Arizona republican., 1901-04-08

| cident, is not known yet. Some time ago the said John Doe came along by MT. Gilson's place, on the Tempe road driving bunch of cattle. It is supposed that the animal belonging to Mir. Giison joined the herd. either with or without the knowledge of the man driving the cattle. At any rate the yearling has not been since that time and MT. Gilson has been keeping an ear to the ground to ascertain what become of the cattle-driver. He learn ed yesterday that he was camped somewhere up the Black Canyon road with his cattle, and so an officer was sent out, armed with a warrant.
 THE RIGHT SPIRIT.-Mr. A. w. Upson, who came here recently from California, has been writing a series of interesting letters back to his home paper, The Southington Phoenix published in Southington, Conn. His letters are well written and are de- scriptive of the country and its re- sources, from agriculture to mining. with particular attention paid to the wonderful healthfulness of the cli- mate. They will no doubt be read with
 
 way of advertising the valley.
 THE MOKI SNAKE DANCE.- It was announced a few days since that the Good Templars would tonight be- gin the consideration of a series of pa pers on subjects relating to Arizona. owing to the presence of Mir. Frank C. Reid of Flagstaff in the city, the pro- gramme has been slightly changed for this evening, in that the meeting will be open to the public, and Mir. Reid will talk about the famed snake dances of the Moki Indians, with which he is very familiar This is a fascinating subject, as the strange rite is prac- ticed only by these people. The enter tainment will be free, and an invita- tion is extended to all to be present Mir. Walbridge will describe the ice caves near Flagstaff, which are such a curiosity. and others will probably speak of other points of interest. The exercises will begin at 8 o'clock, and after the programme has been rem dered, a session of the lodge will be held.
 RETURNING SOLDIERS. - The Phoenix members of the Thirty -fOur ln regiment, which arrived at San Fran cisco more than a week ago on the transport Logan, are expected home this week There are about q dozen of them, but it is likely that majority nf the Arizona contingent, in the neigh borhood of forty, will come. The mat ter of giving the boys some sort of a re- ception has been agitatcd but no plans have been formed for it. It has curi- ously happened that returning soldiers have not been enthusiastically met in Phoenix. They had in all cases been sent away with eclat and though they behaveed themselves well their conduct was regarded as so much a matter of course that nobody thought to praise them for it. The only ones who have been idoliZed were those that were un- fortunate enough to be killed.
 A LAWYERS ERROR.-Last Sat urday the sheriff's office received a telegram from an attorney in a neigh boring town, informing the sheriff that his conduct in not having served cer- tain papers which the attorney had forwarded the week before was con temptible. It transpired though, that l tilN pdptlS bllly Npiiic iillo 'h' office. There was a delay for which | the postofiice was not to blame, but the attorney who had adopted about i the only possible way of producing | miscarriage. Instead of addressing his ! letter to the sherffs office he address | ed it to Sheriff Murray. Fhe ex-sherff l on it's receipt was out of town, so | that the letter lay at his house until | his return In reply to the attorneys | bitter telegram, the sheriff wrote in- forming the attorney that there was | an election in this county last fall, 1 and that several official. changes had ensued. There was not, he said, such q person as Sheriff Murray within the Jurisdiction of the Phoenix postoflice. There was an ex-sheriff of that name. The sheriff closed with acknowledging | the receipt of the delayed papers and stated that the desired action had been taken.