Arizona republican., 1898-06-21
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

The Western Union has an undeliv- cred telegram for Mrs. Mamie Cox.
 Augustin Moran and Felix Carillo were married yesterday in East Phoe- nix by Justice Kincaid.
 | The godly duty of scrubbing out the postofiice was performed on Sunday. 1 J. F. Altenburg of this city will leave today for Congress, where he is in- terested in valuable mining claim. | John B. Motsinger, Bob King and Elisha Hill came down from Yavapai county yesterday with a lot of cattle to be put on pasture in the valley. 1 A man named Davis was arrested by Deputy Sheriff H. M. Davenport for ! being drunk and creating a disturb ance at the band concert and elsewhere on Sunday night. He was fined $5 in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday. The report of the referee in the case of C. c. Hurley vs. c. W. Hoadley ct al for a division of property, was filed in district court yesterday. The only element of interest in this item of news is that the suit was ordered re- ferred on July 5, 1895 since which date much history has been made.
 There will be a sort of educational picnic at the Initial Monument on the Gila fifteen miles below the city, to- morrow. Among the guests will be Professor w. $. Tipton, Professor w. s. Varnum, Professor Logan Reeves and the family of MT. H. B. Slosser and other residents of the Mesquite neighborhood.
 The damage suit of William Wallace against the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley railroad went to the jury late yesterday afternoon. At II clock last night the jury was still engaged in a discussion of the case, having some hours before sent out af- ter cigars, under whose narcotic in Ifuence they hoped to bring their minds together.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to MT. John D. Loper and Agnes tDobbie. The ceremony will be per formed at Goldfeld tomorrow night by Rev. s. L. Guthrie of Tempe. MT ILoper is at the head of the Mesa City tschools. Miss Dobbie is a charming and popular young lady, who has been Intimately connect l with the schools lOf this city for son time.
 The Good Templars will give an ice lcream social in their hall on Friday lev ening next and invite their friends Ito attend. A short, but roaring, pro- gramme will be rendered before the refreshments are served, which will lccrsist of ice cream and cake, iced lemonade ice water and Klondyke air An admission fee of 10 cents will be lcharged which will pay for the enter ltainment and refreshments.
 Last Saturday in district court 2 Judgment for s2,l59.18 was given the plaintiff in the case of Ward vs. Balsz Il and the foreclosure of an attachment llien was ordered. Yesterday the judg ment was set aside as an interesting Iquestion regarding the priority of ilien and the location of homestead had arisen. The matter will be ar lgued on the next law day. P. T. Hur ley was given judgment against the Tempe Produce company for $12O.O7.
 The congregation of the Presbyterian church afforded the pastor, Dr. Nc kinney, a pleasant surprise last night About seventy-five of them met at his house. They were not laden witf Icumbersome and more or less useless lpresents, but hard cash to the amount lOf $132, which was presented by MT Frank Lyman in a pleasant address in which the pastor was reminded thai his six years of faithful service ha6 not been without appreciation.
 A dispatch received from St. Loui; Iyesterday announces the death at Jef ferson Barracks of Mrs. Mamie Gil breath Edwards, wife of Lieutenant IOliver Edwards, Company A, Eleventf infantry, and daughter of Major Gil breath of the Eleventh. Both Major lGilbreath and Lieutenant Edwards art with General Shafter's expedition tt lCuba. The many friends at Prescott lwho knew Mrs. Edwards in the course iof her residence at Whipple Barrack' Twill hear of her death with regret.
 The board of supervisors was in reg uIar weekly session yesterday. Th' latter part of the day was spent in th' inspection of the construction of tn inew buildings at the poor farm. As !sistance was given a little boy, Yal Carruthers, who was sent to hi
 father, Eugene Carruthers, at Ard more, I. T. He was put on an s. F. F
 & P. train armed with a letter to con
 ductors along the route His mothe
 Is confined at the insane hospital. Sh
 was brought in to see him before h
 went away. The parting was affectin
 on both sides.
 , A large audience witnessed the frs } performance of the Indiana comedy
 ''The Hoosier," at the park theater las
 night. The play is one of the bes
 things the Chase-Daniels company ha !. put on here. The actors all cleverl sustained their parts, Mr. Daniels i
 particular doing the best work he ha
 yet been seen in. Between the last tw
 acts f1ashlignt photograph was mad
 of the audience, the management an
 nouncing that each lady who attend the performance on next Friday nigh
 will receive souvenir copy of i