Arizona republican., 1899-10-13
Arizona Day by Day


In all probability the. Tempe normal school foot ball team will play the uni- versity team of this city on Thanksgiv- ing day-Tucson Star.
 Dr. J. D. Sponagle of San Francisco and Emma A. Tohl of Astoria, Oregon, were married yesterday by Rev. MT. Ferguson at Grace church.-Tucson Star.
 A shipment of sixteen carloads of cattle from Nogales to Cuba Sunday marks the reopening of the Cuban markets for cattle from the territory Tucson Star.
 Wood is selling here at s5.5O per cord. In the winter it will doubtless advance to $7 as usual and in cases of a few days of continuous bad weather it may go higher.-Bisbee Orb.
 T. L. Harris today purchased one of the four houses formerly belonging to the Lucas estate, from Ed Shumate, who recently purchased them at eX- ecutor's 4sale.-Prescott Journal-Miner-
 Mrs. D. C. Thorne, who recently built five neat little cottages for rent in the Moeller addition, has a fine brick resi- dence almost completed there for oc- cupancy by herself and husband Fur niture for it has been ordered in San F'rancisco.-Prescott Journal-Miner.
 The Tucson foot ball team promises to be one of the strongest in this sec tion of the country, says the Star. One or two late additions will give the team great strength as the new members are old players of enviable reputation. The team devoted considerable time last night in signal practice.
 Supervisor Benton returned to Tomb stone today, after spending a few days in our city. He expects to leave in a few days for San Francisco, where he will undergo the painful operation of having one of his fingers removed. It was injured some time ago while he was employed in the Copper Queen mine here, and blood poisoning set in, making it necessary to have it ampu- tated.-Bisbee Orb.
 The date set for holding the next ses- sion of the district court of this county is December 4. that being the first Monday in the month, says the Bisbee Orb. It has been repeatedly published that the date set is November 6. and the Tucson Citizezn, in attempting to correct it's previous statement that the date set was November 6. gives the correct date as December :, which as already stated is not correct.
 J. W. Martin has received a letter from his son. Samuel T. Martin, of company [. Thirty-fourth regular in fantry, U. s. A. Young Martin, who is well known here, was at the time the letter was written, with his regiment at Honolulu. They have since sailed for Manila. The young soldier writes that the men are well treated and get first class rations. At Honolulu he saw B. J. Zabriski also of Tucson.-Star.
 On the second instant the corner stone of the new city hall of Guaymas was laid with much ceremony. Cover nor c. C.Ortiz of1ciated, attended by the president of the municipality, Senor Nieto, and many state and all of the city officials. The town gave itself up to enpoyment for the time being, and after the ceremonies a champagne lunch was given at the Armada hotel at which toastS were drunk to the pro- gress and prosperity of Guaymas and to the governor, president of Guaymas and the contractor, A. F. Wrotnowski. Oasis.
 Here is the way the Denver Stock man sizes up the live stock situation: ''The cattle shortage does not show up on the face of the returns. Receipts on seven markets show an increase of over 100000 for the first nine months of the year. The shortage is not in the number of cattle but the quality of the cattle. There is plenty of the common kinds coming, but not enough of the choice cattle, and while the average shows a gain and the demand has been strong enough to absorb every thing, there has been a constantly in creasing scarcity of the choice beef cattle. This same story is also told i'll the price paid, for while the good cat tie are bringing higher prices than be- fore in years, the common kinds are barely steady at last years figures It is point that the breeder should con-