Arizona republican., 1898-02-24
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of a Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented In aNutshell-Dofngs of People and Other Matters.

! body. The members will assemble il
 their hall at 7:30 o'clock and marct to the church.
 i A letter received at this office last
 night from Hon. G. w. P. Hunt ot Globe says that the Buffalo smelter l which has remained idle for several
 months, has resumed operations. Phoenix got something out of the annual meeting of the Arizona Sports
 mans association at Tucson. Mont P. Chubb won the individual badge valued at $500. Tucson carried off the team badge.
 A. B. Williams, or Coffee Al" will | leave next week for the Klondyke. His interest in the North and South restaurant will be looked after by R. A. Wallace, a young man lately ar rived from the east.
 The building of the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon railroad out of Will Hams is said to be assured. The pro- moters have announced for some time now that they have had the money required to complete the enterprise and it was learned yesterday that they have been offered a bonus of $35,OOO by tn Santa Fe Pacific.
 A man calling himself George H. Hill was locked up last night charged with stealing a suit of clothes from Vinson's corral. The complaint was made by R. B. Vinson. Hill had been arrested earlier in the day by the po- lice. He then gave his name as w. A. Howard
 Nose Drachman returned yestei day from an extensive cattle buying trip in Sonora. The price of cattle there is sympathetic with the price on this side of the line In fact, the advance has been a little shirper Cattle of a grade that could be bought year ago at from $S to SIP head in Mexican silver now readily bring the same figures in gold. This, of course, ap- plies to cattle ranges convenient to shipping points. In the far interior they may still be bought at very low prices, but the risk of moving them through arid regions is so great that buyers are not greatly attracted.
 The will of Miguel Miranda, lat-ly deceased, was presented for probate yesterday. The estate itself had teen brought into court under the supposi- tion that there was no will. The widow was asked in wholly perfume tory manner yesterday if there was a will. She said she guessed so, and reaching in her pocket about two feet she extracted a crumpled bit of note paper upon which the last will and testament had-been written in pencil by Frank Marmelejo. The language was clear, legal and succinct. It was properly attested and the lawyers who saw it said it was an instrument that could not be broken.
 P. J. Quinn was in police court again yesterday on two charges, es- caping from the chain gang and being drunk and disorderly. In extenua- tion of the first offense MT. Quinn said that he had constitutional and patriotic objections to remaining in penal servitude on Washington's birth day. A further mitigating circum stance was that he had been doing faithful chain gang work most of the time since July 5 of last year, and then he wanted to be at the M. & P. depot on Monday night and bid a friend goodbye. As to the charge of drunk enness he had nothing to say; he was probably there, but took no notice of passing events.
 The police are again chasing after un1ighted bicycles and they are going to keep it up until every bicycle in town is illuminated or until the ordi- nance is repealed. On Tuesday night they caught a hotel boy who was go- ing after doctor and detained him until he could make an explanation. Last night they caught a man on the same errand, or he said he was, so that they thought they were victims of either deception or coincidence. But the ordinace makes no provision in favor of people who are hurryng af- ter medical assismtance. A rigorous prosecution under it will lead to its repeal. The police hope so, for chas- ing a bicyclist involves a degree of physical exercise hardly covered by the salary.
 Col. c. H. Gray yesterday made com plaint in Justice Kincaid's court against John Doe, charging him with hauling a dead horse to the river bed and leaving it there exposed to the cOrroding influences of time and the l nostrils of the community. This is
 an offense especially prohibited by the statutes. John Doe was found to be a
 man in the employ of a livery stable. I1G pdlu d llu0 Ol 20 duQ COSCS dHO promised to remove the carcass and
 give it a decent burial. Col Gray has secured the arrest of a great many people for the same offense Some times the defendants were ignol ant of
 the law and too poor to afford pay ment for the ignorance. In such eases Col. Gray always paid their fines and
 the costs for them. His prosecutions
 have never been inspired by an ill 1 feeling. That is only his way of dis l seminating information of the exist i ence of the law
 i United States Attorney Ellinwood
 arrived in the city on Tuesday night
 after an absence of several weeks. He
 has variety of matters to attend to part of it relates to the turning i over of his office to his successor, 2
 part of it is private legal bushes:
 and the rest of it is of even greater
 importance. Just before leaving
 home he was commissioned by his