Arizona republican., 1899-04-28
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

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 an undelivered telegram at the
 Western Union for Edith Evans.
 LICENSED TO WED. -License to
 marry was issued yesterday to Will
 liam Proffitt and Susan Young
 LETTERS OF GUARDIANSHIP. -
 Mrs. Kannie M. Biven yesterday made
 application in probate court for letters
 of guardianship of Ethel Grayson
 DIED YESTERDAY. -C. F. Daugh-
 erty died in this city yesterday morn
 ing. His remains will be sent to his
 late home at Quincy, IL He was
 25 years of age and came here about
 two months ago.
 SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC. - The
 South Methodist Sunday schools of Phoenix. Tempe and Bethel will give
 a picnic at Clayson's park a week from
 next Saturday, The children of the
 three schools will be gathered up in hay wagons.
 KIRKLAND ADDITION. The cir
 culators of the petition in the Kirk
 land addition for admission are await ing the arrival of a few residents at
 present out of town. They will prob
 ably have the signature of every resi- | dent in the addition.
 THEY MAY SETTLE. The de-
 cfsion on the application for new
 trial made by the plaintiff in the
 Smith-Baksr case, which was to be | made in Justice Gray's court yester-
 day, was postponed till Saturday. In 1 the meantime a compromise will probably be affected
 A TEMPE ROBBERY. Tine resi- | dcnce of Charles Taylor at Tempe was burglarized Wednesday night. A
 watch, some jewelry and few pieces of gold coin 'wsre stolen. The robbery probably occurred while the family was at the Rebekah dance given that night. The robbers have not been To- cated.
 FOUND DEAD IN BED. George Farmer, agent of the Santa Fe, Pres colt 6 Phoenix Railroad company at Kirkland, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. He was apparent ly in good health the night before He had been in the company's service three years. He came to Arizona of age and unmarried.
 MOVEMENT OF OFFICES. MT. Lloyd Johnston, clerk of the supreme court, yesterday received from the judiciary department the lease for the rooms he will occupy in the Fleming block. He will nave rooms Nos. 10I and 102 of the second floor. MT John ston will move into them next week The present quarters of the clerk will be occupied by the United States at- torney and the United States marshal. MT. Johnston has filed contracts for these officials with the board of super visors.
 THE ROUGH RIDERS. Sergeant Al Haw,ey of Troop B, Rough Riders, yesterday bought a copy of ''The Rough Rider the lately issued book Of Edward Marshall, the war cores pendent who was wounded at Las Guasimas. It is a very interesting i work, contains personal incidents of ] Major McClintock, Sergeant Hawley | and many other well known members l Of the regiment. Marshall, the au- thor was in a position 70 study his | subject arI he made the most of his | 
 THE NEW DUTCH DITCH. Only | the finishing touches remain to be i made before the new Dutch ditch is ; ready for service. The old ditch will | be covered immediately. The new ditch is located without the city limits for a mile and a half, and it's establish ment will be the means of placing a great deal of land near by under irri- gation which could not be done be- fore. It required more time to com plete the canal than was at first an- ticipated owing to several unlocked for interferences.
 THE GARCIA MINE. Fred w Coles and E. M. McBrier returned yes terday from their trip to the Garcia mine and they left last night fer their homes in the east. They are the two largest stockholders of the company and under the reorganization of the company, which was completed yester- lay, MT. Coles was elected president. The company, however will operate Inder the original charter. The two gentlemen were highly pleased with he development which has been made )n the property and think it will soon le one of the foremost gold propOsi- ions of the territory. John Liebold will take charge of the future work md operations will begin in earnest Il the first part of next month.
 AN INCORRIGIBLE RASCAL. - Paul Davis, the young man who has ust finished Q twenty day sentence in he county jail for stealing. is in lgain. This time he is charged with The complainant is Joseph Rousseau, an ice cream pur- E reyOr of the block. The amount em- 'ezzled is not large enough to break Rousseau nor to enrich Davis. RCus- Z eau had given the young man 75 'ents to buy some ice cream molds. E All this Davis admits, and says he did actually make the purchase and the goods were to be delivered but he E orgets whom he did business with COUNTY ASSESSMENTS. Deputy ] County Assessor w. P Mealey. who ! eturned yesterday from a trip to E Nicksnburg and the surrounding E country, said that the assess. nentS of Wickenhnrg excaed I