Arizona republican., 1898-10-28
News of the Town

the tea at Mrs IL F. f.ODlnSOn s. NCfID
 First avenue
 LADIES' CARD CLUB-Mrs W. N. Tiffany delightfully."- entertained the
 members of the Ladies Thursday Af-
 ternoon Card Club yestedray at her
 pleasant home on North First avenue
 PRESIDENT MURPHY'S HEALTH Governor Murphy yesterday received a telegram from his brother, President F NJ. Murphy of the s. F. P. & P, who is at Manitowoc, Wis. His health is greatly improved, but he said nothing about the date of his return to Ari- zona.
 LAFAYETTE MONUMENT FUND. -Courty Superintendent Grouse yes terdas, received s21G0, the Tempe schools contribution to the Lafayette monument fund All the schools of the county have net yet bsen heard from, but so far almost s90 has been received
 CLIMBING UP J. Frank Pearce has worked himself near the top cf tha heap in the service Of the Mutual Life Insurance company Of New York. He. is now executive special agent cf the company for New Mexico and Ari- zcna with the exclusive privilege Of handling the ccmpany's bonds in thsse territories
 THE GLOBE TIMES. - The first number Of the first volums of he Globe
 Times, the new republican paper Of
 Gila county, published by Messrs. R. c. Brown and G. A. Mintz, has been is sued. It is a nsat paper, well printed, newsy, well edited, and apparently well patTonized. One doesn't have to read it Fsry long before finding out that il has a strcng Brodie tendency
 GOOD TEMPLARS.- Tonight the Gccd Templars will entertain their friends in their hall in social which is open and free to the public. They have prepared an interesting pro- gramme in which the Misses Galpin Coats. Irwin, Heilman and Forbes, and Messrs. Dearsley. Crank, Ross, FIays- dorf, Wilson ard others will partici- pate. All who attend will have good time. for that is the objece Of the sc- cial.
 DON'T WANT TO VOTE There is a community about fifteen miles from Gila Bend known as the Har- grave settlement, so called from the prominent Hargrave family Ths set tlement includes eleven voters, all democrats, and none Of whom are registered. A special registration cf- ficer, Frank Welcome, went out to register them, out they declined his services, saying they cared to take no part in the election. The same disin- clination Of democratic yotsrs WAS en- countered in various other parts of the county.
 AN ASSIGNMENT X deed of as signment by the Farmers exchange of Mesa to Charles Peterson was filed in the office of the county recorder yes terday. The assignment is made for the benefit Of the creditors of the con- csrn and was decided upon at a meet ing of the directors the day before. The deed meraly sets forts that the ex- change is unable to meet it's obliga- tions. The schedule Of assets and in debtednsss will be filed later Ac- cording to the deed the proceeds Of the exchange will be divided pro rata among the creditors.
 BIGGEST OF THE SEASON.-The s. F., P & P train from the north last night brought in the largest install ment Of winter residents O. the season. Many Of them had sp5nt ether winters in Phoenix, but many were new com CTS. The extraordinarily early winter in the Mississippi valley and in eh. north has E-ecipitated a southwestern movement. In spite Of this general travel in this dirsctiol has been some wha. delayed by the elections With in the nexi- three weeks a haavy influx Of visitors is expected, though the bulk Of the tourist travel as usual will net likely set in until after the hoii- days.
 THE NORMAL SCHOOL-The cat- alcgue Of the Arizona normal school for 1S97-S has just besn issued. IL is the mos complete and handsome of the normal catalogues. It contains all possible information regarding the school The catalogue of students shows a representation from the states If California, New Mexico, Texas, Ken lucky, New York, Pennsylvania and Nsw Hampshire. The repors of tho faculty for the first month Of the pres ent year was also received yesterday Fifty males and ninety-eight females have been enrolled. The average at- tendance was 131. The number be longing" to the school IS I34. The av- craze per cent cf attendance was 97.
 THE ROARKE WILL Arguments in the Rcarke will case were begun before Probate Judge Grouse yes-er- day. Judge Baker. for the Brill inter est5 of the contestants. began the ar and made a vigorous attack upon the will. which, he claimed, was production Of Lavelle's fertile imagi- nation Judge Ainsworth occupied the greater part Of the afternoon in sup pert Of the will. He contended that there was nothing unreasonable in the proposition that Roarke should dispose of his property as he had done in the will. Having no children of his cwn and having brought his nephew from Ireland it was quite natural that he should make him his sCie heir, seeing that his relatives in this country were