Arizona republican., 1898-06-14
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re. zion. The Doings of People and Other Matters.

There were two drunks, a man and
 woman, in police court yesterday. License to marry was issued yester.
 cay to MT. Charles Foreman of Flor ence and Miss Emma Sears of this county.
 l 4 meeting of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution will be held at the home of MT. and Mrs J. Ernest Walker this evening.
 s. M. Cullom, deputy collector of in- ternal revenue, yesterday moved his office from his former quarters in the Monihon block to the room lately occu- pied by the United States attorney at the court house.
 Late last night young man, his auburn hair standing on end, ran into the Pacific Grotto with a tale of hay ing been held up by a bold highway man at the rear of Goldberg Bros. store near the spot Pasqual Gonzalez was shot last Saturday.
 c. M. Wartman yesterday made com plaint in Justice Johnstone's court against D. R. Powell charging him with having threatened to inflict bod fly injury upon him. Under question ing the complainant stated that the threat was conditional, that Powell had said that if Wartman maligned Mrs. Powell woe would come upon him.
 Governor McCord yesterday ap- pointed Attorney General Frazier member of the board of education of the territorial normal school to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of J. H. McClintock. The appointment came to the attorney general without solicitation and was made on account of the governors recognition of his experience in educational matters and general fitness. General Frazier has had an academic training. was gradu- ated from Whittier college, after which lie took a normal course He spent ten years in teaching and now holds a life diploma froEl the state of Iowa.
 There was phy sical encounter in town yesterday between A. B. Kellogg and $. L. Jackson, two respectable farmers living about eight miles west of town It had it's origin in law suit The former sued the latter and obtained judgment under which an attachment was levied Jackson came to town to settle the matter and tke parties meeting on the street con- cluded to reopen the case out of court There was a passage of opprobrious epithets and then a passage of Kel- logg's fist. The case was then taken to Justice Kincaid's court, where Kel- logg pleaded guilty to simple assault and was fined s5 and costs.
 Lieutenant H. O. Flipper, West Pointer, a resident of Nogales, this territory, formerly in the United States army, but with which his connection was severed about eight years ago. is sndeavoring to secure his restoration to the army by congressional action. The editors of most of the Afro-Amer- ican papers in the United States made his cause their own. Their well meant assistance became embarrassing to the lieutenant until he has been impelled to address cards to them begging them to desist,, otherwise he will surely be defeated. Now whatever interest they may take in the matter is not favorable to Lieutenant Flipper's re- entry into military life.
 Mrs. C. C. Crowley, a widow, yester- day made complaint in the recorders court that an old man, a neighbor named Funshian, had employed Ian guage tn her of such character as ought never be uttered, and the user of which said language ought to have his mouth we'll washed inside with soft soap pre- paratory to a course of disinfectants. The old man was brought into court and said in eXtenuation that Mrs. Crowley had set of the meanest chil- hn 96 1h h. noyed him to the point of distraction At the trial of the case in the after noon there were several witnesses. The testimony turned largely upon the character of the Crowley children. Some Of the neighbors said they were
 little angels and some said they were little devils, but that the old man had given way to a flow of violent Ian guage there could he no doubt. He was accordingly fined S10 and in de- fault of it was sent to jail. He is all most a pauper, being partially sup ported by the county.
 The board of supervisors was in reg ular weekly session yesterday. The most important proceeding was the di rection of the district attorney to begin a movement for the re-opening of Van Buren street, matter which has been more or less seriously considered for several years. The principal obstacle to the opening is College Place, lodg- ing house in the rear of the Central school building The city's side of the street at that point is open, but
 nearly the whole of the county's half is occupied by Mir. Wards lodging house, which was unfavorably com
 mented on on account of it's unsani- tary condition by the late grand jury
 The grand jury did not recommend the
 removal of the house, but that it rec
 commended the abatement of what was
 believed to be nuisance no doubt pre- cipitated the action which the board
 of supervisors had been long consider
 ing. The board also signed the