Arizona republican., 1898-01-25
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of Day In Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented In aNutshell-Dofngso of People and Other Matters.

to be out yesterday after prolonged illness.
 Word was received here on Sunday of the death the day before at Evans ton, Wyo.. of Mrs A. V. Quinn.
 Today will be observed as a legal holiday at the postofice. It will be open only between and 10 o'clcck a. m.
 At a brief session of the district court yesterday afternoon the attor- neys for both parties in the Yavapai bond case submitted findings of facts.
 The poultry show given by the Ari- zona Fancy Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock association, opens today. There will be over 300 fowls on exhibition.
 The members of B company, N. G. A., are pushing preparations for the grand military masquerade ball which will be given on the night of February A.
 Ex-Le gislator M G. Samaniego and at present member of the Pima county board of supervisors, is in attendance at the session of the board of equaliza- tiOn.
 A very enjoyable picnic was held at Camel Back mountain Sunday, the party consisting of Allie Gray, Ida Woolf, Madge Richmond, Wallace Morse, Will Potter and Will Woolf
 Gus Thelin, recent arrival from Albuquerque, after a days stay in Tucson, retraced his steps, concluding that Phoenix was good enough and here he would stay The young man is musician of merit.
 A literary entertainment will be given in Madison school district No. 38 on the evening of January 28. A small admission fee will be charged. The object is the creation of a fund for the purchase of a school library.
 MT. [. W. Hays of Camp Grant is enthusiastic over the growth of the metropolis. He was here twenty years ago when Phoenix was an adobe town and since then he has been in the cattle business in Graham county.
 Prescott was visited last Sunday by an able bodied and full sized bliz- gard of SO great fierceness that psop-e were unable 10 lesve their houses. It is said that the thermometer showed seventeen degrees below zero at Fort Whipple, nine-degress lower than it had ever been before.
 Mrs. M. A. Pittock, wife of The Re publican's travelling correspondent. is the author of poem read at the ban quet of the California pioneers resi- dent of Chicago at the Grand Pacific hotel, January, 1891 The poem was printed on cards, bronzed in gold and each person present. was the re- cipient of a copy.
 In an account of Miss iWinifred Smiths card party last Saturday af- ternoon, which appeared in The Re publican's Sunday society column, it was not mentioned, as it should have been, that Mrs. Charles H. Akers won the first prize. Mr. Akers, who thought he had properly gauged his wife's card playing skill, had an at- tack of heart disease when she brought the prize home.
 The following articles of incorpo a. ton were filed in the office of the ter ritorial secretary yesterday: The Ken lucky Standard Mining company, with H. M and Gilmer Meriwether, Silas Delop, B. W. Hayes, c. E. Overstreet, Ernest McPherson and Dan w. Baird incorporators; capital stock, $135, ,0O0, principal place of business Prescott; the Arizona Belcher Mining company, Lee Meriwether Gilmer Meriwether, H. M Meriwether and F. s. Carlisle incoTporators.
 If John Marshall, the reputed discov- erer of gold in California. could have ! looked forward a half century ago l this morning and could have foreseen | the kind of picture of him that the Phoenix Herald printed last right, he would have heaved that chunk of go | back into Sutter mill race and there never would have been gold discov- 1 cry in California "San Francisco ir 1848" is another of the Herald's go d. 1 en jubilee illustrations. It is off iI both perspective and outline Ii | looks like a blot as if the Herald's devil b.3d laid his ink-bes esmeared hari on piece of white paper.
 The game of base ball to be played next Sunday at the park between tht Yucatec and Victor hose companie: may be postponed on account of thu absence from town on that day O some of the Yucatecs' best players Another event is on the tapis in fir department circles which. if it come off, will cause more interest and ex citement than any base ball game The Victor and Pioneer hose com panies or possibly the Victors alon contemplate challenging the pick o the rest of the departmen- ito a gam of foot ball. The challenge may b issued this week
 Judge E. w. Wells of Prescott, wh, will be at the Ford until this even ing, was questioned about the McCab mining affairs. The gentleman coui4 add nothing to what had already beel said through the November letters o , The Republicans traveling represent ative, which he said told all that tn world need know. He did add tha the McCabe was on the straight pat to prosperity under the skillful super intendency of MT. J. J. Coleman Judge Wells is president and genera manager of the McCabe company, an MT. Hugh McCrum of San Francisc is associated as part owner of tn 2 property.
 Speaking of the account publishe
 in The Republican yesterday of a VIC
 man of this town rewarding littl