Arizona republican., 1898-05-27
|An Over AriizOna|

Sheriff Birchfeld of Graham county took five convicts to the territorial prison last Saturday.
 Yuma is agitating the question of raising alligators as business, and it would no doubt prove profitable.
 During the recent fire at Kingman several small robberieS took place. As many as half dozen persons were ar rested and fined.
 President Ives of the State of Ari- zona Improvement company returned Thursday from a two weeks business trip to the coast.
 Word comes from Nogales to the effect that J. B. Laconte of Tucson has been appointed agent for the Torres & Prietas railway at Torres, Sonora.
 The small adobe building which has stood for years adjoining the library building at bisbee has been torn down to make ready for the new postoffice.
 Up to the present time there is not a single case of typhoid fever in Bis bee Inc doctors claim it will be little late thlS season.
 Not much time is wasted in Tomb stone. Domingo Costello died last Monday morning at the hospital, and was buried the same day.
 Miss Myrtle Golly, who has been teaching school at Benson, has been appointed to teach the third grade at the Tucson public school.
 A. Aldred a prominent resident of Bisbee, uled from inflammatory rheu- matism a Iew days ago. The fremen of the town attended his funeral in q body.
 Wm. Lawler will leave Prescott ID a day or two for Klondike. He will join Frank Wells in Los Angeles. the latter having gone out to the coast a few days since.
 Decoration Day will be appropri- ately observed in Bisbee. A fine pro- gramme is being arranged under the direction of the GAR. of Bisbee, de- taids of which will be given later.
 Registration of voters for the fall election is now in progress at Yuma, and the boys are all signifying will ingnesS to exercise the right of fran chise in the selection of public serv- ants.
 Everything is in readiness to begin work on the NacoSari road, and 1t is expected work will begin in earnest next week and the road will be run ming over to the line in ninety days time.
 MT. O. Kroeger, a prominent archi- tect of San Antonio, Texas, is in Tue son. MT. Kroeger quite recently con- pleted a new brewery at Hermossilo, Sonora He thinks some of locating in Tucson.
 The fire loss to this place within the past two years would exceed S250,000. The cost of a respectable first class system of water works would be be- tween five and ten thousand dollars Wlnlams News.
 The Southern Pacific is said to have placed an armed guard of six men at the Pecos High bridge to guard against possible danger at that point, which is only five miles from the widest part of the Mexican border.
 George w. Webb, custom house in spector, is registered at the Occidental at Tucson. He has just returned from a long trip over the desert in quest Of smugglers and Chinese who are not entitled to remain in the country.
 Mrs. George NJ Sargent and her youngest two children left Prescott for a visit to her relatives at St. Jo- seph, Missouri, on Sunday morning. MT. Sargent accompanied them short distance, returning Monday afternoon. back to the company hospl,al, where Dr. Woods fixed him up. taking num- Der of sIItches in his foot, and on Monday he was able to be around on crutches. The doctor said he had a very narrow escape. but will come out all right.
 me statement made that the Sagi- nav box factory was closed down for lack of water iast Saturday is erron- eous There's no lack of water any where in ooconino county. The mill is shut down for some necessary re- pairs.-News.
 F. J. Sullivan died suddenly Tuesday at Tucson at the Southern Pacific shop, near the San Xavier He laid down, went to sleep, and died. He was a member of the A. o. U. w. His children, who are in California, have been notified of his death.
 Never before have we been in favor of a press censorship, but it certainly should be established in Arizona to suppress those newspapers which are giving currency to false rumors of h. dian outbreaks and the threatened in VdSlOuS Ol MeAlCdu UduullS.- OilFel Belt.
 1 he Tombstone public school closed Monday, owing to the prevalence ol scarlet fever among several children The regular term would have been concluded in two weeks, but it was deemed advisaDle by the trustees to close now and allay any fears oi parents.
 In Justice Campbeifs court at Pres colt Monday afternoon two cases were disposed of, as follows: Territory vs John Eckles, charged with holding u the Crowned King stage, held il 5000 bonds; Territory vs. King UT sery, charged with robbing the Glad iator mill, held in $1, 900 bonds
 Politics are warming up in and about the old pueblo. Col. Breathitt will undoubtedly have the. Pima county