Arizona republican., 1898-08-30
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN


 A meeting of the Fraternal Brothers will be held at Elks' hall tonight at $ o'clock.
 The street department force engaged In a good work yesterday in filling in the ruts on the downtown thorough fares with fresh earth.
 T. J Cline yesterday made applica- ton in probate court for letters of ad- minlstration upon the estate ot his father, the late Christian Cline
 The s. F. P. & F. from the north arrived two hours late last night The train had been detained at Ash Fork to wait for the belated westbound Santa Fe Pacific express.
 The bottom fell out Of the rise in the Salt river on Sunday night Water Commissioner Trott reported yester- day that the volume had decreased by 20, 900 inches.
 An enthusiastic meeting of the Young Mems Republican club was helG last night to complete arrangements fer the trip to Mesa tonight for the purpose of organizing a club there. ] deeper tinge to the cheeks Of the wooden Indians in front of the cigar stores. The night police force, a spe- cial watchman and a constable sup pressed him by landing him in jail.
 Otto P. Kroeger, Tucson architect arrived in the city yesterday to gather data for the preparation of plans anC specifications for the new capitol build ing MT. Kroegel is backed by San Antonio, Tex, capitalists.
 Mir W. !. Murphy's almond crop this year will amount to about 12,O0t pounds. Harvesting and halling the crop has been going on for the past TWO weeks and is now practically com pieted. The nuts will be shipped tc Chicago.
 Captain James H. McClintock, writ Ing from the hospital at Fort Wads worth, Rosebank, N Y. under date oi August g, says: Am doing fairl, well and am now sitting up a part oi each day The wound is not healed by any means, bu, all is going as i. should, according to the surgeons
 '.Cockney," alias William Belcher for there is another "Cockney," has been drunk again That is, he was SC drunk that the police took notice o him. lie was in police court yester- day and was fined $5 A part of this sum was designed to cover the cost of a cab. "Cockney" refused to walk to his doom.
 A meeting of the executive commit tee of the republican territorial central committee will be held in this city today to fix the date and place of the territorial convention and to transact other business preparatory to the Chairman w. c. Barnes If the com~,ittee arrived from Hol brook last night.
 The typewritten matter of Governor Murphys report to the secretary Of the interior department was forward ed to Washington last night. It was q bulky package, indicating that the re- port will exceed in volume any of it's predecessors. There are 250 typewrit- ten pages devoted to mining matters alone. The printed report will con tain no illustrations of any sort.
 A sale of discarded effects of the local weather bureau was held at II o'clock yesterday morning at the weather bureau office. ". T. Blythe officiating. Among ether articles 9 number Of desks were sold bringing indifferent prices They were in goo6 condition. but rather old style anC have been superseded in the office by better furniture. This sale was better attended than one held a couple Of years ago.
 
 Constable McClintock yesterday ar rested two bold bad burglars on a war rants which he had been carrying in his inside pocket since last May. The burglars were two Mexican boys sus- pected of having broken into house in the southern part of town. TwC other boys were also under suspicion. The evidence against them was not very damning and Justice Johnstone discharged them.
 who winged a companion with a 22- caliber rife while hunting doves on Sunday afternoon, was taken fom jail yesterday and brought before Justice Johnstone. The victim and his mother. who believed the day before that the proceeding was an attempt at murder, had modified their views ln the course of the night and had ac- ccpted ParTa's theory of an accident Para was turned loose.
 Another letter received yesterday from Will Orme, who is expected home from Kew York tomorrow night, says his brother Norman has improved SC much that he has been taken out driv- ing. The letter also contained pho tograph Of the writer and Will Penn berton in the uniform of the ''Rougf Riders The few months since ht left here has aged Pemberton in ap peararce wonderfully. Though he i: hardly twenty, Le looks as if lie would never see thirty again.
 George Reasor was fined $50 in DO lice court yesterday for drunkennes: and an aggravated disturbance of th' peace. Reasor is associated with !; h, outfit of 4b,