Arizona republican., 1899-01-03
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A LOCAL ARTIST. Miss May Phil lipps Of this city has kindly volunteered her services and will play the part of
 ''Prudence' in The Gay Deceiver" at the Patton Grand on Thursday night, January ,.
 A FIRE ALARM. The fire depart ment was called cut yesterday morn ing to the painting establishment of Taafe & Burgess. Somebody had dropped lighted match on the tarred roof of the place. It was eXtinguished by bucket of water.
 1 ANOTHER SHEEP MAN HERE. -
 MT. James Scott Of EE Ibrook has ar rived in the city to spend the winter. Mr- Scott is a sheep man of Navajo
 county and has several bands en route | to the valley. He suffered but slight l loss of sheep in the late storm which swept over the territory
 l FEMALE MINISTRIES. Mrs. H. A 1 Gillian and Miss Lizbeth Y Allen are 1 engaged in organizi 4s5 female min strel entertainment the date of which will be announced shortly. It will be
 black face affair and the participants
 will be many of the leading society la dies in the city. The idea of prepar- ing a minstrel show dated from the | late cake walk.
 TWO KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK. I-There are only two lady members in 1.-the world of the Knights of St. Pat
 rick One is Clara Morris, the we'll
 known emotional actress; the other is | the well known California favorite, Carrie Clark Ward, who will appear
 as Baby in "A Gay Deceiver," ant will sing several of her catchy songs at the Patton Grand, Thursday, Jan uary 5. It is to laugh
 MINES IN MEXICO. Mir. George
 Mitchell, superintendent of the United Verde smelteTs at Jerome, was in the
 city yesterday, having returned from
 visit to some copper mines located
 near Santa Ana, in Sonora, which
 were recently sold to eastern parties by
 James Shirley Of Arizona The new
 owners propose to bsgin operating the
 mines at once, and are making ar
 engagements for putting up a large
 smelling plant.
 A ROUGH RIDER ILL Herndon
 Young has returned to Phoenix from
 Chloride, where he went some time ago to accept a position with the h4n- hart Mining company. He was taken i'll a few weeks ago and his condition became so bad that it was thought best
 to send him home. He has suffered Q recurrence of malarial fever which he contracted while serving with the
 Rough Riders in Cuba. Mir. Young is at the home of his parents on Third street.
 4 DOUBLE RUNAWAY. A double runaway occurred OF West Washing ton street yesterday afternoon. The starting point was in front of the court house An unhitched team set out on Q hurried tour of investigation and h f k A. Armstrong, tied to a pole in front of his office. His horse was jared loose by the collision and ran down Washington street three or four blocks and was captured The offending team made circuit Of the court house plaza and returned, as real estate de scriptions say, to the original point of beginning.
 AN UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR. An unfortunate thing happened in Phoenix on Sunday night. It was the culmina- tion of several years domestic infe- licity in the family Of J. F. Briggs. MT 1 Briggs was arrested on charge of az gravated assault upon his wife. Yes i terday he furnished peace bond of 1 $500, and a charge of insanity was the latter charge today and perhaps eX- ! amined as to the former one next Wednesday. Nobody believes that he | is insane, and he says that the first ac- | cuSatiOn against him is without any | foundation at all. Those who know < him are inclined to believe him. He | has resided in Phoenix many years and | has always been sober, careful and | hard working.
 THE SENATOR STRIKE. The great gold strike in the Senator mine in Yavapai county is proving Of greater importance than was at first attached to it. A run of forty tons of ore has been made from the newly discovered | ore body which returned $25, ,O00, and | there is said to be a considerable body of this rich ore. strike has also been made in the Crowned King mine which is proving very profitable to the This mine has been dividing dividends of $30,000 for the past two years which will be increased by the recent discoveries in the lower workings of the mine.
 A MINING DEAL Ex-Governor E. M. Mcintyre of Colorado, who has been in Arizona for several weeks exam ming some mining properties, has se- cured the well known Mother Lode group of mines in Weaver district which are sometimes known as the | Leviathan mines. These mines are undevelOped, but there is a magnificent surface showing which in 1icates the presence of great bodies of ore below. The outcroppings contain l good values in free gold and concen- trates, and the ledge has great width ] and can be traced for a long distance. Mcintyre visited the mines last week with R. c. Smith of 1 Ontario, Frank Czarnowski of Congress and Walter Gregory of this city, and he told the latter gentleman that he buying the property and would erect 100-stamp mill and Op- T crate the mines on an extensive scale. MT. Gregory says that the price to De