Arizona republican., 1899-12-29

A NEW NOTARY. A notarial com mission was issued yesterday to Burt Dunlap of Graham county.
 A NOTABLE RESIDENT. Hon. w. L. Wilson of West Virginia, postmas- ter-general during the second Cleve- land administration, will shortly be- come a resident of Arizona. He is coming to Castle Creek hot springs soon after the holidays.
 AN IMPENDING WEDDING. - A wedding will shortly take place at the territorial hospital for the insane. The groom is one of the oldest and best known employees of the institution, but the announcement of his name at this time, he thinks, would be premature.
 UTAH DITCH CASE. The testi- mony for the plaintiffs and intervenor in the Utah ditch case was concluded yesterday morning and evidence for the defendants began to be taken. The testimony will probably be all put in today.
 GOVERNORS REPORT. - The re port of Governor Murphy to the secre- tary of the interior will be ready for distribution soon after January l. Its issue is a little later this year than usual on account of the delay of the engraving of a map of Arizona which the interior department is going to insert in the report.
 AGRICULTURAL BACTERIA. - Professor A. J. McClatchie of the agri- cultural experiment work of Arizona, leaves this evening for Pasadena, Cal. to attend a meeting of the Farmers Club convention, which meets on Jan uary 1 to 1, 1900. On the second day of the convention CTuesday) Professor McClatchie will read a paper on the subject, Bacteria in Agriculture.''
 MRS. HANSEN'S CASE CONTIN- JED. The case of Mrs. Hansen, who was to be given a preliminary exam ination in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday on a charge of shooting Mrs. Buelah Brown with intent to commit murder, was continued until next Tuesday. Judge Baker, the defend ants attorney, is engaged in district court in the trial of the Utah Irrigat- ing ditch case.
 LECTURE FOR MESA. The Rev L. O. Ferguson of this city will go to Mesa on Tuesday next to deliver a lec- ture for the Good Templars. He is to be sent out by the superintendent of lecture work of the grand lodge and expects to visit other points in the valley in the near future. MT. Fergu son has won a reputation as an elo- quent and interesting speaker, of or i6aas f1IIIHr of times. This lecture will be delivered in the Baptist church on Tuesday evening.
 ANOTHER STEER TYING CON TEST. The fame of Ed Horrell, the Pinto creek cowboy who won the car nival prize and later beat Doc GOodin in a steer tying contest, is spreading. An Indian vaquero from California and a Texan who thinks he knows how to annihilate time in tying steers want to contest for the championship of the southwest, which really means the steer tying championship of the world. It is quite likely that contest will be arranged, to take place in Phoenix soon, at $1.OOO a side, or, if there are more than two contestants, at S1,000 a corner.
 OF ANCIENT DATE. - Gardener Dave Turner created a ripple of inter est on the court house plaza yesterday by finding a copy of the New York Herald of the date of April 15, 1865. The column rules were turned upside down in emblem of grief for the death of Lincoln. who had been assassinated the day before. There were numerous exciting dispatches relating to the tragedy. There were also telegrams describing incidents of the war of the rebellion, which was then drawing to a close. The inner pages contained,