Arizona republican., 1898-07-16
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of PhOSnix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS Of People and Other Matters.

Ofn6r r1dTIcrS.
 The Melon Growers association last night shipped two cars of watermelons to points along the Santa Fe Pacific.
 Applications for the civil service examination for position of clerk and carrier in the Phoenix postofice will not be received until July 29 by the board of examiners at the postoffice. A rumor comes from St. Louis that the Seventh cavalry is to be recruited to it's full strength, from which it is inferred that it is to be taken to the front This is of interest to Arizona, for four troops are at Camp Grant and two at Huachuca.
 John Dennison was stricken by heat on the road half mile this side of ths Indian school on Thursday afternoon. l He died a short time after. He was 28 years old and had lived in Phoenix about three months. He was en- ployed at the slaughter house. His home was in Iowa and he left it, he told an acquaintance confidentially, be- cause of family troubles.
 The rise of Captain Omstead in the Arizona national guard has been rapid Al the time of his election on Thursday night he had been connected with the organization just nina months and eight days He rose from the ranks through the successive grades to the captaincy He was unanimously elected by the votes of the thirty members present at the meeting. l Jackson street near Second. made an attempt on the life of Mexican at o'clock last night. He had closed his store. but was not yet asleep when he heard a wire screen at one of the win down ripping Wah Kee got a gun and a glimpse of the man who was do- ing the ripping. He fired with the 1 inaccuracy. of his race and the ma rauder escaped
 The board of supervisors as board of equalization yesterday, finished the tax roll and put in the rest of the day entertaining the advance guard of kicking taxpayers. But the real amusement with them will begin to- day. The result of the boards work has not been footed up yet, but it is estimated as the assessments stand now the taxable wealth of the property in the county is about s9,100.000, or $400, ,000 more than year ago. | Letters of guardianship of the es- tate of Alice E. Sherman, minor, were issued yesterday to her father, U. S. Sherman of Gila Bend. The estate 1 consists of a sixth interest in the es- tate of John Pratt, the druggist, who was brutally murdered at Gila Bend last summer. There were six heirs, all of whom except the one above men tioned relinquished their interest in the estate to Sherman. who was the murdered mans brother-in-law.
 Governor McCord has formally ac cepted the colonelcy of the regimen which has been recruited in the terri tories of New Mexico, Oklahoma. Ar; zona and Indian Territory, but has yet received no instructions regarding the time of it's departure or it's desti- nation Assuming that he will resign his office of governor instead of ac- cepting a leave of absence, various
 candidates for gubernatorial honors are said to have entered the field and are already canvassing for endorse lments
 The monotony of existence at Gila Bend was broken by a wind which blew house on the railroad track and prostrated the telegraph wires. The wires were restored, the best 1t could be done in hurry. but in such q way that they hung low across the track The house was removed from the Southern Pacific company's right of
 way in time to let the westbound train pass shortly before 1 o'clock this morning But the train cut the tele- graph wires in two and communica- , tion with the coast was suspended. The published announcement of Jos eph Campbell yesterday that he was going to be candidate for districi
 attorney injected new life into the
 democratic internecine war. It was
 known as we'll before hand that he would be candidate, but a statement
 in cold type added to the realism oi his candidacy. George Purdy Bullar6 as soon as he read the paper gathered
 up all his unwashed linen and set oui
 for a steam laundry. "It is time
 now" said he to a friend. "to be nov
 ing; the man who gets into this fight
 with hope of winning must put on 2
 good front"
 Owing to breakdown on the stree , railway line there was no performance 3 at the park theater last night. The play, Yankee Jack in Cuba" will bt ) given tonight, all tickets sold being
 good for this performance. As it i: f for the benefit of the ladies' Red Cros l society, besides being the farewell performance of the Chase-Daniel
 company here. the house will un
 doubtedly be packed As stated yes
 terday, the Red Cross society receive
 one-third of all sales of tickets mad,
 by the ladies or at Wakelin's phar
 macy, where reserved seats may b.
 had at g this morning.
 The regimental flag which the I. o
 G. T. of the territory is going to pre-
 sent to Governor McCord's regimen
 was received yesterday and is now ol