Arizona republican., 1898-03-18

1 Notarial commissions were issued yesterday to Warren Day of Prescott and Carl Behn of McCabe, Yavapa county.
 1 Willis Fuller and Kate s. Byers both of Lehi, were united in marriage late yesterday afternoon by Probate Judge Grouse
 1 District Clerk Edwin S. Gill, J. T Priest, chairman of the board of su- pervisors, and Probate Judge Grouse were engaged yesterday afternoon ir drawing 150 names from which the trial jury for the May term of court will be chosen.
 There will certainly be no difficulty in disposing of the capitol building bonds. Several applications have al 1 ready been received by Territorial | Treasurer Johnstone. Three came in yesterday, two from New York brok- CTS and one from a Boston firm | Acting Governor Akers yesterday received a letter from Governor Mo Cord saying that he would return tc Phoenix about next Monday. He left Washington last Tuesday, but in- tended to make a stop of one day at his former home, Merrill, Wis. A special went out to Congress early yesterday morning carrying President B. B. Gage and Mrs. Gage, Mr. and Mrs George N. Gage and Miss Martha Gage of Tempe, MT. and Mrs. w. J. Kings bury of Tempe, and MT. and Mrs. Hod- gen of Charlestonf1 III. The special re- turned little after o'clock last night. MT. A. N. age accompanied the party back to the city.
 Acting Governor Akers yesterday ap- pointed Dr. E. A. Butler of Prescott member of the territorial board of medical examiners. The original ap- pointee was Dr. Davis of Clifton, a homeopathist. He never attended any meeting of the board or never quali- fled. Governor McCord then appoint ed Dr. McNally of Prescott, but his residence in the territory was not long enough for his qualification.
 The board of supervisors yesterday. awarded the contract for painting the exterior of the court house to J. E.. Dufton for s625. The contract re- quires three coats of paint for the brick work and two for the wood work The jail portion of the building is not included in the contract The board also concluded an agreement with a man whose name is not remembered, for taking care of the poor farm at S55 month, the caretaker to furnish a team, wagon and blow. The next lowest bid for the same work was S75 month.
 G. R. Williscraft returned yesterday from trip to the Vulture mine. He drove a team and light wagon out to the mine and when he was getting ready to return his team started pre- maturely. A chase was useless MT. Williscraft boarded the first freight train that passed and came to Phoenix. Something different from anything that has ever been recorded happened. When the train reached the crossing below his foundry he saw the team coming with undiminished speed in a vain endeavor to put the s. F. P. & P. to shame by beating the freight into town.
 Another day of the district court was taken up with the case of Orosco vs Silva, an action for an accounting At the conclusion of the day Judge Street suggested that the parties prepare a summary of their figures and submit
 
 was the absence of a bookkeeper dur | ing the partnership or the parties in the threshing business and their ac. counts, if they may be called ac- counts, will have to be 1un through 1 a threshing machine before a tangible result is yielded. The case went ovel until next week. Judgments by de l fault were rendered the plaintiffs 1T the following cases: Chivers vs. Han nah T. Simms ct al, and Mary c. Par ker vs. Hannah T. Simms ct al Int case of Hickey vs. Harrington, a sui on a note, will be tried this morning
 People who pass along Monro. street or Center adjacent to the Centra school building are finding grea deal of fault with the sidewalk, whicl | is covered with boulders thrown ther in the course of an alleged improve ment. Whenever a man with tende toes kicks one of those stones he in cludes the whole city council in hi anathema. The council is not t. blame at all. It had nothing to d. with this improvement. The gram mar school board authorized a con tractor who was engaged in eXca Vat1ng work to haul part of the dir about the school building The par thrown upon the sidewalk was sup posed to be gravel. And it may b
 since there is no exact rule deinin
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 weigh an ounce or a ton.
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