Arizona republican., 1898-06-10
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
eroI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re-
giOn. The DOingS of People and
Other Matters.

amounting to $3.50.
| License to marry was issued yeSter-
! day to Jose Maria Montoya and Car
melita Villa Neueva.
The territorial board of equalization
met again yesterday morning, but ad-
journed without transacting any bust
ness. All the business of the session
will be closed up tomorrow
In accounts of the reorganization of
the Arizona Gazette, County Assessor
Frank Luke has been named as one of
the new stockholders. This is incor-
rect, as Mr.. Luke has no connection
with the enterprise.
Invitations to the tenth annual COM
mencement of the Arizona normal
school at Tempe have been sent out.
The exercises begin next Sunday with
a baccalaureate sermon and will be
concluded next Friday
Twelve cars of cattle were shipped
by the S. F. P & P. from Glendale last
night They go to Hastings, Neb.
Fourteen cars for the same point will
leave Glendale today for the same
point, and on Tuesday fourteen cars
will be sent to Los Animas Cal.
As the supreme court will be in ad-
journed session tomorrow the business
usually transacted on Saturday or law
day will be taken up by Judge Street
today. He will call the calendar and
set cases, so that all attorneys inter-
ested are requested to be present at
80 this morning.
Thomas Fea, foreman of the famous
Worlds Fair mine in the Harshaw
n fhoI-
the city. The mine is owned by Frank
l. Powers 1t is silver property, but
It IS so rich that it has been worked
with profit ever since its discovery,
notwithstanding the depression in the
price of silver.
W. H. Smith yesterday sold a marble
monument and posts for fence to be
erected not far from Mammoth in
Pinal county. The material was
loaded up and W. J. Percival
tarts with it this morning.
fhe total weight is 2,1OO pounds. Mr..
Percival says it will take him six days
to make the round trip.
A watermelon is Maricopa Indians
idea of luxury. Yesterday George Bux-
ton had four, the first of the season in
this valley They were small, but
could not be sold at less than 40 cents
apiece. He sold only two of them and
the purchasers were Indians, who
| looked as if they could have applied
the money to better advantage in an
extension of their warGrobes. There
were also a lot of little cantelopes
about the size of a hen egg. They
found ready market among the In
dams at IS cents apiece
The S. F. P. & P passenger train
from the north came in at 1 o'clock
this morning, five hours late. 1t had
been held at Ash Fork to wait for the
delayed weStbound Santa Fe Pacific
j. Sanford was arrested by Officer
Porterie yesterday for trying to break
into the 1. o. G. T. hall. Mr.. Sanford
was not in a condition to be tried yes
terday. A good plea for him and one
which under the circumstances would
be entertained was that he was trying
to break into the hall to sign the
pledge.
A woman named Nellie Pfeiffer.
living in house belonging to S. N
Phillips on West Washington street,
nearly sacrificed her immediate neigh
borhood to a feminine vanity yester-
day morning. She was "frizzing' her
hair by the light of a kerosene lamp
when something, she doesn't know pre-
cisely what, happened to the lamp
In moment everything was ablaze,
but before the fire gained much head
way neighbors ran in and put it out.
Hereafter Mrs. Pfeiffer will ''friz' her
hair by the light of the moon
]. H. Politzer, late statistical clerk
in the customs house at Nogales, ar
rived in town yesterday after contin-
uous absence of nearly two years. He
has lately been promoted to the posi-
ton of deputy collector at Yuma. He
left for his new post last night His
family will remain at NOgales until
fall. The territorial papers have
widely published the naming of his
son Dewey in honor of the hero of
Manila This created an impression
that there had been recent birth in
the Politzer family. 1t was well
known that the house was blessed with
boy about a year ago. That is the
boy that was named Dewey. Mr..
Politzer was waiting all the months
since for some one to rise worthy to
call the baby after.
4 meeting of the fire department
was held last night to take up the mat
ter Of the election Of a stoker. Al
the annual meeting E. Gonzalez of the
Yucatecs had been elected. At a sub
seouert meeting of the engine
pany Andy Thon1an, member of the
company, was elected, and both can
didates were presented at the meeting
OF the council on Monday night fol
confirmation. The engine company re
lied on late resolution by the council
authorizing each company to elect it:
own officers. The friends of Con
zalez chung to the theory that thu
stoker was not company position, bu
4 departmental Office to be filled in tn