Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-08-29

nett. Hazel preferred to do her own
hair dressing but Laura as insistent,
and not having a comb at hand she did
some scientific work with her fists and
fingers. Had the officers not inter-
fered 1t is quite possible she would
have completed the job by working
over the face of the unfortunate
Hazel. 1t cost her 81 to learn her new
trade. Same was deposited with JUS
tice Johnstone for the county school
fund.
THE HALVES RELIEF EXPEDI-
| TION.-Word was received yesterday
| from Commodore Halves of the relief
expedition which sailed from Phoenix
early in the summer, that he is about
10 start on his southwark cruise. The
letter was written on board his flag
ship, the Ark, anchored off Flagstaff.
A BLIND DRUNK.-Eugene Tapia,
otherwise the "Blind Boy" was gath
cred up by the police yesterday morn
ing for drunkenness and making as
much disturbance as a man of per-
feet vision. He was given seven days
in the calaboose. He has been before
the court frequently, but a sympathy
for him has always procured his dis
charge on a promise to reform.
FOUND A GOLD WATCH. - On
Sunday evening a little boy, Willie
Price, found a gold watch on Grand
avenue not far from the residence OF
Captain E. A. Poyen. 1t was lying n
the grass ait the roadside and seemed
to have been puuipOsegy flung there. for
it was some distance from the travelled
track. The finder was attracted by the
glitter of the metal. He took it home
and his father suppcsing it might be
one Of the several gold watches which
have been stolen by burglars in and
near Phoenix within the last three
days, took it to the office OF Justice
Gray yesterday. 1t was valuable
watch with solid case. and bore the
initials, &C. E. W." There was a pc
culiar home made chain attached. 1t
IVES learned later in the day that it
belonged to Charles WocdeH, SON of
w. D. WOodeu. He had passed along
Grand avenue on horseback only a
lew minutes before the watch was
found
JUST WANTED THEM BACK
Ross Buck and Preston Brooks, the
two boys arrested at Florence last
Saturday on a telegram from here
charging them with stealing a couple
- AAOA So Ii jill L4IS 1dldc1 VI yOuuS
Buck, who lives seven miles south of
Mesa, were brought in yesterday
morning by Deputy Sheriff Billy
Moore. They were given prelimi-
nary hearing before Justice tombstone
and were discharged on a statement by
Bucks father, in which it was shown
that no theft had been committed and
that his son had a right, or thought
he had a right, to take the horses. i
He had made the complaint against
the boys, not with the purpose of
them, but with the OBJ
ject Of recovering them. While the
county is not engaged in running a
private detective bureau. in this case
no harm was done, as Mr. Buck paid
-he cost of the proceedings as far as
hey had gone
ACCOMMODATIONS. NOT Salts
Ramon Gonzales is the
Mexican discovered by Captain Hi
Mcdonald on Sunday morning holding
Town the sidewalk near the corner of !
seventh avenue and Monroe street, /
md by that official turned over to the /
Of the sheriff He was
brought into Justice Johnstone's court !
morning where, if there /
lad previously been any doubt, it was /
dearly established that Ii had been /
hunk. He was sentenced to seven |
lays in Jail. Defendant did not muir /
nur a the sentence, but stated that if 4
/ could be so arranged, he would pre- !
ar to serve his time III the city Jail. /
lie had on former occasions patrOnized !
learly all the jails in this part of the /
and was fully convinced that .
he culinary service OF the city jail /
vas superior to that of the county
quarters. He was referred TO the
6 the sheriff for an opinion on the .
ubject i
PASSING OF THE KISSING BUG. /
The kissing bug which held the at
ention Of the nervous public during
he early summer months, and parLic-
larly that portion of the public which
which scarcely knew the nature of a
cal old-fashiOned kiss, seems to have
ad its day. Occasionally some one is
net with a swelled head and attempts
o account for it by laying the blame
n the rapidly waning fad. But ii is
nOre often referred to in the light of
joke, and in this connection it is re-
ated of James Mccarthy, the Five
'oints blacksmith, that on a recent oc-
aston while taking a drink of soda
7ater at a popular parlor, big bug
lighted on his hat. These present
ried toEfrighten him by the announce
tent that a kissing bug was very close
" and was just sharpening up his
User preparatory to slipping a little
ada fcom Mr. McCarthy's tempting
ips He only remarked, 'Humph!
hose things don't scare me a little bit
have been in Arizona for twenty