Arizona republican., 1898-03-01

The ladies of the First M E. church
 at the church on the night of March T.. Judge P. S. Perley has been confined to his room for the past week
 and his condition is now considered alarming.
 Letters of administration upon the
 estates of William Quesenbery and
 Jacob Lyke were issued in probate
 court yesterday.
 The will of the late Ransome M
 Vial was admitted to probate yester-
 day and his daughter, Mrs. Ada Me
 Cay, was appointed executrix.
 The board of surerviors was ke2t
 busy yesterday settling accounts for
 hauling gravel. The work on the
 Tempe road will be finished today,
 after which operations will be begun
 on the Yuma road.
 Cupid was kept on the move in Pnoe-
 nix yesterday and carried all his bus
 mess to Justice Johnstone, by whom
 the following couples were joined to- gether: John Hurley and Esther Rob erts, and George Forster and Mabel Simpson, all of Los Angeles.
 Georgia Redmond, who was arrested for trying to burn down the city jail involving the more than likely crema- tiOn of herself, last Saturday night, was arraigned before Justice John stone yesterday charged with arson. She will be given a preliminary exam ination this afternoon.
 The Edna Paige company began a weeks engagement at the opera house last night There was fair audi enee rewarded by creditable and laugha6le performance which dispellei a certain doubt that had arisen by reason of some recent shows that have been neither funny nor entertaining.
 Bryan, the son of Secretary Akers. has lately made long stride toward manhood. He has come to an i'm portant milestone Sn the way, the chicken-pox, or as he pronounces it. chicken hawks" He is 50 proud cf his aff1iction that he is threatening to inoculate the whole community by go- ing around among the neighbors bfsg- ging of his requirement.
 If one knows how, a case may be kept in the courts indefinitely. For instance, at the late session of the su- preme court, an appeal was dismissed in the case of A. J. Daggs ct al vs. Thompson Walker ct al, and it seemed as if the matter were disposed of finally. But yesterday the appellant got back before the supreme court again, this time as plaintiff in er- TOT from the district court. This ! holds 1t up for year or until the next annual session of the supreme court. .
 The commission of Hon. R. E. Nor rison as United States attorney ar rived yesterday morning. As he had it locates his official head | quarters at Prescott. United States Ellinwood will return from Florence this morning and Mr. Nor rison will be sworn into office today | He will probably leave for Prescott tomorrow night with all the belong ingS of the office. He has not an- nounced his determination yet re- t garding the subordinate positions of the office.
 Alba Haywood, the actor who was here with his troupe early in January, was shot and killed at Longview, Tex, a week ago by a man named Pegus, the manager of al opera house Haywood and the manager had had some difficulty in the course of which | Haywood told Pegus that his conduct was not that of gentleman. The struck him, wheTeupon Hey wood drew a revolver and fired three | times, each shot taking effect. Pegus fell, and lying on the ground took one fatal shot at Haywood, who died in stantly. The managers wounds were believed to be fatal.
 The Ladies Aid society of the Chris ian church have hit upon a very novel method of increasing their building 'und. For several weeks past general | invitations have been issued to mem Ders and friends to earn a dollar in . some unusual way, and to tell how it | was earned in rhyme. On next Friday | evening a social will be held in the church, when the dollars will be col Iected and the poetry read. To pre- vent the overcrowding of the house an admission fee of 25 cents will be charged, which will secure refresh ments also. These poetical effus ons will be printed and bound and sold to collectors of rare specimens of English | literature, at a quarter each.
 The board of supervisors has come to conclusion regarding poo farm improvements. The original 1 plans involved the immed ate expen9i- | ture of about S7,000 in bu'ldi gs and equipments. The supervisors have decided for two reasons, the earlier oc'- ~c