Arizona republican., 1898-03-12
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The funeral of the late Mrs. Sarah Jones took place Thursday at Prescott.
 The work on the new Adams build ing at Bisbee has been delayed on ac- count of the non-arrival of the brick for the front.
 Tuesday was the Journal Miner edi- tors birthday as well as the anniver- sary day of the paper. While both are growing old, they are vigorous and hearty yet. Long life to them.
 It is reported that many horses on the Babocomari are dying from eating loco weed. It is estimated that 50 per cent of the horses there have suc- cumbed to the effects of this danger ous plant.
 The ladies of the Political Study club in Prescott are agitating the ques- trustee. The city had women trustees at one time and they managed the schools very successfully.
 Stockmen have requested the South ern Pacific company to build addition al shipping pens at Wilcox, the cor rals now in use being quite old and inadequate to accommodate the large shipments during the spring months.
 The postoffice at Placeritas, Yavapai county, was burglarized last Monday night and S60 in stamps and $40 in cash taken. Under Sheriff Dillon left for Placeritas to look into the matter.
 There is case of scarlet fever at 229 South Meyer street in Tucson.
 Mrs. Sarah Sh1vers, mother Of Mrs. J. L. Fisher, died at her home in Chino valley just after noon Wednesday. Deceased was 6S years old and had re- sided in Yavapai county for several years. The funeral will take place in Chino valley as soon as her two daughters in Phoenix can arrive there.
 Nearly all the cattle in the Aravaipa, Pima county, have changed hands. The purchasers are Clay, Robinson & Co.,, of Denver. The sale was made through the agent of the company, MT. A. E. Derecgles, and the price paid was s2O per head This sale is the largest made to one firm in several years.
 The lands belonging to the Atlantic & Pacific railroad grant were sold under foreclosure Wednesday in Pres colt by the master of chancery. The lands amount to 1,509,444 acres and the purchaser was E. Wilder, treasurer of the Santa Fe Railroad company, the price paid being $6,500, or little less than one-half a cent per acre. Only two bids were presented.
 Acting Governor Akers has sent a letter to President Mckinley recom- mending that in case of war Colonel Brodie be permitted to raise regi- ment of cavalry in Arizona. He says: Having known Colonel Brodie for many years as an army officer, l can unhesitatingly vouch for his as be- ing an honest and fearless officer, con- petent in every respect to command a regiment
 A party of distinguished railroad of ficials of the Santa Fe company arriv- ed in Prescott in a private car Of the Santa Fe company on Tuesday after noon's train It consisted of B. D. Kenna, first vice president and general solicitor of the company, and his sten- ographer, MT. Miller; E. Wilder, sec retary and treasurer; Captain c. N. Sterry, solicitor for the Santa Fe Pa cif1c, and Karl Snyder of the law de partment of the Santa Fe Pacific. As guests of the party were Dr. Kfer of St Louis and Ernest kenna, brother of Vice President Kenna. The object of their visit was to sell the land be- longing to the land grant of the At lantic & Pacific railroad in Arizona, by Karl Snyder. master in chancery, un- der foreclosure.
 Court Stenographer Weed returned this morning from Santa Fe, N. M, tC which city he had been to report the cases of the train robbers recently talk en from the Pima county jail to tha place for trial, says the Tucson Citizen The men were, it appears, indicted o1 three counts but have been tried Onl! on one and on that they were declared not guilty. The evidence, MT. Weet says, was both direct and positive, ,ant the attorneys handling the case for tn government and companies, capabl and painstaking, but the jury said the. were not guilty. One of the jurymen a man named Metcalf, amused himsel by winking at the prisoners when any thing he thought good came up. Ol the whole MT. Weed is of the belle that the jury was made up of men tha could possibly give the robbers a poin or two on holdups. When the verdic was announced the prisoners beame, and were about to leave the court room but the judge remanded them into tn custody of the United States marshal The remaining counts upon which the, are to be tried is robbing the Stein Pass postoff1ce and firing into tn United States mail car No convic tion, however, can be hoped for ol either count
 The steel dam in Johnson canyon near Ash Fork. has been completed and is now full of water. It is fort feet high and the water backs up tn stream about 5000 feet. It is esti mated that it has a capacity sufficien for a years supply of water when full