Arizona republican., 1898-02-22
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EDeS Randolph or the OOuIHerH I'd cific has returned to Tucson.
 P. J. Mccormick has returned te Prescott from a visit to Phoenix.
 George A. Denny, a prominent an6 old time resident of Walnut creek, is in Prescott.
 George Christ, Jr., of Tucson who was last Friday taken suddenly and severely ill, is better.
 William B. Kelly of the Bulletin and Miss Ruth Guerensy will be married in Solomonville today.
 The Pinal district court opened last Thursday for short time to dispose Of some minor matters.
 Colin Timmons says that work will be commenced on the Grand canyon railroad from Williams the first of March.
 Peter Wenn, formerly of Prescott, was among the wrecked passengers of the steamer Corona, en route to Alaska.
 Judge Davis of Tucson has appoint ed Ebenezer Williams as United States commissioner at Nogales, vice Frank J. Duffy, resigned.
 Bids for the construction of the Big Bug railroad were opened at Prescott yesterday and contracts will be award ed soon.
 Quite a number of Prescott people will avail themselves of the excursion rates to visit Phoenix and attend the celebration and reception today.
 The supreme court took recess un- til Monday and Judge Doan has been at home the past week busily engaged in writing decisions.-Florence Trlb- une.
 Several Phoenix gentlemen were in Holbrook last week presenting plans and specifications for the court house and jail to be built in the near fu- ture.
 The Tucson Jr. base ball club is to play a match game with the univer sity nine on the military plaza at Tue son today. The game will be called at o'clock.
 The appointed to raise money for Cuba secured S25S, or one dollar for every sailor that went down on the cruiser Maine in Havana harbor.- Journal-Miner.
 J. l.. hIduS SluSluS SCuOOl oI IhC Florence Presbyterian church has now a regular attendance of nineteen scholars, though there is plenty of room for more.
 Jose Juan Lopez, the man who mur- dered his wife recently near Bedding ton and has since been confined in the Pima county jail, was Saturday or .dered removed to the territorial asy- lum as lunatic.
 Mr. Underwood, who was award d the Fort Apache mail contract, ar rived at Holbrook from Missouri Tues day to look over his future field of operations, and also make arrange ments for sub-letting 1t.
 A Punch and Judy outfit gave show last Tuesday and Wednesday nights at Florence. The performance was given in tent, and is said to have been almost as funny as the show put up weekly by the Florence Tribune.
 The State of Arizona Improvement company last week began the work of erecting it's pumping plant at the heading of the canal in West Yuma. The machinery consist of three boil CTS. an engine of 175 horse power and a thirty inch centrifugal pump.
 Jesse N. Smith reached HolbrOok from Snowflake Wednesday and pro- .ceeded to St. Joseph, where he met Apostles Taylor and Smith from Salt Lake, who will visit all the various settlements in Navajo and Apache counties.
 Frank H. Hereford, Saturday even ing entertained at dinner at the Owls" Tucson, given to MT. and Mrs. James Edgar of Detroit, the follow ing people: Dr. and Mrs. Fenner, Miss Hemme, Mrs. w. c. Davis, Mrs. Tichenor, Mrs. Williams, Miss Green, Miss Meinhardt and Messrs. Tenny, Green and members of the Owls
 G. W. Pittock, travelling represent ative of the Arizona Republican, the only seven day paper in the territory, will visit Yuma again in a few days in the interest of that enterprising jour nal. MT. Pittock was here last No vember and his descriptive letters of this part of the territory were excel lent representations of the resources of the county-Arizona Sentinel.
 Sol Earth has returned to St. Johns from Santa Fe. He reports that he recovered 110 head of his sheep at the Albuqueruue stock yards which had been stolen from his herds in the Zuni mountains. The sheep had been talk .en last November and had changed , hands several times since. He says they were all selected ewes and lambs showing that the thief was a con- noisuer in mutton, and handled noth- ing but the best.
 w. E. Gilmore, the electrician mourns the loss of his young bull dog This is the second time that he hal suffered such a bereavement. Tn pup followed his master over to tn electric light power house last nigh and inadvertently stepped on a belt attached to dynamo. Within an in stant after he touched the belt he hal been rapidly whirled around pulle, and dropped to the floor flattene, and lifeless canine.-Journal-M Miner
 The man who was found wanderin; about on Friday and committed to tn sheriff pending an examination as t his sanity, was yesterday examined il