Arizona republican., 1898-08-03
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of phOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOings Of People and Other Matters.


 On account Of the infoi nal reception tendered Governor Murphy at the Hotel Adams, the adjourned meeting of the city council called for last night was pos :poned until tonight.
 There is an old and crumbling adobe building on the north side of Jack son street which needs official atten- tion. Unless it is received early it will be the death of some of the chill dren of that vicinity A part of it has already fallen and other walls are likely to give way at any moment. None of tbe neighbors know to whom the house belongs.
 Territorial Treasurer Johnstone ex- pected to leave last night for Colum- bus, O., with the capitol building bonds. They have been signed by the members of the capitol site commis sion and only awaited the signature of Territorial Auditor Vickers, who accompanied Governor Murphy from the north late yesterday afternoon He will sign them today and the treas urer will start eaH tonight.
 T. c. V. Dubois of Wapakoneta, O.. father of Mrs. G. w Vickers. d.ed Tuesday, aged S9 years. He was a member of an old revolutionary ia h. fly. Mrs. Vickers went there so ue time ago to be with him in his illn; ss The old gentleman grew better and O. a time it was hoped he would surv ve the attack Of illness, but h:s aga was against him and he passed away. M s Vickers has the sympathy cf ma ly friends in Arizona.
 z. G. Gonzalez was brought over from Tempe yesterday afternoon, s1n tenced to the county jail fer a misde- meanor. The misdemeanor consisted of giving away to anger and commit- ting an assault. Gonzalez is cursed with a tempsr as Americans say, but according to the English, with the want of temper Whichever it is, it has landed him in the county jail at least once year and sometimes oft ener, for the last thirteen y5ars. Aside from his infirmity of temper Gonzalez is said to be very good Mexican.
 People at Mariccpa suspect that a wedding was solemnized there on ? man of Phoenix was there. He was ac- companied by a lady equally well known; a third party wss a minister of the gospel, Rev. B. D. McCreary, of the First Methodist church. The p~p ulation of Maricopa did not see tha wedding and if enc occurred the folks who conveyed the suspicion to town failed to locate the witnesses. The minister went on to California, and the lady and gentleman returned to Phoenix and took up th5ir daily avo cations as if nothing out Of the O-di- nary had happened. It was no use to consult the records cf the probate court in this county for solution of the mystery, for the village of Mari copa is in Pinal county.
 Arizona arrivals at the Hollenb5ck l Los Angeles, ending July 2S, were. Thomas G. Fitch, Tucson; c. M. Fra zier and wife, Phoenix; E. R. Monk. | Tucson; William Nellis, Williams; A J. Nellis, Williams; E. T. McCCnigle Flagstaff; Julius Wetzler and wife Holbrook; Mrs Frederick Riley, Fort | Wingate; H. w. Blaisdsl1, Yuma: D. T. Brannen, Flagstaff; James T. Quinn | Wilcox; Mrs. Thomas B. Sh.pp, King man; J. K. P. Fancher, Kingman; R. | Taggart, Kingman; Hon. Mark Smi lh and wife, Tucson; Miss T. Warren Kingman; Gerald Delamer, Kingman; Mrs. c. E.. Bowers, Kingman; D. P Fowler Phoenix; Frank Cox, Phoenix; | Miss E. Tweed, Phoenix; Mrs. Josie M. Conger, Phoenix; Samuel Cris- | well, Phoenix; Webster Street, PhOe- | nix; Mrs. J. L. Rimpau, Yuma; H. D Underwood, Tucson; F. H. Lee and wife, Tucson; Mrs A. c. Bernard and | son. Tucson.
 | The case of the territory against Minnie Powers, charged with keeping 1 a disorderly house, was tried in Jus tice Johnstone's court yesterday. The defendant was convicted and fined $15 She gave notice of appeal. She was attended in court by an array of th@ | inmates of her house "lodgers' sht i called them, for she said her abode was lodging house. They and few other witnesses were called to testlf! that the place was a model of ordsr Illness. They had never heard any
 thing out of the way or what migh
 not be heard about any we'll regulated
 lodging house. Some Of them swCr'
 that the conduct of the Powers guest
 was no more outrageous than that O the guests of other resorts in the sam
 neighborhood, which was probabl.
 true But two witnesses on the othe
 side who had been rooming at tn
 house of Connolly, the complainant
 said that the language, so-called musi
 and din which proceeded almost con
 tinuously from the Powers house il
 the night time, made it impossible fo them to sleep and they had to move