Arizona republican., 1901-02-12

has been previously printed, as that matter is in the hands of an entirely different committee.
 TOO MUCH WATER-The farmers are now getting a hold on the other end of the pole, They are beginning to object to the superabundance of water. They say the ground is thoroughly soaked and they don't know how to take care of the surplus.
 THE SUPERvISORS-rhe board of supervisors spent yesterday in audit ing bills. They kept the room warm by feeding the stove lion scalps which cost the county twenty dollars each. Pretty expensive fuel but the super visors must be kept warm.
 FIFTEEN DOLLARS-Fifteen dol- lars or fifteen days was what it cost James Shaw to assault Antone Gould Cn Sunday night. MT. Shaw thought the fine was excessive and MT. Gould thought 1t was not enough, but the city recorder thought it was about right.
 A BABES DEATH H-Thomas Wilson, the in fant son of Mrs. w. A. Wilson, died yesterday at 2:45 o'clock. It's mother, Mrs. Gertie E. Wilson, died last Wednesday and was buried Thursday. The funeral services will be held at the home of Mir. Wilson's mother, l407 West Adam street at 3:30 o'clock today.
 ARTICLES OF ACCOMMODATIONS Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday of the Thirty-three Conso!-
 dated Oil Co. The capital stock is S500000, and the incorporators are c. F. Laumeister, John A. Drinkhouse, w. A. Miller, John J. Meyers, Robert S. LaMotte, Joseph Kahn and A. Ruff, of San Francisco.
 ANNIN'S WIDENING FIELD.-The Denver News of February Sth says: Minnesota has been added to the western division of the rural free de- livery service and w. F. Amin, special agent, with headquarters in Denver, now has charge of the entire district west of the Mississippi with the ex- ception of the state of Missouri MT. Amin has returned from a trip to Washington.
 USED BAD LANGUAGE-Thom Johnson, colored. was fined seven dol lars vest rday by Justice Burnett for using language not found in the dic- tionary, in the presence of a colored woman and two children at the race track. It is believed that he had some provocation for an outburst of temper but the court held that even though he had he should have bridled his tongue just as he would a two-minute horse
 CAPT JACK CRAWFORD IN THE SCHOOLS-Capt. Crawford, the poet scout, visited the city schools yester- day, and met Supt. Creager, whom he had not seen for ten years. MT. Creager introduced the poet scout" to the ad- vanced grades in the grammar school, and also to tho students in the high school, where he delivered very in torestlng address. which the supesin- tcndant told them was worth more to them than a month of study. Capt. Crawford is always at his best when ta king to the young people.
 TIMBER CUTTING CASE-David Fraser was tried before a jury in Jus tice Gray's court yesterday on the charge of cutting down some mesquite trees on a lot belonging to the Phoenix Building and Loan association in IT, vines addition. He admitted cutting the trees but said he thought he had right to and he seemed to impress the jury with the same view of the case for the verdict was not guilty. Yhe trees were a number that had been left standing when the lot was cleared, for purposes of shade and adornment. MT. Fraser resides on the adjoining prem ises.
 TRAINS AND HIGH WATER-Sup- erintendent Epss Randolph. of the Ari- zona division of the Southern Pacific, tel5phoned from Tucson yesterday that the washouts west of Yuma would most likely be repaired by o'clock yesterday afternoon and that the east bound train would probably get into Maricopa this morning nearly on time. Phoenix may therefore reasonably eX- pect to get California mail this morn ing The Gila river raised eight inches Sunday night making the water four feet deep at the railroad bridge yes terday morning and the salt riVer was higher than it has yet been this year. Joe Lambeye who has a mining prop erty south of the Gi,a in the Estrella mountains was in the city yesterday and says the river was beyond fording down near the junction.
 CAPITOL DEDICATION. The cap- itol dedication ceremony committee held a meeting last evening at the board of trade rooms, at which time considerable business was transacted. Chairman Bernard announced the ap- pointment of the following commit tees: On parade-J. M. Ford, Aaron Goldberg, General H. F. Robinsnn, James B. Alexander and J. w. Ben ham. On decorations--O. L. Geer, T. r. Campbell, Steve Roemer, NJ. J. Rior- 0@astetRdIssstletedhdlstbo .