Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-08
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re.
giOn. The DOings of People and
Other Matters.

E. A. Tovrea shipped car of cattle
to Congress last night for his market
there. The camp consumes two cars
month.
License to marry was issued yester-
day to Francis Frasier of Flagstaff
and Matte Hill of this city. The
bride is Is years old
Under Sheriff Henry Orme yesterday
received Letter from his son, Norman,
at Tampa. He writes that the most
striking feature to him after ne passed
Texas was the amount of water he en-
countered. On the way from New Or
leans to Mobile the train na1 hardly
crossed one river until it began the
crossing of another.
A meeting of the Fourth of July
committees was held at the CONNER
cial hotel yesterday morning, but on
account of other engagements by two
of its members, Mr.. Luhrs and Judge
Grouse. it was adjourned until 10
O'Clock this morning. Immediately
after the work of circulating subscrip-
ton lists will be begun.
The construction of the new opera
house has progressed so far that
good idea of the magnificence of the
building when finished is now gained.
Nearly all the iron work has been put
in place and the business of putting on
the tin roof has been commenced In
fact, that part of the roof over the
stage and auditorium has been almost
finished. A mansard roof on the front
section OF the building gives it an i'm
posing appearance. Manager Patton
yesterday secured an additional $15,-
900 for the completion of the building.
That browning event will occur about
September l.
a Washington street business man
speaking of the failure of the council
10 take definite action in the matter of
street sprinkling said yesterday that
if the sprinklers are laid off for a week
the dust will have reached such a
depth that it will be impossible to lay
it again by artificial means. There
can be no relief until the rains come.
IN the meantime the town will be
filled with dust and those eastern Wis
itors who had expected to spend the
summer in Phoenix will be driven
somewhere else.
The quarterly examination of teach
ers was concluded yesterday afternoon
and the papers of applicants for coun-
ty certificates were passed upon. The
examination in natural philosophy and
algebra is said to have been extraor-
rigid. Those who passed
were: First grade, John T Bailey and
W. c. Halsey; second grade, Alice L.
Forrest, Jessie M. Lee and Charlotte
Bird. Applicants for territorial GER
tificates were Nellie White. Mrs. Nellie
=. Campbell, Marguerite Hughes and
irene c. Huffer; applicants for life
certificates were Ida ]. Johnson and
Ada Kelley. The papers of the last
two classes have been forwarded to the
territorial board for examination
The Anderson cases are out of court
When the prosecution in the case of
John S. Anderson had put in the last
ci its evidence before noon yesterday,
Judge Baker, for the defense, moved to
instruct the jury to find the defendant
not guilty on the testimony of the ter
ritory. Judge Street took the motion
under advisement until afternoon, when
he allowed it. These are the cases
continued from the November term,
all growing out of the alleged theft of
cattle, for which an indictment was re-
}.
his son, Josiah Anderson. Another
indictment was returned against both
OF the Andersons and James Kerrick,
and still another Indictment was
found against Kerrick. All these cases
were dismissed yesterday afternoon.
None of the other criminal cases will
be tried before next October. A be-
ginning will be made on the civil cal
endar today. The first case is that of
the ARIZONA Improvement company
against Cushman.
Elder w. l.. lies of the Seventh Day
Adventist church died in this city yes
terday morning of a bronchial affec-
ton. He came here from Ohio early
last fall accompanied by his wife and
child. In t@Nkgly winter he Wet to
Colorado ana returned feTr Gays ago
very much weakened and with reali-
zation OF the near approach of death.
A brOther-in-law, also minister of the
Adventist church, came here recently
to be with him at the end Elder
lies was a most earnest Christian and
had been from the time the writer first
knew him. when he was a boy OF
twelve. His trustfulness in Chris.
was imbued in his little boy, child or
four. On the way to the cemetery
yesterday afternoon a friend observ-
ing the calmness of the little boy, said:
Your papa is asleep" YES" replied
the child, We cannot waken him. -
said the friend. NO, but Jesus can,"
said the little boy. We must bury
him in a deep grave and cover him
over deep with earth and he will be
there a long time said the other. 81
know" said the boy, using the word
for the first time, he is dead, but
Jesus will come some time, 1 dom
know when, and then he will get up
again
McKelligon's where you can get