Arizona republican., 1898-01-12
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
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 Interest.

The News of Dayin Phoenix anc
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 a Nutsheil-Doings of People ano
 Other Matters
 J. E. Morrison of Prescott was com missioned as a notary public by Gov ernor McCord yesterday.
 The normal school directors will meet at the office of the secretary James H. McClintock, in the Cotton block this afternoon.
 | A meeting of the directors of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Val ley Railroad company is set for the 18th instant In Sa nFra nciscO.
 B company, N. G. A., has engaged the Elks' hall for a masquerade ball on February IA. The proceeds will be the company.
 On Friday evening reception will be held in the M. E. church parlors. The reception is to be given to the pastor and his wife, under the auspices of the Epworth League.
 A movement is slowly, but surely taking form and life, to root out the male rascals and blacklegs that infest the block Al district. It is to be hoped that its life will be vigorous.
 The case of the People vs. Martin Dujmovich for resisting an officer, was continued in Justice Johnstones court yesterday, at the reuest of the defend ant, until Thursday afternoon.
 Monday evenings unusual weather was local in it's application. Three miles southeast of the court house no hail at all fell and but little rain. At Tempe here was rain, at Glendale only a slight fall.
 City Recorder Jobs was not at his post yesterday afternoon, being con- fined to the house by ill-health. There are whole lot of people in Phoenix who will wish heartily for MT. Jobs speedy recovery.
 The will of the late George Bauer. of Mesa. was admitted to probate yes terday and special letters of admin istrationi were granted to the brother and chief beneficiary under the will, Charles Bauer. The estate amounts to $9,000
 A carriage drive on the outskirts of the city yesterday revealed a beautiful and unusual spectacle All the noun tains that encompass the valley were snow clad, presenting a strange con trast to the rich vegetation of the val ley and it's orange groves and flower gardens.
 The Maricopa Creamery company elected the following officers last Monday: L. K Shaw, president; M. A. Stanford, president; Emery Rays. secretary; board of directors, L. R. Shaw, M. A. Stanford, Emery Rays, c. L. Hopkins, T. K. Elviry, s. M Mognett, R. H. Wolf.
 It was stated on what seems good authority, last evening, that on the 18th of this month, B. F. Porter, road master of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley railroad, would sue ceed, at least temporarily, to the su- perintendent's office left vacant by the resignation of c. c. McNeil.
 Yesterdays session of supreme court was brief and confined to the fore noon. Two Pima county cases, Stein field, appellant, vs. Terrell, appellee, and Levy, appellant, vs. Leatherwood, appellee, were argued and submitted. Several other matters were set for hearing and an avalanche of new cases were filed in the clerks office.
 Articles of incorporation of the Guadalupe Mining and Milling com- pany were filed yesterday by Edward A. Meysenburg, George N. Ingersoll, Arthur E. Lane, Frances B. Badt and Robert Zines. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The general offices of the company are at Chicago, with the prin- cipal business office at Quartzsite. Yuma county.
 The regular annual meeting of the Bar association of Arizona will be held in the court room of the court house, at Phoenix, Arizona on We'd nesday, January 12, 1898, at 2:3O o'clock p. m. The purpose of the meeting is for the election of officers, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the association.
 Word reached this city yesterday that the main thoroughfare of No gales had been spattered with the yer million of an editor or two. The com batants were, it is said, Allen T. Bird and Frank King. of the Oasis and the Vidette, respectively. The two tall ented gentlemen have been having editorial differences for some time past, and this fact lends a corrobora- tive air to the rumor of belligerency.
 Elks from every corner of the terri tory will herd tonight in force to initiate another tenderfoot Phoenix lodge is in itself quite numerous and a jollier set is not to be found. The occasion will be graced by the pres ence of a host of legal lights, drawn thither to do up a compadre in the most approved style, the victim of the evening being United States District