Arizona republican., 1898-11-02
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

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 CHRISTIAN SERVICE.- The ladies
 of the Christian Science church will
 hold their usual Wednesday afternoon
 meeting al 3:30 p. m, ccrner of Gen.
 ter and Jefferson streets, upstairs All interested are cordially invited. CONFLICT DELAYED The pie battle billed for the Salvation Army barracks tomorrow night has been postponed Cn account Of the play at 1.-the Patton Grand that night. The bat tie will come eff sure on Saturday might.
 NEW TIME CARD.-Tha new time card of the Santa Fe, Prescott 6 Phoe-
 nix railroad will go into. effect On No
 vember ', making close connection
 with the Santa Fe limited. Thus
 Phoenix will be brought within sixty
 hours of Chicago.
 FREDERICK DOUGLAS CLUB. -
 A meeting Of the Frederick Douglass
 club has besn called at the city hall
 tonight. A cordial invitation is ex-
 tended to all. Several well known speakers will be present and an inter-
 esting meeting is promised.
 NEW INCORPORATION. Articles
 of incorporation of Barkley Bros Mer-
 cantile company to succeed the Bark
 ley-Berryman Mercantile company were filed in the office of the territcrial secretary yes -erday. The Incorporates are Thomas J. Barkley and Jossph F. Barkley. The capital stock is s10O,O0O, divided into 100 shares.
 SIGN OF BETTER TIMES City Collector Foster says there is no. doubt that times have improved. He first noticed it at the beginning Of the last municipal quarter in the alacrity with ! which merchants, psddlers and others ! came in tC pay their licenses. The | rush was even greater yesterday. The | army of taxpayers had effected a june | tuTe with the army of license payers. |
 THE ROARKE WILL.-The Rcarke will case is now cut Of court so far as the will itself is concerned. A stipula- tiOn has been entered into agreeing i that TO appeal shall be taken from the order of the probate court, so the set tl5ment of the estate will proceed . under the administratorship Of Miss Cora Brill. It is possible, though, that developments will fellow the late contest.
 MORE ICE Work was b5gun yes l5Tday On an extensicn Of Lount's ice plant to increase it's daily capacity by twenty tons, which represents a great leal Of ice. The two plants in PlCe- aix are big enough at this season of he year to furnish all the ice needed, yet it is remembered that fer about -hree weeks last summer there was a demand which the two factories run { hing night and day were unable to meet. C
 WORKING ON MAJORITIES. The republican candidates held success ul meeting at Tempe last night. The night bcfCre there was a rousing meet ng at Mesa addressed by Col. Millay and Chairman Edwin s. Gill of the county central committee. These who nave been watching the progress of events say that the democratic ticket s already beaten and that new the re- publican candidates have nothing to do put work Cn majOrities.
 VOTE AT HOME The re registratiOn system Of Arizona permits man to vote in any precinct in the county in which he is registered. This arrange ( nent while all the time opening an avenue to fraud, is likely to be eX- TaCrdinarily embarrassing in Phoenix his year on account Of the circus which will be here on election day. Hundreds of voters who would have roted in their own precincts will come ] O town to vote It is possible that hree-fourths cf the vote of the county will be case in Phoenix precinct and [ is not beyond the bounds of pOssi- { 1ility that the entire vote will be cast f 1ere Or, rather, it is possible that { m attempt will be made to cast 1t, but { t cannot be done fer want of time 1 Many would no doubt be unable to Il TCte at all.
 YAVAPAI IS ALL RIGHT Harry Tritle, who has just returned from Yavapai county, says it dcesn't take wise politician to foresee that that ,ounty is going to give a big majority or Brodie So far as Prescott is con- .erneE BrOdie's majority is oVerwhslm- ng Ash Fork. though not very big place. is a good index of the prevailing sentiment this year. Ordinarily Ash ( Fork is so overwhelmingly democratic that it requir-5 an extremely popular republican to get his name on the poll she e- at all when the votes are being countd At the worst, he says BTOd3e will make a good stand-Off th5re. He will also break even with Wilson in Jerome and prcbably beat him In all the smaller mining camps whers no other issue is recognized this year than the popularity of the two can n@,ao5s, Brodie will sweep the hillsides like forest fire.
 AN INJUNCTION SUIT An in
 function sui wss filed in district court yesterday by Charles Goldman, admin of the estate Of M. Wormser, against Aaron Cummins. The petition sets forth that the San Francisco canal S a waterway constructed for the ir- i ,igation of several sections of land be- onging to the estate to which the i anal exclusively belongs. It is al 1 eged that the defendant has cut into ha banks of the canal, diverted water