Arizona republican., 1898-05-18
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 er0I Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DoingS Of PeosLs asid Other rGatferS.

News of phOcRix and Tributary Re. zion. The DoineS Of peosEs and
 Other ratters.
 E. o. Grant has been appointed county registering officer.
 MT. w. C. Foster was suddenly taken ill yesterday morning and has since been confined to his bed.
 James Kay, the newly appointed day policeman, qualified yesterday after neon and will enter upon his duties today.
 A. W. Edwards of Prescott; J. w. Crowley of Wilcox and A. P. Snowman of Mesa were commissioned notaries public yesterday.
 The picnic of the Presbyterian Sunday schooi will he held at Phoenix park Saturday, May 2S, and not On May 21, as at first intended
 Mrs Myrtle Dean, widow of George H. Dean, one of the men killed in the railroad accident at Tempe, was yes terday given both general and special letters of administration upon his estate.
 4hO AI0Sl4HS Ol lIS lSTtl- torial medical society is going on at Tucson beginning yesterday. The so- ciety will be in session two days. Rep resentatives from this county are Doc tors Wylie, Hughes, Dameron, McIn- tyre and Dr. c. H, Jones of Tempe. D. J. Miller of Yavapai county is the only physician from the north in attend ancs
 The last regular meeting of the Philharmonic society was held at the First Baptist church on Monday night and the society adjourned until Oc- tober. There had been vacancy in the presidency and D. H. Burtis was elected to fill it. The club is now out of debt and has money in the treas ury, so that it's success for the past year has been phenomenal
 Tomorrow the Juvenile Templars of Phoenix and the Cartwright dis trict will unite in a picnic in a grove on the Grand canal north Of the Cart wright school house. Many adult Good Templars will also attend, and all their friends are invited to go along. The conveyances to take the children and the Good Templars will leave I. o. G. T. hall at 9:S0 o'clock.
 There was a sleeping drunk in police court yesterday. He was found in the street in the early morning near the Hardwick hotel. He braeed up cn the way to jail and seemed reasonably sober When he was called up later in the day he said his recollection of the affair was that an officer seized him as he was coming out of Wash ington street saloon, drunk as lord, but behaving like a gentleman
 A company of ten sparejo pa -ksrs headed by c. M. Thorndyke left last night for St. Louis by the southern route. The other members are Jones, Lewis. Roberts, Hopkins, Moore, Smith, Williams and Davis. Captain Baldwin has had them out practicing every day since thsy were engaged. They had no mule to experiment on. but the record of speed was broken yesterday when a horse was loaded up ready to go to war in fifty-fve seconds.
 Next to the war the thing most talked about in Phoenix yesterday was the result of the fire department election the night before. A definite candidate sad the band did it. He had heard of fire department having a brass band, but this he believed was the first instance on record of a band having fire department. All of which goes to accentuate the truth OI those old sayings, ''In union there is strength" and United we stand, di- vided we fall" The band isn't nearly so big as the fire department, but it is perfectly organized. If it didn't do just what it wanted to do, it took care that the other fellows didn't. All the members of the stalwart and inn mortal seven may not have been members Of the band, but they stayed with them.
 A letter addressed to Coroner Gray. Phoenix, Ariz.," was handed to Justice Johnstone yesterday. His name is not Gray. but he is sometimes coroner. The writer is woman named Mrs. William Hildebrandt or Leavenworth Kan, who says that her mother, Mrs. Christina Zeihl, died here three years ago, having in her possession a life insurance policy Cn the life of her husband, Edward Zelhl now living at LeavenWorth. Mrs. Zsihl was named in it as the pencil ciary, but as she is dead, her husband wishes to have it made payable to hls daughter It is not remembered that woman of that name died in Phoe- nix, and there certainly was no Cor oner Gray here three years ago or at any other time within the memory Of any living resident.
 Assistant United States Attorney Bennett yesterday received word from Yuma of the capture of five more Chinese there accused of being unlaw- fully in the country. They were taken off of westbound Southern Pa cinc trains and all were en route to San Francisco. None were provided with the necessary certificates, hence it is suspected that they were going to San Francisco, where there is believed to exist a factory for secretly and ir- regularly turning out certificates The deputy United States marshal at Yuma is vigilant and watches all westbound trains closely He has caught a large