Arizona republican., 1899-01-06
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

1 Jesus BeTmudaz was filed in probate
 court yesterday.
 A SOLITARY DRUNK. The judi cial attention of Recorder Jobs was
 concentrated on solitary victim yes | terday, 9 drunk, who was fined 8.
 WANTS A DIVORCE. Elizabeth c. i Webb yesterday began suit for di- vorce against Pardon Webb. The com plaint alleges assertion and failure to 1 support.
 l A SPECIAL SERVICE. An inter esting and profitable special session was held at the Salvation Army bar racks last night The interest was 1 heightened by a gramOphOne and the profit lay in the fact that the services
 were rewarded by three conversions. l BLOOMING ROSES. Tine weather has been pretty chilly for a long time.
 rather more crimpy than is commen- Surate with a Semi-trOpical climate. l But it will have to get colder than 1t 1 has been yet to keep Dave Turner's 1 flowers in the court house plaza from l bursting into bloom.
 FIXING FOR THE FRAY The i Phoenix base ball club is practicing daily for the game at the park next Sunday afternoon with the Trilbys. i The club is not only being strength ! Avery on third base. The Tribys are also busily engaged in curing their de fects, 50 that the coming game is likely l to be the best ever played in Phoenix. A MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCE.- 1 Alphonso Smith, cOlored boy, was in Justice Gray's court yesterday charged with stealing a pair of pruning shears. What was worse for AlphOnsO than the mere accusation against him was that they proved it On him. He was fined $5 He was taken out of court protesting hls innocence and swearing that the man he had stolen them from had come by them dishon- estly.
 COTTAGE MEETINGS. = Cottage meetings, appointed by the Baptist church, will be held this evening as follows: MT. Nunn's, in Brill's adj
 ton, led by MT. 3. T. Gillett; at MT. McKern's on Grand avenue, led by Mr. j. J. Nunn; at Mrs. Irvine's, near South Seventh avenue. led by MT. Me Alister; at MT. McKern's on Grand avenue. led by Mrs. J. J. Nunn; at the Capitol hotel, led by Rev. L. Halsey. The meetings begin at o'clock. Theme: The Sword of the Spirit; How to Wield It. All are invited.
 BARACA CLASS. The members of the Baraca class Cf the Baptist Sun day school and thelr teacher, Mrs. A. Buckley, held a pleasant business meeting at the church last evening. The following officers were elected for six months: President. Spencer Mo Kern; vice-president, George Miner; secretary, Henry Halsey; assistant secretary, Allie Newell; treasurer. Elm cry McKern; assistant treasurar, Roy Thomas A report of the picture sO- ciaI showed that it netted S20.10. Light refreshments were served and the evening was passed pleasantly.
 4 DEALER IN SADDLES. A Mex ican named DOmingueZ,. or Pedro LO- peg, was tried in Justice Kincaid's court yesterday for stealing a saddle from Ricardo Figueroa. lie offered the saddle at WooddelFs for S3. The fact that he had sold one there the week before aroused suspicion and he was arrested. In the meantime a successful . hunt was hade for the owner. When ! DOminguez was brought into court he said he had found the saddle lying on Washington stre5t in front of the city hall plaza. The lie was SC outrageous ! that the justice stopped him and pro- l n0unced him guilty. He will be sen i fenced today.
 4 CHANCE TO REFORM. --E. s. ! Sherwood, the bicycle thief, was sen tenced to 150 days ill the county jail by ] Justice Kinc3id yesterday. There were ! three charges against him, stealing a . wheel from Marshal Hooker, one from Professor R. ". Barnes, and q bicycle lamp from somebody else. He pleaded 1 guilty to the three accusations and was given $50 or fiIly days for each Of fense. Sherwood lays his downfall to f tt,o of ina "a I1n ] like fiend, yet it was shown that his purchases of the drug at Q single phar- macy amounted in two days to s: 50. He expressed 2 hope that his term in jail would give him a chance to correct this habit.
 WAITING FOR 4 DISPATCH. A little girl of about ten visited one of l. the city telegraph offices yesterday and asked: Has that dispatch came?" The operator, who evidently knew what dispatch she meant, replied that it had not yet arrived. well, l don't know what to do about it. she said; its a mighty important message
 There isn't anything you can do, said the operator. Just then the telegraph instrument began clicking. A light of expectancy broke on the little girls i face. ''FI bet that's it now" she said; I'll wait till you write it down. But that wasn't it. Somebody somewhere else along the line was talking to else.
 4 MOVEMENT IN IRON. There was more or less exciting time at the Phoenix foundry yesterday. inc day before G. R. Williscraft sold t4e foun- lry to J. Ernest Walker, and yesterday J. " Crowley, his partncr, began re- moving everything portable. He trans erred several thousand pounds Of scrap iron to the Standard Iron works. MT. began getting out injunc- ton papers, but encountered so many delays that it became evident hat before they could be served MT. Crowley would be