Arizona republican., 1898-02-04


 The Phoenix Social club will give
 dance at the Elks' hall tomorrow night.
 County Superintendent Grouse yes
 terday appointed Mrs. J. w. Morgan trustee in the Crismon district.
 Captain J. M. Dodson, who ha: served almost twenty years as city marshal of Prescott, is now makin 2 his home in Phoenix, He is asso- ciated with Henry George.
 On account of the pressure of freight business on bhe Southern Pacific near ly all the trains have been behind time for two or three days, causing a slight delay of the northbOund M. & P train i Bernardo Romel, who was arrested on Tuesday for getting drunk and dis turb;ng the peace of Victoria Para, was convicted in Justice Kincaid's court yes, erday and sent to the coun- ty jail.
 The Sania Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railroad company is considering the matter of building stock yards at Peoria and in addition for the benefit of sheep men of putting in sh5ep shearing pens and a dipping vat.
 John L. Hyder, native of Turkey, | but a resident of Phoenix, yesterday 1 renounced his allegiance to the sultan of Turkey for the purpose of becoming citizen of the United States. The Sublime Porte has not yet been in formed of the loss of a subject. J. T. Shaw, the young man who lost his arm by accident in the en- plOy of the United Verde & Pacific Railway company at Jerome about a yea ago, is in Phoenix. He will leave ,onight for Valparaiso, Indiana, where he will enter that celebrated law school.
 The funeral of MT. William Burns, wife of Judge William Burns, took place at 10 o'clock yesterday morning from the Catholic church. MT. Burns, who is travelling for Wili2m Me'czer, could uDt be located the evening be- fore, but yesterday morning a tele- gram found him at Fl Paso. The latest Arizona appointment $ Dorsey Patton of Chicago to be reg ister of the Tucson land office. He ] was recommended by .he senators from Illinois. MT. PaHon's appoint ment was really made last July and was announced at that time, but was only sent to the senate on Tuesday.
 W. T. Day, who is working min: ng properties in the Horseshoe Basin, south of Casa Grande, arrived in town yes, ,erday morning. That just now, MT. Day says, is, a lively section of country The Papagoes are engaged in dry placer mining, but have Ia ely been interrupted by the weather, which, thsy say, broke the record and beat the band.
 Messrs. J. c. Rankin and ChauEcey D. Clark were in the city yesterday. Mr. Rankin has returned laey from the property owned by them on the Santa Maria. They have eighteen men at work and have their cyan:d de plant almost finished. There is great activity in not only that inn mediate neighborhood, Mr. Rankin says, but also in the adjoining dis trictS.
 Mr John A. Riley, manager of Bradstreet's for Arizona and New Mexico, with headauar CTS at Los An geles, gave as a reason while here, for taking The Republican at his of flee, that it gave so much local NEWS of Phoenix and general information dUOuI Luc udL WAS luC material he was looking for and he found it in the only every day paper in the southwest.
 MT. w. H. Smith of Prescott was de tadned in town unexpectedly, but will leave today for home with a number of fat beeveS for the Prescott market. During his stay here he sold two car loads of feeders to Col. Chri:.y. MT. ic t.c metropolis, and the results Of his trips to the city and valley would make Phoenix butcher envious of the Pres colt man were they to gaze upon the display made a. the Gur.ey s@r, CT shop of MT. Smith.
 If anything wanted Is ol earth al inquiry through The Republican will find it. It seems strange that north pole hunters have not thought of thl :. few nights ago Mrs. Charies Fickas lost valuable fur cape. After hunt ing for it a couple of days MT. Fickas began his search in a more sys.ema ic manner and put an ad in The Repu.li- can. The ink was hardly well set n the next issue before the party who found the cape returned 1t to this office. It has been found necessary | now to advertise for MT. Ficka.s to come and get it.
 The most important matter in su- preme court yesterday was the case cf A. l.. Henshaw ct al vs the Salt River Canal company. IL was ar gued on the part of the appellant by Col. William Herring, and by MT. c. F. Ainsworth for the appellee. The | case YVES submitted. The cases of J :. F. Daggs and Belle Daggs vs. J. H. Hoskins, Jr., and J. F. Daggs vs. J. H. Hoskfns, Jr., were submitted on briefs on the motion of the appel ant. Herbert $. Laughlin, on motion of T. G. Norris, was admitted to practice on a certificate from the supreme court of Illinois.
 According to a lurid account of the Johnson'S canyon tunnel disaster in the Los Angeles Times of last Tues day it appears that the fire was pro- longed by the actual burning of roc. s, which seem to have been of an in | flammable character The rocks