Arizona republican., 1899-08-09

month to Mir Alfonso Godfrey, who
 resides on North Fifth avenue. The
 claim has been pending for about
 three years and a half, and in fact the beneficiary was entitled to pension long ago. had he seen fit to make ap-
 plication He is a veteran of tue
 civil war and served in the Fifteenth
 Michigan volunteer regiment
 A CENTENARIAN. Mrs Woods,
 the mother elf Mrs. E. W. Gillett, left last night over the s. F. P. & P. for Peru, Neb., where on September she will be among the guests at a gamily reunion which will be held in honor of her mc.her, who on that date if all goes we'll will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her birthday It is hoped she will have a pleasant jour- ney and find her mother we'll and strong and with good prospects for witnessing events to Jranspire long af- ter the figure "S' has been dropped from the calendar of centuries
 SUPERVISORS BUY REAL ES- TATE.-The board of supervisors de cided yesterday to buy some real es- tate. It is d strip of land lying be tween the cOuntys fOrty-acre tract east of the city and Washington street. The land is not immediately needed. but some time it will be badly needed by whoever owns the adjoining tract. Other persons were trying to get il. to hold until ahe county should want if sufficiently to pay a handsome ad vance. The strip was controlled by J B. Walker. assignee of the Hartford Banking company. and he made fine county a preferred purchaser.
 A COUNTY INVESTMENT F. Hoff, who is here in the interest Of the ilng distance telephone. was before the board of supervisors yesterday, soliciting encOura cement of the enter prise II was given in the shape of a $10O subscription to the company $ coupons. the subscription to be paid on the completion of the line. The county has run no risk and has in cured no expense that will not be pro ductive of greater returns. It will have use for the coupons. and the con- pleted line will have a valuation. the annual tax upon which will amount to much more than ;he price of the cOu- 1 pOnS.
 MYSTERIOUS CARGO OF WIRE. - ] Curiosity has been aroused in the 1 east of the city by a body l 1f men who passed that way with l half dozen horses laden with rolls of i wire like tha.. of which telegraph and l telephone lines are constructed. The iact that they had it on pack animals i was accepted as evidence that it was 0 be taken into the n.ounIa ns. They lad more of the wire than the horses could carry and part of it was left llong the roadside. Some Of the 5,-1, o-1-o nen in charge what they were going 0 do with the wire. They made the unsatisfactory, If not the misleading eply, that they were going to build ence around the Tempe road
 A CURIOUSLY MINED CASE The supervisors diaeLtangled them elves yesterday from compli- ,atiOn growing out of the con- missioner of immigration mat CT. As defendants in the injunc ion suir to be brought, the board is eft without an official legal adviser nd defender District Attorney Elan ligan is precluded by his advers1 'pinion from acting in that capacity [ was arranged therefore that he hould represent the board of trade n the suit and the board in return greed to retain Judge Kibbey for the efense. MT. Fiannigan will probably'i all Judge Baker into the case. The who want to see the law ustained. will be curioUsly represent q by two attorneys. who earnestly vant to have it declared invalid. On he oi'her hand. the plaintiffs are Op- osed in the case by their regularly re- aimed attorney. A meeting of the di- ectors of the board was held last ight to make additional preparations or the struggle The injunction suit -ilI probably be filed today.
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