Arizona republican., 1900-12-16

FOR THE WINTER.-Mr and Mrs
 Richard Sharp, nurse and two children
 are here from Wilkesbarre, Pa, guests
 of the Hotel Adams. They will spend
 the winter in Phoenix.
 CONTRACT LET.-The contract fc1
 the erection of the buildings connected with the enterprise of MT. John S. Ar
 cher and pr. H. H. Stone, on North
 Center street, has been let to Messrs. Golf and Galpin for $7672.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. First t
 Church of Christ Scientist, corner of Center and Jefferson streets, holds services at Il a. m., Sunday school at 1O:S0 a. m. Wednesday evening serv- ices 7:3O 0. m F,vervhodv welcome
 A HUNDRED DAYS.-Thomas Mur- phy, the shell-game artist who att tempted to do a little business at the park on Thursday and was jerked up by the officers, was given a hundred days in the county jail by Justice Johnstone.
 FOR THE INSTITUTE.-Prof w. w. McNef and wife and Miss Reed of the Jerome schools and Miss Opdyke of Buffalo, N. Y, are guests of the Ford Hotel. They can.e down to attend the teachers institute next week and incl dentaIly to take in the last day of the carnival.
 BACK FROM NEW YORK.-D. D. Horning, son Clyde and daughter He lena, arrived from New York yesterday morning, where they have been spend- ing a few months. Tine thermometer was at zero Tuesday morning when they left for Phoenix, and glad are they to return to sunshine.
 WAITING FOR A GOOD THING.-
 Sheriff-elect J. H. Thompson of Gila county has been in the city for several days enjoying the carnival. He says that the Sheriffs office is only a sort of a temporary arrangement with him and he don't want it for life, as he is work ing some claims in the Superstition mountains that he hopes will make him rich before another election.
 VISITED THE CERIS.-Prof. w. J. McGee of the Bureau of American Eth nology and Delaney Gill, an artist who is also in the employ of that bu- reau, returned Friday from their trip to the Ceris Indian village on the Gulf of California, to which reference has been made in these columns. Their trip was a most successful and satis- factory one. They left for Washington Friday evening.
 FAMILY TROUBLE.-The home life of Juan Vegas is not as serene as a poet would wish for, and he frequently has to settle his differences with Mrs. Vegas with a club or any old thing that is handy. Recently an argument was ended by Mrs. Vegas f1ourishing a knife, and her spouse, fearing she would hurt herself with it, disarmed her. Later he was arrested for abus ing her and yesterday was arraigned before Justice Johnstone. His trial was set for o'clock Monday.
 A WARNING.-John Politzer, who cemetery. had to leave his ranch on an errand a few days ago, and hired a Mexican boy named Ramon Apedio to look out for things during his absence. When he returned he paid the boy for his watchfu!ness and two days later discovered that he had been robbed of a number of silk handkerchiefs, neck ties and other things. No one else mad been on the ranch to his knowledge, and he says that while he knows he can prove nothing, he feels that Ramon is a very bad boy and will not do 10 trust.
 DEATH OF DAVID BAIRD.-DavidI Baird, a travelling man representing the Paddock -Hawley Iron company of St. Louis, died rather suddenly Friday morning in this city. He had been suffering with stomach trouble for two or three days, and was quite ill follow