Arizona republican., 1900-07-20


 land has been appointed steward at the territorial asylum in the place of J. F. Kelly, who resigned a couple of weeks ago.
 DAYS FOR DISTURBANCE. Con- cepcion Cost5lla was in Justice John stones court yesterday charged with disturbing the peace of a woman with whom he had been living. He was sent to jail for twenty days.
 PROBATE COURT. Inventories and appraisements were filed in probate court yesterday in the estates of Sam uel B. Chase and Thomas Bishop. The administrative of the state of Eugene A. Keller yesterday filed her bond and letters were issued to her. An order was made appointing appraisers.
 A COMPLETED DEAL The deal by which Harry J. Jones of Chicago bought the Goldman corner was com pleted yesterday by the payment of the purchase price, $37, 800. Mir. Jones will shortly begin the remodeling of the building so that there will be three storerooms on the Washington street front and three on the Center street side
 SENATOR GEARS SECOND TERM. A few days ago The Republican in mentioning the death of Senator John H. Gear of Iowa stated that his term of office would have expired in 1901. It was meant that his present term would have ended then, but at the last session of the legislature he was re- electe" The governor of Iowa will ap- point his successor.
 JUNO ITS PERFORMANCE Dis trict Clerk W. C. Foster yesterday re- ceived letter from w. N. Tiffany an nouncing his arrival at Wheaton, III. with his mare, Juno T. They got to Wheaton on Sunday, July 8. and on the following "Wednesday Juno T. was given three trial trips in 2:44, 2:3O and 2:27 She is in excellent form and all horse men who have seen her predict that she will cut an important figure in the circuit. She has been entered for the races at Aurora next Tuesday and Friday.
 DISTRICT LODGE POSTPONED The quarterly session of Maricopa dis triet lodge I. O. G. T., which was to have been held in Mesa, on tomorrow night, has been postponed on account of sickness in the families of several of the members of Mesa lodge, and the absence of others It is probable that the district lodge will not convene again till the annual session in OctobeN
 NEW NOTARIES. -Notarial com missions were issued yesterday to yE. w. Lewis of Phoenix and Thomas H. Flynn of Flo gstaff LOW WATER. The oldest inhab- itant has never seen so little water in the Salt river and unless the clouds now lowering over the ranges bring rain, much damage and suffering will ensue. At present the Arizona canal takes all the water from the river at its dam, which is conducted. to the rancho under it's la,erals and under the Grand canal. The Mesa, Utah and Tempe canals take what they can pick up in the river bed at the respective dams, while the Maricopa and Salt River Valley canals get what comes to their joint head above the city. The various cross-cut canals are none of them carrying water at the present time, each main canal taking what it can get from the river bed. which is scarcely sufficient for stock water.
 RAIN SURE. -Unkind and cruel remarks have been made during t..e past week about The Republican, $ seer who, in order to cheer up the faint hearted, has been predicting rain in the near future. It was argued by the faithless that because it had not rained for many months it probably never would rain again. The seer has held firmly to the opposite view, believing that most any kind of a rain prediction was safe, as the drouth could not last