Arizona republican., 1898-05-07
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdl Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

The entertainment by the Phi.nar-
 monic club next Tuesday night for the benefit of the free library fund
 should not be forgotten.
 i Mrs. B. F. Hinson died yesterday
 morning. Her funeral will take place
 at 2 o'clock this afternoon from the family residence three m1,es north Of
 the city, and will be conducted under
 the auspices of the A. O. U. w.. of which her husband is a member Antoine Gould and Frank Force have purchased lot in block 40 It is
 on the southwest corner of Fifth and Jackson streets. The seller is Joseph H. Hoadley. MT. Gould is putting up large brick business structure on the lot.
 In The Republicans account of the flag presentation at Prescott includ- ing the reading by Governor McCol d of the letter from the Woman's Relief Corps, the name of Flora L. Miller was
 by the error of the, typewriter substi- tuted for Flora L. Mills, the author of the letter.
 Articles of incorporation of the 1 Sncwland Exploration and Mining l | the secretary of the territory yester- | day. The incorpcrators are F. A. Bradley of Cincinnati, E. E. Shafer. and Walter Rose of Les Angeles. The capital stock is $1o0,O0O, divided into | 10000 shares.
 A meeting of the city council was held last night at which the members elect were notified to present them selves at the next meeting. It was expected that a formal nutice of con- | test in the Fourth ward would be | made but though MT. Flannigan, rep resenting MT. Moss, the contestant, was present, the matter went over to | the next meeting.
 Inquiry has been made through this office regarding Benjamin Nicholson. who was in Phoenix in August. 1895, and who is supposed to have gone to Mayors station on the Black canyon road His mother. who is anxious to hear from him. makes the inquiry. Any information concerning MT. Mich olson may be left with Mose DTach- man at Drachman'S cigar store. The Kings Daughters and Kings | large sumber of their friends to an entertainment at the church last e,en- | ing. The programme included a vo a! | duet by Miss Halsey, and Miss Hettle Halsey, a piano solo by Miss Mary Wells, recitations by Miss Lilla Peers, Miss Clyde Rudd and Dr. Halsey, piano duet by Miss Wells and Mss Halsey, a guitar solo by Miss Olga
 
 orchestra. Light refreshments were served by the Kings Daughters. | Among the floral decorations were beautiful floral flag, and a shield of | roses.
 Captain Lloyd of the Fifteenth in- ] fantry stationed at Fort Grant, arrived | in the city yesterday to confer with Governor McCord regarding the late l attack upon Fl Plomo by Papago h. dians from this side of the line. Gov ernor McCord under directions from the interior department, had already | investigated the affair. Captain Lloyd | is acting under special instructions from the war department. The gov ernment is neglecting no precautions against trouble on the border. There are two troops Of cavalry and two companies of infantry at Grant and | a similar force at Huachuca. Orders have been issued from the war de- partment for the strengthening of both posts.
 Sheriff Leatherwood came from | Tucson yesterday morning after Jesus Romero, a murderer, who has been confined in the insane asylum. | Romero murdered his wife on the San Pedro in the eastern part of Pima county last winter. The murder was an unusually brutal one and many Of | the circumstances indicated that Ro- nero was insane. He was given preliminary examination, held to the grand jury and subsequently indicted; By this time his insanity had devel- i oped, but there was some doubt 1 whether it was real or feigned. He l was, however, committed to the asy-
 lum. His improvement Of late has
 been SO rapid that he is now believed to be sound. He will be tried for the
 murder shortly.
 Soot Lung, a defunct Chinaman,
 was inferred yesterday morning with
 all the pomp and ceremony of the Chi
 nese burial service. Scot Lung was
 held in high repute by his country
 men and no expense was spared in the
 expression of regret at his departure
 The body lay in state in the Chinese
 quarter until 10 o'clock yesterday
 morning, when the procession started
 to the cemetery. There was the usual
 beating of tom-toms. the blowing ot
 unearthly flutes, the scattering ci perforated brown paper along the way, the deposit Of the body, the filling of the grave and the inevitable roas pig with which the deceased is ex- pected to sustain himself on the jour ney to paradise. If precaution were taken to poison the pig there would be 1, great mortality and woe among thu
 Pimas and Maricopas. The Chinese burial rites have never been satisfac
 torily explained. The paper is sup