Arizona republican., 1899-10-10
NEWS
 OF THH
 TOWN

WHATSOEVER CIRCLE. - Tn
 semi-annual business meeting of tn
 Whatsoever Circle of the King
 Daughters will be held at the Baptis
 church at 1 o'clock on Tuesday after
 noon.
 A WILL WAITING.-Theh hearing Q
 a petition for the admission of the vii
 of Henry Windows began in probat
 court yesterday, but was continued un
 til October r, to await deposition.
 from California.
 REVELRY IN THE WIGWAI- The ball of the Pocahontas lodge il | Elks hall last night was very well at
 tended and a most enjoyable time wa: | reported by those who participated 1T | the festivities of the hour
 A NEW PHOENIX LAWYER Tn. l Washington CD. @ Star says: MT
 William L. English of this city ha: gone to Phoenix, Ariz.. to engage 1T
 the practice of law" MT. English is already here and was admitted t, practice yesterday.
 1 LADIES' AID ELECTION. The Ladies Aid society of the Baptist | church elected the following officers al their last meeting: Mrs. Louise Tut | tie, president; Mrs. Lulu G. Porter l secretary; Mrs. Viola Wells, treasurer 1 On Friday evening of this week they | will give a Dewey social at the home 1 of the president, Mrs. Futile, 454 North | Fourth avenue. The Coyotes will sing. AT THE POINT OF DEATH.-Wal- ter English, an express messenger on I the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railroad is probably dead this morning. A telegram was received last night at the office of the company from Los l Angeles saying that he would not like 1 ly live through the night. He took a l vacation a little more than a month ago as he had not been feeling well for some time, and went to Los Angeles. His ailmeht soon developed into ty- phoid fever.
 DWINDLING CATTLE. - Joseph Monihon says that the number of cat tie just now is twenty-five per cent less than year ago at this time and then it was twenty-five per cent below the corresponding period of the year be- fore when it was lower than it had ever been before. There is likely to De a further depletion amounting to al- most a cattle famine The price is slowly approaching four cents and is bound to reach it when every animal fit for the market will go out.
 A SUCCESSION OF MINES. A queer combination of figures was pre- sented at the office of the board of su- pervisors yesterday in a claim by a roadmaster. He is supervisor of road district No 9 and the claim, filled in with ink on a blank form, looked as if the claimant had been trying to per feet himself in the art of making the figure ''9.' The amount of the claim was $9. It was dated the 9th month, the 9th day of the month of the year '99 on account of road district No. 9.
 POLICE COURT-John Vim and Peter Cooper, two Indians, were picked up by the police on Sunday night for riding bicycles without a light. They were brought before Acting Recorder Johnstone and were proceeded against under the old ordinance fOrbidding In dians within the city limits after sun down. They were fined 5 each, but judgment was suspended on the cOndi- tion that they do not violate the or dinance again. Both Indians are en- ployed in families just outside the limits. Peter BIedshaw, arrested for being drunk and disorderly, forfeited a 8 bond.
 THE HEAD OF A FAMILY.-Fred Balsz is not only a pioneer of the Salt River valley but he has done more to settle it up than most men. He was at the board of supervisors yesterday and when John Norton who knew something of his numerous progeny asked him how many children he had he said thirty-one or thirty-two, he was not sure which number He has though sixteen boys and eight girls 1ixri11 lT Po1 h hr,, ,,.r.i., 1 four times. He is seventy-one years old. He is as active as any man of fifty in the valley and looks no older
 He has twenty grandchildren and l twenty t-grandchildren.
 AN INTERESTING TOY.-Mrs. W. c. Foster, who lately returned from the east, brought home with her a curious and interesting scientific toy called the ''anaglyph.' It consists of a set of pictures in red the princi- pal objects of which have broad yellow and green lines drawn along the edges without any apparent purpose in view. The figures look rough and jumbled to- gether without any perspective and the work to be cheap and common. A part of the toy is a pair of spectacles, the left glass green and the right one red. Through these glasses the pie lures look different. The red is ab- sorbed, those unsightIy green and vel low lines are taken up leaving the ob- jects bounded by them standing out in a bold perspective, seen only in the best stereoscopic views.
 BUCKEYE REORGANIZATION - A meeting of the purchasers of the in terest of the Captain O'Neill estate in the Buckeye canal, holding and repre- senting a majority of the stock in the canal, held a meeting in this city yes terday for purposes of reorganization. J. H. Braley of Los Angeles and c. r. AinswOrth and Frank AinswOrth of Phoenix, were elected directors The