Arizona republican., 1899-01-05
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

A SOCIAL DANCE. Company A, | N. c. A., will give a social dance at it's armory at Jefferson and Seventh street next Saturday night. Everybody g is invited.
 GOING TO THE NINE MT. J. K. : Murphy and family, who spent the hol- t idays in the city, have returned to
 their camp at the Gold Bug mine.
 OUT AGAIN. MI. Will Coon, who / has been confined to his home for the past three months, came down town
 yesterday. He is weak from his long . illness, but is gaining strength rapidly. THE SUPERVISORS. The board of
 supervisors yesterday spent the day in
 continuing the checking of the ac-
 counts of the county treasury. The
 business of electing a clerk was not
 reached
 CAME IN CARS. Eleven double
 decked carloads of sheep came in over the Santa Fe yesterday, more than
 2,000 head. They were kept in the
 north until the driving season, which
 came to an end unusually early this year, was over.
 CASE DISMISSED. - The case
 against J. F. Briggs, charged with az
 gravated assault, was dismissed yes l request of District Attorney Flannigan, who acted upon the request of the prosecuting witness.
 THE Nn,t WIRE. The Western Union Telegraph cOmpany's force of twenty men has reached Maricopa with a new overland wire which it is string ing from Los Angeles. After running
 a loop into Phoenix they will continue
 on eastward with the wire
 THROWN FROM A HORSE. "A
 man riding Lucas Magnanis race horse
 at the track yesterday was thrown upon his head and shoulders. He was
 hurt almost wherever it was possible
 for one to get hurt, but his injuries were not believed to be serious.
 MONDAY PRAYER MEETING. - There will be a mems monday prayer
 meeting at the Baptist church tom0r-
 row from 12 m. to p. m. All men
 are invited. If you come only for ten
 minutes, do So. You will bs welcome
 Subject, How to Get Faith
 A SUDDEN DEATH. Miss Carrie Hamilton, who came here with her mother from Hollister, Cal, some weeks ago. died yesterday. She was about to start to visit her physician when she was seized with a hemOr- rhage. The remains will be sent back to Hollister
 LICENSED TO WED. Marriage li- l csnses were issued yesterday to Stan | ley N. Porter and Elizabeth B. Gray; | Caleb Perron and Mrs. Belle Wheeler. ! The latter couple were married at Tempe last night by Rev. A B. Tom 1 linson. The groom has .been a resi- dent of Tempe for many years. The | bride is the widow of Charles H. | Wheeler, who died there about one . year ago.
 PROMINENT MINING MAN. Mir Robert Duncan of the TreadWeu mine | in Alaska, who is spending the winter in the valley, entertained Captain Mien and son few days this week at the Adams hotel. Captain Mien is con- nected with the London Exploration company and resides in California. He promised to return to Arizona later and investigate some mining proper ties which have been recommended to !. him.
 4 CHURCH INCORPORATED - Articles Of incorporation of the First Presbyterian church of Peoria were filed in the office of the county recorder r. yesterday. The incOrpOratOrs are H. c. Mann, II. F. Bartlett, R. A. Tuckey, R. T. Bell and Irvine Lively. The ar ticlss provide against one thing which has brought embarrassment to many 8 religious organization, burdensome church debt. The heaviest deDt the incorporation may incur is $500.
 TWO DIVORCE SUITS. Two suits for divorce were begun in district court yesterday. One was by Sarah 4. Rus sell against Stephen H. Russell. They were married here thrae years ago and after 9 residence together of about a ( year the defendant went away. Tho plaintiff heard that he was attracted to Alaska by the KlOndyke excitement and believes that he accumulated some wealth, 9 part of which she desires the { court to cause to be applied to a pay g ment of her costs in this suIC and 9 part to the support of her child, the I fruit Of this brief union. The other suit is by AIpheus K. Boyd against An I nie Boyd, on the ground of desertion. I They were married at Alhambra three C years ago. The defendant is supposed I to be living II Nebraska.
 A BICYCLE THIEF -J s. Sher- wood, the bicycle thief who eXtensively operated in Phoenix a couple Of weeks g ago and was captured at Tucson, was [ brought back yesterday morning. He I pleaded guilty in Justice Kincaid's court to stealing bicycles from Marshal Hooker and Professor R. w. Barnes. aHu VIII b9 S6Al6hc6d toddy. 1u096 two thefts constitute, perhaps, only Q r small part of SheTwood's operations ' Nearly 3 dozen bicycles have been T found without owners and a great I many owners have come forward com f blaming of the less of bicycles which f have not besn found. Sherwood could 2 not be expected to plead in these cases. il for in the one class there are no prose- 9 cutting witnesses, and in the other no V corpus delictu. It is suspected that i Sherwood was trying to make up J carload of bicycles. 4e
 A CHRISTMAS ACQUISITION. - [ Master Richard H. Barker, Jr., who is r now at Galveston, Tex, on his way t back to Phoenix. wrote to his grand 9 mother in Kentucky enclosing the fol- D