Arizona republican., 1901-04-26

bOuru ol lfdue cOlnlnlllee m charSe Ol the arrangements for the mass meeting next Tuesday evening have decided that the meeting shall be held at the board rooms at s o'clock. It is desired that every citizen who has at heart the progress of the valley attend the meeting. The proposition for a sugar factory will be presented in detail
 MRS. SEARS IBL.-Mrs. Lena Sears is sick with spinal meningitis at her home on North Fifth avenue. Her con dition is critical, but the doctors state that her illness is not yet the most dangerous.
 MRS. MESSENGER BETTER.-Mrs A. r. Messinger. wife of the pho tographer, who has been i'll with typhoid fever. was considerably inn proved yesterday. Her condition at one time during the course of the sickness was very serious, but her physicians believe that she will be convalescent shortly
 SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC.-Ac- eording to indications there will be a large crowd in attendance at the Sun day school picnic of the Presbyterian church, the special train starting from Phoenix Cn the morning of Saturday and returning that night, after the pie nickers have spent a day in Wicken- burg.
 REGISTRATION ENDS TONIGHT. --Registration Of voters for the coming city election closes tonight at F o'clock. Lists last night showed a registration to date of l,Si6 names. Doubtless a number of names have been held back so that the registration book will con- tain approximately 2C00 names. Every available voter practically will be cn the register tonight.
 SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING.-- The city council held a special meeting yesterday morning to consider matters in connection with the Pacific coast trip of President Mckinley. A resolu- ton was adopted which makes the mayor of ths city custodian of the funds that have been. or may here after be appropriated by the city for decorating purposes on account of the reception - of President McKinle y. Money shall be paid out only on war rants drawn by the chairman of the local decorating committee. A trans fer of $S.000 from the interest fund tU the general fund was then made, to make possible the appropriation for the presidential reception, and res olution was passed authorizing the mayor to name ten new members to increase his reception committee from fifteen to twenty-five.
 AGREEABLY SURPRISED-Mr. J. B. MacDougall, who arrived here, Thursday, to visit his brother, Mr, M. C. MacDougaA, says he is agreeably surprised at Phoenix and the country generally, or what he has seen of it, He expected to find little town sur rounded by sage-brush and other dss- ert features. and instead, sees a lively bustling little city, surrounded by rich farms and a happy people. He was somewhat distressed however, to find his brother in b=d, Mir M C. Mac- Dougall having been confined to his room for couple of days with q high fever.
 A STORY-A special dispatch to the San Francisco Examiner from Tucson says: Sheriff Truman of Plnal coun- ty has just received word that Assem- blyman, William II. Beard of Pinal county was roughly handled by the Miners union at Globe. The miners rode Beard out of camp on q rail, pack inS him through the streets of the camp and taking him to point outside. where he was left with warnings that if he returned he would Dc treated to a repetition of the performance. Beard, during the last legislature, vigorously opposed the eight-hour bill. which was introduced in the interest of the miners of Arizona The Miners unions in all the camps marked him as their enemy. When Beard visited Globe last week loo miners gathered one evening, and. picking him up, placed him astrde a rail, upon which they bore the visitor out of camp amid wild cheering and jeers."
 LIKES PHOENIX.-Mr. w. C.. Palmer, a special attorney for the Unit ed States connected with the depart ment of justice, Is in the city. having returned yesterday morning from St. Johns, where he has been taking testi- mony in Indian depreciation claims. He recently took a 150-mie stage trip in the northern part of the territory, and while he is very much in love with Ari- zona, if he could have his way about things he would have more railroads here. He has travelled all over this ter ritory and Mexico and New Mexico. and naturally Is very much impressed with the resources of the southwest. But he mas also seen other places and expects to see more. He spent last summer in Alaska on official business and as socn as he returns to Washington he ex- poets to be sent to the Philippines. He is an old school friends and tovnsman of T. E. Grindell. who says that before he gets through with him he will have decided to make Phoenix his home.