Arizona republican., 1898-04-22
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of a Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented In NutsheiI-Doings of People and
 Other Matters.

A special train will leave Prescott this morning and will arrive there some time this afternoon.
 Dr. Ancil Martin left last night for the Point-of- Rocks to treat an eye Of one of the workmen on the Big Bug railway, injured by a premature blast. Two more cars Of wheat were shipped to Los Angeles last night by the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix road Seven cars went cut over the same line the day before.
 The first contingent of soldiers from California for points on the gulf passed Maricopa yesterday morning. Four privates in the uniform of the of the Twelfth infantry came to town.
 John G. Bell, the actor, died at the Doris last night. He came hele carly last fall and was later joined by his sister, who remained with hlm unIll death. Arrangements for his funeral will be made today.
 l The home of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Feelings of Tucson was brightened on Wednesday by the birth of a nine pound son, their first born. Both par ents are former residents of Phoenix where Mrs. Feelings was better known as Miss Ronnie Doris.
 Vicente Acuna, arrested on a war rant from Justice JChnstone's court charging him with forging the name of Jose Valla upon S6 Arizona Canal company time check, was tried yes terday, convicted and sentenced to ninety days in the county jail. The time check had been lost by Val.e and was fund by Acuna.
 Miss Grace Cooper, Mrs. James Burns, Russell Harrington and John HallOran of Chicago, who have been spending the winter a the Ford. left last night for Los Angeles and other points on the coast. They will spend a month in California and then return east. The party was accompanied by Mrs. J. c. Bell of Denver.
 A young man in this town is doing some detective work in feminine at tire. He wears beside the female ! dress, flowing yellow hair and cen ceals his masculine features behind thick veil. He was out last night on a bicycle and the night before enjoyed horseback ride. The veil was what first attracted attention to himself, for no woman would cucumber herself with that article of adornment in the night time.
 Yesterday afternoon a Salvation Army girl invaded the card room of the Commercial bar room and cried, Have a War Cry?" Several of the players bought the papers, as they do every week without a purpose to read them. One man with his hat pulled over his eyes was leaning back in chair in corner more than half asleep Have War Cry?" repeated the girl. This aroused the man in the corner, his hat fell tO the floor, he sprang to his feet and looking wildly around, exclaimed: Another bull letin? What is it?"
 Sergeants Hill and French and Cor pora1 Dunn are attending to the or ganization of a new military company | in Phoenix to take the place of com pany of Globe, lately disbanded. Phoe- ! nix should support two good compa- nies. The equipments belonging to A company are already stored here and the company can be outfitted in short order when ready to be mustered into the service of the territory. Now is the time for young patriots to respond | to their country's call, though they may not be needed. Yet if they are, man though only partly drilled, is l always preferable to the raw recruit.
 A general meeting of the Phoenix
 fire department was held last night to take action concerning resolution adopted by the city council at its last meeting giving the engine company the right to elect it's own engineer and cfo1- i,-sr t1,o ol,i of d other important officers of the depart ment shall reside within the city lim- it's. The object of last nights meet ing was to prepare petition for the repeal of the former measure. The meeting was well attended. The en- gin company was out in nearly full i strength, but declined to vote on the repeal of the resolution on the ground that it's members were present merely as disinterested spectators. They had already made their fight and won. | Says the Prescott Journal Miner: Another suit, involving title to mining
 property, which has been dragging along in the district court for several years, eliminated in decision to-
 day. The title of the case was Dewey
 vs. the Marcus Gold Mining company. A jury in the trial of the case last fall
 brought in a sort of verdict in the way
 of special findings. These were yester-
 day set aside by the court and the case
 was argued by counsel. The real par ties defendant were Bates Bros Wade
 Rulings of Phoenix has represented
 Dewey, the plaintiff, and the judgment
 of the court being in his favor MT.
 Rulings left this afternoon for Phoe-
 nix, naturally feeling pretty good over
 the result.
 William Burmister was arrested yes
 terday morning for begging on the
 street and exciting sympathy by means
 of a sore arm. He explained to the
 court that he had been blacksmith
 in the employ of the Gila Valley rail
 road. One day he was holding a
 twenty-pound piece of white-hot steel
 which an assistant was trying to cut
 in two. One piece flew up and struck
 Bllrmister on the forearm. There