Arizona republican., 1898-11-16
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

LICENSED TO WE'D Marriage li-
 censes were issued yesterday to Harry
 4. Diehl and Mary Louise Richmond
 J. William Wick and Ella Presley
 A NEW GRAIN sTORE.-J. H. Hol-
 lenbeck will sCday begin the erection
 o@ building On First avenue near the I O'Neill building, which he will use
 for grain store.
 THEIR FIRST BOY Mr and Mrs A. L. Fisher are receiving the congrat- ula,iCns of their friends upon the ar ] rival of q ten-pOund boy which came
 to their home yesterday.
 AN AGED WOMAN'5 DEATH. = Mrs. F. A. McHafTie, aged 73, died yes terday afternoon about two miles east ] of Phoenix. The cause Of death was paralysis. The funeral will take place today.
 1 FATAL PNEUM0NIA-Ben Stevers, Ia young man who came here about i thres weeks ago from Galesburg, H., died last night shortly before mid
 night o1 pneumonia His remains will be sen east tonight.
 CAPITOL SITE COMPASSIONATE capitol size commission which ad-
 
 resume it's labors today. It is quite likely that plans for the capitol build l ing will ba agreed upon before the end Of the week
 LAFAYETTE'S MON CMENT. Full returns from collections from the school children Of thls county
 for the Lafayette monument fund have been received a the office of the county school superintend-
 ent The total amounts b $97.36. THE LOST BALLOTS. The bunch of official ballots destined for McDow- ell precinc- and supposed to have been stolen from Wesley Powsll at Mesa were returned to the beard Of super
 visors' office yesterday. They were
 found Ey :nan named Young be-
 tween Mesa and McDoWell.
 NEW COUNTY SURVEYOR. Will liam Evans lately received a letter from William r. Waters, the county suryeyor-elec., who is now engaged in 2 government survey along the Rio GraEde in Texas. MT. Waters writes that his work there will not be fin ished before next March, though ha expects to return temporarily to Phoe- nix in the course Of a couple of weeks. |
 J. L. B. ALEXANDER s RETURN. l George Buxton yesterday received a letter from. his brother-in-law, Cap 1 tain J. L. B. Alexander, who has been | ia Porto Rico for the last month. | Captain Alexander, while he said | nothing abou, the new territory, had | evidently seen all Of it hs cared to, | since he said he would leave on his return to Phoenix on the following { Sunday.
 THE WINTER VISITOR. Al oIo cir the election the incoming Of the winter visitor is alraady nuqh more marked. The greateS, influx will occur within the next three weeks. Those who have not come then will likely wait un,il after the holidays and still have plenty cf time to leave fer the south bcfCre 5ke worst of the northern year sets in.
 BOUGHT NEW RANCHES.-A1r w. C. Barnes Of HOlbrook has purchased several ranches on he Maxwell grant in New Mexico, and it is said that he | will move large numbers of his cattle from northern Arizona to his newly ac- quirad ranches Bob Morris of Hol- brook will be foreman of the New l. Mexico ranches. Several carloaus of horses wcIe shipped by -lr. Barnes to New Mexico a. few days ago.
 DEATH OF MRS SWINFORD. = Mr Lloyd Johnston yesterday re- ceived 2 letter from w. R. Swinford t' of Chicago saying that his wife had died on October 31 and that her body had been cremateI according 10 her request Mrs. SwinfoTd will ba well { in Phosnix. She spent the winter here two years ago and again q year ago. Her husband is : prominent member of the Chicago board or trade.
 LEFT FOR THE SOUTH.-Col. c. C. Bean will leave tonight for Tucson, where he will spend few days before going tc the Ajo mine in Yuma county. Gel. Bean has engaged w. J. Murphy 1f this city to take charge Of the ar .angement of the equipment wlich will be placed on the nine and he will assume the foremarship of the mine also as sOCn a5 work is begun. Wes- lev Werner O. Phoenix will be Col. Beans camp cook.
 YOUNG MEMS NIGHT. At the Baptist church next Thursday evening will be given the first of a series of en- ortainments. literary. and musical, un- der the direction of the young msn Baraca class. to which all the young men Of the city are invited. The pro- gramme will include talk On Sue cess by Rev. Dr Halsey, and music, vocal and instrumental. There will b9 { no charge in any form f3r admission. The reading room will be open during the evening. :
 MIR CROKER'S VISTA gentle man who has been made familiar with the visage of the great Tammahy chieftain through press and magazine though, he recognized him on the street yesterday. He iraIIy decided that the man he saw was Croker's double. The likeness seemed to him all the more remark able when he learned that MT. CrokeT contemplated a visit 10 Phoenix and vas now probably on his way here.
 IN. A STRANGE LANGUAGE The current number of the Irish World contains on the front page a transla-