Arizona republican., 1898-06-30
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFSl
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re. zion. The Doings of People and Other Matters.

License to marry was issued yeStor- day to Rafael Morietega and Carlo. a Mendibles.
 The case of Officer Molloy, set for
 hearing before Justice Kincaid yester- day on a charge of whipping a boy
 named Crowley, was taken on change of venue to Justice Johnstone's court. 1 Dr. Clymer was very successful yes
 terday in canvassing for membership
 in branch of the Red Cross society | to be established here. A meeting
 will be held at the doctors office to-
 night. Twenty ladies have enlisted.
 Articles of incorporation of the
 Nicholson Gold Mining company were
 filed in the office of the territorial sec
 retary yesterday. The company is not
 of recent organization. It was incor-
 porated three years ago by Frank
 Nicholson, William Christy and Alex
 ander Davis. The capital stock is
 s1,000,000, divided into 10000 shares. | Anton Gould and Francois Faure
 were yesterday admitted to citizenship ] in United States court. The former 1 is native of Austria and took out i his first papers in the county eight years ago. The latter is a native of
 France and made his first move to- ward citizenship in New York.
 Shelby M. Cullom, deputy collector of internal revenue for Arizona. yes-
 terday received word that he would be given an assistant. The revenue tax
 under the war bill, most Of whose pro visions with respect to stamps more
 than doubles the work of the office
 which has heretofore had to keep track only of the liquor and tobacco trades. Quite number of persons had the curiosity yesterday to visit Doris Bros. store to inspect the new opera house chair just received as a sample
 of the carload now on the way It is
 a modern chair, sure enough, comfort
 able and handy, with coat and hat rack and all the latest inventions at | tached. The opera house is going to
 be as nicely furnished inside as any place of the kind in the country. The debris of the fire of last week has been removed to a vacant lot in front of the Hotel Adams belonging to l Dr. Goodrich, the owner of the scorched building. The man who di
 rected the removal of the burnt avn
 ing and other rubbish evidently sup posed the doctor might want to go | into the charcoal business, and sa
 partly recoup himself for the devasta- l tion by the flames.
 On account of the absorption of time | in district court by the case of Hirst vs. the Glendale Fruit company the argument by Assistant District Attor- ney Bullard on the motion for a new trial in the case of Josiah Anderson | went over until today. The damage ! case of Brill against the s. F. P. 6 P. railroad was continued until October. | The suit of the DeMund Lumber com pany against Campbell was dismissed. There are many ways by which a silent partner in a business house may | indicate his connection with such a house. There are also many ways by which he is enabled to hide such con- i nection. When man deliberately attaches a street hose to a hydrant and sprinkles in front of the Gazette office he lays himself open to the sus- picion at least of being one of the ed itors. Several citizens mentioned this yesterday.
 S. N. Phillips wss badly bitten by a dog yesterday afternoon. He was
 experimenting a chain gaHg at work oil North Seventh avenue. Mir. Phil ips went to the rear, of a house after drink 0 water. A huge black mastiff chained near by sprang at him with so great force that the chain was
 broken. He caught MT. Philips by the left arm above the elbow and lac erated it terribly. He also bit him
 on the wrist and on S finger. MT.
 Philips was unarmed, bat he caught the brute by an ear, held ca with des- peration and forced him to release his
 last hold. A woman came ChS Of the house and took charge of the animal.
 Jose Beitran was arrested yesterday on charge of stealing a watch from J. E. Grove. He was committed to jail by Justice Johnstone for trial in the afternoon. When he was brought into court he was hardly recognizable. There was a deep gash on his fore
 head and another on the back. His case had been already passed upon. He had been tried in the kangaroo court and these marks were the judg
 ment rendered by Josiah Anderson,
 the chief magistrate of the kangarOos.
 Beltran said he was sitting in his cell when Anderson came in and demanded a dollar. It was refused and then he said Anderson belabored him with a slungshOt. The matter was inveSti gater afterward and Anderson admit
 ted having inflicted the wounds, but said they were caused by Beltran hav- ing been thrown against the bars of
 the cell. Dr. Hughes examined Bel tran while he was in cO11rt and he said they were so serious that they de-
 manded immediate attention. A war
 rant will be sworn out against Ander
 son charging him with murderous as
 sault. He is already under convic
 tion of having shot at John M Mullen with intent to murder, and motion
 for new trial is now pending.