Arizona republican., 1898-10-31
News of the Town

take place at the Salvation Army bar racks next Thursday night. An in quiry among the rank and file of the army failed to show what kind of a conflict this is to be- Ncne Of the pri- yates have ever hsard of it. They be- lieve the officers are acting under sealed orders from headquarters.
 RETURNING ROUGH RIDERS. - Forest B. Payne of the Rough Riders returned yesterday morning looking much better than most of his brethren Hedrick Warren was expected in las night and large number Of his friends were at the s. F. P. & P. depot to welcome him. Ha was dstainsd somewhere along the route and will probably arrive tonight
 AN AFTERNOON PARTY Miss Rcsa F, ,ifield, daughter of Mir and Mrs Joseph Fifiald, of 214 West Jackson street, gave a delightful party on Sat urday afternoon. Ths guests were Misses Nellie Scott, Nellie Thomas, Maud Swcan and Ida Smith; Frank Mayors, Clarence Grigsby and Warren Carpenter. Games were playsd, at which Miss Ida Smith won the first prize, copy Of Lcngfellow Clarence Carpenter won the booby, tin horn, which he carried hcme decorated with the Phoenix colors.
 BASE BALL. The D5Mund com panys base ball club played horse with scrub nine at the park yester- day, beating them by a score of 19 to O- This kind Of a result is net liable to prcnOte lccal interest in the ns- tlona1 game. But the DaMund club, though good enc, has to meet other players before it can be considered tha whole thing in Phoenix base ball. An arrangement is being made for meet ing with the Darktcwn Mastodons. an asgrs gation e colcrsd players said to be pretty strong, especially in the bat tery.
 FIRE ALARMS 4 month ago the city council passed au ordinance mak- ing it nisdsmeanor to turn in an alarm for a fire outside the city linn its. Last night the first cne near enough to the limits to be seen occurred. After house had been de- strcyed some one turned in an alarm from Third and Washington streets. But he will net be punished, for about the time the council passed this re- strictive ordinance it Temodeled the Gamowell fire alarm system so that anybody can send in an alarm without fear of detection.
 A FIERY PERSECUTOR.-Th res idence of R. H. Collins, the contractor. at 1925 East Washington street, was f1 fir. 1oc i-I,t ing had it's origin in an exploding lamp. There was nobody at home, but the aged mother Of Mir. Collins and his two children A comparatively small part e the furniture and cloth ing was saved. MT Collins. who was down town, arrived only in time to seS his home hopelessly in flames. The building was a frame structure worth about $1.200, insured with Fickas S Jcnes for $500. There was S400 insur- ance cn the furniture Mir. Collins is singularly pursued by the fiery demon. Less than three months ago his 13 year-old daughter was burned to death
 IDENTIFICATION OF EGGS.-'The man who tries to make a living by stealing chickens in this town is fool ing his time away" said R. r. Stearns of the Fasicn barber shop yesterday There's too many expart detectives" he continued '-I heard about coloreG man, Henry Owens, or Honest Henry, who had bean milking COWS and steal ing chickens and get caught at it every time. Then he became cunning and tcok tc stealing eggs. He set 'em and when they were matched out the detectives came around and Identified them by the chicks. Henry had stolen them from man named Bob GFigsby, who had 3. peculiar breed Of chickens and nobody else had any like them
 THE WORLD IS ALL RIGHT There is a great deal more goodness than cussedness in this world notwith- standing the utterances of many pesSi- mistic persons to the contrary. A couple Of days ago The Republican re- lated the woes Of an cid woman named Newman, who, it was learned, was on the point of starving 70 death in q hevel in which she was living with a blind brother on East Madison street. Charitable persons ware directed to in- quire Of Mrs. Dowell, 40 East Madison street, for further information about the needy old woman. Before o'clock the morning following the publica- tion Mrs. Dowell was overrun with in uuir1Is anxious to do something for the cid woman. They are doing it, too, and she is now in comfortable cir cumstanceE.
 A GAZETTE LIE.-The Gazette says: Tt was s,ated in yesterdays issue of The Republican that Frank Wall who is accused of having killed Juan L2e and Maria Flores at the Mammoth min ? Ia few weeks ago, has been known scme time as a bad character The boys father, who resid5s in Phoenix, is very indignant over this statement ; The foregoing is a careless CT mali cious lie. The Republican on Satur- day morning published a special dis patch describing the arrest of Wall for the murder Of Lee and the woman Flores. Not a word was said about his character and until Saturday night nobody about The Republican office knew who he was. Then Captain Wall