Arizona republican., 1898-01-15
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 Yavapai county paid $1,106 for scalps last year.
 The Consolidated National bank of Tucson will elect directors today.
 There are eighteen prisoners in the Cochise county jail serving sentences.
 John linus of Blackberry and bride are on wedding tour to Los Angeles.
 The Pima county assessor collected taxes for 1897 to the amount of $10,- 934. al5xHlsn
 Bids for building the A. O. U. w. temple at Tucson will be opened to- day.
 License tax collected by Sheriff Potts of Mohave county for the 1897 was $5,131.
 Three years ago the current month the Gi1a river dam north of Gila Bend was washed out.
 J. B. Fraley has contract to supply the Santa Fe system with stone and rock for bal1asting at certain points
 George s. Porter arrived in Prescott from Castle Creek hot springs and will leave for Los Angeles in a few days.
 Lieutenant J. A. Emory, formerly stationed at Whipple with the Elev- enth infantry, has been promoted to be a captain.
 Chris Radigovich is soon to com- mence the erection of a large store building on his lot in Brewery avenue -Bisbee Orb.
 The Prescott Baptist church has new pastor in the person of Rev. G. W. Cram, late of Los Angeles. He will arrive today.
 Six degrees below zero at Fort Whipple "Wednesday morning. The Whipple measurement of the tota snowfall is eight inches.
 Three feet of snow in the B1adshaws and the thermometer six below zero at Prescott, are late quotations for the northern section of the territory.
 The chairman of the board of super visors, clerk of the court and probate judge drew fifty grand jurors and one hundred trial jurors to serve during the year in Cochise county.
 R. c. Kettlewep has been appointed clerk of the board of supervisors of Cochise county to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of William
 
 The S. F. P. & P. crossed the Agua. Fria in January, 1895, and reached Phoenix in March following, the event being celebrated with a great demon stration ha<this town that lasted three days.
 The Kingman bottling works has just put in a six horse power boiler and large steaming tank and with their other facilities can handle in the neighborhood of a carload of beer daily.
 Several inches of snow covered the ground at Tombstone Tuesday, being rather unexpected and unusual, but was the signfpr sleigh riding and snow ba1ling, which was indulged l. generally.
 The Tombstone chamber of com merce selected the following delegates to the stockgrowers' convention at Denver: J. V. Vickers, Joseph Hoef- Ter, w. w. Whitney, B. A. Packard and B. Riggs.
 w. B. Slaughter, the cattleman, for merly of New Mexico, now lives in Oklahoma. MT. Slaughter's brother was killed in the eastern part of Ari- Zona and MT. Slaughter was indefa- tigable in rounding up the slayer.
 Flyers over the Santa Fe Pacific will run out of Chicago, beginning Monday, Jan IT, on Mondays, We'd nesdays and Fridays. The first east bound train will leave Los Angeles Jan. 23. The service of flyers is now semi-weekly.
 The Salvation Army proposes to es- foh oh frid dor ir the same as they have had in success ful operation 1n California. Prescott is proposed as the headquarters for the riders, who will travel from camp to camp holding services.
 Bisbee is experiencing today regu- lar eastern blizzard. The snow fell Monday night and the governmen. thermometer at Rev. Pritchard's resi- dence registered IS degrees above zero Wednesday morning. As a consequences several bursted water pipes are the result.
 Flagstaff has more electric wires, it Is said, than any other town in the west. There are electric lights in nearly every house in town, severa. private telegraphic connections with the main telegraphic office, and a dis trlct messenger service has been es- tablished with fifty-four boxes.
 It cost s7,15S to run the Yavapa county hospital during 1897; the ex pense of the treasurer's office was $2, 41S and that of the assessor $1,S67 recorder s3,930, probate judge $1,237 clerk of the board of supervisors $1, 541, special attorneys $500. burial O county dead $643, examination of in sane s925, on roads $10,000.
 Lieutenants Shuttleworth and Car michael left Whipple Wednesday to g to Yuma from which point they vii proceed to the international boundar, line between this country and Mex ico, where they will do some survey ing. They will have an escort o United States cavalry, two companie it is said, who will meet them on tn route.
 The railroad station at Winslow re ports greatly increased shipments f