Arizona republican., 1898-04-28

P. J. Clark left last night for E
 Paso to take position on one of the newspapers there.
 The employment of teachers for next year has been begun. Miss Ida Temple has been elected in the Isaacs district and Miss Alice Forrest in the Washington district
 Deputy Assessor John Slankard, who has been looking after the poll tax end of the office, having finished l his work, resigned yesterday.
 | A. z. Holmes and wife yesterday soil their pleasant residence on Mad ison street between Second and Third avenue, to Mrs. Stella Hambrook for | S2, 400. MT. and Mrs Holmes will move to Los Angeles to live.
 The sixth annual convocation of the Protestant Episcopal church of this district will be held at Trinity church today. Rev. Dr. H. A. Brown of Pres colt will preach the opening sermon at 10 o'clock. The convocation ser mon will be delivered by Rev. E. A. Penick at 7:30 this evening.
 Will Buck returned to the city last night after an absence of more than | a year. He spent some time in Cal | ifornia and then went to Honolulu where he was engaged in business. He then returned to San Francisco and ! later went to the City of Mexico On his return he stopped for a short time at Fl Paso and held the posi- | tion of city editor of the Times. 1 MT. s. P. Clark of the Ford cele- brated his thirty-second birthday last night by a banquet to his guests and friends. That was the second celebra- ! tion of the same sort and the same birthday within the present week. There were two similar anniversaries | of MT. Clark's birth last week and l there will probably be more next week and the week after. If he should live until next year, and every body who knows him hopes he will, he will be thirty-one.
 | H. J. Gray, who is extensively en- gagged with his brother in the sheep raising business in the northern part | of the territory, arrived in town yes- 1 terday on his way to the war. MT. Gray is an old newspaper man and
 was correspondent of the Chicago l Journal He was a private in Com pany M, First regiment, Illinois na- tional guard. MT. H. c. Pollock of this city was first lieutenant of c company of the same regiment. AS soon as the call for volunteers was made MT. Gray hurried to the nearest | telegraph office and wired Captain Switzer of M company if he might re- | join the company. The reply came yesterday and MT. Gray left fer the I east last night
 R. C. Garland, special attorney for the United States department of jus tice, arrived here this morning from | Tucson. He will remain but a few days, and while here will hear testi- mony in the cases of Captain Hardy and Mrs. Frank Baxter Tlte losses Hi the former from Indian depreda lions
 were incurred in the mountains of
 Mohave county, while the latter are relicts of the life and adventures of the celebrated King Wolesey. From
 here MT. Garland will probably make a short trip to Prescott and St. Johns returning to spend the month of May
 in Pima and Final counties. He has
 but recently received about 100 addi-
 tional cases and these will no doubt keep him busy in this territory fol the balance of the year.
 On Tuesday General Freight Agen
 B. w. Chambers and G. M Sargent
 made thorough inspection of the re sources and beauties of Tempe Mesa
 Lehi and the south side generally ' Today the itinerary will include Al
 hambra, Glendale, Peoria and sur
 rounding country. MT. Chambers i
 so impressed with what he has seer that he has made up his mind to SCI it all, and MT. Sargent is equally sal isfed that see it all he shall. If an. man is competent to rival MT. Sar gent in oratory on the subject of "Th, Beauties of the Valley" that persol 7 has not yet put in an appearance MT Chambers has already admitted l that Phoenix does more business thai
 many towns in California of greate
 population. Messrs. Sargent an
 Chambers were accompanied on thei trip by MT. Wells.
 A letter was received yesterday froI e Judge James Winger of Wisconsin S who went to Fort Mcdowell for hi n health a couple of months ago. Tn Il judge writes that he is improving rap q idly and enjoying himself. The mo
 notony of the invalid's life is broke
 by chopping wood, caring for hors 2 and COW and keeping a lot of chicken
 supplied with water. He never sa'
 chickens possessed of such extraord
 nary thirst. They are interfer1n
 with the development of couple irrigation enterprises, but the judg
 is acquiring muscle in carrying wate f to them. He has not quite finishe his work, Life Among the Lungers, n but he is not required by his contrat with his publishers to have it con
 pleted before June 1. The war excite
 ment has invaded that rather out
 the way region, but the judge write
 that he has not given way to It 1 d0In