Arizona republican., 1898-06-28

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 a bond with General R. Allyn Lswi
 and R. F. Doll as sureties.
 Miss Bessie Sharkey has been em
 ployed to teach the school at Schultz
 near Mammoth, in Pinal county. nex
 year. Miss Sharkey is a high schoc
 graduate of the class of '97. Last yea
 she very successfully taught the schoo
 in the Coldwater district below tn city.
 All but one kind of traffic was sus
 pended on Adams street, b5tween Firs and Third a cons derable part O yesterday. At one time there were | forty wagons laden with grain waiting to be unloaded at the Capitol mills | The loads ranged from a ten to 4.2O( pounds.
 Judge Baker, counsel for Josiah An. , derson, under conviction of assault upon John M. Mullen, will argue a mo. tion for a new trial in district court
 today. The trial of Anderson took
 place early in the present term, but | passing sentence upon him has beer | delayed pending the argument on thi;
 motion.
 Judge Street left on Sunday night | for Yuma to order jury for next
 week when he will hold court there He will return to Phoenix this morn 1 ing and resume the session. Tomor- row the normal school suit, invoIvins rights in certain normal lands neal i Tempe, will be tried
 A decree of distribution in the mat ter of the estate of D. J. Edwards was
 ordered in probate court yesterday
 There is really no distribution about
 it, since it all goes to one beneficiary
 L. B. Hewins. The estate consists oi ] S, 1000 in cash and real estate on First street, between Adams and Van
 Buren, appraised at S7,000.
 | Something which has ben attempted 1 in Phoenix for the last three years 1 was consummated last night, con- | solidation of the Pioneer and Capital l City bands. The name of the Pionee. band will be retained. A reorganiza- | tion will be effected tonight. The di-
 rector in the interest of harmony will
 probably be a new man. The band
 will contain not fewer than thirty | members.
 1. Tom Davenport, who is with the force of army packers in the capacity of cargodor, writes back that one good ] result of the war has been to give him a much better impression of Gila Bend than he had before he saw Tampa, Fla. He believes now that he can live contentedly at the Bend when he comes back The streets and sidewalks of Tampa are about as com plete and delightful as the bed of Salt river
 Workmen employed on the new buildings at the Indian school were simultaneously sick yesterday. At first they regarded the illness of all of them as a coincidence until they traced the disease back. to its origin. They had been drinking out of large can. teen, into which they had squeezed the juice of four lemons, then filling the canteen with water The acid of the lemons began disintegrating the zinc, which became a part of the beverage.
 J. J. Gardiner of Phoenix, a gentle man of practical ideas, has a project in mind by which he thinks the United States can bring the Spanish war to an end without the indemnity which Spain would not be able to pay and without attaching any of her for eign possessions which would be looked
 upon unfavorably by other European nations. His idea is to send a strong American force to Spain to capture the young King Alfonso, bring him to this i country and exhibit him in a dime museum until the receipts are sui | ficient to cover the cost of the war | At meeting of the ministers assO- citation held on Monday the following minute presented by the chairman Rev. Dr. Halsey, was adopted and or dered to be spread upon the minutes: '.It is with sincere regret that we loss
 member of our association, the Rev
 Preston Mckinney, pastor of the Pres , byterian church in Phoenix, who by ! long and faithful and able service has endeared himself not only to the mem bers of his own congregation, but also
 to Christians of every name, and tc all who have at heart the welfare ol our city. Our best wishss will go witt i Dr. Mckinney and his family to theil
 new home"
 ] The S. F. P. & P. train from tht
 north, due here at 9:30 o'clock Sunda!
 night, did not get in until little af
 ter o'clock yesterday morning. Tn delay was occasioned by slide il
 Hassayampa canyon at the 149-mil'
 post on Sunday forenoon. The slid
 came from the north or mountain sid
 of the canyon. An immense volum
 of limestone rock. disintegrated by re
 cent rains, was precipitated to tn
 bottom, covering the track to a deptl
 of several feet for a considerable dis
 tance. The cave-in occurred abou
 twenty minutes after the northboun
 freight had passed. Working train