Arizona republican., 1898-06-15
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erai Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

Notarial commissions were issued yesterday to T. Mulligan of Tucson ant
 Harry K. Hardness of Williams.
 Mrs. o. Schetter, who has been quite ill at the home of her daughter. Mrs | J. Mcintosh, on East Monroe street, is
 improving and intends leaving for Sar Francisco on Saturday next. She
 will be accompanied by Mrs. Mcintosh
 and daughter Alma.
 A number of the Sons of the Amer ican Revolution met last night at the
 residence of MT. and Mrs. J. Ernest
 Walker. It was very pleasant
 meeting. An address was delivered by
 w. Ii. Robinson, the president of the society, and by Rev. Dr. Halsey. Pa trlotic poems were recited by Dr. Hal
 sey and General Edwin S. Gill, after
 which there were refreshments
 Jesus Lopez, who was convicted at the November term of district court of
 murderous assault and was sentenced
 to six months in the county jail, was released yesterday. Lopez's light sen tence was due to the circumstance that he had already lain in jail six months awaiting trial. He was taken up af- ter the grand jury of the previous May term had adjourned. Burt Roy today closes a sentence of 175 days from a justices court for larceny.
 Rev. Preston Mckinney, pastor of the Presbyterian church, has found it necessary on account of ill health to temporarily retire from the ministry He will sever his connection with the church in Phoenix, and about July 1 will move with his family to Los An geles. This necessity is regretted by not only the entire membership of the church, but by all of Phoenix, for he has been an earnest and eloquent pas tor and a good and useful citizen. MT. Mckinney came here from Ottawa, Kan, little more than SIX years ago.
 An old lady who has been confined at the Sisters hosptal by long illness in which she suffered so much pain that most of the time she was oblivious of her surroundings, awoke Monday morning contented and happy. I've just had such a pleasant dream, though not all dr-am." she sad to a sister. 'I dreamed ln.c my pain had ceased; that I had died and was in heaven. When I opened by eyes and looked out on the trees and lawn and flowers I still thought I was in heaven and was so glad that I had been loosed from earth Realizing a moment later that it was a dream I was disappointed, but then it came to me that there is some of heaven on earth and that was in the midst of it"
 The first count of votes for the Fourth of July goddess of liberty and Columbia by Chairman Long of the committee of arrangements, took place yesterday. The voting had hardly be- gun; in fact, ballots had been cast at only one of the five polling places, Bros. The count stood: Edith Jacobs, 30; Ethel Mckinney, 5; Kate Christy, G. Other candidates will likely be introduced today and the vote will be announced daily until the polls close in fifteen days. The polling places are at Goldberg Bros, the H. A. Diehl Shoe company, Butts drug store, Goldwater Bros. dry goods store and DeMer's cafe. Tickets may be bought at any of these places at cents apiece. A meeting of the committee of arrangements will be held at the council chamber at 8 o'clock tonight, when the details of the programme will likely be agreed upon.
 The Republican yesterday morning published the story of Phoenix man who has been driven to distraction by his wife telling his fortune by means of cards which are construed by her to lay bare his secret sins. A woman writing to The Republican on this sub ject yesterday, said: Il notice in the morning paper that some poor man is bothered by his wife and I sympathize with him from the bottom of my heart, but maybe if he would stay at home and keep her in something to work with she would be more agree able. I know of one family in which the old man actually got so bad that he forgot that his family ever wanted anything to eat or drink. The Re pu ublican in printing the story Of the tell-tale cards did not assume to lay and blame on the wife, only to descrlDe an unusual incident It is not the pol icy of this family journal to excuse the cussedness of husbands, and 1t ayers now that it doesn't know who is to blame or whether the information the woman gained from the cards was in correct.
 Everybody has heard of that ec- centric justice of the peace, Roy Bean of Texas, and his frequent eXtraordl- nary findings, one of which was the fining of man found dead all the money discovered in his pockets, for having a concealed weapon in another. A Mohave justice of the peace, perhaps taking Justice Beans decision for precedent, made one exactly like it last week. An unknown Chinaman was dead in a mining camp. There was nasty coroner's inquest at which it was decided that the China mans death was visitation of God. Nobody cared to be bothered with the