Arizona republican., 1901-09-28

tary Hamilton of the board of trade received a letter yesterday from J. W. Benham. He says that the effect of the Arizona display at the big fair, even though not as large as. it should have been. has besn to awaken a, great
 interest in this region There are more inquiries regarding Arizona than he expected there would be. and he says that hundreds have told him they ex peOted to come to Phoenix this winter. He has distributed thousands of book lets and leaflets descriptive Of the country, and at the time of writing had just received the shipment sent to him of the latest folder published by ,he board of trade. These he will also distribute to the best possible advan- tage.
 ONLY TEMPORARILY OFF.-John AttiX. the young man who was arrested Thursday charged with insanity was given an continuation before Probate Judge Langston yesterday and WIS discharged. As had been suspected his mental Arrangement was temporary. the result of debauch. Attix was clothed in his right mind but he was nervous. He said he was interested in mining near Casa Grande and came 10 the city on Wednesday to buy hur- ses. He began drinking that night and playing roulette at which he dropped s200. He kept on drinking until he be-
 came for the time insane. Having served at one time in an eastern United States marshars office. that fact ac
 counted for the hallucination that he was deputy marshal. a circumstance on which the suspicion of insanity was based. AttiX is said to be highly con nscted in the east.
 COULDN'T VIOLATE THE LAW Col. <. NJ. McCowan. Dr. L. D. Dam eron, Roy Perry and Joseph Singleton have been hunting in the mountains in the neishborhood of Fort Apache. Col. McCowan and Dr. Dameron returned yesterday after an absence of nearly two weeks. Perry and Singleton are coming overland from Globe with the horses and wagon and impedimenta. Impedimenta it may be said in passing does not mean game. The hunters had been lured out into that wild country by false representations that it abound ed in bears. There were no bears nor
 were there any places where bears had ever been. The hunters saw no other kind Of game except one deer around which the broad aegis of the law was thrown. That deer would have got l along very well anyhow. Perry saw ic and does not krow what happened in the ensuing five minutes. When he vas discovered ana leSteE-u lo con 1 sciousnezs his repeating rife was found to he empty and the ground ahcut him
 was strewn with shells in the same condition of Vacuity.
 HAPPY OLD wOMAN.-A very happy old woman was Carmen Parra yesterday on account of the legal cs- tablishment to the right Of her grand child. a little girl of four. AntGai3- Braggio,a and Chona Para. a daughter of Carmen. We're arrested Tor a viola. ! ticn cf the Edmuds act They had
 been living together and had babe of two years Tn order to save himself | Br0ggiola swore that his relations with i the woman were not unlawful ana that the babe was no relation to him. He I and the woman were afterwsrd mar [ ried but never lived together aft srward ! The mother of the woman. cared for her | and the child until the death of the | mother. Braggiola contributed ncth ing 10 the support of either and when [ his wife died and a subscription was ' taken up for her burial he refused to 1 contribute to the fund. saying that he | had a better use for his money. Ever
 since then Braggiola and his relatives
 have been trying to obtain possession
 of the child. The contest was taken
 to the probate court where the right to i it was settled yesterday by its legal
 adoption by the grandmother.
 HAD A GOOD TIME-Richard Hum 1 pl.-eys of Bisbee and George A. Mintz 1 of Phoenix. grand master and grand
 secretary respectively. Of the I. O. c.
 F. of this jurisdiction. returned tc ! Phoenix this morning from months
 visit in the east. During the time they attended the annual session of tn
 Sovereign grand lodge at indianapolis ! to which they were delegates. Both report having had an excellent time
 and both bained in flesh as they now fool: like prizefghters ard weigh over
 a hundred pounds a-pisce. Mir. Mintz was in Cleveland the greater part of
 the time and says the Grand Army en- | camDment was a great thing. the city | being simply turned over to the ol ! soldiers. Mir. Humphreys visited T friends at his former home in Penn
 sylvania. At Indianapolis the city was ! turned over to the odd Fellows and
 nothing was too good for the visitors.
 MT. Mintz must have cut some ice in the parade for he was a private when
 he left here and he returned a fuli-
 aedged major with yellow braid al
 over him. He says that during the
 parade there was an interesting horse
 show in which he played a prominent
 rart and which gave him an oppor-
 tunity to display his accomplishment