Arizona republican., 1898-11-17
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN


 First M E. church will give. a ''Loar Art display on December l and ?.
 NEW NOTARlES. -Notarial com
 missions were issued yesterday to A E. Kellogg Of Wickenburg and Will lis P. Haynes of Tucson.
 YOUNG MEMS NIGHT.- Special music and q talk on "Success"at thf Baptist church this evening. All the young men in the city a:e invited.
 SHIPPED HOME.- The body of
 Michael T. Thurston, who was found
 dead in his bad at the Star lodging house, was shipped to his former home al Percy, N. H., on Monday night.
 FOOT BALL WORK The high
 school foot ball team and the Indian eleven played a practice game yester- 1 day which resulted in the close score of to G. The same teams will meet for blood next Saturday.
 DEFICIENCY MADE GOOD. The shortage in the sheriff's office at
 Yuma has been made good, Sheriff Mel Greenleaf having paid into the county treasury the amount charged against him as shortage in the per sonal tax fund.
 A MODEL MINING CAMP There IS one mining camp in Yavapai county which has not run mad on the subject of free coinag- l. is at Johnson s mine, in charge of Hon. John s. Jones' seventeen votes were cast ;here. Six teen of them were for Brodie and one for Wilson.
 MIR. LYONS IMPROVING.- Mir. John Lyons, who recently came to Phoenix from Missouri to spend the winter looking after his mining inter ests, is improving in health rapidly, and he will be able 70 leave his rooms at the Ford hotel in a few days. The long journey 10 Phoenix left him weak and his many friends in the city will be glad to learn that he is fast iregaining his strength.
 THE GOVERNOR AND STAFF. - Adjutant- General H. r. Robinson en~ ter. aimed the gove- nor and his sla.f at his residence, Nc. 522 Ncr,h Firs- av- tnue, at dinner last evening. Thcse at tending were: Gcvsrnor N. o. Murphy Surge-n-G:neral Wylie, Lieutenant Col. Jesscp, L1eutenant-Col. FlanHi- gan, Major Coggins, Chaplain Scott and Leu, enant Turney. General Rcb- inson will entertain on Sunday cven- ing the line and field officers.
 NOT COMPEI ENT. A late Asso- ciated Press dispatch to The Republi can described criminal trial in an eastern state it which the case of the prosecution rested upon couple o' blC0dhounds which had traced the sup posed movements of he defendant. The court held tha- there was no precedent for rega1 ding the testimony ol bloOdhounds as competent. Ths same view was taken by Judga Baker frin bn- suited in the upsetting of a popular, put incorrect theory, that no witnesses could be more reliable than blood hound, seeing that he is guided by in Stinct instead Of reason and is beside incorruptib1a.
 LOOKING FOR HIS STABLE. A great many Mexicans and several white men are industriCusly looking for the place Sam Dunlap keeps his horse Last week Sam missed his horse and he offered reward for it's sp&edy return. The horse returned, and it was accompanied by Mexican who held the rope with one hand and the other was extended to receive the reward. Sam paid the Mexican dol lar, but he has never become ~ecOnciled. He asked the MeX1c>E = explain how the horse got through an opening three feet square, but he Mexican only shook his head and said "Quien sabe. .'' Sam looked up the past life of the an- im2l and found tha. it had once trav- eled with a circus. Some of his friends, however, thinkthat the non arrival of an unexpected wave Of pros perity in a Mexican casa had some thing to do with the str ange disap- pearance of the horse.
 AN OUTSIDE VIEW. MT w. K. Wheelock manager of the COrbett- Fitzsimmons show, is a careful ob- server, and his impressions of a city are Of much value, as he has travelled throughout the world. Speaking to a Republican reporter of the future of this valley, he said: .'I believe that there are a large num- Der of people in the east who would come to Phoenix every winter if they knew the nature of your winter eli mae. 1 admit that 1 had never heard of this valley as a winter resort until came to th1 southwest, and l was surprised to find such a beautiful val ley in such an advanced stage Of de- velOpment. We hear a great deal Oi California in the east, but my ac- quaintance there cOrvinces me that thls valley has q superior winter eli mate to that of any of the famous southern California pl ices so exten- sively advertised. You have an oppor- tunity which your business men should rot undervalue. '. 44at y"u should do is 10 advertise jhe valley; let the pso- ple know what you have here by wide circulation of your newspapers which contain any special articles about the industries of the valley, and above all tell them about the perpetual sunshine A number Of articles spread over the cas- would do more than any other source to bring the people here. They are walung for some one to tell them where to go, and l am sure Il they could see what 1 have during my short visit here they would prefer this valley tc, any other place in the world. It has taken years of persistent adve Using to give southern Caiifcsnia the