Arizona republican., 1899-03-29

J. c. Perry Of Tucson, whc has sold
 his residence and lot on Court ana
 Council streets to R. r. Stephens, will
 leave this week for Philadelphia, there
 to join Mrs. Perry and reside perma-
 nently.
 Irvine Saunders. the freighter, is in
 town, says the Prescott Courier. He
 has a contract to do freighting for the
 zonia Copper company. He says that
 Kirklan- sta ion has business boom
 and that Merchant Thomas Earnhart
 is dcing a big business.
 The Prescott Masonic delegation has
 returned from Jerome, where a lodge
 was duly installed. There was a
 lodge in Jerome before the fire, but the
 hall, with all records save the charter,
 was destroyed. The company is build
 ing a three-story brick and iron Ma sonic tempe The new ledge starts in
 with a membership of about thirty.
 The Prescott delegation was enter
 tained most handsomely. There was fine banquet-Prescot Courier.
 Mrs. Carmine Petty was examined yesterday by a committee on insanity,
 consisting of Probate Judge Purcell, County Physician Purcell, Supervisor M. C.. Samaniego and Judge w. J. Os- born. No verdict has as yet been ren- dered, but it is most probable that the unfortunate woman will be judged in sane, from what we can learn. Mrs. Petty's is a very pitiab.e case. She lost her husband some time ago and this, with poverty, has produced a de spondercy that brought dementia in it's relentless :wake.-TUcs0n Citizen.
 John T. Hughes was congratulated by his many friends yesterday after noon on his appointment, by the board of supervisors to the position of county superintendent of schools. MT Hughes fills the vacancy caused by the division of the county, the former incumbent, E. B. Williams, being a resident Of Santa Cruz cOUnty.-TucsOn Star.
 Mrs. B. Well and her daughter, who have spent some time in the city, this morning left for Phoenix, where they will visit a few weeks. They will re- main longer At the New OrndOrff last night a great many of their friends gathered to bid them farewell and an early return to the city.-TucsCn Citi- zen.
 The Fl Paso Herald thinks there will come more changes in railroad matters. In a recent edition that pape- has the following: '<The Southern Pacific has inaugurated a reduction in eastbOund secOnd-clasS passenger rates out of San Francisco to conform to the cut insci- tuted by the Great Northern and by the Canadian Pacific. The reduction between Chicago and San Francisco tC $7 and between New York ] and San Francisco to SIPS. It will be but a comparatively short time until the Santa Fe will be bidding for some of the travel out of San Francisco and when they do reach this degree of use fitness in California those who are in . a position to know predict a very vic ! ious railroad war between the South l ern Pacific and the new arrival" !
 The board of supervisors is cOnsid- ering plans for the erection Of a fire proof vault, which will form an addi- tion to the court house on the north side. The vault will be completely ire-pToof. Ths court house today has TO vaults which are fre-prOof ana if the court house burned the records would be destroyed. The proposed an- mex affords on the lower floor office room for the county recorder besides vaults for his records, and the county treasurer also has q vault opening into the annex from his present qUar- ters. On the tCD floor the clerk of court gives up his room to the judge of probate and the judge retains his present private office The clerk takes he present reception room used by the probate jurge and also has large of ice in the vault annex with a safe place for his records. The probate judge is given vault opening from his private office into the annex. The arrange nent will make other changes in the occupancy of the court house, if the inn lroVement is made. The cost of the in0nX will hp som Of n ir1cr .~yror G1A Tucson Citizen