Arizona republican., 1900-08-16

MOURN FOR HUNTINGTON.-Ir honor of the memory of the late C. P Huntington the office of the M. x P and s. R. V. railway had crepe on tht door yesterday.
 GOES TO SNAKE DANCE. MT. J. w. Benham will leave this morning to attend the MOqui Indian snake dance at Oraibe. He will be joined by w. C. Foster al Flagstaff.
 COUNCIL TO MEET. This after noon at 4 o'clock the city council will meet in session adjourned from August 6. No business of exceptional import ance is likely to come up.
 JUSTICE TOMBSTONE BETTER A letter received yesterday from Judge Johnstone. who is at Long Beach. Cal states that he has improved consider ably since he reached the coast. and eX- poets to soon be able to come home. A MIX-UP.-A beer wagon ran into two grocers' wagons on Washington street yesterday afternoon, in such a way that the wagons acted as a brake to help the driver of the beer wagon tC stop his horses. No damage of moment
 AN INSANE MEXICAN - Frank Hopley of Tucson was in the city yes terday with an insane Mexican miner. whom he deposited in the asylum. His name was Juan Herrera, and he has lived in Tucson for several years and been lately in the employ of George Pusch and Ynginio Aguirre.
 MELONS NOT IN DEMAND.-Six 'weeks ago a half-dozen watermelon wagons were doing a rushing business alongside the court house and city hall plazas. Now one wagon at each place is supplying the needs of the populace. The melons are rather dry and taste less and the sales are not heavy, es- pecially since the price has risen.
 MIR. GANZ IN EUROPE.-A letter was received at the National Bank of Arizona yesterday from President Emil Gang, who, at the time of writing, was at Frankfort-On-the Main. All Were in good health. They intended to visit the watering places of Carlsbad and Kis- sengen and witness the Passion Play at Oberammergau. They will sail for home on September 25 on the steamer St. Louis.
 TO SELL ONYX.-Mr l.. A. Brito. who has charge of the onyx cutting and polishing industry at the Phoenix Indian school will leave this morning for Berkeley. Cal, where he hopes to secure the contract for furnishing the onyx for the new buildings of the State university. Should he succeed it will furnish a good present market for one industrial product of the school that is bound to become famous some day.
 INCORPORATED.-Articles of incor- poration of the Eclipse Copper com pany were filed in the office of the sec retary of the territory yesterday. The company is capitalized at $1,000000, and the temporary directors are w. R. Me Cormick and G. E. Dunbar Kalamazoo, Mich; w. J. Mckay, Chicago; T. B. Mills and F. V. Long, Las Vegas, N. NJ. The principal office will be at Phoenix, and branches at Tucson, Chicago, and Las Vegas.
 VISITORS FROM THE NORTH.-A special arrived from Prescott about , o'clock yesterday afternoon with Messrs. H. P Anewalt, w. A. Drake and J. J. Wragovich, s. F. P. x P. of ficials, and Mir D. c. Lyons, of New York, representing Patterson, Teele & Dennis, accountants. The gentlemen visited The Republican office last night. Though MT. Lyons home is in New York, where the first type-setting machines were put into use, he never saw one until he was confronted by The Republicans battery. The party will return to Prescott this morning.
 WORK ON ARIZONA CANAL. --- Superintendent McDermott, with his big gang of WOrkmen, is making rapid progress in the work of cleaning and