Arizona republican., 1898-05-15
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen
 er0I Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOingS Of People and Other Matters.

Thomas J. Pres-ett yesterday bough the Arizona bakery and will take pcs
 session at once.
 Twelve cars of cattle will bs
 shipped from Glendale by the s. F. P
 P. today for Kansas points.
 A school election was held in dis
 trict No. yesterday for the purposs
 of voting on a proposition to vote
 bonds for building a new school house | License to marry was issued yester-
 day to H. G. Saylor and May Cum mins, both of the south side. The cer- emony was performed in the aftarnOon 1 at the Alhambra by Rev. s. L. Guth- rie oi Tempe.
 Reverend Father o Grownsy of Dub- lin, Ireland, who has been spandlng | the winter in town, left on Friday night for Banning, Cal. Father O'Growney is recognized as the m S, distinguished Celtic scholar and he holds the professorship Of that lan- guage in Dublin university.
 Trinidad Serrano yesterday began suit for divorce from her husband, Fernando Serrano. She charges him | with adultery and with having uniaw- fully lived with another woman. for the last two years. She wants the GUS tody of their four children and also an equitable division of $2.000, which she says her husband is worth. J. S. Leahy of Chicago died in this city yesterday morning. He was about AZ years of age and for several years had been in charge Of the extract de- partment of Armour's packing works at Chicago. He first came to Phoenix in ill health two years ago last fall and returned home in the spring great ly benefited. He came back last fall since when his decline was rap,d and constant
 The duties of the clerk of the board of supervisors are manifold. but not nearly so manifold as many people think they are. Yesterday afternoon a woman from University addition called on Clerk Gray and wanted him to go out into that neighborhood and bury dead dog. MT. Gray's license as deg undertaken had expired and he turned the case ever tc Hi Eldred road overseer, a part Of whose duties is to remove Instructions from the public highway. This wasn't a big dog, but his smell filled the highway from fence to fence and seemed to reach the sky
 A May Day festival has been ar ranged by the members of the Cath olic church of Tempe for Friday, May 20. The programme is as follows Concert from to o'clock In the Tempe reading room, and rendered Dy the Peralte orchestra from Phoenix: ice cream, strawberries, etc., will ne served throughout the afternoon; from to o'clock there will De lunch and tamales; at o'clock an enter tainment will be given by the children of the Phoenix parochlal school in Kingsbury hall, next to the reading room. Refreshments anc music wlI be good and plenty to secure a pleas ant time for these that attend. All are cordially invited.
 Yesterday was law day in district court The following cases were dis missed: The territory vs. Dr. H. 4. Hughes and J. M. Flemister, libel; Wilson & Ward vs. the Allen Geld Mining company; Price ct al vs. Col lins; c. L. Hall vs. Goodwin ct al Morrow vs. Miller; Springer vs. Baus In the case of Suy Sing vs. l. Masui the appeal was dismissed. In Evans ct al vs. Stevens ct al, motion for new trial was denied. Tn the cases of the territory vs. Price, Baldenegro an Buriel, demurrers were sustained and the actions were dismissed In Fe- lows vs. Dyer ct al, demurrer wa sustained and the plaintiff was given leave to file an amended complaint.
 A couple of weeks ago tie serious charge of nameless crime by w. F. Schaller against a little 6-year-olo girl was lodged with the grand Ju-y The next day he left town and it wa reported by his friends and acquaint- ances that he had gone east. He was subsequently indicted and little later the authorities heard that he was at Glcoe. A warrant for his ar rest was placed in the hands of Con- stable Beck, who began trying to To- cate Schaller. Yesterday the cen stable received telegram from James Blankenship at Globe saying that Schaller was there Constable Beck left for Globe last night. It is said that Schaller left Phoenix severai years under much the same circum- stances as those which it is alleged have caused his present absence.
 F. B. Payne, who was one of the first to enlist in the Arizona cavalry regiment, is a leading member of the local Good Templars' lodge At the regular session held last Monday night the lodge voted to remit his dues dur ing his service in the army, aud then adopted the following resolutions, which were presented by a special committee consisting Of A. P. Wal bridge, E. s. Brown and Miss An tonette Norris: Resolved, That in parting with cur brother, Forest E. Payne, who has enlisted in the regi- ment of Arizona cavalry, and has gone