Arizona republican., 1898-06-17
LOCAL NEWS ERIE IFS
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 erdl Local Interest.
News of phOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

l they were unable to walk. T he try the same day, so thai Sley are [ re sumed to be innocent of the charge o inebriety until they get into a con di tion to be brought into court.
 Assistant United States AttorI ie' Thomas Bennett went to Solomonvi Il last night to represent the governme n at the examination before a comm is sioner of three men charged wi u horse stealing They brought thel n selves under the federal jurisdicti ol by stealing the horses. from the $, II Carlos reservation.
 Governor McCord yesterday pa r doned William Binkley, sent to u !, penitentiary from Yavapai county fo ,l trying to blow up a saloon in Prescoi in which his wife, from whom he wa separated, was employed as a singer Binkley was sentenced to ten years but his sentence was soon after com muted to two years, so that it haG nearly expired. The pardon was is sued for the restoration of Binkley to citizenship.
 Miss Floy Kurtz of the governors office was dissatisfied with the position of an electric fan yesterday. Without shutting off the current she undertook to move it and the end of one finger was inserted among the brass blades moving at rate of 1000 revolutions minute. Miss Kurtz believes from the result that the velocity is much great CT, perhaps 10000 revolutions a min ute A buzz-saw is nowhere when. compared with an electric fan. for, speed The teeth of the former are sharper.
 Governor McCord has determined that the Washington authorities shall, not forget that Arizona wants to fur nish a regiment for the war. After waiting nearly VI >ek since u~ had last heard from Hon. N. U. Murphy regarding the matter, he yesterday telegraphed him again as follows: ''Heard nothing. Delay is dangerous Men cooling off. If authority is not given soon it will be impossible 10 raise regiment. Please ascertain sure and wire If I knew certain authority would be given could have entire regi- ment recruited and ready.
 The jury in the case of Eda Weston against the National Steam Laundry after night in the jury room, report ed yesterday morning that it was un- able to agree on a verdict, and was discharged. It stood on the first bal lot seven for the plaintiff and five for the defendant. The vote is said to have remained unchanged during the innumerable succeeding ballots. The whole of yesterday was occupied by the trial of the damage suit of Will liam Wallace against the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley railroad. begun the day before.
 Yesterday forenoon Marshal Hooker found man lying drunk in an alley. lie took him to the station, when the groundwork for another charge against him was developed. He had a package containing a quilt, jack plane, a bird cage and other incon- gruous articles. Later the marshal learned that he had pawned a blanket at saloon and earlier in the day had deposited a bird egg and a canary bird on a porch at the residence of B. Heyman. He had called there in the r.orning A servant girl met him at the door, He wanted to sell the bird. When the girl questioned him closely on the manner in which it had come into his possession he became alarmed and hurried away, leaving it on the porch lie is stranger in town. He says his name is Fitzpatrick.
 Albert Hill has lately made dis covery which an antiquarian would value highly. It is an olla in a per feet state of preservation, filled with charred fragments of human bones. He found it along the banks of the Grand canal northeast of the city. He acquired a taste for this sort of re- search while assisting Professor Moorehead of Ohio. distinguished antiquarian, last winter. After the professor went away he continued his investigation of various ruins in the valley and succeeded. in uncovering many valuable finds, but none so val uabie as the last one. A perfect ola is one of the most infreQuent of an cient relics found in this country. The circumference of this one at the rim is twenty-one inches. Its largest cir conference measures forty-two inches. MT. R. H. Baker, secretary of the board Of control, like every other free born American citizen, has felt at one ! time or another since the war began that the government was moving with censurable dilatoriness in the concen-
 tration of troops at Tampa, Chicka-
 mauga, Fort McHenry, San Francisco, Camp Alger and other points. There seemed no other reason than the inex-
 perience of the war department why
 the troops should not be gotten to-
 gether with greater expedition. Within
 the last few days his opinion has been
 revolutioniZed and he wonders that the
 troops have been mobilized so quickly
 MT. Barker's wife, mother and two