Arizona republican., 1898-03-16
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
he News of Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented In Nutshell-DoIngs of People and Other Matters.

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 Two carloads of hay went out over the s. F. P. & P. for southern Califor- mia yesterday.
 A telegram received at this office from Washington last night stated that Governor McCord and Eugene S. Ives left for home yesterday.
 A special meeting of the city coun- cil was called for last night, but on account of the absence of the mayor no business was transacted.
 The schools of Mesa are preparing for an entertainment and exposition of school work to be given the latter part of next month. The entertain ment will have as it's object the raising of funds for library
 | Captain E. P. Mahony and F. c. Cordier of the Cuban army were at Bisbee yesterday. They started di- rectly from there to New Orleans, whence they expect to embark day af- ter tomorrow for Cuba.
 | Francisco Gallardo, a barber who has been keeping himself in the eye l of the police pretty constantly for several days, was picked up by Officer Doheney yesterday. He got ten days iD Justice Johnstone's court.
 Jesse Maycloud, arrested on Monday on complaint of George Wiegle, charg- ing him with disturbance of the peace in trying to run Wiegle down While he was riding a wheel, was fined S11 in Justice Johnstone's court, The Baptist church was crowded last evening to listen to the eloquent evan gelist. MT. Cairns theme for the bible address tomorrow afternoon will be 'Hindrances to the Answer of Our Prayers, or Why Our Prayers Are Not Answered."
 Next to the district court room the busiest place about the court house yesterday were the offices of the county school superintendent and the treas ury. There seemed to be a conspiracy among good looking school ma ans to exhaust the last school apportion- ment.
 MT. D. M. Ferry and Dr. Miller of Detroit, Mich, arrived at Prescott yes terday. They were met at Ash Fork by President Murphy of the S. F. P. & P. on a special. They will visit Con- gress this morning, and accompanied by MT. and Mrs. Murphy and MT. and Mrs. B. B. Gage, will arrive in Phoe- nix this evening.
 A Tucson man was in police court yesterday charged with peddling without a license His merchandise consisted of a kind of jewelry, not so good as genuine and a little better than 'foney." His case has not been fully disposed of. There was also a had been hurt in a saw mill at San An bod Ivy recovered. He is on his way to the lumber camps in the northern part of the territory.
 The city council of Prescott called mass meeting of the citizens of Pres colt on Monday night to consider the advisability of immediately availing themselves of the provisions of the recent congressional act which per mits municipalities in Arizona to issue bonds for the purpose of putting in water plants and sewerage systems. There is said to be almost no objec- tion at all in Prescott to the issuance of bonds for these purposes. These improvements if made are likely to be followed by the building of fine hotel.
 RecorSer Sheridan found a 5-year- | old boy wandering on the street yes terday about noon. Other persons said he had been at large since about | o'clock in the morning. He said his name was Adam Bell, but on second thought changed it to Adam Fisher i He didn't know where he lived, but said that his mother had gone away on the cars and left him. He was taken to the sheriff's office and Dep | O11t wi the hunt for his mother. When they got into the neighborhood of Third and Jefferson streets they met people who recognized the boy and told the officer where he lived. On arriving at the house they found it locked. The boy was turned over to the care of a neighbOr.
 The expenditures of the board of su- perviSors during the present quarter are said to have been heavier than in any other since the organization oi the county. But the county is satis- fled, for it can see what it has for a considerable part of the money-about fifteen miles of well graveled roads leading into Phoenix, nine between Phoenix and Tempe, three on the Yuma road and three already finished on Grand avenue. The cost of the Tempe road was $21O0. That of the Yuma road, $2,500 The cost of gray cling on Grand avenue has not yet been figured. The reason it cost less to gravel the nine miles of the Tempe road than the three miles of the Yuma road was that in the case of the former the gravel was Immediately at hand.
 Deputy Sheriff Henry George brought Henry Cowles, a saloon keeper, ir from Wickenburg on Monday night Cowles had not paid his quarterly li- cense to the county. While he ha6 him here Assistant District Attorney | Bullard made him pay beside license for year and half for which he was
 in arrears. In addition to all. this
 there were costs amounting to more
 than $40. When the next quarterly Ii
 cenSe is due COwles will pay it with
 out the cooperation of legal machin