Arizona republican., 1898-03-22

May oI
 Mrs. M. E. Foster, who came here from Chicago two years ago, died yes terday The remains will be sent hack to Chicago for burial.
 The funeral of Mrs. Sally Archer, wife of Robert Archer, took place yes terday afternoon from the undertaking parlors of w. A. Davis.
 Thomas Kelly, an inmate of the city jail, sick of pneumonia, was removed to the county hospital on Sunday evening in a dangerous condition. Letters of administration were is sued in probate court yesterday to James McMillan upon the estate of Frank Smith, who was murdered at | his home near Phoenix three years ago.
 l Jesus JimeneZ was sentenced by Jus tice Johnstone yesterday to ten days 1 in the county jail for a Sunday dis turbance of the peace. Juan Lopez, for being drunk and disorderly, got five days
 Miss Warren, aunt of Mrs. w. J. Cot ton, is lying at Col. Cotton's in crit ical condition, resulting from a fall a few days ago in which her hip was broken. She lay for half an hour be- fore she was discovered.
 The place of the next meeting of the Kentucky society at o'clock next Saturday afternoon has been changed from Justice Johnstone's office to the district court room. Ladies as we'll as gentlemen of the Blue Grass state are urged to be present.
 In an allusion to the meeting regard ing the Mississippi and interna tional exposition at Omaha it was stated last Sunday morning that the date was Thursday evening. It is in stead this (Tuesday) evening. and the place of meeting is the ladies' ordi- nary at the Adams hotel.
 The resignation of George A. Hen derson as justice of the peace at Agua Caliente on account of his removal to Gila Bend was accepted by the board of supervisors, and Judge Frank Baxter was appointed to suc- ceed him. Plans and specifications of W. L. Denman of Greencastle. Ind. county auditor of Putnam county. will arrive here this morning on a visit to Mrs. Denman, who came here a couple of months ago for her health. He also comes to secure an intrOduc- ton to his youngest son, a youth about one week old.
 The fire department was called out i last night at 9:30 o'clock to extin- guish a fire which had started in the rear of the building occupied by the Phoenix Oil company on West Adams street. A number of tens of baled hay were piled in the rear of the building. and there would not have been con- 1 f1agration had it not been that An Sam occupies the adjoining rom and does laundry business there. In the rear of his portion of the building is shed which he uses as a fire place. The sparks from his fire set the hay afire and there was soon a blaze and a cloud of smoke. The fire was put out before any great damage was done, although it resulted in the loss of number of bales of hay and slight damage to the rear of the building.
 MT. A. w. Crawford, whose arrival in Phoenix from Chicago was noted in The Republican some days ago, has as sociated himself with George H. Cook in the jewelry business in this city. In fact, MT. Crawford came here for that purpose. He found things as represented, so lost no time in estab- fishing himself. He is an old-timer in the jewelry business, and thoroughly knows every branch of it, but his speciality is wholesaling. The jewelry l store at Prescott owned by MT. Cook will be conducted as brore, while the Phoenix establishment will be looked after by MT Crawford. It is the in tention of the new firm to do a general iobbing business throughout the terri ' I Crawford will shortly go on the road.
 Fred Gardiner, the colored sport, whose tribulations in kangaroo court were recounted in yesterday mornings Republican, was fined s by Justice Johnstone yesterday. As he
 was being taken from jail to court he
 asked Deputy Sheriff Doheney: ''Is
 de ole man (meaning the magistratc)
 in a good human dis mawnin'?" He
 was fined s and begged to be allowed
 to go to the block after the money
 The justice refused and Gardiner began
 to plead: 'Doan' sen me back to
 dat jail no mo. Foh God, jedge, dat
 kangaroo co't'H kill me nex' time
 suah. I done got bumped Sun'ay
 mawnin' till I'se black and blue all
 ovah." MT. Gardiner was speaking f1guratively. Any discoloration of his
 skin would have to be white in order
 to become visible to the unaided eye
 The Seass-Zeck controversy over 6
 ditch near Kyrene was reopened yes
 terday. Last Saturday a tempora~ y
 injunction secured by the plaintiff re
 straining the defendant from filling III
 the ditch was dissolved and the case
 dismissed. The court afterward con-
 tinued the injunction until next Sat
 urday. The Zecks, though, wen
 ahead and filled the ditch, it is said
 so that the road in that vicinity i:
 flooded and all the neighbors eXcep
 Miss Seass have more water than they
 can use. She has none. She ap
 peared in court yesterday with her at
 torney, A. J. Daggs, and presented al
 order citing the Zecks to appear ana
 show why they should not be adjudget
 guilty of contempt After some delib
 eration the court signed the order