Arizona republican., 1898-02-10


 The appointment of James s. Doug las, Jr., as agent of the Commercial Mining company of Yavapai county secretary.
 Two carloads of Salt River valley honey will go out on the s. F. P. & P. this morning. The shipper is James Ivy, and the shipment goes to Philadelphia.
 The town of Mesa is about to have an electric light plant, the power to be furnished by the Consolidated Canal company. A late meeting was held at Mesa at which nearly all de tails were arranged.
 Last evening after school the fresh man class of the union high school or ganized literary society and elected A. w. Ross, president; Miss Grace An drews, vice-president; Miss Mary B. Smith, secretary; T. M. Scott, H. J. Long and A. w. Ross, board of control.
 A free lecture to ladies only will be given by Dr. Astor at Moss hall this afternoon at 3 p. m. Subject, Health, Beauty and Happiness" illustrated by anatomical charts. How to be young, health and beautiful all ones life is worth knowing, and the ladies are cordially invited to attend the lecture.
 Joseph Gross of Los Angeles died at the St. Lawrence this morning at 1 o'clock. He came to town with his wife about one month ago. He had lived in Phoenix before and was we'll liked. The funeral will take place to- day from Bradley's undertaking rooms.
 William Mccarthy, who has for the last two years been prominent in Phoenix base ball and social matters, left last night for Klondyke. He rep resents a syndicate of Chicago capi- talists and his trip was arranged by his brother, who has been in Chicago for the last six months. Lee Garrett also left for the Yukon last night.
 The weather started out cool again yesterday morning and the man from the north who had been wearing his ulster and comforter and the woman her sealskin sacque during The late heated term, complaining of the calOric and threatening to leave the country. doffed their wrappings and began to find fault with Phoenix as winter resort.
 The following cases were argued and submitted in supreme court yesterday: Manley s. Snyder vs. Pima county, by w. H. Barnes for the appellant and William M. Lowell for the appellee; H. B. Scott vs. Patrick Hurley, c. F. Ainsworth for the appellant and Thomas Armstrong, Jr., for the ap- police; W. T. Gray ct al vs. Daniel Noonan, J. F. Wilson for the appel lant and P. Perley for the appellee.
 George Thompson, a colored man. was fined $50 in Justice Kincaid's court yesterday for carrying a concealed weapon, to-wit, a slungshot. Thomp- son had sold another colored man a bootblack stand. When he went around to collect payment on it the trouble began and Thompson was the weapon from his side coat pocket and Constable John Beck intercepted him before he could use it.
 Hi Eldred road overseer west of Phoenix, is one of the most efficient road menders in the county. He is having some trouble with people who flood the roads. He does not catch them at it, and the people who do. re- fuse to make complaint for the reason that they do not want to make their neighbors angry. MT. Eldred argues that a man who is hog enough to waste water and at the same time flood the road is not good neighbor and i is not deserving of any consideration at all.
 The Los Angeles Times which came to Phoenix yesterday gave an account of divorce proceeding there and heads it Sloan Was Cruel" Judge | York yesterday granted decree di- vorcing Laura B. Sloan from Benja- | min F. Sloan, on the ground of ex- | treme cruelty. Both husband and wife were formerly members of the Salvation Army" MT. Sloan is still q member of the Salvation Army and people in this city who know him vii regard him as not only not cruel, but long suffering. Los Angeles papers please copy.
 1 MT. w. O. Secor, formerly city en
 gineer of Albuquerque and at present
 associated in the same capacity witt
 the land department of the Santa Ft
 Pacific, was in the city yesterday to set
 his friend, MT. E. L. Yelling of War
 wick, N. Y, who is at the Ford MT
 Secor said that although the office
 at Albuquerque had been abolished
 with the transfer of the Atlantic 6
 Pacific to the Santa Fe, to Los An
 geles there remained the shops at tha
 place. The capacity had been double,
 and would be trebled this year, pos
 sibly. The Raton, N. NJ, shops woui,
 be abandoned and consolidated witt
 the department at Albuquerque Tn
 Santa Fe would then have the For Madison, Topeka and Albuquerqu shops to do the main work. The Win slow and San Bernardino shops woul be the main departments, in the sam
 line, on the Santa Fe Pacific Tn gentleman said that Albuquerque ha a stretch of bad weather during Jan , uary. The big irrigation scheme ther would be a great help to the towr
 MT. SecOr was delighted with the ap pearance of Phoenix, and the climat I here, he remarked, was rather spring like. He returned to Albuquerque O
 the evening flyer, making close con