Arizona republican., 1899-08-12

LICENSED TO WE'D. "A marriage
| license was issued yesterday 10 Ger
vaciO Martinez and Luz PARA.
STOCK SHIPMENTS. A car of
hogs and two cars of cattle will be
shipped over the NJ. & P today.
ORDINANCE OF BAPTISM. The
ordinance of baptism was administered
to two persons az the close OF the Sun
day school session last Sunday.
PLANTING DATE TREES. - Pro-
fessOr Forbes of the territorial uni
versity he's been spending a few days
in the Salt River valley directing the
planting of dates on some alkali lands
on the government experimental farm
near Tempe.
MR.. NEWPORT WORSE. = Tele-
graphic word was received from Los
Angeles yesterday to the effect that
M. P c. Newport, whose sickness was
mentioned yesterday, was gradually
sinking and it was hardly expected he
would live through the day.
AN EDITOR COMING Mr.. j. w.
Adams, editor of the Pine Bluff, Ark,
Graphic and former state senator, who
has been a guest at the Arcadia ranch
for several mOnlhS, leaves next week
for his Arkansas home. He will stop
over and visit Phoenix, Prescott and
Santa Fe en- route.
THROUGH MEXICO AFOOT. j.
B. StilIman, Edwin Hughes and c.. Z.
Donovan, three OF Bisbee's adventur-
Gus young men, have left for a tour
through old Mexico a la Bayard Tay-
lor They will travel On foot and
be gone just as long as. it requires to
get a thorough acquaintance with lone
of the most wonderful countries in the
world.
NEW COPPER COMPANY. - Ar
ticles of incorporation of the Bingham
Copper company were fled in the Of
flee of the county recorder yesterday.
The incorporators are N E McPeck
and Charles McPeck Of SOmervilIe,
Mass. and E. L. Tierney- OF Boston,
Mass The capital stock is $1,000, 900.
Salt Lake, Utah, is the principal place
of business
WAITING WARRANTS. An IN
precedented state of facts exists at
.he city hill There is a book almost
full OF city warrants which have been
waiting ever since Monday for those
{ Untitled to receive them, to call. This
is taken to signify that the persons
for whom they were issued are SO pros
porous that any more money would be
a burden and a hardship. Until now
people always called for their warrants
before they were made out.
HE WEIGHS TWELVE POUNDS.
.Iames Mccarthy yesterday became
the father Of a underground boy, for
which he is duly thankful. This in
FAINT becomes the third great grand
child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Upton. Great
grandchildren are more numerous in
The Salt River valley than anywhere
else, which proves that longevity is
greater here than elsewhere or that
gres., grandchildren are born here
earlier than anywhere else The Re
publican few days ago chronicled the
existence near Phoenix of the great
randmother of sixty-five children.
SCORE ONE FOR THE HORSES
The bicycle is generally looked upon
as an enemy of the horse, bU.s a big
gray team driven by healthy look /
ing farmer won heat over small
boy and a wheel last evening about |
shutdown. The farmer WIS travelling |
north on First avenue at the intersec- /
ton Of Washington street, and a T. |
yeaT-CId lad on a wheel was riding |
toward the eas.. on Washington. Both |
claimed the right of way, but only one |
Of them got it and that one was not !
the boy. He sat still for a moment as
though under the impression that he |
was dead. bU., when he discovered his |
mistake he got up and rode away |
FIRE IN THE BAD LANDS. -
zbou-c 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning
he IRE department was called out by
4 blaze in the bad lands just east Of
Seventh street. It proved to be /
frame building of goodly proportions
which has been unoccupied for some
ime, but which was just purchased !