Arizona republican., 1898-01-15

| OuLSlQe Win DOtCIe dt tue OtHtI euQ of the funnel. It is said that this whisky was the cause of the incipient riot in the jail the other evening
 At a brief session of the United States court yesterday afternoon the last quarterly accounts of the follow ing federal officials were examined and approved: J. w. Crenshaw and J. H.. Carpenter, United States court com missioners for the Third district; Louis Reashan, court commissioner of the
 Second district; w. H. Culver and F. J. Duffy, commissioners at Tucson and NOgales respectively: Daniel c. Stevens, clerk of the court at Flor ence; Edwin S. Gill, clerk of the court at Phoenix.
 When the Maricopa & Phoenix rail- road bonds were refunded by the ter ritorial loan commission in 1892, there were two bonds, Nos. 149 and 150, that were not refunded because their hold CTS had misplaced them and they could not be found. These bonds are now in possession of the Phoenix Ma tional bank and yesterday the board of supervisors ordered the county treasurer to pay $149.50 interest on them. This is at the rate of per cent; the refunded bonds now draw but per cent.
 Acting under the advice of the coun- | ty attorney the supervisors have di- rected that a certified copy of the de- 1 cree of the land claims court in the fa- nous Peralta-Reavis case be recorded in this county. It appears that Reavis had sold number of quit claims and that the abstract men have not been paying any attention to them in pre- pairing their abstracts of titles. The presence of the courts decree reject ing the Peralta grant will, it is be- lieved, avoid all necessity for any possible apprehensions In the matter of the now worthless titles sold by Reavis.
 l l.. J. Court returned yesterday from l a trip to his mining claims in the liar l cuvar mountains. He says there has been plenty of rain out in that eoun- i try, the cattle are in fine order and the ranges are looking we'll. He saw an unexpected thing on his journey. G. H. Darden had sunk a well at the l foot of the Harcuvars and at a depth of seventeen feet had obtained an abundant supply of water Nobody ! imagined it was so near the surface for at Cullen's we'll, only twenty miles away, it was necessary to sink 2SO | feet to reach water. This will be of l interest to stockmen and mining men in that region.
 Two weeks ago George c. Symmers, who claims to be special agent for an | insurance company, presented draft | for $14 on an eastern bank, to pr. | Wakelin. Dr. Wakelin honored the paper and in due time it was sent east for collection. Thursday the draft came back to this city, bearing an l endorsement to the effect that MT. l Symmers had no account there and was unknown to the bank A few hours later Constable McClintock had MT. Symmers, who is man of pleas ing manners and smooth tongue, l lodged in the county jail on a war said that this is not MT. Symmer's first attempt in this line.
 There is but one United States pris- oner in the county jail, Jacinto Aras, charged with counterfeiting For sev- eral years there has been a steady di- intuition in the number of United States prisoners hostelried, in this county. Three years ago there were usually SCOIS, duu OlI6u LW1ce that number of federal criminal cases tried here. There are several reasons for this decrease. One of them is that the deputy United States marshals have been stripped of most of their fees and perquisites in these csses, l and they have therefore become less active. Another cause is that prose | cutions under the Edmunds law have l greatly diminished. Selling of whisky | to Indians is also crime that has been growing less, for now the buyer | of the whisky is held equally respon- 1 sible with the seller.
 A drum corps of eighteen members is in process of organization. It will be in working order in time to partici- pate in the celebration of Washing l tons birthday. Johnny Swillirg is l accommodated, for two reasons, if no l more. The first is that drum corps | in Phoenix is needed and the second and more important one is that the boys are going about the organization in way that is least offensive to out siders. In learning to drum they do not employ resounding instruments, but have pads intoned as the vari- ous drums will be, only they can hard 1 ly be heard outside the room in which the practice is going on. If brass bands could be educated in the same peaceable and orderly manner much of the antipathy to that kind of music would be removed.
 Yesterday was the forty-fourth anni- versary of Col. Poston's entrance into Arizona. Those forty-four years cover a stirring period within which almost all that white men know of Ar;zoHa
 has happened. Col. Poston first
 touched at Yuma and soon after began | the development of the mineral re-
 sources of the territory amid sur roundings which would appal the mod
 ern miner. He has lived in all parts
 of Arizona and was at one time al- cade and high priest at Tubac, whence
 he issued marriage dispensatio1s