Arizona republican., 1898-12-24

 Christmas holiday.
 3 ACTING COLLECTOR. MT. J. M
 Buchanan is acting city collector pend ing the closing by the new collector Thomas J. Prescott, of his duties a.
 deputy district clerk
 CATTLE BY THE TRAINLOAD. -
 J. E. Dunn, the buyer for the Cudahy
 Packing company, is gathering up an
 other trainload of cattle for shipment
 to Los Angeles next Wednesday. | COUNTY SCRIP. All county scrip
 up to certificate No 791 is now either
 paid or ready for payment on demand. Only about s, 900 in scrip remains and the county will be ready shortly to take that up.
 LICENSED TO WE'D Marriage
 licenses were issued yesterday to
 James Tipton and Dora Nail, and Will
 liam P. Crump and Virginia F. Ad- | dison. The latter named couple are
 recent arrivals from Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 INDIAN SCHOOL ENTERTAIN MENT-. A Christmas eve entertain
 ment will take place at the Indian school tonight. A very interesting pro- gramme has been arranged. A cordial
 invitation has been extended to all. 1 The exercises-will begin at o'clock. BUSINESS, AND PLEASURE. On | Thursday evening at the Elks' hall the Woodmen of the World enjoyed a so- cial evening after completing some sat | isfactory lodge work. There were forty members of the Tempe and Mesa | lodges present.
 HOME OF THE LEGISLATURE. - The legislative rooms have been nearly put in order for the reception of the Twentieth legislature. Nothing more remains to be done but to put down the carpet and put up the chandeliers, and there are three weeks in which this may be accomplished.
 PEAR RAISING. The raising of pears may be profitably conducted in the Salt River valley. W. H. Easter brook, who has embarked in the busi- ness, was in town yesterday and said he was satisfied with his experiment. He has just gathered 167 boxes of Winter Nellis pears from thirty-seven young trees.
 COST OF ORATORY. Fernando Rene, a French female, paid S1O in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday for expressing her opinion in unlawful language of a countrywoman, Mar guerite Bernard. Antonio Navarro and Jesus Valenzuela, the two Mexi-
 
 near Five Points the day before, were sent to jail for ten days.
 ONLY A DOG FIGHT. "A story grows with the telling. The Republi- can printed yesterday morning on what seemed reliable authority, an account of an encounter between Bafa Magnani and City Jailor John Rock, in which a gun and much blood figured. The gun and the blood were wholly imaginary. There was, it is true, dog fight in which the above mentioned parties were interested. There was also some expression of i'll feeling, as there all ways is in the case of a dog fight, but that was all.
 A DANISH COLONY A Danish colony has been established in Phoe- nix. Ed Ruppert has just received six Great Dane pups from Dayton, O. They are not very large yet. but those who know about dogs predict an average weight for them of more than 200 pounds. They are grandsons and daughters of Harry Ramsey's Minga, | the most magnificent brute that walks | the streets of Phoenix. Minga tEme from Bismarck's kennels and is said | to be one of only four Great Danes in | the United States which bear the pe- | culiar dun hue of the famous dogs of | T colony was monster, measuring eight | feet from tip to tip and weighing 243 | pounds.
 THE SALVATION ARMY DINNER. If all the people of the United States were as liberal according to their means as the members of the Salvation Army of Phoenix there would not be a hungry person in all this broad land | today. The army has completed prep araUIon for it's free Christmas dinner | which will be given at the barracks at o'clock. Every hungry man, woman and child who can get dinner mo- where else is invited. The provisions will be ample and they have been pro cured by the army with great labor. In fact, it required all the energies of the army to get the things to eat and now it is desired that those who can afford to do so will sendsarOund flowers that the table may be given still more cheerful appearance.
 A SHOOTER CAUGHT.-WOrd was received in Phoenix yesterday that Sheriff Ruffner had returned to Pres colt from New Mexico with Old Man who shot Walking Boss Me Coy on the Big Bug grade last sum- ner. Witnesses of the shooting are di- rected to go to Prescott to attend Hughes examination. Hughes is an old timer who shoots by instinct and without warning. This is not his first trouble. He had been discharged by l. Mccoy and going out of the latters tent, turned and fired with 45. The Dall struck Mccoy in the abdomen and passed through him, grazing his back Oone. For several days he would not have been able to get any life insur- lnce, but he is still alive, though he cannot walk straight. Sixty-five men saw the shooting, but there wasn't gun in the crowd By the time one of hem borrowed a Winchester, Hughes had gone out of sight toward the Verde. He was pursued toward the MO0oIJOpc mharo tho trail wac IoSt