Arizona republican., 1898-07-09
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The Doings of People and Other Matters.

The sole business in police court
 yesterday was a sleeping drunk who
 was fined s4.
 ocratic club will be held at the court | house next Monday night
 The local postoffice has been notified | Of a new rule of the department, that hereafter all second-class mail mat | ter must be prepaid.
 A telegram was received in this city yesterday by Quartermaster Sergeant Niblock that the ladies of Jerome are about to organize a branch of the Red Cross society.
 The members of the Red Cross so- ciety are requested to meet at Mrs. Young's, 211 East Jefferson street, at 2 o'clock this morning, prepared to sew comfort bags.
 The boys over at Heymans, with the aid of Coyle's men and oig trans fers. were yesterday putting away a carload of chairs. A beautiful line of reed goods was being taken in at the store, but the bulk of the car goes into the big warehouse.
 The county board of equalization is busily engaged in readjusting the val ues of ranch property. The board is generally raising the figures of the assessor, on an average by about ten per cent. City and personal property has not yet been reached.
 Only two candidates for the office of captain of B company, made va cant by the resignation of Captain Lamson, have so far been announced One is Lieutenant Omstead, next in rank, and the otheS>is J. S. Fif1eld The election will be held next Thurs day night.
 A short letter was received i1 this city yesterday from Captain J. H. McClintock. It was dated June 16 from the troopship Yucatan, of the southern coast of Cuba. A landing had not been attempted then and it was not certain that an attempt would be made. There was a suspicion among the soldiers that the expedition would be directed against Porto Rico They were drilling rigidly on the dcck of the transport.
 Articles of incorporation of the Standard Quarrying and Construction 
 S1 ,000,000 were filed in the o:hce of the county recorder yesterday The incorporators are Walter J. Robarts Henry E. Parsons and John II. Clark all of New York. The principal place of business IS Phoenix. Offices will also be maintained in New York. The object of the incorporation is to en- gage in quarrying and smelling in this territory.
 A report started from one of those mysterious sources yesterday that Capain James H. McClintock was dsad. It was said that the news had come in a telegram received by Mrs. J. L. B. Alexander from her husband, Captain Alexander. As a matter of fact Mrs. Alexander received no telegram, but she had a letter from her husband in which he alluded to the death of Cap tain O'Neill and said that the troops at Tampa had been ordered to the front and he expected to leave shortly for Savannah, Ga, for embarkation.
 A. G. Wilson, we'll known pros pector, better known as "Doc" Wilson, is in a fair way to become a million aire by reason of lucky strike lately made by him six miles northeast or Ehrenberg. He has five claims there called the San Marcus group. Three of them are called the San Marcus. the San Juan and the Helena Some work has been done on the San Marcus and a vein ranging from fifty to seventy feet wide has been uncovered. several assays from it have been made, mak- ing showings of from $6O to $l,OOO ten. One, in fact, went as high as S. 900, but none have gone. below S6O.
 Everybody remembers Mucius Scae- vola, that Roman youth who fell Into the hands of an enemy Of his country and permitted his hand to be burned of rather than tell military secret which would put Rome at disadvan- tage. Scaevola has a counterpart in Phoenix5Sam Korrick, proprietor Of the New York store. He nearly sac rificed a hand to his country on Thurs day night while assisting in the dem onstration in favor of the south com pany of volunteers. He held one of those peculiarly vicious f1recrackers in his hand an instant beyond the sched- ule time. It exploded and tore away the skin and flesh of four fingers. Ben Hall, colored, charged with stealing a horse and cart from Chris Montgomery last Sunday. was given a preliminary examination in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday. The evil dence against him was pretty con- elusive and his attorney sought to di- vert attention from it by proving his good character, a most herculean job. The books of the sheriffs office were against him, for within a compara- lively few years MT. Hall has done time in the jail ten times for nearly every offense below murder. Some times he was incarcerated in his own name and sometimes in that of F. Whi-esides, a plain misnomer, for Mr Halls sides are unusuallv hlack