Arizona republican., 1899-06-24
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

dGSCI lIOUl w l1SJDW w eun6SU0%- LICENSE ISSUED. A license tt
 wed wss yesterday issued by the pro
 bate judge to Baeilio Garcia and An
 tOnia Moreno.
 ! SPECIAL LETTERS. -C. G. J0ne! was yesterday given special admins
 trator's letters in the estate of E. c
 F'rankenberg, by Probate Judge Scott HE WAS DRUNK. Jesus Masor was brought before Justice Gray yes
 terday on a charge of drunkenness. He : had raised a disturbance at ths block and was fined S5.
 RETIRED BUSINESS MAN. VII
 liam Melnick has withdrawn from the
 DOheney & Melnick merchants,parol
 combination. His i'll health impels
 him to retire from business.
 EXCURSION TO TUCSON. A
 great many Phoenix people took ad-
 vantage of the Maricopa & Phoenix
 railroads excursion to Tucson which
 left at f o'clock this morning.
 WASROUT NEAR FL PASO. The
 M. 6 P train did not arrive until 1
 o'clock in the afternoon. It was de- 1ayed on account Of a wash0ut on the main line a short distance east of Fl Paso.
 MAY TAKE BIRTHS. Those
 holding tickets for the excursion tran i over the northern route which leaves
 at a. m. Thursday for the coast, will 1 be permitted to take berths on the car
 the night previously.
 DIED AMONG STRANGERS. - John Hartgrove, formerly Of Bennett Switch, Ind who died at the county hospital on Wednesday, was buried yesterday. He came here ab0u. three l at the hospital.
 DOGS BEWARE. George Brooks, the dog catcher, has enlisted the ssr- vices of two young men, and the campaign against canines has started in earnest. The dog catchers are ex- perts with a rope and no dog low evsr active need attempt to escape if within range.
 CASE OF sUNSTROKE. - Gus Bertnam was overcome by heat at LOunt's ice factory yesterday after noon He had ibeen working in an ex- ceptionally hot place on the roof, and the sunstrnke WAS partly the result of drinking. He was taken into the factory and encased with ice Later he was removed to the Sisters hos pital. Els condition is rot serious.
 THE NORTH IS QUIET. Miles ". Gibbons, the well known mining ex- pert, has returned from a visit to some mines in the northern part Of the territory. Mir. Gibbons says that mn ing is mov.ng along slowly, but With substantial advancement noticeable on all sides. MT. Gibbons will remain in Phoenix several days, but will shortly leave for New York on mining business.
 HIS SON HURT. $. P. Clark re- ceived word yesterday that his small boy, who has been at Green Mountain Falls, Colo, is now in q critical cOndi- riOn at 9 hospital in Denver. He had walked up Pike's Peak with some high school cadets and On his return home slipped down a precipice. His leg was broken and 9 gash cut on his head. A special car conveyed him to Denver.
 BALDWIN PROMOTED. -Cap,ain J. A. Baldwin, who is well known in Arizona, has besn promoted to mljor in the Twenty-second infantry regi- ment. He was promoted from cap taincy in the regiment which was commanded by the late Gel Egbert i Captain Baldwin's battalion took part in the battle of zapota, in which a number of Americans lost their lives | or were seriously injured
 THE SLEEPER AWAKENED" - Two drunks stood or the canal bridge | q noon yesterday, one of them leaning ! Cn rail asleep, and his companion, of i fighting inclinatiors, endeavoring ta | awaken. him by loud exc1amations [ An officer awakened the one, and nrac- tically put the other asleep. Rec0rdcr | Jobs furthered their misery by firing ! the sleeper s and his vociferous com | panion S10.
 RELEASED AN UNFORTUNATE. l Cyrus Grundy, the unfortunate man 1 referred to in The Republican yester- day morning, has been provided with i a home. He received a sentence | Wednesday morning of twenty days i for vagrancy. He was not properly a except in the eyes Of the law, | and he was released when W R. Nor | ton agreed to give him work on his ranch seven miles west Of town.
 INDIAN WITNESSES. Deputy L. | S. Marshal George Wilder came up l from Yuma yesterday with four In- dians, who will appear as witnesses l before the grand jury The work of l the grand jury, which began yester- day, will probably be completed today. ! Probably the most important case which will come up at this session of | the U. s. district court will be the IT. vine case which was carried over from the last term
 EXTENSIVE KNIFE. An old man went into Q cigar store yesterday where pocket knives are on sale He had a fancy for one of the knives, but l thought the price, D cents, too hgh After a barley with the proprietor he concluded to wager 75 csnts against the knife and play a game of poker. He lost the money and then that much again. He continued to lose until he i lost $121, all the money he hod, but the proprietor made him present of | the knife. In the afternoon he re- |