Arizona republican., 1898-04-01

1 vice in the evening"
 The Elks will give one of their la l nous stag socials next Wednesday night. The social will be preceded by the installation of officers.
 James McMillan was yesterday ap- pointed manager of the Phoenix Hay & Grain company to succeed O. A. Turney, who resigned to accept the position of secretary of the. Evans Loan and Investment comran
 The business men of Five Points are agitating a plan of placing a 1000 candle power light at the points, and having the streets thoroughly sprinkled every day. s. D. Ludlum is engaged in arousing an interest in the matter.
 Marshal Hooker yesterday received a letter from W. E. Hutchinson of Po- mona, Cal, brother of the late J. w. Hutchinson, again thanking in the warmest terms all the friends of the deceased for their kindness during the last illness of his br other and their many attentions to himself.
 c. M. Finch of St. Louis is stopping at the Hotel Adams MT Finch is a bird, as most finches are. The family of birds consists of many collateral branches such as bluebirds, blackbirds and jail birds. MT. Finch belongs to the latter family for the reason that he sells jails manufactured by a St. Louis concern, organized for the pur pose of discouraging crime.
 The bids for the construction of two h1rf1 opened by the board of supervisors yesterday. There were nine bidders, J. A. Johnson, M N Casterline. D. c. Warren, E. Sutherland, Golf & Galpin, L. A. Amirault, c. Campbell, D. A. Evans and Fifield & Gallagher. The bid of Sutherland was the lowest. The contract will be awarded next Monday.
 MT. Ben Laub of Louisville, Ky, who has been spending the winter in town, has been expecting his family, who who will remain here a few weeks and accompany him home They left Louisville last Tuesday, but were turned back by the floods which are raging on the Ohio just now. They got back to Louisville the next dav If the situation appears safe they will start again tomorrow.
 Through the courtesy of Hon. Marcus A. Smith, delegate from Ari- zona to congress, another large in voice of congressional seeds has been received by the experiment station for distribution among the farmers of the territory. Persons desiring garden seeds may receive the same by com municating with the agricultural ex- pertinent station, Tucson, Arizona, and agreeing to report in relation to the same at the maturity of their crop.
 Last night was Company B's regular drill night. There was a much larger attendance than usual, the prospect of war having invested National Guard matters with additional interest. Cap tain Baldwin, U. s. A., was present and put the boys through the platoon movements. At the close of the drill Major Russell delivered a brief pa triotic address, enjoining the members of B company in the event of war to undertake without t1inching any duty that might fall to them.
 MT. M. O. Bicknell, general freight and passenger agent of the M. & F., returned yesterday morning from San Francisco. where be went to consult with Southern Pacific officials regard ing a lower rate on grain to the coast. Until lately there has been compara- lively little demand tn California for Salt river grain, so that there was no rate at all, or what was the same thing, only local rate amounting to about 50 cents a hundred to Los An geles The recent demand for Salt River valley farm products was fol- lowed by a demand for lower freight rate, which has now been secured, 30 cents on wheat to Los Angeles.
 Every afternoon Treasurer Murray appears on the front steps of the court house and gives a false alarm, crying, Hear ye! Hear vel" etc., an nouncing that he is about to hold a sale of delinquent property. People are attracted by the outcry for blocks and there is a general movement In | the direction of the court house. Be ! fore any one has time to reach the scene of the sale the affair is ad- | journed until the next day. This has been going on since last Monday. The sale will actually begin next Monday
 but the treasurer in compliance witf
 the law has been fooling the folks SC often that it will be difficult for him tC
 attract a crowd when he really want: one. It's the old story of the boy an( the wolf over again.
 Suit was begun in district cour
 yesterday by Edna Weston against thu
 National steam laundry for $5,00
 injuries consisting of the crushing
 burning and cooking of the flesh ant
 muscles of her right hand in a ma chine called mangle. The machine i
 technically described in the com
 plaint, and then generally described a
 an affair of "vicious construction. I
 is used for ironing clothes and con
 sists of a roller passing over an irol
 heated by steam. It is claimed tha
 the defendant well knowing the vic of the contrivancey was negligent i , that it did not provide a guard for so that the operator feeding clothe into it could not insert her hand. l
 consequence of this neglect, last Apr
 the plaintiff. who is described as a
 unskilled and common laborer. had h
 hand caught in the mangle in spit
 of the exercise of such care as Sh