Arizona republican., 1898-09-17
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

A CONNUBIAL VENTURE.- Lii. ,cerse tc marry was issued yesterday tc James Plumerfelt and Florence q Hanna
 LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE ,-Application was made in probate
 court yesterday by L. A. Lowell for let teGs of administration on the estate o1
 the late I. H. Hay.
 A BURGLARY.-Profe F. A Gulley was the victim of a burglar
 on Thursday night. The robber se-
 cured valuable gold watch and some silver from the clothing of the pro- lfessor hanging near his bed.
 NEW DENNIS BUILDING. Plans
 and specifications for the new Dennis
 building on North Second street, be- tween Washington and Adams, have
 been completed by J. M. Creighton
 The structure w.l be two stories high
 with basement
 BREED OF GOATS.-Carroll Rush
 of Kirkland valley last night received
 three fine Angora bucks from breed
 CT located at Tiger Mill, Texas The bucks were sent by Walls-Fargo ex-
 press and were gazed at curiously at tHe lOcdl once yesterday.
 MISDEMEANORS.- Jesus Lopez and Vivano Flores were in Justice Kin caid's court yesterday for drunkenness and fighting, but not with each other
 Drunkenness during the independence celebration would have been pardon able, but the fighting was not. Each was sent to jail for ten days
 A GAZING EAGLE The Curio's meEagerie has been reinforced by the addition of a young eagle, who eazes steadily at the curious without even blinking his eyes. Although barely able to fly when captured, being quite young, he measures six feet from tip to tip of wings.
 HOTEL IMPROVEMENT lob | by at the Adams hotel is receiving a thorough renovating, preparatory to tho formal opening of the house for the fall and winter business. The floor has been painted and the walls fresh i ened up. Although the Adams is kept l in perfect condition, the entire house
 will be gone over and placed in spot less attire.
 1 DESERTED PALACE That the days of the old opera house on Center street are numbered, at least as far as Thespian ways are concerned, is evil denced by sign bearing the signifi- cant words, 'To Let" posted on the wall next to the stairway. There has
 been some talk of remodeling the building and making a lodging house of it, hut so far nothing material has developed
 KINDERGARTENS. Miss Kate L. | fy,11x Ter O kindergarten here for two years, will | not return to Phoenix. She has been employed by the school board of Po- mona, Cal, to take charge of the kin dergarten work and a training class of teachers ip the schools there. Miss Bassetts work in Phoenix will prob ably be taken up by a young lady from the east.
 MIR DAI.Y'S CONDITION.- Pat rick Daly is lying at the point of death at the county hospital. MT. Ealys aiiment is an internal irrita- tion produced by the drinking of a pint of kerosene week ago. He hac placed bottle of kerosene on stand at the head Of his couch to ward off the attacks of mosquitoes. There was a bottle of water beside it. MT. Daly | the wrong bottle.
 1 HAD HIS LEG PULLED Charles F. Gray has lately returned from Flag staff, where he underwent a long and painful experience. While working for a lumber firm he had his right leg crushed by log. He was carried to 1 the hospital, where he lay on his back l for ten weeks, the injured leg kept stretched out by a pulley and fifty pound weight. During all the time he could only move his left leg, his arms and his head slightly. He was able to turn on his side less than a week ago. That fifty-pound weight did all that was expected of it and a l little more, for the injured leg seems to be slightly longer than the other INDIAN SCHOOL BAND.-The In- dian school band won many plaudits yesterday afternoon tor the excellent music rendered by it in the parade anC on the court house plaza immedi- ateiy previous. The band now num- ber.; forty memb<~s, but only thirty two were able to l. Sade yesterday on account Of the lack instruments. This will be remettsd before long,, as Superintendent McCowan has ordered new instruments to Lu6 uHlOuHt Ol 9O0U These will include oboes, bassoons, euphoniums, clarinets and flutes. The i band is under the leadership of Pro- lessor Devine, who occupied the same position last year. It is more than probable that the Indian school band will, this winter, give a concert in the new Phoenix opera house.
 SWALLOWED A WIRE FENCE One never knows when he will go wrong. Last Thursday an honest young farmer who is trying to make homestead stick Cn tract of desert land came to town with his wife and two children, the younger babe Z years old He had been working hard and had gctten together little money with which to buy badly needed sup plies for his family and enough barbed wire tc fence a small tract that he might put out crop. Immediately on arriving in town he bought the sup plies and S15 worth of wire. Unfor- tunately he had some money, couple