Arizona republican., 1899-04-18
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| POLICE COURT.-There were seven drunks in police court yester- day. Their fines range from s to s, yet out of this promising field | only S15 in cash was realized.
 MEETING OF TENNIS CLUB.-A
 meeting of the Phoenix tennis club
 will be held tonight a. the residence as
 NJ. Rosenberg with 2 view to arrang-
 ing a field day with the high school. JUDGE KTNCAID'S FUNERAL 1 Memorial services for Judge Kirca.d
 will be held at the family home on East Van Buren street today at 7 l o'clock, Rev. Lewis Halsay conducting the services.
 l TEACHERS MEETING-Th reg l lar teachers meeting was held at the 1 central school house yesterday. \ l discussion of sanitary measures took place and the teachers will probably l take extra precautions to ward off
 diphtheria- Other new sanitary regu- lations for the school were made.
 AN RESPONDING WASHWOMAN. Violet Cameron, denizen of he block appeared in Justice John stones court yesterday morning. She wanted 3 warrant for her absconding washwoman, who had embedded four dozen articles of clothing. Miss Cameron sad she had gone 60 Will Rams. The complainant could not furnish any evidence Of the crime be yOnd her simple story and the warTan5
 was withheld.
 WHEEL THAT DISAPPEARS
 Henry George has always had q
 peculiar failing as to his bicycle, but i5
 has become more apparent since hs
 has adopted the livery business. His
 habit is to mour5 his wheel for few
 minutes when he will engage in some conversation and walk off forgetting his steel steed. Usually he spends half a day in locating it. He is now making a dihgent, but he fears, 8 fruitlesS search.
 DISTRICT COURT.-There was brief session of district court yes,er- day, In the case of Billups vs the Utah Canal Extension company, the defendant demanded jury trial. Judgment was given the plaintiff in the case Ntcklssburg ct al vs Cosby. The case of Potter vs Yaeger ct 3l, was continued. A demurrer t0 the in dfctment was 0verruled in the case of G. A. Snyder, charged with passing counterfeit money. The grand jury will reassemble today.
 DEPARTMENT MEETING. - The department meeting of the Grand Army Of Arizona will convene this morning at 10 o'clock. This afternoon the annual campfire will be held, to which all ex-confederates and soldiers of the war with Spain are invited. An evening session will U he'd. The main business Of the organization will be transacted tomorrow. Representa- tives of the order began arriving yes terday morning The northern dele 1 gates all came in last night.
 SILVER PEG.-A long-haired in 1 dividual, who has been deprived oT ! one leg, has been attracting some lit 1 tie attention on the streets. His name ! is not known, but his epithet, Silver 1 Peg" is universal. He is prosp5ctor ] of many years eXpe Lence It was Silver Peg" who located some valu- 1 able claims in the Mosquito pass in i. Colorado at the time of the Cripple l Creek excitement. This was note i worthy from the point of view of 9 ! prospectOr, because hundreds of them i had passed over the same ground on 1 their way to Cripple Creek.
 PLANTATION WAR. - Wifiiam i 0rme is in receipt Of another letter i from his brother Scholl Orme. who is engaged as a luna on a large sugar l | olulu. A small war has been waged on | the plantation between the Chinese i and Japanese employees. The latter . were proving Tsry successful in their i campaign and the "lunas," a tho time the letter was written, were about to | be sent out to put down the riot | These plantations are operated under | one head and the position Cccup:ad by f MT. Orme is that of an overseer.
 HON. JAMES FINLEY IN TOWN Hon. James Finley of Tucson arrived i in the city yesterday morning MT. Finley Is department commander of 1 the c. A. R. of this territory and { comes to attend the department meet ing which will convene today. He has frequently represented Pima county in the territorial legislature MT. Finley is extensively engaged in cattle raising in the southern part of Pima. or now Santa Cruz county, and his ranch at La Osa- whose house is within 400 feet of the Mexican line, is one of the pleasantest spots in A-i- zCna. MT. Finley is also the owner of valuable mining property in the liar shaw district MT. Finley is not re- lated to James B. Finley, who repre- sented Pima in the council of the Twentieth legislature.
 WANTS A SALOON LICENSE Some time ago a man made prepara- tiOn to reopen Q saloon n a building Il On the northwest corner of Madison Ei and Second s,reGts He spent about Il $100 in fitting up the place and whsn H he applied for a license he found that Il a petition had been filed by residents Il of that neigEborhood requesting that Il his aODlic9tiOn he rejected Tho "a 30 was a peculiar one No complaint II could be made agains5 the applicant. II for nobody knew him Il could not ha il said that his b n11sa 1.-as disnr.al c,.L-- b. II