Arizona republican., 1899-06-28
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

l fOOHlS Ol the HnO6QlX LfDTdry dSSOC4d | ton are on the first floor in the Elem ing building. This has been announcet | before, but there are strangers comin: in who have difficulty in finding them and there are Phoenicians who cOul(
 profitably pay the library a visit anC note the improvement
 A CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT The many friends of Mrs. J. H. Vim cent, wife of Bishop Vincent, who spent last winter here for her health
 will be gratified to learn that the inI- provement begun then still continues so that she has been able to resumG her annual visits to Chautauqua, made
 famous by her husband She is there now and believes that she will perma- nently recover ner health.
 YOUTHFUL COMPLAINANTS. - The office of District Attorney Flanni-
 gan has been thronged for the last two days by couple of small boys who
 want a neighbor woman arrested foI
 an assault upon them. They con-
 plain that she boxed their ears with a
 dshpan without any good and valid
 excuse. The district attorney so far
 has been unable to acquire an inteli-
 gent and coherent account of the af-
 fair.
 CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR. - The
 Christian Endeavor association ot
 the Christian church will hold lawn
 meetings every Sunday evening at '
 o'clock a the residence of M " War
 ren on North Third avenue The Christian church will probably be com pleted in three weeks. It was expected that the building would be finished by
 this time, but the contractors are also engaged at the Indian school and are pressed for time.
 WILL BE DISCHARGED. Another letter was received yesterday from Kurtz Fickas in Manila. He says the soldiers are of the opinion that they will be returned in a few days. but he believes it will be two or three months. When he entered the service he was prejudiced against the hospi- tals for soldiers, but he now says the best of treatment is provided. He has just been released from a hospital, where he was given an ice water bath each morning for his fever.
 ASH FORK GANG HERE.-A sus- picious looking character was lodged in the city jail Sunday on a charge of vagrancy. He is a member of a gang of hobos which came here few days
 
 made an inves ngation and conclude that the organized gang of tramps which infested Ash Fork a few weeks ago is now in Phoenix. The tramps will not get control of this place as they did in Ash Fork, but they may cause trouble if they are not deported immediately.
 THE CITIZENS LEAGUE. - The Citizens league began operations yes terday, or, rather, began preparations to begin an investigation of the affairs of the county. MT. P. K. Hickey, ap pointed by the league, made a round of the county offices instituting Gn- quiries regarding the books and ac counts which will be brought within the scope of the investigation. It is understood that the league is not ex pecting to uncover any active fraud, but rather official extravaganza, which is kind Of passive fraud.
 CRAZY CHINAMAN. Sheriff L. w Wakefield of Pima county arrived in town yesterday with An Guey, com mitted to the asylum for insanity. It is hardly necessary to mention that An 'Guey is a Chinaman. Sheriff Wakefield has been pretty well en- gagged since his induction into office in bringing the insane of Pima county to the asylum. He thinks now that in sanity in his bailiwick has nearly run out of material to work on, since it has found it necessary to resort to tha Chinese.
 CAUGHT IN A TRAP DOOR. Joe Kerrick, a small boy, became interest ed yesterday morning in something he saw through an open trap door in the cis sIoxxy yo11 in Of T AT ToIa o1s'- wholesale liquor store He was stand ing so that the ends of his toes pro iected over the hole. When the heavy trap door was replaced the boy was brought out of his reVerie and he al- most miraculously brought his. toes out with him, but they were badly cut. He was taken to Wakelin's phar macy, where his wounds were dressed
 WHERE DOGS COULDN'T BITE HIM. Late on Monday night a man unclad as to his neither limbs rushed into the sheriff's office yelling that the dogs were after him. He was per suaded to be quiet, but now and then he started in alarm at the dogs. He was at length put into a cell and when the grated door had clanked upon him he laughed and said: Now let 'em bark and be darned." It was learned yesterday morning that his name was James Farley and that he had been an inmate of the insane asy- lum. He will be tried again today for insanity.
 HE'LL COME BACK AGAIN. M. w. Dake, president of the National Biscuit company, who spent last win ter in Phoenix, has lately returned to his home at Buffalo, N. Y. Writing to a friend in Phoenix, he said that after leaving here he went to Pasa- dena and Coronado Beach. but the re- lief he received here was not main tained in southern California. He then went to the Yosemite valley. where he spent a pleasant fortnight. He says of San Francisco that the cli- mate there is more miserable than n Q h.a .inrn