Arizona republican., 1898-12-17
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

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 tain B. F. Coy, who sold the Foor S Gulch mine near Congress, is at the : Commercial hotel to spend a few days. FOOT BALL TODAY. The Monarch ) and Central foot ball elevens will meet
 in conflict at the park at ?: 30 this af- ternoon. There will be no charge for
 admission to tlle slaughter.
 GOOD TBMPLARS. Garden Valley Hodge, I. O. CT, has leased the Padgett
 hall for five years and will take formal
 possession of it one week from next Monday. The lodge has occupied its
 present quarters in the Lewis block for
 about seven years.
 DEAD CARS All the cars on the
 electric line died suddenly wherever
 they happened to be about half past ten o'clock last night. They were filled with theater goers who had just left the show. The passengers u,sem-
 parked and went home by other con
 veyances.
 WAS IN THE WRECK J. c. Ef-
 finger, representing the Eaton Hotel
 Supply company of Atlanta, Ga, is at
 the Ford. MT. Effinger was passen-
 ger on the Sunset Limited train which
 was wrecked on the first of I.lhis month
 ten miles this side of Lafayette, La.
 He will remain in the city several
 days. m
 DISTRICT. COURT. -The trial of
 the suit of Emily Aubrey vs. M. Garcia
 and Y Garcia was ended in district
 court yesterday and the case was sub-
 mitted. Tn cases of Patton vs.
 Yaeger, Drais vs. Drais, and Nichels- burg vs. Crosby were passed. There
 was no session of court in the after noon.
 COT ,r,C,0nD r,0nrTNrC r,o1 nr IT McCCrd was expected 10 reach Phoenix last night to spend the holidays, but did not arrive. It is believed that he will come in tonight. lie left Au- gusta, Ga, two weeks ago and went to Washington, whence he started a few days ago for home. His son Guy, who had been with the regiment, returned on Thursday night.
 PROBATE COURT. Application was made in probate court yesterday for letters of administration on i.he es- talje of James B. Barkley, late of Mesa. The applicant is Mrs. Mary E. Barkley, the wife of the deceased. The will of. the late Barney A. A'Poole was filed for probate. The deceased was for many years connected with the treas ury department.
 A BUSHEL OF CHESTNUTS. R. L. Long yesterday received bushel of chestnuts from admiring Pennsylvania friends. He distributed them among his acquaintances, among whom were many PennSylvanians who attested their genuineness and superiority over the ulg Italian or horse chestnut, which occupies a place on the local market and which is hardly more sue culent and delicious than the buckeye or the artichoke.
 TERRITORIAL BONDS SOLD. A sale of 100000 of Arizona funding bonds at par has just been effected by w. J. Murphy, manager of the Phoenix Trust company. This company has !! been recently incorporated by Chi | cago and Phoenix parties. Andrew Crawford, well known ito many Phoe- | nix people as former president of the ! Valley bank, is president of the Trust | company, and w. J. Murphy is vice president and general manager.
 ARMORY HALL The plans for the | new armory building to be erected on street adjoining the Thayer warehouse, have just been elaborated by Captain Omstead of B. company and work will probably be commenced on it next wek. The plans describe an ornamental exterior. The building will have frontage of fifty feet and
 
 builuIng will be two stories. It will be divided by a hall, on each side of which will be offices, ordnance rooms, closets and stairways leading to the balcony which will overlook the drill room, huge apartment forty-six feeG wide and eighty feet in length. The part of the building occupied by the drill room will be only one story in height.
 CONJUNCTION OF IRISH.-Thomas Jr., met knot of men on the street yesterday afternoon. Among them was H. R. Patrick, to whom some one introduced him. "Oh! know Mir Patrick" said he. q live in the same neighborhood. I remem- ber that soon after I settled near him my l4,tle boy came to me one day in state of excitement. Oh! papa said he, there's the funniest thing down the road you ever heard Of. There's man named Patrick living there and another man named Bridget lives with him. MT. Patrick explained that at { that time he mad lodger by the name of Bridger.
 AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. = { Yesterday morning Sam Seip put an advertisement in The Republican. Be- ( fore noon it was answered by eleven l persons and the tall or the procession was nowhere in sight. The advertise , nent was not put in a very conspicuous f place, yet is appears to have been con 5picuous enough. There is no means of knowing how many persons read it, : put it is certain that eleven persons ' who happened to want what Mr Seip lad to sell read il. Perhaps every man, and child who sees The Repub- ioan may have read it, but here are many persons who 10 not wariJ tC buy cigar | lands, so it is quite reasonable to sup lose that hundreds of readers saw [ hat advertisement and made no report
 THE CRITTENTON MEETINGS There was a largely increased ccngre- a ,ation at the Crittentcn meeting last t