Arizona republican., 1899-06-13
NEWS
 OF THH
 TOWN

MORE BUILDING. It is probabl.
 that the construction of several gooC
 buildings will soon besstarted in thu
 northern part of town.
 LICENSED TO WE'D. License tt
 marry was granted yesterday to Jos
 eph Williams and Mrs. Cieofas Vii
 Hanson.
 ' SEIZED OF PNEUMONIA. = About
 three o'clock yesterday City Zanjerc
 A. s. Arthur was stricken with pneu-
 monia and is now confined to his
 room.
 ESTATES SETTLED. The estates
 of L. G. Talmadge and Macedonia Val
 dez were settled in probate court yes
 terday and were assigned to the sur
 viving widows
 l INTEREST ON FUNDING BONDS.
 The county treasurer yesterday paid
 to the territorial treasurer $66,691.12, the semi-annual payment of interest
 on the Mariccpa county refunding bonds.
 SELL LOTS ON THURSDAY. The
 board of supervisors did not hold its
 regular weekly meeting yesterday, but
 deferred the business until Thursday.
 when the two lots south of the court 1 house will be sold.
 FORESTER'S DEATH. John Mo 1 SorIey, aged 35, died at the county | hospital on Sunday and the body was 1 buried yesterday. He was a member of the order of Foresters and came here recently from Seattle. FULL OF WIND. Fay Knowlton has a compressed air apparatus which 1 is operated Cn cooperative basis. He has a storage reservoir for wind, and every small boy passing a certain line is required to raise the pressure five pounds.
 PANORAMA OF TEMPE. A F. Messenger, the viewis5, has lately com pleted a panorama of Tempe and vicin- iJy It is four plate photograph so deftly joined together that the piece wcrk is not observable. The picture takes in an area of several square miles.
 BUILDING RAPIDLY. The fifteen new buildings proposed to be built on the cooperative plan at the Capitol grounds have nearly all been started. They are in nearly all stages of con structioE The work on some has just been started, while others are two stories high.
 MRS. WALKER VERY LOW. The condition of Mrs. J. Ernest Walker yesterday was considerably mere un- favorable than it had been. The case was complicated by pneumonia on Sunday and the patient grew steadily worse. Her friends have not given up hope that the splendid fight she has made fer life will be in vain.
 RUSH FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLs.- Since the assignment of teachers to the city schools this year there has been a rush for the outside districts. AL though the school boards have all va cation in which to select teachers. nearly every school has been supplied. Among those not yet furnished with teachers are districts 6, s and H.
 DAY AND NIGHT. Work on the new well at the water works is being prosecuted actively, the men working day and night. The original inten- ton of sinking a well with twenty feet dimensions has been abandoned for the present, and a smaller shaft will be sunk for immediate relief. Water has been scarcer this year than ever be- fore. The water level is lower.
 RAILROAD CHANGES. = George Gam, agent of the M. & P. at Phoenix, has been appointed to succeed Hugh Creighton, whose resignation as as sistant general freight and passenger agent was announced by The Republi- can. MT. Gam will be succeeded by George Mauk, agent at Mesa, and he by I. D. Reedy, who has for some time | been connected with the local office.
 AT THE HOSPITAL. Ed Dugan. | who was shot by an officer beyond i Mesa last February while causing trouble in a sheep camp, has recov- 1 cred from his injuries at the county i hospital, but he is a leg short. New | ton Smith, another inmate, who was | injured by Q street car a few months | ago, is around again. He will all | ways, however, be compelled to walk with crutches.
 POSTOFFICE AND BANK. Oscar '. Hamlin of Denver is at the FeTd i hotel. MT. Hamlin was a postofide clerk of Highland, a small place near Denver, in 1894. This was during the panic. The postoffice was used as a bank. The people were uneasy if their money was in a bank, and instead took put postal orders. The money was safe there for one year, when the or iers could be renewed.
 MYSTERIOUS PARTY. A party of hastily run line east and west, north of town yesterday and many people concluded that another ! big improvement in the valley would | soon come to light They were pre- pared to believe it was another rail road. They were not mistaken, al- though they probably knew of the 'ailroad before. The surveyors were the northern route proposed | IS a possible route for the Inglesfde | 'Oad.
 A DANG FERROUS PRACTICE. The [ 1anger of carrying a child on bicycle | was given a fresh illustration near the ccrner of Washington and First av- ,nue yesterday. A man was riding