Arizona republican., 1898-09-13
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

last Wednesday afternoon, is rapidly recovering from the effect of his fall.
 A PACKER RETURNED Johnnie Moore, who went out as a packer for the Rough Riders,' returned 10 Phoenix last night. He got only as far as Jefferson barracks, St. Louis.
 SCHOOL OPENING.-The schools opened yesterday with a good attend ance for the first day at all of the buildings. The total attendance will be considerably larger this year than ever before.
 EQUALIZATION BOARD-The city council went into session last night as a board of equalization. The council net yesterday, but in the absence of Mayor Adams and Councilman Nor ford no business was transacted.
 BUCKEYE CAMP MEETING.-Mr church at Buckeye states that the camp meeting there will not commence this week. as was inteI.deI, but on September 21
 POLICE COURT.-There were six drunks of the different varieties Of drunks in police court yesterday All were fined sums ranging from S4 to $1o. There were three vags who were fined $50 each. John Dahl paid S3 Tor riding an unlighteI wheel.
 OMITTED NAMES.-In The Re- Iublican's report Of the convention of last Saturday the names of N A. Mcrford and J. E. Price were mad vertently omitted from the list of the territorial delegation. The name of Edwin s. Gill was similarly omitted from the county central committee.
 SCHOOL LAND RENTS.- Clerk Lee Gray of the board of supervisors is busily engaged in sending out mo- tices to lessees of school lands that the annual rent of such lands will be due and payable on October 1. The leases of lands upon which rent has not been paid on that date will be subject to cancellation, and the lands will be open to other applications for leases.
 THE TUBERCULOSIS TEST An ether teacher, one who has been con- rected with the schools here for sev- eral years and who was one of the ployed in the Phoenix schools, yester-
 
 cate, leaving a vacancy in the corps The failure was greatly regretted by not only the school officials, but by the patrons of pupils in that grade. There is, however, no questioning of the wisdom of ,ne board in establishing a regulation making a health certifi- cate necessary. There is, in fact, a proposition to extend the regulation to schools of the county.
 SOME SMITH DELEGATES.--Mo Drachman, who has charge of the Phoenix section of Mark Smiths fight, received comforting telegrams yester- day. One from w. H. Burbage of Navajo county said that of the five delegates elected by that county to the territorial convention, three were for Smith, one for Ellinwood and one for Wilson. The same telegram stated that the five votes of Apache would go to Smith. MT. Drachman also had word that Finals five had been instructed for Smith. The Ora ham county delegation, he learned, would go uninstructed.
 DEATHS AT WHIPPLE.- There were two deaths at Whipple barracks yesterday One victim is believed to
 
 very low of typhoid fever. He enlisted from Phoenix, though he belonged in the northern part of the territory and walked from near Prescott to join the Phoenix company. The other vic tim was man named Cunningham of the New IueXico battalion. He had been poisoned and ''rolled'' in a Pres colt joint a couple of nights before. Bids from railroads for the transpor- tation Of the troops to Lexington, Ky, will be opened at the barracks today.
 A DISORDERLY HOUSE. Henry MOeller yesterday made complaint in Justice Kincaid's court against Odette Lambert and Cora Bernard, charging them with running disorderly house on Fifth street between Madison and Jackson, formerly the Gould property These are the women whom MT Moeller sought to have suppressed by the city council. which could not act in the case without new ordinance made to order. MT. Moeller has not been able to a>une himself to the kind Of music played on the piano at this resort. In the lnterst of justice the music ought to be discontinued or the county ought to go to the expense of educating MT. MOellerS ear for 1t. A SIDEWALK-Th are two wide ly different views held by the cyclists and anti-cyclists of Phoenix as to what constitutes a sidewalk. The av- craze cyclist who prefers to ride any where else than in the street among 1 horses and wagons. believes that a sidewalk in order to be sidewalk must be paved with board brick, ce- ment or stone. The anti-cyclists be- lieve that a sidewalk is just what il spells, a side walk; that it need not be improved in any way; it may be 8 mere path along the edge of a vacant lot OF which pedestrians may walk and that no one may ride or it. either on horseback, in a buggy or On . wheel. I.ecorder Jobs in judicial opinion has sustained this latter view so that in the future any one taken III for riding on such sidewalk will be