Arizona republican., 1899-03-01
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

Territorial Superintendent R. l.. Long Of public instruction yesterday received l his commission and will enter upon
 the duties of his office today.
 GUESTS WILL TOUR-A party of twenty guests of the Ford hotel will make a trip to the Pima Indian reser- vation today, where the stay will be spent in examining the curiosities. | LICENSED TO WE'D "A marriage license was issued yesterday to Jacob R. Spain and Anita Smith. The groom IS a prosperous farmer of the Buckeye country. The bride is a resident of Mesa
 CHAU FATS ERRAND. -Chau Fat is going to start back to China next week to be married. This fact is not set forth in the papers which have been executed in compliance with the exclusion act.
 TAKEN T OTHE HOSPITAL. Ed Dugan, held to the grand jur%o Mon 1 day for shooting at John Nelson with | intent to kill, was removed from the Womens quarters of the jail yesterday to the county hospieal. He is still standing out vigorously against the removal of his leg.
 FIRE DEPARTMENT GONG. The | fire department yesterday received a big 16-inch gong from Chief Hale of 1 the Kansas City department. It was attached to the engine and a run was made It proved that it will fulfill the purpose intended, that of soaring every team out of the line of march to a fire.
 NEW YORKERS' PICNIC. At a meeting of the executive committee Of the Empire State society held yes terday at the office of Attorney-General Ainsworth 1t was resolved to hold picnic at Phoenix park on Saturday. March IS. MT. J. K. Doolittle was elected president to serve in the absence of Dr. C. D. Belden.
 LECTURE AND MUSIC. On ac- count Of the illness of Dr. Joshua Mil Ter, president of the Arizona Archaeo- logical association, he will not be able to give his lecture at the Baptist church on Friday evening next. On that evening the Rev. Lewis Halsey will give lecture Cn Theodore Roosevelt. and the Indian school orchestra under the leadership of Professor James De- vine will give music. The topic of the lecturer is timely and of interest to all.
 TWO GOOD CITIZENS GONE. -
 
 the valley last night. George Passey and Joseph BroaGoent and their fam flies of Mesa went out over the Santa Fc for Salt Lake. They wiH make their future home at Provo, Utah. MT. Pas sey has been in the valley since 1884 MT. Broadbent has not been here so long They have for some years been engaged in mercantile business at Mesa under the style of George Passey &; Go.
 OVERLAND WITH DOGS.-D. c. Blandy will give an exhibition at the park Sunday with his team of trained dogs. The team consists of six dogs, which MT Blandy said were the third generation he had raised in Minnesota. They have drawn their master with his wife and child over the entire distance from Minnesota to Seattle, and from there through California to Phoenix, and it is claimed that in many respects they are superior to horses for travel. The exhibition will take place at p. m.
 A PURLOINED ROOF.-Nick Berch- ter was arrested yesterday on a war rant from Justice Gray's court sworn out by D. J. Ryerson, charging him with stealing a tin roof. Berchter was put under a $50 bond for his appear ance today It is but justice to MT. Berchter to say that he did not steal tho roof from the building occupied by Mr. RyersOn, thereby exposing him and his family to the growing rays of a Salt River valley sun. The roof was lying in sections on the ground and had been there fer two months. which seemed to Berchter so long period that he concluded that it had been abandoned.
 PROFESSOR BLAKE'S REPORT. - Professor w p. Blake, the director of the Arizona school of mines and terri torial geologis-, whose preliminary re- port may be found in the report issued by the governor of the territory for the year ended June 3O 1898, is at work upon a more extended and complete report which he intends offering to the legislature without charge for ser vices. In view of the great importance to the entire interests of the territory of making it's mineral resources better known the work upon which Professor Blake is engaged will be of immense value; and the people of Arizona will be much indebted to that talented gen. tleman for the effort he is is gratui- tously making to advance the mining interests of t!te territory.
 ARMENIAN SONGS AND cos TUNES. On tomorrow night the three daughters of Bishop Serkins will appear in Padgett hall in native Ar menian and Filipino costumes, and sing the songs Ot those far away coun- tries. They will also give entertain ment on Friday and Saturday evenings. The young ladies are said to be fine yOcalists and their singing in these strange tongues will be a rare treat to the music lovers of the city. The young ladies also perform on the organ and piano, and will translate their songs into English. Season tickets have been placed on sale at S1 for adults and 50 cents for children, the proceeds to go