Arizona republican., 1898-03-10

1 Mesa fruit store.
 Mrs. Douglass died at the Sisters
 hospital yesterday afternoon. She 1 had lately undergone a surgical op-
 eration.
 Alfred L. Bates and Lois E. Dyer
 were united in marriage yesterday af- ternoon by Probate Judge Grouse Both are late arrivals from Oregon.
 Joseph Rappley of Mesa was exam ined in probate court yesterday on a charge of insanity and was committed to the asylum. This is his second in- generation.
 Word was received here yesterday of the death at Prescott of Mrs. Shiv- CTS, mother of Mrs. J. L. Fisher of Prescott. She had been in ill health long time.
 The snow is melting in the noun tains and the river is steadily rising The melting is so gradual, however, that there is no likelihood of a freshet and there is a prospect of an abun- dance of water for the season at which it is most needed.
 Rev. J. M. Weems, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church south, will preach this evening at the First M. E. church. This will be the closing ser vice of the series of meetings that have been in progress in this church. Services will begin at 7:30 D. m.
 As a result of the late teachers quarterly examination a first grade certificate was awarded yesterday to D. D. Collins, and second grade cer- tificates to Nettie Allen and Nora May There were two applicants for terri torial diplomas whose fate is not yet known.
 Another meeting of the Mystic Shrine will be held in this city on the night of April 4, at which from fifteen to twenty novices will receive valuable and healthful instruction On the following day the shrine will give a great banquet at the Hotel Adams, to which the wives and sweethearts of the members will be admitted. Not fewer than 200 plates will be laid.
 A young man welt into a restaurant last night with a mask of disgust on his face. I'm the unluckiest sen of a gun in town" he said. When he was asked in what particular respect he was unlucky he drew a dollar bill from his pocket. ''I found this measly bill," said he, ''On the street a minute ago. It lay spread out on the sidewalk as big as if it was fifty. I thought sure it wasn't less than ten Il took it to the nearest light and when saw what it really was I felt as if ] had lost s9. Amt that hard luck for you?''
 Professor Moorhead, the archaeolo- gist, who has been digging in an Aztec ruin three miles west of the city, yes terday brought in some well pres sarved pottery and other utensils used by the people who once inhabited this valley He also found the decomposed remains of human being. The height of the person he computed to be in the neigh borhood of eight feet. Professor Moorhead will continue his researches in the ruin for week or more and he feels certain that his efforts will dis close some more valuable discoveries He is working for an eastern museum
 The fame of the Salt River valley has not reached certain locality in Mich igan. A prospective settler arrived in the valley yesterday with carload of farm implements and two milk COWS The COWS were very ordinary looking animals, and the ranching tools were still more ordinary As the train pulled out of the desert into the green fields of alfalfa where hundreds of COWS with proud stock descendants were browsing the Michigan farmer opened his eyes in surprise. He thought he was coming to a barren, unsettled country where cows were unknown and the implements of the ranch were slow and crude.
 Trinidad Mendibles was arrested yes terday morning for stealing four checks amounting to S33 from Ramon Sanchez. The theft, as was developed yesterday, was not his worst Offense for in disposing of them he committed forgery. Both men had been working at the Vulture mine, whose princIpa owner is W. c. Davis of the Consoli- dated National bank of Tucson, upon which the checks were drawn. The men came to town on Tuesday and stopped with Merdibles' mother who lives near Five Points. Sanchez missed his wealth in the morning and later found that the checks had been cashed at the Phoenix National bank. Sanchez's name was written on the back of them ornamented by a cross which Mendibles had made. Mend bles said the cheeks were given him by Sanchez, but that story does not wipe out the forgery. Mendib!es was given preliminary hearing in Justice John stones court yesterday afternoon.
 A man and monkey set the police force of this city to guessing yester- day. The combination came to tcwn early in the morning and los ID time in beginning operations The man played hand organ and the monkey collected from 9dmiring audiences. Now under the ordinances this sort of soliciting is prohibited, but the or dinances are framed against persons. A monkey is not person, but many persons are acknowledged to be mon keys. This monkey did not ask for anything in just so many words. He went around through the crowd with
 tin cup which he held up before members of it. There was nothing in the cup to drink, so there could be nc | other inference than that the monkey wanted something put into it. The city attorney was out of town, so that