Arizona republican., 1898-08-18
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 eroI Local interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of PeOpie and Other Matters.

The many friends of William Talk enstein are glad to see his smiling countenance again behind the silk counter Of the New York store.
 Ross Russell, Ross Grouse, Harold Hamm, A. Bromell and Leslie Gillette returned on Tuesday from a months trip to the Grand canyon. It was not much of hunting excursion. Hamm claimed to have killed jack-rabbit but just then a wildcat came along and availed himself of Hamms skill and prowess.
 Hon. R. A F. Penrose, one of the principal owners of the Pearce mine, arrived in town yesterday morning to see his friend and partner in the mine. Mr. D. NJ. Barringer. MT. Penrose has lately returned from visit to Los 1 Angeles and San Francisco. Addi' | tional milling facilities are being put in at the mine and about 100 mel. are lnow e..nnloyed there. Mr. renrose re- turned to Pearce last night.
 A fine lot of Muscat grapes were left at this office yesterday morning by s. | L. McArthur The grapes were grown
 
 eleven miles northeast of Phoenix. MT. MoArthur has had charge of the sale of Mir. Scott's grape crop this season and ne says that the chaplain's grapes are always In demand at fancy prices Single punches weighing two and three pounds each are not rare in tie IsiNty-acre vineyard of MT. Scott.
 The friends of A. s. Arthur brought him out yesterday as a candidate be- fore the democratic county convention today for justice Of the peace for this precinct. In the general scramble which has been going on the precinct offices had both forgotten. Mir. Ar thurs friends are urging in his behalf that he has been a hard party worker and that he learned enough law in the office of Missouri congressman to en- able him to dispense justice as if should be done.
 l The close season for dogs ended yesterday morning and Emanuel B. Scott, armed with full power, author | itv and a wire moose. set out on an errand of destruction. But Mir. Scott l is going about the business in the right way. His method is merciful and cal culated to swell the wealth Of the city. Before destroying a dog, he locates his owner and tries to sell him s2 or Ri tag, according to the gender of tho dog. 11f the owner absolutely declines to deal in brass, the dog is contscated
 The normal school board held 8 meeting in this city yesterday and elected Professor Joseph E. Brand tc succeed Professor F. NJ Irish in the department of sciences. and Miss liar
 riet Morton to succeed Miss Sharpe
 Professor Brand comes from Berkeley
 and is highly recommended. Miss Morton was graduated from Stanford
 university and has had considerable
 experience in educational work. She
 is niece of Judge Joseph H. Kibbey and granddaughter of Indiana's great
 war governor, Oliver P. Morton.
 C. J. Dyer will be glad when the democratic convention is over, though he is not dead sure of relief until af- ter the election. He is not able to
 sleep nights and it is too warm to
 sleep in the daytime. Every night
 some democratic orator Mr. Dyer does ngt know who, gets On q vacant
 lot across the street from his residence
 and practices On a speech which Mir Dyer thinks he intends to make be- fore the convention after he gets Q nomination for something. Mir. Dyer
 has caught such parts of it as "the un- dying principles of Jefferson," with out waiting for the consent of any lother nation on earth, "The trust you lhave placed in me shall not be abused
 If I am elected, as the whole ticket doubtless will be. I shall perform my duty to the best of my ability and this convention will never regret the honor it has conferred On me. Again
 thank you, gentlemen of the con- ventlon. It's very annoying to Mr. .Dyer because he cant help himself If
 It were a cat instead of an orator, a
 bootjack or club might be thrown at him, but the law prohibits the begin ming of an assault on person how ever great the proyccatior
 4 curious complication which does
 not involve a great deal will have to
 be unraveled by the democratic com
 mittee on credentials today. The
 case comes from Meridian precinct
 several miles down the river. There
 were two candidates before the pri- mary, mar namel Martin and Lo- S ANNN'No' WI - oC HOlic IS sometimes in that precinct and sometimes in the First ward of this city MT. Reeves was the representative of w. A. Moeur one of the candidates for the nomina- tion for recorder. The election began and five votes were cast for Martin and one for Reeves, but reinforce ments for him were on the way. Six more voters soon after arrived and were given cards bearing the name of MT. Moeur. Whether the voters could read or not has not been explained. Anyway, they mistook those cards for