Arizona republican., 1898-12-13
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

LICENSED TO WED. Charles w c. Deering and Mary w. Bartlett of Glendale have been granted license to
 marry.
 COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS. = Charles H. Adams of Boston, Mass,
 was yesterday appointed commissioner
 Of deeds for Arizona.
 A GOOD BEGINNING. MT. M. E. Collins, who has just opened a dream
 Of a drug store in the Hotel Adams building, starts cut auspiciCusly. Yes- terday morning he became the father
 of a promising son.
 MASONIC ELECTION.-The follow
 ing officers were elected by Arizona
 chapter No. 1, R. A. M. last night:
 John J. Sweeney, high priest; s. E.
 Patton, king; 5. J. Nicholson, scribe;
 George H. N. Luhrs, treasurer; F. A. Shaw, secretary.
 l PLAYED WITH HARVARD. MT.
 Malcolm Donald Of Cambridge arrived
 at the Ford hotel a few days k;O and
 will remain in the valley some time. ! Mr Donald is a member of the liar yard foot ball eleven, having played
 this season in the position Of left half back.
 
 business was dcnc in distric5 cours yesterday. In the case of the National Bank of Arizona vs. w. r, Beardsly, judgment was given the plaintiff. The
 case of Mark Jungerman vs. Baxter McCreary was tried, argued and sub
 mitted.
 DOYLE IS MANAGER. Receiver Gus Hirschfeld of the Phoenix Plumb
 ing company has appointed c. F. Doyle manager of the company's busi- ness. MT. Doyle was foreman Of the plumbing department at the time Of his appointment as manager. He has been connected with the company several years.
 APPLIED FOR LETTERS. Peter Quadri yesterday made application in probate court for letters of administra- tion upon the estate of Alex Barsantj The applicant $ a cousin of Barsanti and his only relative in this country. The estate of Mrs. Libbie H. Taylor, which has been in court for a year, was finally settled yesterday and an order of distribution was made.
 DESTINED FOR YUMA. Sheriff Wattron of Navajo county arrived in town on Sunday night with five prison CTS destined for Yuma. All were con- victed Of cattle stealing. Four of them are hardly more than boys and were sentenced to one year each. One was older and more experienced. He was given ,wo years. They took a more sari- ous view of their situation than the average convict.
 A TOUGH CITIZEN John Hawkes. and Mike Hermes, the two hobOS ar rested for holding up and robbing F. F. Baird, will be given a preliminary hearing before Justice Johnstcne this afternoon. Hawkes. is known to have bad record. He killed a man at Flagstaff a couple of years ago and nearly beat his own father to death. 1 He cannot be, however, any tougher | than he looks. His countenance is a l sentence to the penitentiary.
 GENTLEMEN HAPPY. There is a smile on the face of every cattleman in the valley. His future is assured for at least one more season. The late storm covered all the territory in | which he is interested and covered it | in very thorough manner. All the | mountains and many of the foothills | the valley are snow-capped. | Ten miles west of town chere was four inches of snow at 1 o'clock yesterday. ! Word from the head of Camp Creek gives two feet there.
 GOT A CLUE. Julius, the old man who tried to commit suicide at the Lag cola sisters road house last week by shooting himself in the head, is getting well at the county hospital. He still f denies that he fired the shot, and talks of an attempt to murder him. There is at least one man who believes him and has suspicion. Joseph Boyce has formed a theory that the assailant is a man on whom he has had his eye and that the motive was disappointment and jealousy.
 FORGETFULNESS OF TRAIN An investigation into the cause of the collision on the S. F. P. 6 P. north Of Prescott last Saturday night shows that the blama lay upon Conductor Atkescn and the dead EnSi- neer Wade of the norrhbound extra. Train No 21 of the Prescott & EaSte4 Il read was cn time, but the epg1neer and conductor cur1ous,y overlooked the r. fact that it was coming at all. The was in no wise to blame. It was rumcredi on Sunday night that Engineer Gatfeld was dead. On the contrary, his injuries are not Of serious nature. Nor were the engines involved in the catastrophe the new l. engines lately received by the cCn- pany. These engines are used only cn the regular passenger trains on the main line.
 WANTS TO PLEAD GUILTY Jus rice Johnstone yesterday received a letter from Miguel c. Guardeola, one of the men whom he held to the grand i jury for a murderous assault on man in the Buckeye country. Guardeola is 2 man of fine appearance and educa- ton and the letter is written in excel lent Spanish. It is dated from Carcil Publica, the county jail, and is ad- dressed to Citizen Justice, whom he mplores to gran. him an audience in his office which the writer says he would regard as a special grace and ,avor. The document concludes with Liber.ad y constitution" though what bearing that expression is expected to nave on the case cannot be understood