Arizona republican., 1898-08-02
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The Doings of peopie and
 Other Matters.

an assault upon another Mexican.
 Superintendent J. w. Dcrrington of the territorial prison return . to Yuma last night.
 County Superintendent Grouse yes terday appointed William Weigcld trustee in school district Nc. 40, the Glendale district
 As a part of the programme of the welcoming of Governor Murphy there will be a serenade and informal greet ing of the governor at the Hotel Ad- ans tonight.
 Dr. Wylie yesterday received le ter from Dr. Duffield in which he said he would leave Philadelphia on August 10 for points in Massachusetts and would return t Phoenix about fifteen days later.
 Harry Tritle, assistant secretary of the territory, is spending few days with friends in Prescott. There were certain signs attending his departure that his stay abroad would be indefi- nitely prolonged He took his trunk and bicycle.
 A meeting of the normal school board was held. yesterday, at which Baker & Bennett were employed to de fend the board in the suit brought against it by the Farmers and Mer- chants bank of Tempe to recovsi $1.135 under the Napier contract.
 William Walton yesterday began suit in district court for a divorce from his wife, Charlotte Walton. They were married two years ago at Wal laceburg, Canada, where the defend ant now resides. The ground upon which suit is brought is assertion.
 Among the officers of the volunteer service who are especially compli- mented in the last issue of Lesli's Weekly is Captain Lloyd c. Griscom. Philadelphia is mentioned as Mr. Griscom's residence, but he is at least half Arizonian. He spends half the year in this territory and is interested in the Castle Creek Hot Springs com pany.
 John K. Owen of the Indian police at Sacalon came in yesterday morning g with Jose Nacho, a Papago boy who had gone insane. Nacho had been at school at Grand Junction, Colo. Ha returned to Sacato1 not long ago and resided with his parents. Signs Of insanity were developed and lately he grew so bad that his parents ccu,d not keep him any longer.
 The police are about to resume the enforcement Of the bicycle lighting or dinance, which has been permitted to rest for several months They would probably have commenced las- night but lacked the nerve to make an ar rest when the moonlight was so dis tinct that even a blind man could s2e a b1cck. If tonight should be cloudy or even partly cloudy there will hard y be standing room in police court to- morrow.
 John K. Owen, who came in from the Sacaton reservation yesterday. says the Indians there are happy and prosperous. The wheat crop is the biggest on record, though in some places it was damaged and in other localities almost totally destroyed by late rains along the Gila. The dam age, though, does not cover an ex- tensive district. The agency is now in charge of Col. S. L. Taggart of Washington D. C., who had been sent out soon after the death of MT. Cleve- land. The new agent, Elwood Hadley, will take charge in few days. There is very little sickness on the reserva- 5 ion.
 When Attorrey-General Frazier was returning from a visit to the coast last week he rode on a train convey ing the officers and crew of the Ham burg liner which the United States T. ,rr1,f 11f fah r, I just been delivered at San Francisco. The officers were all Germans and occupied a Pullman. The crew was an aggregation of representatives of eight nationalities. There were Egyptians, Turks, Malays, African ne- groes and other strange people. The attorney general attracted the atten- tion of the Turks by his badge as a Shriner, the star and crescent. They gathered in front Of him and sa- laamed prodigiously until their fore heads almost touched the floor They evidently mistook him for Allah o1 maybe only pasha.
 The board of supervisors was Tn reg ular weekly session yesterday and transacted a great deal of business h the first place it increased the salary of Gardener Dave Turner from $6O to $70 month for the months of July and August. That was done partly 1 for the reason that there is more worl during those months and partly as recognition of the hard work an( valuable services by which the cour house plaza has been made the mos beautiful spot in all the territory. Tht bond of w. R. Bockmer as road over seer in district Mo- 6, in the Buckeye i country, was approved and the board ordered three miles of section. lines il