoby is a late arrival in town, com ing here from Mentone, Cal.
 The Hull in police business is at an end. Six hobos were run in last night and five riders of unlighted wheels. Among them was young lady, ste nographer. Ben Hall, a colored per son who has been causing the police a great deal of trouble and loss of sleep, stepped across the dead line last night and did something that justified his arrest.
 Among the novices who were ex- posed to the Shrine last night was a Bisbee gentleman. He was in the Bodega in the afternoon and seeing the nickel-in- -the-slot weighing and fortune telling device invested a nickel in it. The fortune telling is ac complished by the machine by cutting off a small section of paper usually bearing some motto. The following motto on the Bisbee mans slip was exceedingly apropos, taking his inn pending fate into consideration: Friend, be on thy guard"
 Henry Orme and Walter Gregory came in from the north last night with an insane man named Charles Lange, who was picked up on the desert at Vulture Siding. He left the Castle Creek springs in the morning and on the way to the junction became vio- lent and often throwing everything out of the wagon that he could lift; turned on the driver, who managed to keep him at distance until the junction was reached. when the demented man took to the desert where he would un- doubtedly have perished.
 Thre was a pretty fight, Queens berry rules, if a fight under any rules can be called pretty, yesterday after noon in an alley in the rear of the Monihon building A couple of boys about fourteen years old met there to adjust a dispute. They spared scien- tifically and effectively and attracted a big crowd Occasionally they clinched and went down. A self con- stituted referee separated them, put them on their feet again and the next round was fought. This thing was kept up half an hour and was finally admitted to be draw.
 Governor McCord yesterday received from Secretary R. A. Alger of the war department a telegram in reply to request last Saturday night for per mission to recruit regiment of Ari zona cavalry. The secretary said: Your patriotic telegram has been re- ceived and will have due consideration should the service of your people be needed" In the meantime persons de sirous of joining the cavalry are sign ing the rolls. It would be possible to raise at least two regiments in Ari- ZOna-
 .. John Doe Robinson, against whom a complaint charging him with the dis turbance of the peace of a respectable person, was made a couple of weeks ago, was arrested yesterday. He was tried at the sheriff's office by Jus tice Johnstone, as it is somewhat less public place than Wall street Robinson had visited the house of the complainant three times. The object of the visits was to call the complain ant to account for circulating the story that he was an eX-convict. On one OCCdSlOn tHC uldu OI lu6 HOuSS W as not at home and his wife ordered Rob- inson away. Being asked why he did not go, Robinson said he feared she would shoot him when his back was turned. He was sentenced to twenty days in the county Jail.
 "1492" was presented to a good crowd at the opera house last night. It was the best show in Phoenix for a long time. The company is large, we'll organized and the play itself a burlesque, gave a good opportunity for display of talent. Columbus was the discoverer of America, not the America of 1492, but the America of 1898, and a situation in some respects remindful of that of "Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's court" is pre- sented. Interest was further lent the show by local hits, one of which was directed at the streets of Phoenix. The city had a clean and model street, but if harn It had hPpn