Arizona republican., 1899-06-09
NEWS
 OF T HE
 TOWN

| yesterday.
 NEW SUITS. A new assortment of
 bathing suits has been received at the | swimming baths.
 MRS. PARKER SICK. Mrs. P. P.
 Parker is seriously ill of typhoid fever at her home on West Adams street.
 SEASIDE EXCURSIONS. The sec | ond of the seaside excursions is again
 in full blast. The trains of both the l north and the south roads went out l laden with passengers last night.
 DANGEROUSLY LOW.-The friends of Mrs. J. Ernest Walker despair of her recovery. She is delirious and sleeps little, and if any change has oc- | cured it has been unfavorable.
 NEW CANAL Pedro Perez yes l terday filed notice of a water location. He will build a canal, the San Fer nando." located south of the river near the Garcia ranch. There will be | 600 miners inches of water.
 REMAINS SENT HOME The re- mains of Theodore E. Piper, who served on General Lees staff in Cuba, were sent last night to the former | home of the dead man at Altamont, H., where they will be disposed of by the Masonic order.
 l h.- business of setting the hewn granite blocks on the wall of the capitol building was resumed yesterday. A stone saving plant will shortly be sent here by James Stewart & Co., Of St. Louis, for dressing the tufa STOLEN BICYCLES. Marshal Hi Hooker yesterday found three wheels in barn on South Third street. The owner of one of them was located, but the other two, enc a Hawthorne" and the ether Rugby" are thought to have been stolen from near Tempe.
 NEW MINING CORPORATION. - Articles of incorporation of the Whip saw Mining company were filed in the office of the county recorder yesterday. The incorporators are George D. Christy, F. K. Atkins and L. J. Her. toni
 JUSTICES COURT. Juan Key, who found a check belonging to an other man some time ago and had it cashed by Prosper BCrdone, was sen tenced 'by Justice Johnstone yesterday to thirty-five days in the county jail. Marcos Estrada, for a disturbance of the peace. got ten days.
 HE GOT TEN MONTHS. Ed Sher- wood, the champion bicycle thief with
 
 sent to jail by Justice Johnstone yes terday for ten months. This is a cumulative sentence of, five sections. For the first wheel he was given the limit, six months, and then one month each for the four other wheels.
 DISTRICT COURT. -Three cases were tried in district court yesterday. The matter of Williscraft vs. Crowley was taken under advisement. Judg- ments for the plaintiffs were rendered in the cases of Warren. vs. Osborn. and Sheuman, administrator of the estate of A. St. John Gaylord, Vs. the Highland Land and Water company.
 10. G. T. LECTURE. The Rev. L. o. Ferguson of the Christian church has accepted an invitation from the Good Templars of Glendale to deliver an address on Tuesday evening next in the Methodist church at a public meeting to be held by the lodge. After the lecture lodge will be convened for the initiation of candidates. Several members of the lccal lodge will go out to assist in the meeting.
 DEADLINESS OF DOCTORS. A tall colored man was standing on a corner where a street and alley comes together criticizing the progress made in the healing art. Things is wuss," said he, than they used to be. When wuz boy fo'hty yeahs ago they wuZa't one doctah to whah they's hunderd now. Folk lived jist as long es they do now an some of 'em a damsite lOngah. If the medical fac tories keeps on a-turnin' out physi~ clans an they keeps on a discoverin' new diseases man might as well not be bon. When I was boy they wuzn't no appenercitis and tuberculosis. Now more people dies from them two dis eases than all the rest Of 'em.''
 A BIG FREIGHTING JOB. Red | mend Toohey, who has contracted to do the freighting for the Cobre Grande ] mine, was in town yesterday. He will take back with him seventy-five teams. He said that the freighting feature is more extensive than he had antici- pate6. Because he has been unable to supply the mine with sufficient coke the smelter has been running irreg- ularlY, and started yesterday after be- ing shut down for three days Yet over 200 tons of bullion has been reduced and awaiting the action of the | Mexican government before it t-tEn be l disposed of
 DESPOILING THE DESERT About noon yesterday many persons Tn Phoenix looking westward began to wish they had led different lives The | world seemed to be coming to an end. Great clouds of black smoke roll | ed heavenward, followed by the an- grier, winter smoke, indicative of the nearness of flames. Now and then tongue of fire shot up. All this con- fagration was not for the regeneration l of the earth, but for the purification of 1 part of it, certain sections of Cap | itol addition. It had been planned by Captain Parker, who had collected | enough money from the nonresident | owners to pay for snatching it from the desert. The green brush, mostly | greasewood, was cut and thrown into WE ARE HEADQUARTERS