Arizona republican., 1899-02-23
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

LICENSED TO WED.-Marriage li- censes were issued yesterday to Pedro
 ROsales and Maria Romano, Joseph c.
 Gilbert and Hattie E. Curtis. The lat
 ter named couple live at Wickenburg
 RETURNING SOLDIER BOYS. =
 The former members of the McCord
 regiment who arrived yesterday were
 William McClinCcck, Thomas Linville
 Harry PachWoOd, John Paddock and L.
 McCracken.
 READY FOR PROBATE-The will
 of Angelus Shashusen, late of Tempe
 will be presented for probate today. The will gives to 8 brother of the de-
 ceased in Germany $3,5O0 and the re- mainder Of the estate to Henry Smash usen of Tempe and his daughters.
 OPERA COMPANY ARRIVES The Andrews opera company arrived last night over the Santa F'e and the mem berS are registered in the different ho- tels of the city While the advance sale of tickets has been. extraordinarily large there are a number of seats uu- sold for each performance.
 AN OPENING AT GLOBE.-Globe is presenting an opening just now. An drew Kosik is lately in receipt of 9 letter from s. A. ParnaH suparintend- ent of the Old Dominion Copper Min ing and Sn1elting company. saying that he would employ twenty-five or thirty good miners if he could get them soon
 TO THE RESERVATION. -S. P. Clark will again be the host of a..party Of eXcursiOnists. The party viii con sist of about thirty ladies and gentle men, guests of the Ford hotel. and will l take a trip Tuesday to the Pima reser- vation on the Gila river Two walters | will go with the tourists to prepare the l spread.
 MISSOURI PICNIC The Missouri l picnic at the park Saturday promises | 70 rival anything Of it's kind yet held. l Among the speakers assigned will be r George Hunt, Speaker ' Henry Ashurst and Captain P. P | Parker The picnickers will be on the | grounds the remainder of the day af- | CT @. m.
 SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION.- | pleasant party of young people from he Baptist Sunday school enjoyed .ide to the Hcle-in-the-rCck and Camel Back yesterday. The participants wee Misses Sadie Wilcox, Tweed, Irvine, Veirick, Kennedy, Mary Halsey, Het- ie Halsey, with Mrs A. B. Buckley as Messrs Proper, Wilcox. Barnett, Parkhurst, Halsey, Heinlen md Wood.
 YESTERDAYS SHAM BATTLE. - The sham battle east of the Phoenix lark yesterday attracted a large num- fer Of people. It commenced at a later lour than had been announced. The wo companies drilled for awhile be ere proceeding With the battle. The -uardgmen were formed in both close nd extended order, but the seat of heir operations was for the most part oncealed by the Erush and the spec ators were net enabled to see very nuch of the affray.
 WHOLESALE BUTCHERS FAIL imon Meyer of Los Angeles, the most xtensive wholesale butcher and pack ] 7 in southern California, failed on [ tuesday. Several Salt River valley ( attlemen are painfully interested in Ieyer's affairs for he was the heaviest uyer on the coast represented here l inc local cattleman is said to be { aug,ht for $2,S00 and others for small Z amounts. Meyers buyer here was Y I. W. Maxwell, who was hurriedly to Los Angeles on Tuesday e fternoon. MT. Maxwell met Mrs | laxwell at MaricOpa. She was Cn her z -ay from Los Angeles to visit her hus- z and. She came on to the city yester- l ay morning. C
 A PROSPEROUS CHURCH.-The 9 nnual congregational meeting of the [ resbyterian church took place last | ight. Dr. J. c. Norton and J. Nj. l were reelected elders and (
 W. Doris and James McMillan, ( 'ustees. The reports of the various were read, showing the , hurch to have emerged from debt. t0 ) ave greatly increased in membership | uring the past year and to be cen s 'onted by prospect of unexampIed [ rOsperity. 4 collect on of $24O c as taken for the mission Sunday V chOOl, which is to be established at [ le corner of Alta and Desert streets | l the Mount Pleasant tract. The first | 9ssiOn will be held next Sunday. A | hiding is in course of construction. | 1t will not be finished before the lat V r part of next week I