Arizona republican., 1898-03-12

o'clock yesterday afternoon
 Application for letters of admins i tration upon the estate of Annie B. Douglass was made in probate court yesterday. The applicant is s. P Hoefer.
 The stereopticon entertainment given by the Ladies Aid society of the M. B. church last night was very successful The entertainment itself was very good and so was the audience.
 The Friday club will give a tea this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Walter Bennett, North First avenue, for the benefit of the proposed circu- lating library. An admission fee of 25 cents will be charged.
 The light rain in the valley yester- day was but the tail end of a heavy storm which visited the region of the Four Peaks. The peaks were flied with snow when the clouds swept away and gave an unobstructed view from the valley.
 A private telegram was received yes terday from Governor McCord in con- tradiction to many of the war rumors afloat He says there is absolutely no probability of war. Speaking of the Tucson postmaster matter he says that Thomas Hughes will certainly be confirmed.
 Preparation for the Shriners' ban quet to be given at the Hotel Adams on the night of April has already been begun. The banquet will be an affair of such dimensions and mag nificence that after it is over the memory of all previous banQuets will have passed into the shade.
 A young man and a girl were going up Washington street at 1 o'clock this morning. Arriving at a street corner the young man exclaimed: "Oh, my God. A black cat! Don't look! Don't look!" The girl screamed and cover ing her eyes with both hands, cried. Where is it! Where is iti" They turned out into the middle of the street and the cat took a seat on the top step of a door near by to lie in wait for more superstieious people.
 There was a vision on the street yesterday which will make business for oculists. A man lately from the east had arrayed himself in cowboy outfit from his Stetson sombrero to his leather "chaps." This was in it. self enough to attract attention, for the clothes did not fit him. But when the ouft was supplemented by a gold headed cane what few angels were pa rading Washington street covered their eyes with their wings and wept.
 A meeting of the Arizona Livestock association will be held this afternoon to consider the proposition of bringing O fa-10 Of the territory. This matter was brought up couple Of months ago and has been discussed in every meeting of the association since. Cattlem are requested to deposit a sufficient sum to cover the cost of one or as many bulls as they want to buv When orders have been received fnr a car load the association will send an agent east to buy.
 Probate Judge Grouse narI owIy es- caped a perplexing entanglement with the Phoenix bakery horse and wagon yesterday. The judge was riding down Washington street, and the horse without driver was running up the street. The judge was thinking about estates and marriage licenses and the horse was filled with visions of barley and alfalfa. The judge observed the horse about ten feet away. The horse did not observe the judge at all. The judge fell off his wheel and dragged it after him just out of the path of de struction
 There was filed in the office of the territorial secretary yesterday articles Of incorporation of the American Girl Mining company with principal of fees at Yuma. The incorDorators are Il. H. Markham, Z H. Lohman Thomas Johnson and Frank S. Dag gett There were also filed articles Of another Yuma company, the Gila Mountain Mining company. incorporat- ors being w. Allen, Donald ". Camp bell. G. P. Gehring, A. T. Stewart aud |. A. Druehl. The certificate of A. H Emanuel of Tombstone as resident agent Of the Watervale Mining con- pany of Cochise county was also re- corded.
 At a Salvation Army meeting on Thursday night a recent convert was 5ragging about his past wickedness. He had been, he said, a resident of southern Missouri and his forte had been hog stealing, of which he had been convicted and sentenced to two years at Jefferson City. The inclina- ton to steal hogs still remained with hlm, but his recollection of the peni- tentiary repressed it. Brothers and sisters, said he, whenever went into a butcher shop and seen a fresh saul sage "a always grunt and if I seen a nam I'd faint Now brothers and sis ters since I joined the army thank God l haint troubled with them emo tions no more"
 A. Snellenberg and N. Lehman of Philadelphia, Lewis Sands, Jr., of Manlstee, Mich, and Victor B. Bloom of New York returned yesterday from a trip to Castle Creek hot springs. They started out week ago on horse back intending to be gone a month. maybe more, during which they were going to trough it'' A little of that kind of life goes long day with gen. tlemen who are not used to it. Of