Arizona republican., 1898-04-14
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of a Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented Tn a Nutshell-Dotngs of People and Other Matters.

$. I. L. fined to her bed for several days by a severe attack of tonsilitis.
 Dr. G. w. Vickers has been engaged for the last two days in an official in- spection of the banks of Mesa and Tempe.
 A meeting of the engine company will be held tonight for the election of officers and delegates to the meeting of the general fire department.
 A meeting of the young democrats of the city will be held at the court house tonight for the purpose of or eanizing Young Mans Democratic 
 It was reported about o'clock last night that Dr. Futile was dead. At a late hour, though, he was still alive with hardly one chance in ten of his recovery.
 Application for letters of adminis- tratlon upon the estate of A. St. John Gaylord were filed in probate court yes terday. The application names A. P. Shewman as administrator.
 The work of demolition of the old adobe structures on the southeast cor ner of Second and Washington streets. to make way for the new O'Neill l F. L. Brill yesterday made applica- tion in probate court for letters of guardianship of Louis and Frederick Brill. his sons, aged respectively 14 and 19. heirs of the late James Roarka
 Associate Justice R. E. Sloan is in the city to be present at the recon vening of the supreme court tomorrow. Chief Justice Street, who has been at l L[ [ir1c for r home tonight.
 MT. W. E. Harper has resigned as manager of the New York Mutual Life for the territory. MT w. L. Hathaway, local manager, is in Albuquerque in charge of the office. Meantime Oscar Watson, cashier, is managing affairs here.
 Wheelmen do grow careless. and occasionally ride not touching the handle bars, but when a rider pedals through the business streets with his eyes on a newspaper, and a team very closely escapes doing him an injury it is time for pneumatic cop to take care of him inside.
 MT Thomas Dowd, superintendent of the Crown Point mine, and Miss Claire Dreiser were married in this l main in town for few days, after which they will return to the northern part of the territory. MT. Dowd ex- poets to leave for the Klondyke shortly. Less than sixty voters in the Sec ond and Fourth wards have registered so far, an indications of less interest than was ever taken in municipal election here. The apathy is probably due wholly to the fact that no candi- dates have been positively announced yet and the election is less than three weeks distant.
 i A. w. Gregg, the architect. is able to be out again after a brief illness.
 The Friday club will give a garden party at Mrs. Walter Talbot's on Sat uIday afternoon next from to p. m. for the benefit of the library fund. Light refreshments will be served and a short programme carried out. The usual charge of 25 cents will be made. Ed Long and Clarence Grisby, aged about IA or 15 years, are ambitious for pugilistic honors. Yesterday after noon for the delectat1on of about 100 spectators they fought several rounds for scientific points, the ring being pitched in the open space near the corner of Adams and Center streets. The reporter could not learn which of the boys won the prize, but little ''freckle face" Tommy Green says that Ed Long is a daisy hitter"
 At the Baptist church this evening Mrs. Greene of the National w. c. T. U., assisted by Miss Henderson, cor responding secretary, of Texas, will give lecture and chalk talk This is a form of entertainment new to Phoe- nix, consisting of pictures drawn in , view of the audience by the lecturer, who thus pleases the eye and ear simultaneously. Mrs. Green is an ac- complished artist and a fluent speaker, and merits full attendance not only of temperance workers, but of all per sons interested in refined, elevating art. The delinquent tax sale has almost t exhausted all the letters of the alpha l bet, but that will not be the end of it. r There is some passed" property which l will have to be offered again So much of it is not bidden in will l be taken by the county, which in due t, time will become possessed of tax titles l unless the property is redeemed County Treasurer Murray says the in- l dications are now that the volume of delinquent property will be much less than for years. That is, the county will receive much less money from V this source. That is one sign of pros perity. Travelling men furnish another. They say that there seems to
 be more money in Phoenix than in a
 very large majority of places on their routes, or at any rate bills sold here :. are paid with greater promptitude. . There are many things in Phoenix 7 which strike the stranger as being curi-
 ous. One is the number of small boys
 and larger ones who patronize restau
 rants and lunch counters. One mar . who had for several evenings noticed
 a small newsboy at lunch counter
 became interested to the extent O.
 asking him if he was an orphan !. Nav" replied the boy, munching {
 big piece of cake. Do your parents
 live here?" asked the stranger. "M,
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