Arizona republican., 1899-04-23
NEWS
 OF THH
 TOWN

| A NEW NOIAR1. W. C. Brandon
 was yesterday appointed notary pub
 lie.
 TEACHERS MEETING. The last
 teachers meeting of the year was
 held at the grammar school yesterday
 The time was devoted mostly to talk.
 ing over plan of conducting classes for next year.
 KIRKLAND PETITION. - About one-half the residents have been seen by the circulators of the petition pray ing that the Kirkland addition be an
 nexed to the city, and no one has re-
 fused tos ign it.
 EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. - | The educators of this city have rH ceived invitations to be present at the
 national educational convention which
 will be held in Les Angeles on tha
 four days following July 10.
 EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY. = | The clearing of the tax list books this | year show that a higher percentage of | taxpayers have paid up this year than i ever before. This is taken as one of
 the best evidences of prosperity in the valley.
 | A CONFIRMED THIEF. Alex
 ander Garcia, who was lately released
 from jail, having served thirty-day
 sentence for stealing, was put in yas-
 terday for just twice as long by Justice Jchnstohe for the Same kind of an or fense. He stole a shovel from th~ Phoenix Flour company.
 NOTICE OF LOCATION. -J. D. i Marian yesterday filed with the re corder a notice of location of the Cow hoy and. Humboldt mining claims, sit
 uated in the Magazine district near Lime creek. The claims are filed for the Lime Creek Copper company, of which MT. Marian is a member.
 SOLD LIQUOR TO INDIANS. - Antonio Garcia, who had been held a+ Yuma to the federal grand jury on charge of selling hquor to Indians, was brought in yesterday morning by a deputy United States marshal Gar cia gets here in time to have business done. with him at the present term OF court.
 PUZZLE PROGRAMME. On Mon day night the Good Templars will have puzzle programme after the business of the session has been trans acted. Each member is expected to prcpound some conundrum, riddle or puzzle fCc the others to guess at. Ike hay ride to Floral lodge to be indulged in by members of its local lodge will start from the hall this evening aL : o'clock.
 DOUBLE BUTTES SCHOOL. -Su- perintendent A. H. Fulton made visit Friday to the Double Butte school near Tempe. That was the closing day of school and fitting exercises were held in which Supervisor J. T. Priest ad- T, T. a,1I '. opinion as Superintendent Fulton re- garding the grade of the school; that it was conducted in better manrar than ever before.
 RETURNED TO LOS ANGELES. - Reese Llewellyn Of the LleweEyn Iron works at Los Angeles, who has been in Phoenix a few days, returned last night He is one Of the bidders fer the iron. construction work on the capitol building. His iron works furnish great deal of material to the mines of Arizona. He had the contract for fur nishing cyanide tanks at the Fortuna mine near Yuma and the contract has just been filled.
 THE REGISTRATION. The reg istration for the city election closed last night at midnight. The precise number on the list has not been de termined, but it is big enough to sur prise the natives, closely approaching 1, 100, within a very small number of being as great as it was last year. At the last moment the hustlers for both parties brought in the names which they had been holding back. The dem ocrats had PTS and the republicans 234. There had been previously reg istered 527.
 PRESCOTT VS. JEROME. Mont P. Chubb and J. M Aitken left last night for Prescott to take part in gun club contest between Prescott and Jerome. MT. Chubb is a member or the latter club, and MT AIuKen or the former. Each was notified by his re- spective club to keep his eye on the other and if he tried to slip away to the contest to be prepared to follcu him on a moments notice. Conse- quently these two gentlemen never got very far apart yesterday.
 JUNIORS WIN. The junior class was the victor in the tennis match at the high school court yesterday. The class representatives for the doubles were George Lutgerding and Harold Ham. senior; Leo Rosenberg and Arch Wormell, junior; Will F'ickas and Scott, sophomore, and Harold Thomas and James Parker, freshmen. Ava Wormell also won the sing.es for the juniors. The Phoenix Tennis club will hold a tournament today for the purpose of selecting players for the coming match with Tempe.
 TRADE TURNED AWAY.-Dan An dersOn, a coTCred person, was arrested yesterday evening for insisting on rigid application of the bills of rights. Anderson got into a bootb.ack's chair and ordered a shine. The proprietor Of the chair is boy with ideas about the color line. He declined to H. luminate Anderson'S brOgans and told why. Anderson descended from the chair and became prOfane and abusive. He accused the boy of being a Texan
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