Arizona republican., 1899-01-12
NEWS
 TOWN

} man Mulitor. who WIS lately brought 2 back from Tucson on 2 charge of the
 wholesale robbery of w. I. H0rner's g
 house last summer. The defendant ha7
 not prOfited by the change Of climate and is too sick to be brought cut ot
 jail.
 WILSON'S EXPERIMENT. T.-Justic7
 Kircaid yesterday sentenced Thomas
 Wilson to 100 days in the -unty jail
 for stealing an overcCat from L. F
 Buck. He is also charged with having
 distracted a coat from William Fer
 r5is. He demanded jury trial in this
 case and one was ordered for today This demand was made as an exp9ri-
 ment.
 ARRIVING LEGISLATORS. - A
 strong contingent Of legislators arrived
 on the s. F. P & p. last night It in
 cludes Henry F. Ashurst Cf Cooonino,
 candidate for speaker, and J. J. San ders of Richenbar and w. s. Adams of
 Jerome, members of the assembly from Yavapai. J. NJ Murphy. councilman from Kingman, has engaged suite Of
 rooms at the Portland and was expect
 cd to arrive last night.
 RETURN OF GOVERNOR MIR IPHY. Governor and Mrs. N. o. Mur- ply returned last night from the'r eastern trip undertaken before the
 holidays, which they passed with their
 son Paul. who is at school near New York. The governor spent some time The days before the convening of the 1 legislature will be filled with the prep aratiOn of his message.
 A TRIO OF HOBOS. -Thrse hob3s
 were in police court yesterday. One
 k1 z himself and said he was a boiler
 maker and was on his way to Tucson where he expected to find employment. He was allowed to go. The other two were unable to give a reasonable ex-
 cuse for beirg in Phoenix or anywh ere else on earth. They were committed to the chain gang for fifteen days
 CAPITOL CONTRACT. The mem bers of the capitol site commission spent yesterday in an examination of the complicated bids Tor the cOnstruo- tion of the capitol building While they had not finished comparison or the many propositions submitted they had reached concluSiOns Cn certain
 points. They were rot ready yet to award the c9nt-5ct but that will cer-
 tainly be done some time today. It is probable that it will go 70 one Of the Phoenix bidders.
 AN APPEAL FOR CHARITY. M. l.. Raymond, a Rough Rider. formerly of Ottumwa. Ia is now lying critically i'll of typhoid fever at Maricopa. with out means or any one to care for him. ] He was hOnOrably discharged in Sep tember, shows good standing and was in the battles at Santiago de Cuba i1 June and July. The citizens of Mari cOpa have appealed to the county off, cers, but nothing is being done fer the unfortunate man. Raymond is now ly- ing in a hut built of railroad ties.
 TO RECOVER ON A NOTE. An ! nie M. Gregory brought two suits in district court yesterday to recover note for S3, GOO given Ter in 1894 by !. M. Gregory, now a resident of Hollis ter, Cal. The first YVES an attachTent suit brought against Gregory and re- turn was made showing that seve~al lots on East Washington street had been levied uron. The other was a garnishment proceeding against E. s. Wakelin. supposed to be in possession Of certain property belonging to Greg- ory
 ONLY A NETGHBORLY FIX Jesus Castro, who was ar rested on Tuesday for committing a murderous assault on Frar cisc2 Cruz with ta deadly weapon, tC-Wit a c7rt2i1 long handled shovel, was tried in Jus tice Kincaid's court yesterday and dis charged. The evidence showed that there had been nothing of but a neiga- 4 bOrly exchange of compliments be- tween Castro and Cruz. Whether the former intended to actually assault Castro or not could not te proved hut it was held that a shovel is an imple- ment Of peaceful husbandry until it is used as a tCol of blCodshed.
 MINING LOCATIONS. -Tte cffc4 of the county recorder was submerg d yesterday with a lot of location and re- location notices of a group of mining { claims in the Eagle Tail mountains Nearly all the claims were igin9lly the property of the Volcanic Mining l company or are in the vicinity Of the i property of that company. The relo- cated claims are also renamed. The group with the locators is as follows: Golden Crown, by Benjamin F. Lowsr; Copper Carbonate, by Mary E. Taylor; ( the Black Oxide, the Red Oxide and ] he Golden Butte. by Dr. H. H. Tavlcr; i the Copper Quarry. by AleXapdr c. | Murphy, and the Pca-Ock, by Gei5rge D. Lower. Dr. Tavlor also filed loca- ton notices of the Eag'e Tail r sew ir ' site and the Eagle Tail Mining and $ Smelling site All these claims con- , stitute the disrute1 property over ( which battle was fought by repre- | sentatives of the present lOcatCr5 and l those Of some Chicago caritalists who i claimed to have anquired them by pur- I chase.
 HE WOODED THE BONES -Fman- ( uel B. Scot taking advantage in the lull in the deg catching business a this season of the year went into Nickel igon's yesterday morning to iugsle l with the Osse0us cubes with which men sometimes tempt fate. MT. SCctt lin ' cred long. waiting for the arrival Of ( he wealth bearing seven and eleven