Arizona republican., 1899-03-16
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

l tE D GOlNG HUME. -CaptdIn G. U
 Gray yesterday secured from the at
 thOrities of the soldiers home at Santi
 Monica an order for the transportatiCI
 Of William Stiner, an old soldier.
 LICENSED TO WED. Marriage Ii
 censes have lately been issuei to A. J
 Morton and Martha E. Miller O
 Tempe, Thomas M. Gilbert and Nors
 F. Higginson the latter of Needles Cal.
 AN ALMOST COUNTLESS FLOCK
 D. F. Houck, the sheepman. was il | town yesterday. The shearing at hi | corral on Cave Creek has been ended Altogether 70,0G0 head of sheep were shorn.
 WAITING FOR CEMENT. -The
 work at the capitol grounds was sus-
 pended yesterday awaiting the ar- rival of carload of cement for the l concrete foundation. A small force ot men is engaged sitting gravel.
 LOST AND FOUND. Miss Johnson
 the music teacher, lost a gold watch on the street last Tuesday evening. It i happened to fall into honest hands. Miss Otero found it and hunted for the owner with as much zeal as Miss John- son hunted for the watch. l PHOENIX TENNIS CLUB, JR.-Tha 1 Phoenix Tennis Club, Jr, has recently been organized, having a fine court on Mr Walter Bennett's place. The 1 officers are: Hal Bennett, president; 1 Porter Smith, viCe-president, and Roy E. McQuigg, treasurer.
 WAY TO SUDDEN WEALTH. - | There is just now no easier way to sudden affiuence in this valley than through a good alfalfa pasture. The owner of such a route is now b1sieged with applications for pasture of stock aL g a month head.
 ST. PATRICK'S DAY BALL. -St Patrick's day ball and banquet tOmcr- LOW night will be surpassed by no SO cial event of the present season. The ball will take place at O'Neill hall aud the banquet at DeMers'. Both places will be handsomely and appropriately decorated
 WHY HE CAME. Thomas Sloan, formerly connected with the s. P. P. & P. here, arrived in town on Tuesday night. He left here to join the Rough Riders After that organization Nos disbanded MT. Sloan took the position Of Santa Fe Pacific agent at Grant. N M. As result of MT. Sloan's visit this time Phoenix will lose one of it's fairest daughters.
 WHOLESALE HORSE STEALING Warrants were issued from Justice JOhnstone's court yesterday for Juan Doe and Pedro Roe for horse stealing. They first took a lot of horses from Latourettes ranch and went in the di- rection of McDowell When they go, to John Milier's ranch they ieft the Latourette horses and took five val uable animals belonging to Miller.
 TWO NEW BOYS. gwen the stree. cars have seemed merry since Tuesday because of the arrival of a ten-pound boy at the home of c. L. L1ngstreth. in the east end, Tuesday. Mr. Lang streth is foreman of the street ear line. And yesterday William Steinet made more than the usual glasses of lemonade which were distributed free, ali because of the arrival of a raw boy at his house.
 MADE A SHOW OF HIMSELF. - Allen Smith, cOlored, was arrested yes teIday on warrant from Justice Johnstcne's court charging him with maliciously indecent exposure. At first he denied the charge, but later he inti- mated that he would plead guilty if he could thereby better his case Viii liam Corvell was brought into Justice Gray's, court on a similar charge, but V cUsers he was pronounced to be not the man.
 HELD OFFICE BEFORE H. H. Harvey, the lately appointed court house janitor, is not holding office for the first time. He lived at GreenViile Miss, in reconstruction times He W as a member of his town council and also served in one Of the Mississippi state legislatures which used to elect republican United States senator's When the democrats of Mississippi were again declared to be eligible to vote they declared MT Harvey to ba ineligible to any office within their gift.
 POISONED BY A ROOSTER. --Jo- seph Bell who has been very sick as the result of scratch he received from a rooster a week ago, was on the street yesterday. The scratch was on his finger, but the pois0n from the incisfOn worked up his arm and it occasioned an abscess near his elbow. He was threatened with a dangerous form of blood poisoning which necessitated two operations on his arm. He has been in the employ of Buxton x O. and he will be able to return to work within few days.
 SENT TO THE ASYLUM. Eugene c. Strickland, who was arrested on Tuesday evening for insanity, was ex- amined ill probate court yesterday and committed to the asylum. It didn't require very searching examination lie had many hallucinatiOns the most marked of which was that the charge ct insanity against him was only preJeXt. His real accusers, he said, were employees of Wells, Fargo < Co., | who were after him for robbery, but were satisfied with having him jailed for insanity. The process was shorter and cheaper and the result was just the same.