Arizona republican., 1898-07-18
COCHISE COUNTY.

COCHISE COUNTY.
 R. w. Curtis, soliciting agent fer the Texas & Pacific Railway company, was in Wilcox the other day interviewing the merchants.
 J. F. Crowley has been appointed reg istering officer for Wilcox and electoI are requested to call at Judge N1chois' office and be registered.
 Woolf Sachs, formerly a stockman of the Sulphur Springs valley, is cred ited with having raised on land near Tempe 1,500 sacks of oats, worth $3,00O.
 Surveyor Philip Contzen arrived in Wilcox from Tucson the other day en route to Sierra Bonita ranch, where he has some surveying to do for Colonel H. c. Hooker.
 Miss Hattie Stallings of Wilcox had been suffering for several days from mysterious affection of the ear She awoke the other morning feeling much relieved and a wood tick which had fallen out of her ear upon the pill low revealed the cause of her pain.
 Wilcox merchants request that such customers as are authorized to draw cheeks upon them will not fail to place a two-cent internal revenue stamp up- on each draft or check issued, and to cancel same by writing makers in itials and the date across the stamp.
 At Bisbee during the big celebration on the Fourth a Mexican snatched a small flag from a boys hat and tore it up.. He was promptly knocked down , and had not the officers hustled him off to jail he might have figured in a lynching bee. He probably realized that the flag was loaded.
 John Joiner, while laboring under the effects of too copious potations of ardent spirits, attempted with the aid of shotgun to reduce the population of Wilcox the ether day. He was taken to Bowie and tried before Jus tlce B. L. Shaw, who gave him 15O days in the county jail in which to make good resolutions.
 MT. Joseph Schwertner of Willccx the other day received the distressing intelligence that his brother, Frank, who is well known there. had lost both his hands in an elevator accident at the Louvre in San Francisco. Details of the occurrence have not yet arrived Mir Schwertner promptly s5nt his un- fortunate brother a check for a gen. erous sum with the offer of a home with him for life.
 George Roland of the Diamond A outfit, over the line in Grant county N M., who is with Colonel Woods Rcugh Riders, has by his heroism in battle won favorable mention in the report of the fight sent by Richard Harding Davis to the New York Her aid- Alter being shot through the tnlgh he llmped back to the temporary hospital and on being told that noth- Ing could be done for him at that mo- ment he returned to the ranks and Joined in the firing.
 A wedding party which arrived in Wilcox week ago last Sunday was considerably inconvenienced, to say noth ing of the mental anguish en- dured, by reason of the absence of Jus tice Nichols. The expectant groom was MT. Buck from the Grand Reef camp and the bride-to-be Miss Clay of Kingston, N. M. The latter was ac- companied by her mother, who unfor- tunately was obliged to return east on Monday. Not being aware that a li- cense was required in this territcry, MT. Buck had failed to provide this prerequisite. As the only apparent way out of the difficulty the entire party proceeded to Lordsburg Monday where the marriage ceremony was per formed under the less exacting laws of New Mexico.
 YAVAPAI COUNTY.
 J. D. Smiley is in Prescott on his Periodical visit.
 Two of the volunteers a. Whipple have become insane.
 c. E. Goddard is registerd at Hotel Burke as from Phoenix.
 Father Hahn of Banning, Cal, is paying visit to Prescott.
 A. J. Doran is in Prescott from his mining camp on Lynx creek.
 F. B. Corbett, the Montana attorney, has been visiting at Prescott.
 MT. and Mrs. W. T. Brown of Pres colt have gone to California.
 MT. and Mrs. T. J. Butler of Prescott left Friday morning for San Diego.
 Bruce Evans and L. A. Murphy of McCabe left Friday for California.
 Three more carloads of soldiers aa rived in Prescott Thursday from New Mexico.
 Miss Alice Campbell Of Prescott left
 
 friends in Flagstaff.
 Mrs. N c. Shekels and her son. Harry, of Prescott have gone to Los Angeles.
 It is rumored that exMayor Moni- hon of Phoenix will make his home permanently at Prescott.
 Prof. G. A. Treadwell and his son, E. D. Treadwell, have returned to Prescott from a visit to Jerome.
 Mrs. E. D. Treadwell of Prescott was thrown from horse Wednesday even ing and sustained quite painful though not serious injuries.
 Miss Weldon, sister of Mrs. B. Me Donald, has arrived in Prescott from Denver, and expects to take up her residence there permanently.
 ''Pard' Pierce is in Prescott from the Santa Maria country. He was thrown from horse recently and came to town to be doctored.
 Lieutenant-Colonel Pope, formerly MY