Arizona republican., 1898-06-23
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erol Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOings of People and Other Matters.

The Western Union has an undeliv
 cred message for J. H. Thomas.
 MT. Charles N. Crittenton will preacf
 in the rear of the Presbyterian churct
 this evening at 7:30. All are invited Mrs. L. Fisher of Prescott, who is
 building a residence at the corner o1 Fifth avenue and Jefferson street, yes terday had plans prepared by Willard & Grosvenor for another to cost about | 800, on an adjoining lot
 The latest real estate deal of i'm portance in this county was the trans fer by Laura c. Hill and John F. Hill to F. M. Pafford and Fannie E. Paf- ford of tract in section 34 township No. north range 2 east. The con- sideration was $7,000
 A couple of days ago Deputy Sheriff Body saw a bicycle leaning against the west wall of the jail near the rear. It remained there all day and until the next evening. The deputy sheriff then took it into the office, where it has remained ever since. It is a very good wheel and the fact that no one has made any inquiry about it breeds a suspicion that it was stolen.
 An old man named Smith, living in an adobe building in the rear of the Herald office, became enraged yester- day and slapped lame newsboy named Earl Canning, a son of J. w. Can- ming, the harness dealer The boy reported to his father that the old man had assaulted him. MT. Canning im- |mediately laid aside all less important business and went in search of Smith When he found him he administered a |slaI on one side of his face and then to restore the old mans disturbed equilibrium and to relieve himself of any charge of partiality, slapped him on the other. He then went to Jus tice Ki1caid's office, pleaded guilty to an assault and paid s5.
 At the ice cream social in Good Templar hall on Friday night the old Pilgrims Quartette" will sing several of their favorite selections. The per- sonnel of the quartette is Messrs. c. 10 Austin of Tempe, Fred Dysart and IA F. Walbridge and Miss Zella Dysart Of this city. The Rev. H. A. Thomp- son originally sang in the quartette and Miss Dysart takes his place. Af- ter short programme which will in- clude several very interesting num- bers, ice cream and cake will be |served. Ten cents will be charged at the door to defray expenses. This will |also entitle the young gentlemen to an introduction to the pretty Good Temp lar girls. we are informed.
 Three Japanese took out their first naturalization papers in United Sta ues court yesterday. They are Kaki- |jirosage Kitazawa Sabro Utsumiya and Saujero Saisho All have resided in |this country two years and have fallen in love with it so deeply that they want to live and die in it. This is an unusual incident in the naturalization records of this court or any other. It lis seldom that a Chinaman or Jap anese forswears allegiance to the ruler of his native country. An examina- tion of the records of this judicial dis lt1ict shows the cosmopolitan character of the population. The following countries are represented: England, Germany, Turkey, Norway and Sweden, Denmark. France. Mexico and Spain, through the dependency of Cuba Eng land is more frequently represented, then come in order Germany, Mexico, Norway and Sweden.
 The returns from the late quarterly examination of teachers are coming in Yavapai county papers complain that the questions laid before the teachers
 at Prescott were so unnecessarily se-
 were that four out of five applicants
 failed. Five Maricopa county teach
 CTS took go at the same list and only
 one failed. That, of course, does not
 prove anything, for small delegation
 of teachers cannot be regarded as ar index of the intellectual development
 of the county in which they live. But this incident calls up another in whicf
 a Iayapai county school teacher witt
 a grievance, little more than a year
 ago caused a communication tt
 be printed in Prescott pa !per in which he took tn,
 ground that the teachers of thi
 county were below par. He charged lthat living among so much alfalfa ant under blazing sun had tendency t.
 make them fat-witted and inferior t, the pedagogues of the north.
 The postofice yesterday received
 supply of the new trans-Mississipl
 postage stamps in denominations o
 ones, twos, fours, fives, eights, ten
 and fifties. From an artistic vie,
 point the stamps are a success. The
 are of the same size as the Columbia
 jstamp and just twice as large as tn
 common stamp. They are much nor beautiful than the Columbian. Tn Jone-cent stamp is a bright green, beal
 ing the design of Marquette on th
 Mississippi. The two is plum cOlOre,
 Its design is western farming seen 1, The four-cent stamp is yellow and rel
 Iresents an Indian chasing a buffal
 Perhaps the most attractive of the 1t
 is the f1ve-cent stamp, of blue colo
 representing Fremont on the Rock
 mountains. The eight-cent stamp brown and it's design is picture
 troops guarding an emigrant trai