Arizona republican., 1899-05-26

and formally tendered the co1nhissiIil
 to Captain Alexander. who responded
 in a vein appreciative of the hon9f
 conferred upon him by the banner
 company of the local battalion, and
 agreed to further the interests of the 1 c0mpany to the best Of his abilities
 Major James H. McClintock was called
 forth and he responded pleasantly His
 talk was largely reminiscent and in
 the course of his remarks he reviewed
 the standing of Company E. Light re-
 treatments were served subsequently
 and many repaired to another hall
 where the balance Of the evening was
 spent in dancing.
 NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE. -
 Something unusual, if not without
 precedent, happened in the office Of tue
 board of supervisors yesterday. R. E. | Miner. a member of the school board of the Osborn district, presented a rp- ceipt from the county treasurer show ing that he had paid SPA on account ot the district Nobody had ever beard 1 of a school district becoming a s0u-.cn
 of revenue, and Clerk John Gray fe:! heavily from his stool. This money
 had been derived from the renting of | the little school house. The Osborn | district will get this money all baeis
 again and more with it.
 4 BOY VAGRANT. There were l two vagrancy suspects in police court yesterday morning. One was a man ! considerably past his prime, and the l other was a boy of seventeen. Both
 were evidently not hobos from choice. | The old man was discharged and q
 bet:er thing still was done for the boy. NeTi Osborn found a job for him. He 6n ,s1 He had to go some place, for theru
 was nothing for him to Lio there. lie left home with S9, but that was aE gene when he came to Phoenix. HIS hunger became unbearable yesterday morning and ke was forced to beg cr steal. He dit the former.
 AN ENT,IUSIAGT RETURNS. - James ". Mccormick, the Rhin- lander. Minn., attorney an interview with whom was puoliched in The Re- publican three months ago. has dem Onstrated his tn in this valley by le- turning with his family after an cx- tensiVe trip through the United States. MT. Mccormick at one time represent ed number Ct lumber ccmpanIes Of noEthern Minnesota, but as he says, the lumber business there is Virtually a thing of the past The old lumber
  ment. Many of them are located in Washington. Mir. Mccormick has con fdenCe in the west, and to such an ex- tent in this valley that after he left here he wrote many fiattering articles for eastern papers. The articles were copied extensively. One remarkable incident followed the publications An article which appeared in a Minnesota journal appeared a few weeks later translated into 9 leal5ing journal of Sweden.
 A LOCAL ACHIEVEMENT Ono of the chief amateur theatrical achieve ments Cf the season took place when the Pioneer band minstreIs performed at the Patton Grand last evening" The audience was kept in good numor from the start to the finish. and the efforts demonstrated that a local troupe can be presented in this city which will not only draw a good crowd. but which will please it. IL is pleasant to record only praise of the vocal present tations. To Harry Parker belong the great hcnors as a clog dancer, and bis n2mesahe, Clay Parker. as well as Mike Buckley, were entitled to much consideration as comedians. An audi ence eXpectant of a treat was not dis appointed in the vocal se.ection rem dered by the Porter brothers Fer < full and expressive baritone voice. " M. Miln, who sang '4The Corsair," was not eclipsed. But ia is difficult ta make distinctions and the auditors were satisfied that each had done his part with credit
 AN OSTRICH'S CULTIVATED was a happening a. the ostrich farm recently which dis proves the theory that the ostrich is satisfied with eating nails, barbed wire and the like. A man who had visited the farm the 6ly before dis covered that his gold watch was miss ing. Thinking that he might have lost it at the farm he returned to look for 1t. When he arrived ihe enlisted the services of a youth and started in quest, without entertaining nnUch hope Of finding the watch. About the first thing noticed by the youth was an ostrich tossing something in the air. It was the watch and would have been swallowed if it had been a glass faced watch. It happened that both sides were opened and lodged in the beak. The next day the valuation of one of the birds was enhanced $50. l. swallowed a diamond from the setting of a woman visitor, wno inadvertently SOUSnL u COtIoOiS t-IS LII u ny C-t4 Co- sing it's forehead.
 CCAfMENDS THE METHODS-COl. ] Thomas A. Orr told a reporter yester- day that he has been in the habit of purchasing from ten to fifteen copies of The Republican Of each issue which 1 contained a good mining article from any cf the 1lining correspondents. MT. Orr believes in encouraging the work