Arizona republican., 1898-08-25
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

Walter c. Miller of Jerome was yesterday recommissioned as notary public.
 J. F. Smith of the Phoenix National bank became the father of a baby boy
 on Tuesday morning.
 Rose F. Marston yesterday made ap- plicatiOn in probate court for letters of administration upon the estate of her father, N. A. Marston.
 The new democratic county commit tee will hold it's first meeting next Saturday to set traps for republicans in the approaching campaign.
 Court Stcnewall No 6, Foresters Of America, the newest order of Phoenix. and rapidly growing one, held a meeting at Elks' hall on Tuesday night Six new members were initiated. The board of superv1sors some time in October will make an spportion- ment Of the road fund among the eighteen road districts of the county The amount to be apportioned will be about s15,00O.
 County Treasurer Murray, at the di- reotion of the board of supervisors yesterday accepted $20O in payment Of taxes on the Vulture mine since 1892
 This had been matter of dispute for five years and the sum paid was finally agreed upon as the sole term of 9 compromise.
 The washout on the Southern Pa cifc at Salton was more extended than had been supposed. It was not re. paired yesterday and it is doubtful ii it will be done before tomorrow. The eastbound passengers were trans ferred the day following the washout and arrived in Phoenix yesterday morning.
 The county yesterday received from the government check for $2032. .67 in payment of costs of prosecuting In dians in charge of an Indian agent The original claim was much more though several items were thrown out by the federal court as not having come under the provisions of the United States revised statutes regard ing reimbursement of local courts for the costs of prosecution.
 There was a bloody fight in a saloor in the southeastern part of the city yesterday evening between Melquides Lopez and Castillo Trunino. The face of the latter was pounded to 9 jelly. apparently by brass knuckles He was so badly injured that he was unable to give an account of the affai, and Lopez could not be found. Tru- uino was taken to the hospital. He is a barber employed in a Washington street shop. Lopez is also a barbe, and until lately has been working al Shirley's.
 Billy Meade returned last night from trip to the Grand canyon. He was down in the canyon six weeks in which time he never saw the rim Of it. This beats the longest previous stay by five days. He put in the time fishing He went in a party Of four who intended to thin out the game in the north We took $30 worth Of ammunition, said he. My share of the expense was s7.50. What do you think I shot: One owl. One day when we were out hunting and a fawn got killed out oT season they arrested all four of us an6 took us back to Flagstaff, where we were tried. But we got out of it all right. We eXonerated each other"
 w. A. Fulweiler was tried in Justic, Johnstone's court yesterday for a va riety of offenses. One was procuring $i5 of the Kessler-Boyle company ou a worthless check on the Valley bank Another was drawing a check for the same amount in favor of A. L. Fisher against an imaginary account at the same bank, and a more serious one was mOrtgacing property he did not own to w. K. James. There was of course no defense and he was convicted. He was sentenced to thirty days each for the first two offenses, and to fifty days for the last It is said that other cheeks of the ss ne kind have been is sued by hirl. Ho was sent to jail.
 There was a continuation yesterday of the hot words passed between Act ing Officer Buck and Henry Moeller at the city council meeting on Monday night. About 1 o'clock Moeller was coming out of the Pacific Grotto when he was met by the acting officer, who had given Out that he would punch
 Moeiler on sight He struck him twice in the face without infliu1ng |serious injury. Moeller hastened away from the scene of contention and Marshal Hooker placed Buck under arrest. He was released on his owr Irecognizance. Moeller afterward made complaint against him in Justice Kin caid's court. Buck pleaded guilty and , the time for fixing his sentence was set for 10 o'clock this morning.
 Republicans who passed the long
 closed door oi the county surveyors office yesterday and found it open with Civil Engineer G. A. Streitz in- side arranging things and otherwise
 making himself at home, could hardly
 believe their eyes. Mir. Streitz less than a week ago had been nominated