Arizona republican., 1898-12-10
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

! admitted to probate yesterday.
 DISTRICT COURT. The only case l tried in district court yesterday was | that of Banta vs. Bullock which was argued and submitted.
 i CONCERT POSTPONED. The con-
 cert to be given by Miss Nab Alva
 -4essenger at the Patton Grand on Saturday, December IT, has been post poned to Monday, the 18th.
 DELAYED TRAIN.- The Maricopa
 & Phoenix train arrived in town yes terday at noon, four hours late. It had
 been held at Maricopa to wait for the delayed westbound Southern Pacific.
 HE LIVED IN PHOENIX.-Charle
 Farist who will be well remembered
 as resident of Phoenix a year age
 and two years ago this winter, dieI
 on December 3 at his home in Bridge
 port, Conn. His father Is a wealthy
 steel manufacturer of Bridgeport.
 H. c. NIAGNE'S HABITAT MT. H. C. Magne, a former attorney of Phoe-
 nix, and at one time locaaI represent
 ative of the Hudson Reservoir and Ca
 nal company, is now at Butte, Mont
 MT. Magne left here more than a year
 ago for San Francisco, where he ex-
 pected to engage in the practice of law
 LOCATION OF THE NORTH POLE. "A hobo stood shivering on a street
 corner yesterday. lie was dissatisfied
 with the climate. Said he: Why
 don't Nansen an Peery an Wellman an all them fellers wots been maxim cracks about huni5in' fer the north pole come to Phoenix an look fer it on it's own sloampin' grouns?"
 THE TEMPE ROAD People who
 had business along the Tempe road yesterday after blowing through the streets of Phoenix blessed tne board of supervisors for the issuance of scrip, about which so much complaint has been made. The only regret ex- pressed was that the board has not is sued more scrip and fixed more roads like the Tempe thoroughfare 1t shed the water like a duck $ back A horses shoe sank into i5he moistened gravel hardly half inch and wagon wheels rolled over it with a merry crunching.
 RUBBER WICKED THE SKY.-+I was the second man in Phoenix that knew this was going to happen,'' said Mickey at Coffee AIS last night, speak- ing of the weather. T went out intl the back yard" he continued, about 10 o'clock last night after some wood. I saw one of the weather bureau men nang a fog up on the office Then he -n'acked at the sky awhile. Next he scrntched his head and then he tock the flag down and put up an- other one. I made up my mind right away that I'd need my rubber boots this morning."
 ECONOMICAL DISSIPATION. A young man named Albright, who has 1f +I,o Hayden hotel at Tempe, was arrested The complaint against him was made by MT. c. T. Hayden. The amount of his shortage so far as is known is only $50 Albright came here about a week ago and entered upon high life. The fact that he rolled along a week on $50 is something in his favor showing that he is econom- ical and careful even in his dissipated moments. That much money would hardly last a thorough young blood all the way from the M. & P.'E depot to Washington street. Albright 1 spent last night in jail meditating upon he difference between running a hotel | and occupying quarters in one as mere guest.
 SHE HAD THE RIGHT OF WAY Yesterday afternoon Joseph Boyce, | Frank McCl1ntock and several other gentlemen were standing on the street i corner at Washington and Wall. A | small woman came along carrying a | pig umbrella and a mul5itudinOuS | package and leading a refractory dog. | She bumped against MT. Boyce ana [ pushed him into the gutter While she | vas apologizing to h1m for the mad | nyfn c@h od Iy,c4 A McClintock and he, too, rolled into | he pocket She punched another man n the Jaw with her umbrella and the [ log whose rope had been lengthened in he melee further complicated matters y running three times around the legs )f a hurrying pedestrian. When he | vas emancipated the coItege moved on | ID Washington street. the dog pulling | pack, the umbrella swaying and people -acating the sidewalk as if a pestilence were approaching. The woman was given the right of way and those who | led did not hurry back, thinking per laps, that she would soon return that way.
 A SUIT FOR BIG RENT. Charles E Goldman, administrator of the estate )f M. WormS9r, yesterday began suit i against John H. Carruthers of New York, the Arizona Canaigre company md the Anglo-American Canaigre com ,any to recover rent for the tract of and known as the canaigre farm, and | or it's possession. John ii. Carruthers .ntered into lease with M. Wormser Il June, 1S97,, for LAO acres of land with water, on the south side. He was O pay $4,100 on December 1, 1897, 4 100 on June 1, 1898, and 4,10O 1, 1898, when the lease hould expire. Carrulhers soon after the lease to the Arizona Ca .aigre company, an Iowa corporation, nd to the Anglo-American company. \ part of the land was planted in ca -aigre, but experiments with that pro uct having been suspended, the ground vas given over 10 alfalfa. 70 part f the rent has ever been paid, so that