Arizona republican., 1899-03-15

tail stock of groceries of the Barkley Bros. Mercantile company on the floor | below. It attacked the tobacco and | cigar stock first. That class of mer
 chandisc IS not particularly prescribed 1 by the teneJs of the Good Templars,
 yet there is supposed to exist a certain
 relation between tobacco and liquors. | The deluge next included an assort-
 ment of soaps. About o'clock in the
 morning Officers Al GaIpin and L. M, Francis of the merchants patrol heard | the Niagara. They located it's source | broke into the hall and obstructed the | flow. Then they got a key tc the store | shifted the goods around and baled the establishment out
 MORTALITY IN THE EAST T.
 w. Roberts is again with tha north di- vision of the Phoenix city railway. His attention to his duties has been con- Stant for two years until the late news
 of sickness in his family at Ogdens-
 burg, N. Y. He did not arrive there
 until after the death of his father, and
 his mothers death was soon followed
 by that of his aunt, who has always
 been very near to the family Mr Rob-
 erts said that large number of per
 sons were victims of the grip epidemic
 i'll New York during the cold wave and
 that the mortality was large.
 A CHARCOAL FACTORY. "A war
 rant was issued from Justice John
 stones court yesterday for the arrest | of a Mexican named SerIovia for the il- ! legal cutting of wood on a claim owned | by Antone Roma, near Mcdowell | Constable Frank McClintock was sent { into that part of the world after him.
 If Senovia had confined his cutting to
 wood for his own use or even wood for
 ma mi oh
 bad. It would naturally require time
 to denude the land But Sanogia en
 gagged in the swifte" destruction of
 converting the wood into charcoal
 A NEW JANTTOR. Tine board of supervisors has made a change in the janitOrship of the court house by the appointment of H. H. Harvey. cOlOred.
 The new janitor undertakes the task of ing for both the court house and the annex at $50 a month This work has been formerly done by TWO jan itors at $100 a month. MT. Harvey's appointment comes as a well earned political reward. As president of the Colored Republican club last fall he rendered splendid service for his party. Besides having the endorsement of the county committee Mir. Harsey was en- dOrsed by nearly all the business and professional men of the city, regardless of party He has had much experience in the kind of work he is to take up and there is no doubt he will prove an efficient janitor.
 THE EII<S' LADIES' SOCIAL. The Elks' hall will ring tonight with music and laughter, the occasion being the B. P. O. E. annual ladies rOcial ses- sion and ball. A fine musical pro- will be rendered to be fol- lowed by an elaborate luEeh and fine ; dancing programme. This will be the choicest entertainment of the kind ever given in Phoenix and those who were fortunate enough to receive an invitation may indeed congratulate Feuersteins celebrated orchestra will furnish the music, as sisted by the best vocal talent that can be secured. Coffee Al will have charge of the pleasure Of the inner man. The programme will be pulp lished in full in tomorrow's issue of l The Republican.
 A PHOENIX BEAUTY SPOT-The { flower section of the court house plaza lnder the skillful management of Gardiner Dave Turner, is the hand ' somest spot in Arizona Perhaps r tt this particular season it is the landsOmest spot in all the United ( States. Tourists are fully appreciative f lf MT. Turner's work, more so than the 'esidents of Phoenix, who have the pleasure of seeing it the year round. Visitors from nearly every northern md eastern state call almost daily for flowers, which they send back to l friends in the frOst-bitten north I just to show them what a varied land F this is. MT. Turner is especially pleas ed with the result of an experiment be- c gun some months ago. The sowing of s