Arizona republican., 1898-05-05
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 eraI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- aion. The D0ingS of People and Other Matters.

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 The city council will meet tonight to canvass the election returns.
 Deputy Sheriff Pete Bosha of Yav- apai county came in from the south yesterday morning, returning from Yuma, where he had taken recap tured prisoner who escaped from the penitentiary not long ago.
 F. Hilbo was locked up in the county jail yesterday for knocking a Mari copa squaw down because she re- fused to assist him in drinking a bot tie of whisky The refusal cost the squaw a couple Of front teeth. The insistent Hilbo will be brought be- fore Justice Johnstone this morning. His punishment will no doubt be something short of death sentence.
 The Daily Enterprise of Phoenix is the latest addition to the journalistic field which many people imagined was already overcrowded, notwithstanding there is a wide expansa of territory in Arizona. The Enterprise is not very big, but then it is not very old It is, however, very neat. A. s. Mills is the editor and s. J. Darby, the founder of the Weekly Enterprise out of which the daily grew, is business manager.
 It is said that a movement is being agitated by members Jf the high school for d1scontinuing the joint su- pervision of the high school and the grammar schools on the ground Of economy. Superintendent Creager received s75 month from each. The movement is. being opposed by many. who say that it is necessary that both They point out that neither can af- ford to pay for a competent man, while both together can do so easily.
 Michael Fitzpatrick died suddenly at the county hospital yesterday morn ing. He was taken i'll at a corral here the day before and was removed to the hospital. There was found upon him two small bottles, one containing pepsin and the other morphine. Judge Kincaid having been notified, impan- eled a jury and held an inquest at which it was decided that death re- suited from an overdose of nor phine Whether taken with suicidal intent was not determined. Fitzgerald was a prospector, about sixty years old and a native of Ireland. So far as is known he has no relatives living.
 The Mexican residents of Phoenix will celebrate Cinco de Mayo today and will close the celebration with grand ball at ReGewill hall tonight This is the thirty-siXth anniversary Of the beginning of the end of Maximilian's short lived empire, the of the Spanish and British forces from Mexico, the claims of those countries having been adjusted by negotiations. This left only the French troops to support the throne. May is as suspicious a month to Mex ico as April is to the United States. It was in May, 1867, when Maximilian made his last struggle and came to his death Next to September 15-16, the fifth of May is Mexico's greatest national holiday.
 Four Japanese, I. Masui. Yamamato. Hosada and Uuwatubo. were arrested on a warrant from Justice JohnstOne's s court yesterday for an assault on a countryman, Tanaka, with intent to commit murder This is the affray which occurred on Monday night in the rear of the Central hotel and which was described by The Republi- can. It was not known until yester- day who the parties were. The trOu- ble is the sequel of a lawsuit in which Tanaka was beaten few days ago. It grew out of their connection with the Sweetwater gardening enter prise. Tanaka brought suit for wages. The defense contended that the plain tiff was a member of the company and so not entitled to any other re- ward than a share of the profits of which there had been none.
 Company A, N. G. A., was mustered in at the city hall last night and not more enthusiastic are the cowboys of Col. Woods famous regiment than the body of men that lined up and were sworn in by Major Russell. After the required number Of men were ac- quired the election of officers took place, with the following unanimous result: Captain, F. w. Hill; first lieutenant, c. R. French; second lieu tenant, c. B. Dunn. The boys are all anxious to cross the broad Pacific and guard the prize which it is believed Admiral Dewey has captured for our government, the Philippine islands The Phoenix boys may be relied upon to do their best in any place the for tunes of peace or war may place them Success to Company A.
 R. B. Manly, the colored valet oi Captain G. G. Mullen, U. s. A., of Los Angeles, felt yesterday that he was faced by starvation. He had just re- turned with Captain Mullen from Reno. The valet went out in search of something to eat. He was ordered out of the first restaurant and came near being thrown out of the second He imagined that the inhospitable treatment was afforded him on ac. count of his clothes and he was or the point of going back to the hote where Captain Mullen was stopping and borrowing a dress suit for the occasion He locked hack into tht