Arizona republican., 1898-05-24
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DoingS of People and Other Matters.

Riggs, Andrew kOzlk and Eva Tucker. i Another hold-up of which no par ticulars could be gathered last night was reported. It occurred near the capitol grounds and the victim was a Ioy.
 : Andrew Kiosk and Rosie Tucker were married last night at the resi- i dence of C. J. Beauvais. The cere- mony was performed by Justice John stone.
 The Good Templars invite their i friends to attend the free lecture in the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening of this week by the Rev. T. N. ! Hincaid of Missouri.
 The normal school board has de clded upon a departure this year Ir issuing the annual catalogue of the institution. It will not be printed until some time after the commence ,nent.
 Guadaloupe Leon, a well-to-do Mex ican who works for the canal company, was found on Sunday night by Police where he had fallen asleep He had his trousers pocket cut out and he in- sisted that Si00 was gone.
 MIS I1dlllc w. w llh6ISOu brought suit for divorce against her husband, William Wilkerson, on the ground of abandonment. They were married in Phoenix in 1880. The plain tiff lives here now and the defendant resides in Yavapai county. The aban- donment occurred ten years ago..
 About o'clock yesterday morning a general fire alarm set the whole de- partment in motion. There vas a frantic long extended and fruitless search for the fire. The alarm had come in by telephone. The number of the telephone has been ascertained, but the identity of the sender has not been discovered.
 The regular quarterly session of the Good Templars will meet in Tempe on Saturday next at D. m. It is probable that arrangements will be made with the railroad company by which members may go over at eX- cursion rates on either of the three regular trains, and return on a spe- cial at the close of the evening ses- sion.
 John K. Owens came in from the Sacaton agency yesterday morning. He says that the Indians are now confronted with greater prosperity than they ever enjoyed before. The wheat crop will be abundant and the acreage is much larger than ever be- fere.s MT. Owens says grief at the death of MT. Cleveland was wide spread among the Indians for he had acquired their confidence and affection.
 County Recorder F. w. Sheridan 4o cruits for his cowboy troop Ac- cordlng to his distribution this county will be entitled to twenty-five but he will not at present accept any more from Maricopa He will be pleased in the meantime to hear from other sections of the territory. It is quite probable that some of those now enrolled will be thrown out on med ical examination.
 There is curious thing going on iE this town. 1t was reported yesterday by Dr. Richmond, who says that he never heard of anything like it before. A lady living on South Second street has dog of the gentler sex She also had cat with family of very young kittens. The mother cat died or was killed. The dog took possession of the bereft family and then the most singular incident of this episode oc cured. The kittens had been suck ling the dog for some time without any substantial benefit. Yesterday they struck milk.
 Something happened at Bisbee lately which needs the attention of one or both of the commercial bodies of this city. A carload of butter, eggs and cheese from Kansas City was received at the mining camp and announce ment is made that a car will be re- ceived weekly. There is an impress sion among business men that the Salt River valley ought to be able to furnish dairy and agricultural pro ducts for the whole territory. There is evident lack of energy somewhere, for just now eggs have growp so scarce here that the price has been recently raised.
 The court house plaza is infested every day by various aggregations of unemployed and talkative gentlemen who meet to settle social, political and | theological disputes. The subject of drunkenness was under discussion yesterday. One man said he believed that lneDrlety was ali unqualified evil. | That but for it there would be less idleness and more happiness. A young
 man took issue and said that while
 drunkenness was a bad thing for the victim, it was a good thing for the
 rest of the community. It removed the victim from the field of competi-
 tion. If all men were sober and in dustrious, he said, the ranks of labor would be overcrowded and prices
 would be lowered for sober men. ii
 was notorious fact, would not neet
 as high salaries as men who spend al
 least part of their wages in strons
 drink. This sage hoped that ht
 might never see the time when fem