Arizona republican., 1899-01-09
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

| A BAD KNEE MT c. A. Willis O. i the Maricopa railroad office is confinst
 to his room with an affliction of the
 knee which has caused him consider.
 able inconvenience for some time. EUALLY IMPORTANT. A Sunday school teacher asked one of her pupils yesterday if he had been baptized No" he responded, but I have besn vaccinated.
 A SAD MESSAGE. MT. John G.
 Spangler yesterday received a telegram
 conveying the sad news of his fathers
 death, which occurred suddenly On
 Sunday.
 A WINDOW SMASIIER. An ofile CT
 last night arrested drunk who was
 evidently bent on breaking all the
 windows on Washington street He
 was caught before he did much damage
 THE MOODY CHORUS. At the
 Presbyterian church at 7:15 tonight the
 members of the Moody chorus will meet for practice. The chorus will be la. ge
 and some of the best singers of the
 city have been secured.
 ROAD TO RIVERSIDE. A visitor in the city from Tucson says that there
 is talk of a road being built from that pIaca to Riverside touching the Nam moth camp and other imp portant mining camps which Ecvc 1i1--ng up recently.
 NEW STEEL RAILS. --IiIo : 9r u Fe Railroad company has contracted for 16O, 900 tons of new steel rails at cost of nearly $3,000,000. The new rails will be Of the 72-pound class These now rials will be laid during the pres- ent year.
 AT MAYER The Lincoln-Fairbank party stopped at Prescott on Saturday night and yesterday visited the teTmi- nus of the Prescott & Eastern road, rs- turning to Prescott and Congress last night. The party will go to Los An geles today.
 DON'T WANT TT. The United States land officers of Tucson offered the Fort Thomas military reservation for sale, but there were no bidders. The land embraced in the reservation is mostly rich mesa soil that in time will be taken up in small tracts.
 DYING OUT. There is considerable sickness at Prescott this winter. There are at the present time thirty-two pa tients in the county hospital which is located there. There are seven small poX patients at the pest house in that city, but the spread of the hisease has been checked so that no further danger $ anticipated.
 "A FAREWELL DINNER. MT. Lawrence Adler, who has spent several months in the valley, last night lsft for Los Angeles. At the Ford last night Mir. Adler gave a dinner party 70 a number of his friends and his de- )arture was marked by words of cheer md good wishes for his future welfare. ! IIr. Adler's guests were MT. and Ms. !. Harry Latham, Miss Bowman and Mir. ; Ind Mrs. James Griffin.
 WILL TAKE A REST. MT. Walter Douglass, son of Pro -essor James Doug ass, will take a long vacation, hav.ng ,een relieved by MT. Mills, who has re- urned to Morenci after having served with the Rough Riders in Cuba He will visit San Francisco, go to Hong Kong, call on Admiral Dewey at Ma lila, inspect some of the mining prop ' rites in Australia and finally work his way around to New York.
 COMING OF MOODY. Dwight l.. 1oody, the great evangelist, will ar r. i've in the city tomorrow. He is at resent holding successful meetings at anta Fe. The first meeting in this ity will be held at the O'Neill hall on Wednesday, evening. The evangelist Fill be given a hearty reception and is sojourn in the city will no doubt b. marked by the success which attends Il of his meetings wherever he goes.
 LOCATED IN TUCSON s. J. Hol- finger, special agent of the department f the interior, who has located in Tue on, says that the department has in tructed him to file complaints against ,of . ermitS the cutting of dead me: quite nd also permits the actual settler to ut the green wood for actual needs, ut the object sought by the law as it ow stands is to prevent the wholesale estructiCn of the wood for speculative ( l
 YUMAITE DEAD. MT. Isaac Levy. ne of the most substantial residents of una county, is dead. He went to San rancisco to have an operation. per { 0rmed which he did not survive. MT. ,evy has held several positions of onor and trust in Yuma and Yuma ] 1unty, including the offices of probate Is 1dga, justice of the peace of Yuma recinct and treasurer of the village of ' una. He was a Mason and a past laSter workman Of the Ancient Order E United Workmen. [
 IN MANILA A former resident of lis territory who is now a member of
 battery at Oavite, near Manila, writes friend in Globe as follows: In regard to living. some things ara leap here. You can get drunk for bout cents Con a native drink called nsaw); you can buy a monkey for bout 9 cents; a good cigar for 1 cent l 10-center in the stases); a p.nt of le b5st French champagne fer 50 snts; good brandy for 40 cents a quart. 7ith the exception Of few ether lings living is high and good grub : ard to get
 SCARCITY OF WOOD. The Globe l l ines relates a. story of the recent oOd famine in the big mining camp hich illustrates how hard pressed for Tel the people of the camp were for everal days during the storm. The [ imes says that a man went out at the |