Arizona republican., 1898-06-13
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 eroI Local Interest.
News Of PhOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOings Of People and Other Matters.

primary department under the direc
 tion of Miss Welch did especially we'll At the last regular meeting of tho chamber of commerce Nose Drachmar was elected secretary to succeed l. G Spangler. MT. Drachman is a vel known rustler and he will bring that useful proclivity into full operation.
 The Fourth of July committee ..as already raised $650 and there is more coming. meeting of the committee
 will be held tonight, at which other
 details of the ceiebration will be ar ranged. The votes for the goddess ot
 liberty will be gathered up this even-
 ing and an announcement of the vote
 to date will be made
 prominent stockman said yester-
 day: "] don't have time to read
 everything in The Republican, but I
 read every morning before daylight the market reports from Chicago. Den
 yer, Kansas City and Los Angeles. and it saves n good many dollars every
 week. Aat report is all the war
 news I care about
 Yesterday afternoon several of the
 prominent citizens of Phoenix of Mex ASe@A MI LII HUI CStCQ IACuSClt6S III D6- half of Pasqual Gonzalez the man shot by Officer Porterie, to the extent of so- liciting subscriptions to a fund with which to insure him a decent burial in case of death. To what extent they were successful was not learned
 There seems to be general leeling in Phoenix that it is high time to dress the police in a distinctive manner. It is also general conviction that the police should be armed with service able clubs. There is considerable talk on the streets reiative to the shot gun and revolver habit, and to the eff feet that the time has gone by for the necessity of such weapons of offense or defense. A blue uniform, a glisten- ing star and stout club are, it is be- lieved, sufficient to insure the peace of this usually quiet and law-abiding community.
 The friends of Officer Porterie ex- press the hope that the people will do him the justice to remember that the negro who was shot and killed by him two years ago was a desperate and a notoriously bad man. He had threatened the lives of the officers. had committed many robberies and twice entered the same house that was the scene of his last attempt at burg lary. They also call attention to the fact that the peculiar style of garrot ting frequent during the stay in this city of this negro entirely ceased when he was removed from the scene by Porterie.
 hn Of vii hoc special dispatch containing the follow ing: "The body of an unknown Amer ican has been found on the desert about twenty-two miles from Harqua Hala. It is evident that he perished of fright and thirst, as so many others have, though few in recent years. Nothing was found by which the body could be identified, but it is known the man was on his way to Colorado by way of Phoenix, he having been seen last Sunday at Aztec, where he inquired the way and distance to the latter place, and gave his objective destination.
 "Jim' Bark, in from bis cattle range back of the Expectations, says that he is making desperate struggles for water. He has about 2,000 head of cattle on the range now. having sent large herds to pasture. and shipped many more east, and it is fast becom- ing a puzzle what to do next about water and feed for those remaining. above that of MT. Bark, corroborates he statement of the latter with refer ,nce to the difficulties now confronting he cattlemen. Lack of spring rains las caused great scarcity of feeding )n the ranges, and it applies to all parts of the territory. Whitlow is himself because he took advantage of the early demand and disposed of most of his stock.
 An unfair advantage does not al ways win out for the person who en- leavors to use it against fellow be- ng. And man who will make an ef- ort to take advantage of the misfor- ,une of a woman is unwOrthy-but hat will wait. One day last week one ,f the deputy sheriffs of this county vas called upon in his official capacity o escort young lady to the insane asylum, she having been pronounced insane by the probate court This was her misfortune The deputy sheriff took her in a buggy. Reach ng long stretch of lonesome road, 10 other teams in sight, not a human being in sight-it is hard thing to ell this-he deliberately, with malice made a proposal of mar 'iage to the insane girl She asked 'or time to consider. He pleaded his ove all the way to the front door of he asylum, when she turned to him md said: "You dress well. You have 'osy cheeks. Your hair has a beautiful .inge of gray and your mustache is pretty. You think you are smart font. will not marry you"
 There is woman in Phoenix who is