Arizona republican., 1898-03-11
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
he News of Dayin Phoenix and It's STributary'ReRionP Presented In Nutshell-Doings of People and Other Matters.

for Los Angeles went out over the S. F. P. & P. last night.
 Prescott will celebrate St. Patrick's S have been made for special rates from all points on the Santa Fe Pacific and the s. F. P. & P.
 The Phoenix base ball club is in receipt of a challenge from the Bisbee team for a game next Sunday. The challenge has been accepted except as to the date, which will be March 20.
 A curious circumstance is shown on page A of the county jail register The first five names are these of grand jury prisoners and the first letter of the name of each is U
 Miss Lillian M Hackleman, formerly clerk in the office of the livestock sanitary board, has about recovered from a long sickness and has opened a typewriting office with Willard & Grosvenor in the Fleming building.
 Two cars of cattle were sent out over the s. F. P. & F., one for Win slow and the other for Prescott The first is consign ed to Mr. Wolf and the latter to John Stevens. Eight cars will be shipped to Los Angeles on Sun day by J. B. Dunn.
 Prescott was visited by a storm of rain and snow which was pretty gen. eral throughout the northern part of the territory. yesterday. That sort of a disturbance was suspected to be go- ing on up in Yavapai before the tele- graph brought news of it.
 Something happened in Phoenix yesterday which is said to have never occurred before, shipment of bran was made to California. This was hardly possible at any profit before the late reduction of rates by the s. F. P. & P. Bran is worth here about 60 cents a hundred. It is worth in the neighborhood of S20 ton in Los An geles.
 Claude D. Steele, a young man 20 years of age, died at II o'clock yester day morning, four miles northwest of Phoenix. He had been ill for two years, but the immediate cause of death was quick consumption. He was born in the valley. The funeral will take place from the Baptist church at o'clock tomorrow after noon.
 MT. A. s. Greig, trainmas ter of the s. F. P. & F., has resigned to accept the superintendency of the Pecos Val ley road. MT. Greig had not been with the s. F. P. & P. long, but long enough to become the friend of everybody along the line. He had had wide ex perience in raiIroading and for years beforeSeGming to Arizona had occupied responsible position with the Denver & Rio Grande.
 MT. A. P. Snowman, territorial su- perintendent of public instruction, left last night for Tucson to attend the meeting of the Arizona Press associa ton. He was met at Tempe by his partner, Judge W. D. Morton, of the Mesa Free Press. While at Tucson Mr. Snowman will inspect the uni versity in his capacity as member of the board of regents and will visit the public schools of the city in his office as superintendent of public instruction. | Maria Little, the woman who made | the disproved charge against Officers Molloy and Doheney of unlawfully ac- cepting money from her, is not now a resident of Phoenix. On Wednesday night after the close of the investiga- tion she boarded a northbound s. F. P. 6 P. train on the dark side and was | heard from at Ash Fork yesterday. She was merely getting out from un- | der an impending police court sen- i tence and a possible prosecution for perjury.
 l Arrangements are completed for firemen's ball on the night of March 16 at the Elks' hall. A meeting of the executive committee consisting of Chief w. A. Davis, H. Hooker, Simon Robles, J. Frank Curns, Dick Tobin and A. E. Cobb was held yesterday, at which the following committees were appointed: On reception, A. A. Long, John Rock, J. M Shott, E. Gonzalez W. H. Kirkland. Floor committee, A E. Cobb, H. Hooker, Walter Gregory Cad Longstreth and Fred Madrid.
 w. A. Mcdonald of Mesa, who was called to Chihuahua, Mexico, by the death of his mother by murder, re- turned yesterday morning His fathel and mother were keeping a store some distance south of JuareZ. The elder MT. Mcdonald returned one day . from a visit to Fl Paso and found hi:
 wife murdered, the motive being rob
 bery. The son says his mothers body
 was not mutilated as he had at frs
 heard it was. There is a good pros
 pect of the capture of the murderers.
 A supplemental affidavit of the com
 mencement of actual construction O
 the Santa Fe & Grand Canyon rail
 road was filed in the office of the terri
 torial secretary yesterday. There wer
 also filed articles of incorporation o
 the Santa Ana Mining company. Tn
 incorporatOrs are H. w. Kemper o
 Kingman and Herbert J. Delamar o
 San Antonio, Texas. In the list o
 stockholders beside the incorporation are R. H. Corbett of Texas, John M Wright of San Francisco. and Wi liar q ChartrOn and Ernest J. Dubois o
 Paris, Texas.
 Mr. Edwin S. Gill enjoys the dis
 tinction of being the owner of tn
 first roses in the valley for the yea
 1898. His pleasant home, 'Rosedale, o4o1x ,n6