Arizona republican., 1898-03-19

Everybody is cordially invited.
 The Santa Fe Pacific railroad yester- day filed in the office of the secretary of the territory notices of the compile tion of work on three reservoirs, two in Coconino county and one in Yav- apai.
 The s. F. P. & F., due here last night, was detained at Ash Fork eleven hours to await the arrival Of the westbound Santa Fe Pacific. The cause of delay is believed to have been snow in western Kansas and Colorado.
 There have been a number of in uuirers at the meetings held in the Baptist church, and last evening sev- eral persons came forward and gave their hands to MT. Cairns in token of their consecration to the Christian life.
 William Morgan of Show Low ar rived in the valley yesterday with 5000 sheep to be sheared at the sheds lately put up by the s. F. P. & P. at Peoria. He says there are altogether about 3O,000 head of sheep in the valley to be sheared.
 W. A. Davis, the undertaken, yester- day took up the body of James Roark, who died in this city lately. It will be sent to San Diego for burial along with the remains of his sister, Mrs. Richard Baxter, who died here on ! Thursday afternoon.
 The Free Methodists are holding their second district quarterly meet ing in the church on the corner of Fifth and Adams streets. Quarterly conference conveDes this afternoon at 2:3O; preaching at 7:30 this evening. The usual quarterly meeting services will be held Sunday. All are invited.
 Articles of incorporation of the Briggs & Cotton Mercantile company were filed in the office of the territorial secretary yesterday. The incorporators are J. Briggs, B. R. Rankin and H. Cot ton of Colorado Springs. Articles of the Petoskey Mining company were also filed. The incorporators are H.. A. Rise, J. E. Myers and w. L. Nor ris. The capital stock is $1,000,000.
 A special conveying President Mur- phy, MT. D. M. Ferry and Dr. c. C.. Miller of Detroit, Chief Engineer w. A. Drake, MT E. B. Gage, MT. A. N. Gage and MT. Lloyd c. Griscom went north yesterday morning. Most of the gen tlemen stopped off at Congress Or Pres colt, but the special went on to Ash Fork with Dr. Miller, who will take the Santa Fe limited for the east this morning.
 There was a tragic event at Minnie Powers place near the M. & P. depot the other morning. A horse which had apparently been in good health wan dered about that abode of pleasure and got on a rear porch. It is sus- pected that he came to a sudden reali- zation of his whereabouts and fell dead. At any rate, his carcass was found stark and stiff on the porch the next morning.
 A bicyclist was fined $3 in police court yesterday for being caught on an unlighted wheel According to his testimony he was only on it a second and was only trying to learn to ride. It was shown by witnesseS<hat he had ridden around several blocks in that brief space of time. The court held that a man who is learning to ride is much greater menace to so- ciety than an expert hieyclist.
 The night police are handicapped in their work by the neglect of many merchants to keep lights burn ing in their stores, thereby hold ing out an inducement to burglars. The police the other night counted seventy stores with no light at all Two men, of which the force con- sists, cannot spend their time by try ing the front and rear doors of stores once an hour. A light within would show them at glance what can be ascertained only after five minutes investigation of darkened building.
 Final settlement was made in pro- bate court yesterday in the matter Of the estate of Josiah H. Gray and an order of distribution was made in favor of the widow Annie B. Gray. The estate went into probate court six years ago and has therefore been an unusually long time in process of settlement, though not many years longer than many others. It is possi- ble to put a case through the probate court in ten months if the attorney in charge bestirs himself.
 Professor Moorhead yesterday brought in some valuable Aztec rel ics which he found in his work six miles south of Phoenix in a desert ruin. Among the articles is an olla which measures twenty-six inches in diameter. This is one of the largest ollas ever found and will be a choice addition to the collection Professor Moorhead is making in his work in Arizona. He considers the ruin a rich one and looks forward to the dis covery of other articles of great value
 There was war in the block yester- day evening. An unattached gambler visited that locality kicked down 8 couple of doors and when a siren re- monstrated with him he exerted pow erful hypnotic influence by merely making a few passes with his clenched hand. Her friends attracted by the racket put her to bed and expressed 8 fear that when she emerged from the trance she would have one or more black eyes. The hypnotist paid 5: license to practice, to Justice John stone last night
 A petition for new school district about half way between Mesa anC i rFpD1na Tod ip tho nf CnunfN V