Arizona republican., 1898-04-04


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 w. R. Patton has taken the Phoenix agency for the San Francisco Call MT. Patton is already in charge of the business of the Los Angeles Times.
 The ground along the sidewalks is again beginning to grow bloody with crushed mulberries. They are of course not ripe yet, but they are pre- maturely colored and cast down
 returned yesterday from the Winifred district, where they have been sinking a shaft on the property owned by J. T. Boyd, known as the Summit claim They brought in some very rich sam 1 pies of ore.
 Ben Williams. superintendent of the Copper Queen Mining company at Bisbee, will arrive in town this morn l ing in charge of lot of Masons who are to be exposed to the ter-ors of the Mystic Shrine.
 There is a precipitateness in educa- tional matters at Bisbee which is com mendable, but illegal. The law fixes the date of election. The people of Bisbee couldn't wait for it and decided the matter a week in advance. They didn't do it Intentionally and if there are no outside influences the verdict of the people will be allowed to stand The result of the election was quite satisfactory.
 Early on Saturday morning a stranger called at Frakes' livery stable and hired a horse and cart, saying he wanted to drive to ranch four and a half miles west of town and would re- turn about noon. The night came without him, and yesterday morning MT. Frakes instituted an inquiry. Dep uty sheriffs set out and secured the country in every direction, but could get no trace of the man, horse or cart
 There was a sanguinary affair at the stock yards on Saturday night. A maddened steer dashed at Gallup, N M man, who was riding one Of the best horses from Gibsons stables. He plunged a horn into the horses breast and there was a bloody fountain. Horse and rider went down. Then there was work for the cowboys Riata after riata was broken. but at last the steer was dragged down by three ropes. His horns were sawed of and he was put on a car to be made into steaks for the deiectation of the Crescent Coal company of Gallup. The horse is breathing through the hole in his breast, but there is chance of his recovery.
 Ben Hall, a colored individual, was arrested yesterday on a complaint from Justice Johnstone's court charging him with a disturbance of the peace. But that was only another name for jealousy, of which Hall has been guilty before. The object of his affections is colored woman by the name of French The object of his wrath is any man upon whom Mrs. French smiles, involving a great dental disp ay and wide eXpanse of mouth, quite in keeping with Halls anger. Early yes terday morning he visited her resi- dence and demolished the glass in front window He was then arrested and the denuded window sash was brought into court and marked eX- hibit GA" Hall will be tried today.
 There was a funny hypnotic contest at the Pioneer band concert at the city hall plaza yesterday afternoon. The plaza is not well provided with benches. A lot of young men arrived early and occupied the main bench in front of the band stand. They held it with the air of men who would die at their post before they would sur render. The grounds soon filled with women and children. A half dozen women congregated in front of the bench and stared at it's brave de- lenders, who unfiinchingly held their post through the first three numbers of the programme. Then one of them fell off the bench and his plaHe was immediately occupied by a victorious female. One by one the male rank melted away. Its obstinacy, however brave, was not commendable. Cow ardice in that case would have been gallantry.
 The town of Phoenix north Of Washington street is so nearly level that even the water is in a constant state of indecision in finding an outlet On one block bounded by Washington, First, Second and Adams streets, water runs toward the four cardinal points of the compass. People speak of I West Washington street as down 9 and East as 'Eup' only beoausa the river a mile south of town happens | to run from east to west. Yesterday morning Zanjero Wolfley was superin- tending the water in front of the Lemon hotel and the water started to- ward the east. That's wrong," said a stranger; that's up hill; the water ought to run west" I know that" said MT. Wolf1ey, ''but it's the policy or this municipal administration, of which am only a humble servant, to | let the water run in any direction it wants to-
 McKell1gon's where you can get the finest hand made sour mash. bour- 1 hon and PannSvluania ruo u-hirlzin.