Arizona republican., 1898-11-03

had just won an $85 wheel in raffla in which he had invested 60 cents. RECEPTION POSTPONED.- Ths reception announced fer tonight by the
 lauies of the Presbyterian church to
 Rev. Mir. McAfee, the new pastcr, has been inde defnitely postponed ewing to
 the inability of Rev Mir. McAfee to az
 rive in time.
 THE ANDERSON CASE. The mo- ton for 8 new trial in the case Of Josiah Anderson, convicted Of muc- l derous assault on John M. Mullen, will
 be heard in district court today. In
 case the motion is denied Anderson will likely be sentenced at once.
 BEATS THE DRUG BUSINESS
 This is a shade better than the drug business said Ben L. Bear yester-
 day while watching long TOW of p3o-
 pie paying money into the city treas
 ury without receiving any apparent equivalent. This seems to be all profit" continued Mir Bear; neither 1 is there any freight nor rent too pay"
 A HIDDEN FIRE The fire de- partment was called out yesterday af-
 terncon from box No. IS. Tie re-
 spOnse was prompt. After a most dili- gent hunt for the fire tie department returned to headquarters and appoint ell a committee to go before 8 cOmpe tent justice Of the pjeace and swear out a search warrant. Still it has not bean located
 THE CAPITOL BUILDING.- Sec retary Parker and MT. Talbot Of the
 capitol site commission were engaged yesterday in the examination of the plans submitted, but no regular session was held Cn account Of the absence of MT. E. B. Gage, the remaining mem- Der of the commission. MT. Gage arrived last night.
 FREDERICK DOUGLASS CLUB. -i An open meeting of the Frederick Douglass club was held at the ass em- bly, room last night. Beside a full at tendance Of the members there were present nearly all the members of tha republican county ticket who delivered brief addresses. Chairman Gill Of the county central committee paid an elo- Quent tribute to Frederick Douglass. He was followed by Chaplain Scott in an interesting address. The speaking was received with grsat enthusiasm.
 WHERE WAS HE BORN?- q Repub- lican managers are going to oppose the vote Of George Purdy Bullard on ac- count Of a discrepancy between the great registers of 1896 and 1898. In the former MT. Bullard appears as a native Of Oregon, aged B. In the latter his age is given as 36 and his birthplace Arizona. The difference in l the ages given two years apart might be overlooked as an arithmetical er TOT, but geographical misunderstand- l ing of this sort is unexplainable, eX- cept upon the theory that MT. Bullard has been born again, and everybody | knows he has made no pretension to repentance, which is prerequisite to the second birth.
 ARRESTED FOR ROBBERY-Ma,y y | Washington. a cOlOred girl, late from Alabama, wss locked up in the county | jail last night Cn a charge of robbery. The complaining witness is another colorsd woman named Belle Washing | ton, who, by the way, only stands be- tween the accused girl and the real owner of the stolen property, a watch. | The theft was committed at the Laze- ola sisters road house. Belle Wash l ington, wac is employed to keep the ! house in order, went there one morn | ing a few days ago, accompanied by the | accused, who, by the way, is no rela-
 
 While Belle Washington was gone from the room her companied raked in all the valuables in sight, including the watch, the property of a guest Nearly [ all the other stolen articles were Ie- covered.
 MIXED EMBEZZLE The ! case Of John HaIdeman, charged by E. | s. Bailey with missppropriating a watch, will come up in Justice John stones court today This is not a clear case of embezzlement. Bailey | had borrowed $10 Of Haldeman and when approached on the subject of re- imbursement replied that he did not have the money He proposed to trade watches with Haldeman, claiming that his was S10 better. Haldeman enter taincd the proposition, but said he was not a judge of the value of watches. He wanted to take it and submit it to . an acquaintance. Bailey asssnted and ! Haldeman having obtained possession Of the watch, told Bailey he would held 1 it as security for the dsbt. Then Bailey made complaint, alleging en- beZzlement.
 GLENDALE LIQUOR CASE The only matter in district court ste-day i was the case of the New England Land . company against Walter Lund and J. c. Johns2n. The first named dsf5nd- ant is the proprietor of a drug store in Glendale. Johnson is the owner of the property in which the drug store is located. The property was laased to Lund by c. c. Bliss of Glendale. acting as agent for Johnscn, who is a non resident. The deeds to- all land in Glendale contain clause specifying that the property shall never become a li liquor selling establishment. II was charged by some of the residents Of Glendale that Lund's drug store was improperly designated; that the name was only a mask for the liquor traffic. Suit was brought againss Lund by l.