Arizona republican., 1899-07-08

does not owe the proprietor of the lEoad house a penny for whisky or any | thing else.
 A BIGGER Special Pen
 sion Agent G. D. Gray has secured an increase in the pension of James Fine of g per month The pension is now S1O per month. When the recruiting begins for the Th.rty-fourth regular | infantry regiment, of which Anzona will furnish pro rata, a few men who have already served in the late war will take the examination. All of them may noJ pass the physical exam
 nation on account of defects which occurred during service. MT Gray says that in a case of that kind the applicant will be entitled to a pension.
 STOLEN WHEEL FOUND. One of
 the city dog catchers yesterday found
 bicycle which was stolen from w. J.
 Cain nearly two weeks ago. A de-
 scription Of the wheel and the promise
 of $5 reward had been given to the dog
 catcher. Yesterday he went to a res
 tauran1 and there met a man named
 Alonzo Smith, whom he knew. Smith
 wanted to sell him a bicycle and he
 made the price an inducement. The
 dog catcher recognized the wheel as
 the one he had been looking for He
 took possession of it and Smith, who
 was turned over to the county author
 ities.
 HIS WEAKNESS MADE HIM FIGHT. Late last night a man who
 looks like an invalid and whose name is unknown, was arrested for wife
 beating There is a supposition that
 he is not strong enough to administer
 a very severe beating and the weather and his condition of illness are urged as mitigating circumstances. Half the people in town feel like licking somebody on account of the wet bulb showing. The man was too enfeebled to resist his inclination to fight He ought to be sent to the hospital until cool weather sets in or else his wife ought to get a set of four-ounce gloves
 FRESH FISH FROM TEMPE. - Whenever L. w. Collins stage drives into the court house plaza in the even ing a deputy sheriff on, watch gives warning of MT Collins approach by calling out, ''Fresh fish from Tempe meaning that a prisoner is being brought in. When the stage came n last night the fresh fish" sat in rear seat and acted as if he owned the stage line, stages and right of way and had MT Collins hired to drive for ! him. The stage Gid not come to a full i stop. The fresh fish foundered out ] and handed an officer a commitment l on which he was locked Up after hav- l ing been searched for other lsga1 doc i Uments.
 WANTS THEM TO CIRCULATE. -i Kicks have been recorded of Iate--by ! fruit merchants on account of water : melon vendors who do business at | regular stands. It is cla med that i they are peddlers and should keep cir i culating. On this account ore m1r- chant said yesterday that a petition i would be presented to the council for the protection of the merchants. But | the city assessor says that these. "p5d- dlers" pay a larger license than the . The merchants take out a { license for a quarter and the meion vendors take out a license for a period of only one month at a time, and the amount pad grca.er in proportion.
 MIR. ADDTCKS SUED. MT. J. Ed ward Addicks, who has been a persist ent candidate for United States sera- tor in Delaware, was in AIiz0na last week, visiting Prescott and Congress- and examining several adjacent prop art.es. The New York Tribune says he was interested in a suit that was before Justice Lippincott in the Hud- son county court, in Jersey City, last Saturday. Robert Stewart sued the Staten Island Terra Gotta company for the value of number of cars. ordered by Manager Merritt, who was at vari- ance with Add:cks. The latter reor- sanized the company, but refused to pay Stewards bill The case was sub nitted to Justice Lippincott without Jury, as. only questions of law were involved. Decision was reserved.
 GOT MORE SEA ROCM.- The front 1f the engine house is now remodeled. Originally there were two doors and l small one. The larger ones were lot large enough to admit the easy 2assage of the engine and hook and adder. At times of fire people rushed nto the smaller door and frightened he horses. This proved to be a seri- ous hindrance at times. and also in- erfered with the proper training of he horses. It is thought now that the lorses will be out of the engine house Il time of fire in fifteen seconds. The pest average time made in large cit es, where every facility is afforded, with years of constant training, is , bout eight seconds The horses which lave been penned up during the re- of the engine house VIII LOW be exercised as before
 s25 900 AT A CLIP. Somebody With a head for figures aScertained hat 105 men, women and children left n Thursday night on the two excu--