Arizona republican., 1899-02-21
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN


 LICENSED TO WED. A marriage
 license was issued yesterday to
 Meachem Hendricks and Sarah Allen i pupils of the Indian school. 1 BESCLE PRAYER MEETING. The | Florence Criterion prayer meeting 1 will be led by the Armenian bishop,
 beginning at 1:50 tonight.
 WOOL EXPORTS. A car of wool was shipped from Peoria yesterday It will go to Boston, Mass, which is the depot for most Arizona wool NEW. GAZETTE ALANAGEME MENT.- - As The Republican announced a week ago, John o. Dunbar will take the management of the Gazette today
 UNITED TEAMS.-Oficer Molloy made a raid on united teams yesterday and captured three, whose owners came around later and expostulated with him on his vigilance
 REVIVAL MEETINGS. The re- revival meetings in the Free Methodist church continue avery night this week. There will also be a meeting in the church this afternoon at 2:30
 TO SHUT OUT THE SUN. The board of trustees of the grammar schools yesterday bought new kind of Venetian blind for the windows of the
 
 SHORTENED CAR SERVICE. - There was a Arrangement of the street car service last night on account of the change of track at the Capitol grounds. No cars were run west of Thirteenth avenue.
 STORES TO CLOSE. A petition has been circulated requesting the stores to close on Washington's birth day, and as a result it is thought that all the leading stores will be closed for the entire day.
 ARRIVED FROM CAMP CHURCH MAN The arrivals from the MaCord regiment yesterday were George w. Clark George W. StokOe and Henry Lampe. Sergeant Baker was On the train en route to Prescott. A number of the boys are expected to arrive to- day.
 THE FIREMEN'S BALL. -TOmor- row belongs to the Phoenix fire depart ment and so does tomorrow night. The ball has already grown to such pr0por- tions that the Elks' hall in which it was to be held is foreseen to be too small. It will therefore take place at O'Neill hall.
 A CAR OF CAPITALISTS. A spe- cial car containing a party of New York and Indiana capitalists on their way to the coast will arrive in Phoenix within the next ten days. A member of the party will be MT A. A Purman of Indianapolis, a prominent attorney and railroad man and brother of Dr. D. M PuIman of this city.
 THE MISSOURIANS' PICNIC. A meeting of the executive committee of the Missouri society was held last night at which Phoenix park was de- cided upon as the location for the picnic to be given by the society next Saturday. The committee and the members of the society hope that there will be a good attendance of all who are entitled to membership in the society whether they are members or not.
 IT WAS A QUIET AFFAIR There was a quiet affair in Phoenix on Sun day night. Id was an eight round prize fight, fought, nobody but the elect know just where. The authorities have gotten hold of the names of the principals and are now engaged in a revision of the list of onloollers who thereby declared their candidacy fer the penitentiary. though it is probable | none of them will succeed in breaking l in this time.
 
 first meeting of the African M E. | church to be aeld in their new church { building, formerly the Christian | church, was held last night. The Rev ] P. A. Hubbard, presiding elde. of the ! Colorado district, preached the dedi- | catory sermon and was assisted in the | services by the local pastor, the Rev. | G. H. Byers. A series of prOtracted 1 meetings will be held in the new church for the next two weeks which | premise to awaken much interest.
 THE LAND COURT. Nh. R. L. Long, clerk for this territory of the i court of private land claims, spe2kingo yesterday of the work of the court, said | that it could dispose of all the business which could possibly come within it's in the next two years. The existence of the court will end by linn tation, however, on March of this year, SC that it's late adjournment at Tucson until May is to Q period beyond it's life. There is little doubt, though, that the court will be continued by congress.
 AN DREAD STUDENT. -GovernOr Murphy yesterday named Miss Mabel . Gray Hoover as a pupil of the Dread institute at Worcester, Mass, q school founded for promoting excellence in art The institute sent out a circular letter to the governors of all states and territories offering a free board and lodging for one year ttO any young lady that might be named by the governor. The success ,ul applicant for this prize is a daugh- ter of MT. J. B. Hoover, who lives six miles west Of Phoenix in the Riverside country.
 NTEN,C COCp11T T-NrTON An iro 9ortant union of all the Protestant .huIches of Phoenix was effected at he N. E. church, south, last night to be known as the Mems Gospel Union. The object of the organization is to hold weekly meetings for the conver- ;tcn of men, in which all the churches will take part. These will be men's meetings solely, and will be held every