Arizona republican., 1898-08-11
NEWS BRIEFS.
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdl Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of peOple and Other Matters

| A notarial commission was issued yesterday to Charles von Erxleben Of Tucson.
 License to marry was issued yes terday to Albert S. Wray and Isabella Grantham.
 Oscar Jones, Max Viault and Bert McManus returned yesterday morning from an outing on the upper Verde. A Mexican named Esquerre was brought down from NTickenburg yes terday, having been held by a justice of the peace there to the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny. | A telegram was received at the s. F. & P. offices yesterday from Tom Sloan, at Tampa, in which he said that he had been given furlough and was about to start for Cameron, Ill.,, to- spend it.
 | All prescribed remedies for prickly heat having been found unavailing, Robert Grigsby has adopted means of alleviating the irritation and> he says the thing is success. He turns couple of horned toads loose on the | heat stricken skin. They produce a counter irritation which abstracts ones attention from the sting Of the heat.
 The territorial board of equalization spent the day yesterday comparing returns from the various counties Gila and Coconino are still out l though word was received from Flag staff that Coconinos returns were forwarded a couple of days ago. The members of the board have not inti- mated what changes as compared with last year, if any, will be made The Fullerton (Cal) Tribune says Of a clerk Of the New York store of this city: William Falkenstein, one of the best clerks ever employed in Fullerton, arrived here last night from Los Angeles, and is visiting Messrs. Stern and Goodman. MT Falkenstein has been a resident of Phoenix, Ariz., Tor the past eighteen months and holds a responsible po- sition with a large dry goods house in that city. He is spending his sum- mer vacation in California" An unknown Mexican died at the county hospital on Tuesday afternoon He was found last Monday lying in sensible on the desert thirty miles
 
 Glendale and from there to the hos pital. He was then practically in dying condition. At one time he re- vived so that he could speak. He said he had been working at Bi,oee, but he collapsed again before he could tell his name or explain how he came to be where he was found.
 lieutenant Frank T Alkire was yesterday commissioned major of the First regiment to succeed Major F. G Russell, who resigned to accept captaincy in Col. McCord's regiment The vacancy was filled by an election held by the line officers of the nationa guard. Adjutant- General Robinson yesterday received a telegram from Tucson saving that the vote thero had been cast for Lieuten- ont Alkire. The other candidate was Captain Mullen of Tempe. Major AL kire has been connected with B com pany, N. G. A. for several years. He was among it's most earnest and en- thusiastic members.
 Anton Gould, proprietor of a saloon ] at Five Points, was tried in Justice | Johnstone's court yesterday on a
 
 | Complaint against him was made by several neighbors. Though there has | been a saloon at Five Points for years | the neighborhood has been orderly. Gould, who had learned the saloon business at- the block, moved to the Points a month ago and introduced the methods which he had employed at his former location. Then people began to complain that they could not sleep, but kept longing for the day They spent the daytime wishing that night would come and hide some of the things they saw about Mir Gould's place.
 1 In wild defiance of the law of chances and contrary to all mathe- matical calculations, the Palace policy game has had such run of bad luck for the last twenty-four hours that the proprietors have been compelled to remodel it by reducing the ratio be- tween the bet and the winnings by about ten per cent For instance {: ticket which formerly paid IS for 1, now pays only 16 for one The per cent of writers was also reduced yes terday from twenty to fifteen. The last straw on the camel's back was an investment yesterday morning of $1 20 (which caught a seven-spot The losses of the game within two days are said to have exceeded $2.00O It is a curi- ous circumstance that no American has derived any advantage from the
 games bad luck The winners have all been Chinese. Japanese or Mexi- cans.
 A Chinaman was held up and robbed last night shortly before midnight along Jackson street between Sixth and Seventh. He was going to inves- tigate the iniquity of the block. He
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