Arizona republican., 1898-05-26
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 er0l Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

( i "cool off, There will be represen
 tation of the Lords table and the
 devils table,
 Laugh and grow fat. Dr nlncait will surely make you laugh on tomor- TOW night if you hear his lecture on "Colirtship. and How to Stay Mar ried." The proceeds will go to the building fund of the Christian church
 Judge w. H. Stilwell yesterday re- ceIved telegram from Washington informing him that his nomination as paymaster of the army had been con- firmed. He expects his commission and instructions to report for duty soon.
 George Lohmann. the 6-year-old son of MT. Ernest Lohmann. residing at the corner of Fourth and Adams streets. died yesterday mornig, and will be buried today at o'clock from the undertaking parlors of w. A. Davis.
 Chaplain Winfield Scott yesterday filed notice of the appropriation of thirty inches of waste water flowing from gate near Scottsdale. The mo- tice states that the appropriator has been using, the water for the last eight years.
 County Superintendent Grouse yes terday appointed the following trus- tees of the new school district No. 50, between Tempe and Mesa: Mrs. Sallie D. Hayden, William Rohrig and An gulus Schoshusen Angus Douglass was appointed trustee in district No. i3G at North Gila Bend.
 At tie annual election of the Ch1ld's Aid association this month the follow ing officers were elected for the en- suing year: Judge Joseph C. Camp bell, president; W. K James, secre- tary; E. E. Briscoe, treasurer; Dr. c. D. Belden, medical examiner, and Judge M. H. Reno. general manager.
 MT. A. P Snowman, territorial su- perintendent of public instruction, was in town yesterday, having just returned from meeting of the board Of regents of the university. Beside what has already been published in The Republican of the meeting, MT. Snowman says that the salaries of members of the faculty were reduced about $3,G00, the principal reductions occurring in the school of mines.
 Those who favor throwing block II open to settlement en deavOred to get meeting of the coun- cil last night for the purpose of de claring the grant invalid by resembling the resolution which constituted it.. Mayor Adams, however, could not see the propriety at this stage of calling meeting. Councilmen Dyer, Morford and Sanders discussed the subject at the recorders office in an informal way From what could be gathered they do not favor the abandonment of the block and they suggested that no further action be taken until the next regular meeting of the council
 The San Francisco Examiner of last Sunday devotes a half page to pie lures and descriptions of the Arizona cowboy troops. There are fairly good pictures of Major Brodie and Captain C'Neill, but the main part of the illustration is view of lot of wild riders in frontier dress with re- volvers in the air, and riding wild horses in many directions. It is stated that "every man in the troop is used to cow-punching on the Ari- zona ranges. Every man is strong, active and fearless, more at home in the saddle than on his feet and used to the hardships of frontier life. Every man of them is expert in the use of firearms and delighted at the thoughts of using his prowess in the protection of his country's honor"
 Rev. T. N. klncaid of Kansas City arrived over the M. & P. yesterday morning and spent the day driving over the valley with J. M. Gregory. He expresses himself agreeably sur prised at what he saw Having come from drouth stricken California, our green fields and shady laues seemed like paradise to him. Tonight he will lecture in the Presbyterian church under the management of the local Good Templars' lodge, his theme
 being ''The Demand for a Better
 Moral and Physical Manhood Or
 tomorrow night he will deliver his
 lecture or "Courtship and Marriage
 in the First Methodist church for the
 benefit of the building fund of the Christian church He will preach i( the Christian church on Sunday morn. ing and evening.
 Some years ago Thomas Cameron was sentenced from Pima county tc the penitentiary. He had not beer there long before he escaped He wa. at large five months and twenty days
 when he was cap ured and returned tt
 the prison. Under the original com
 nitment his term would expire las I Saturday. Superintendent Dorringtol
 wrote Attorney-General Frazier in
 quiring whether Cameron could b
 held to make ur for the time he wa
 out of the prison. There is no lav ill Arizona covering such exigencies though there is one making an escap from prison a crime which may b