Arizona republican., 1898-01-06
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
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 The News of a Dayin Phoecix and
 It's Tributary Region Presented In
 a NutshelI-Doings of People and
 Other Matters.
 There was born to MT. and Mrs. Thomas D. Bennett last Saturday a boy.
 Miss Mary A. Warren, residing with the family of Col. Cotton north of the city, is dangerously i'll of pneumonia
 MT A. P. Snowman, territorial su- perintendent of public instruction, will shortly appoint a school teacher in each county to look after the school lands.
 Mamie, the youngest daughter of MT. and Mrs. B. A. Fickas, who has been critically ill of pneumonia for the past week, was greatly improved yes terday.
 F. M. Jones of this city and Pat Gar rett, sheriff of Dona Ana county, N. M., had several fast travellers on the Fl Paso track last week and they are richer as result
 c. H. Hayden left last night for Stanton, east of Congress where he has a prospect, the Rich Hill, which is down 150 feet. He has a pump in, water troubling the operators below.
 Mrs K. W. Culbertson, MT Charles Culbertson of Lawrence, Kan, and Miss Mary S. Welch of Iowa City, la, came in on Saturday over the Southern Pacific. They will spend the winter in Phoenix.
 There must be an energetic immi- grafton commissioner at Jerome. Nine tenths of the tramps pulled up in po- lice court are on their way there, at tracted by the fame of the camp as a health, pleasure and money making resort. Those who are not en route to Jerome are going to Bisbee.
 h the matter of the opening of South Second avenue from Harrison to Buchanan street, which lies along Montgomery's addition, J. B. Mont gomery and J. A. Kilroy yesterday of fered Councilman Dyer, chairman Of the committee in charge of the mat ter, lot in the addition as a location for a hose house. The new street could be only twenty-seven and a half feet wide. The location of a street of regulation width is occupied by a house, for which, with the land,, the owner asks $2,250.
 The Norton brothers affairs, of whose complications somelnias has already been printed in The Republi- can, are beginning to be adjusted. The claim of Robert Fridel, one of the ] was paid yesterday, $100 with interest. The other claims, in- cluding a bill of sale, have been put into the hands of J. Ernest Walker, another mortgagee, who caused an at 1 tachment to be levied on the property a week ago. An arrangement will probably be made by which the Nor lon brothers will be given three | norths to redeem it.
 When the Victor hose company .hrew down it's gauntlet by advertis- ngiin The Republican yesterday morn ng for competitors in a game of base l )all it laid the foundation for a gen. .ral scramble. The ink was hardly | Try on The Republican before a com nittee of Yucatecs appeared at this l tD1CO WILL du duSWSI tO tut dHu GdIIy yesterday morning the Pioneers were | ,alled together by fire alarm and -e- ,ipitate action was taken. They also accept the challenge and say they will | play the victors by night or by day
 Two vags were in police court yes .erday. One of them was given thirty days and the other, Prescott boy. was given permission to go home. His father is we'll to do. About two months 1 ago the youth was cankered with an ambition to see the world. He has seen only that part of it included in the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. He believes that if what has come under his observation is a fair sample of the whole world he can be contented at Prescott, which Is just outside the world. He doesn't know what the world was made for There's nothing in it but policemen, recorders and hunger and hoboes.
 IA misleading error was made in The synopsis of the weather bureau report last Sunday. It ap peared that the mean temperature for Dece mber was 59, which was six more tran the average Tor the same month within thirteen years. The showing was surprising, for everybody believed the month was the coldest December within their experience in the valley and many tourists who had spent the days in shivering said they were glad they were not here in other Decembers. As matter of fact 59 was the mean temperature of the last day of De. cember, the warmest day of the month. The monthly average was 49, four degrees below the average for thirteen years and the lowest average since 1895.
 "A Cavalier of France" was present ed last evening at the opera house, MT. Louis James, appearing in the char acter of Rene de Froisac," part which he portrayed in his usual ar tistic manner. MT. Collin Kemper, as Due d'AnjOu," brother to Henry III