Arizona republican., 1898-02-25
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
rhe News of a Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented in aNutshell-Doings of People and Other Matters.

colt on legal business. He will leave
 for home tonight.
 The Presbyterian social will be held
 at the residence of Mrs. Charles w
 Pugh, 520 North Second avenue, today | from 2:30 to o'clock D. m.
 Professor Wasson of the high school | is recovering so rapidly from his late serious illness that he will be able to resume work next Monday.
 Application for letters of administra- tion upon the estate of Mrs. Annie B. Hinton was made in probate court yes terday by the husband of the deceased A. D. Hinton.
 The case of Jerry Sullivan, the cat tleman, transferred from a Glendale justices court, was tried before Jus tice Johnstone yesterday. He was charged with leaving dead cattle ex- posed
 At II o'clock last night five riders of unlighted bicycles were captured by the police. The onslaught began with the arrest of private citizen who was going to the postoffice a little after 6 o'clock. It was then quite light yet, though it was legally dark.
 John Stilwell, young man wanted in Yavapai county for a felony, was ar rested in this city yesterday by Con stable McClintock on a telegram from Sheriff Ruffner at Prescott. The tele- gram did not describe the particular crime for which he is wanted.
 Hugh B. Campbell the Coconino county sheep man, yesterday shipped two carloads of wood to Boston. Mr. Campbell lately sold a small band of 2,200 sheep to parties in the valley. Still he is not out of sheep. His flock yet consists of about 10000. He will begin moving them north in a few days.
 The miscreant who blew up a sec tion of the Santa Fe Pacific track west of Flagstaff with dynamite has been captured by Sheriff Cameron of Coco nino county and is now in jail at Flag staff. The sheriff is confident that he has the right man and he believes that he will be able to secure the necessary evidence in proof of his guilt.
 An effort was made yesterday to pro cure ar attachment for Chandler Braman, the absconding manager of Pye's Might Owls" left high and dry here yesterday. After consultation with the district attorney it was de cided that his offense, though it mer- ited tar and feathers, was really no crime against the law. He is sup posed to be in Albuquerque now.
 An entertainment will be given at Redewill hall on Saturday night for the benefit of the ladies of the strand ed Might Owl' company. The ad mission will be 25 cents. Two of the 1o tn 9 St night and five remain in town without a penny. Several ladies and gentle men of Phoenix have kindly volun- teered their assistance at the enter tainment.
 When a telegram was received yes terday afternoon saying that the cap itol building bill had passed the sen ate, General Collins, who has been sixty years, ceased that style of loco motion and took to flying. MT. B. A. Fickas attempted it also, but though his heart was as light as General Col lins', his body is more cumbersome. He is still walking.
 On next Tuesday evening the peop'e e of Phoenix will have the pleasure of listening to a description of the ia nous Moqui Indian snake dance, by MT. Frank c. Reid of Flagstaff, who witnessed this wierd heather rite last summer. His lecture will be illus trated by life-like stereopticon views under a powerful light, and the enter tainment will be intensely interesting. The Baptist church is the place, and Tuesday evening the time.
 The board of supervisors was in ses- sion yesterday considering plans and specifications of the buildings for the poor farm. J. A. Porterie was ap- pointed official interpreter for the pro- bate court and for Justice John stones court The price for hauling gravel on the Tempe road was raised from fifty to sixty cents load and an order was entered requiring the stew ard of the county hospital to notify the clerk of the board of the dis charge of patients from the institu- tion.
 J. E. Maddox came in from the White Tanks mining camp, thirty-fve miles west of the city, yesterday. He said that the claims of Haynes, Dunn and Welch are showing up well. Haynes
 shaft is 100 feet deep through broad | ledge of ore which has been growing I better the more it is developed. He
 was offered s7,OOO for it last week 1 Dunn's shaft is 109 feet deep and he has drifted seventy-five feet in two
 directions from the shaft. He has a
 three and a half foot vein of even
 richer ore. That is said to be an ad- i mirable mining country. Water is i obtained from the Buckeye canal five
 miles away and there is an almost in-
 exhaustible supply of wood in the i'm
 mediate neighborhood of the mines
 A funny thing happened at a jus 1 tice's trial at Mesa last Wednesday l The suit involved a COW, the value oi
 which was disputed, but the defendant
 had paid s3.5O of the purchase price
 The justice finally fixed the price al | SIG and made this judicial utterance:
 ''The defendant having paid S3.50, he still owes s13.50." The only person 1T
 the room who noticed this departure
 from the fixed and orthodox principle