Arizona republican., 1901-06-06

TO GET THE PLANT.-Ths after noon the board of trade committee in charge of the securement of the pro- posed beet sugar plant will begin it's final work. One half of the necessary amount has been raised
 MIR. HUNTINGTON BETTER.--A getter was received yesterday from MT. Samuel Huntington, by Phoenix friend, saying that he is now stopping at the Westminster hotel in Los An geles. and is feeling considerably i'm proved in health.
 MARY LEE IN COURT-Mary Lee. the little Chinese girl that pedd!es vegetables. after repeated warnings. yesterday paid the city recorder S3 for an ocluar demonstration that the ordi- nance against leaving horses united means what it says.
 PROBATE COURT.--A final receipt for distributive shares of the estate of George Shivallia, was presented In probate court yesterday. and the exc cutriX was discharged. The bond of w. A. Bolton, administrator of the es- tate of Bantiste Merlette, was filed and approved and appraisers were ap- pointed
 WENT TO THE CANYON.-Mr. and
 Mrs Fred Nurdlinger of Philadelphia, left on Tuesday night for the Grand Canyon. From there they will return to Philadelphia. They were accompan-
 jed as far as Williams by MT. J. M.
 Hay. who went on to Albuuuerque to assume charge of a drug store there.
 The party had made all arrangements
 to make the trip to the canyon over
 land. on horseback, but owing to Mrs. Nurdlinger's health the trip was aban- doned.
 THE FIRE.-A big blaze was dis covered early yesterday morning by
 the police just north of the Brill ad- dition car line where it crosses Seventh street and just east of that street. The | officer was in the southern part of town, and therefore could not send in an alarm without misdirecting the department, so he fired a shot, which awoke the chief The apparatus made 1 the run, only to find a burning brush pile, though the blaze at distance | looked like building. It was prob
 ably fired by some evil disposed per
 son Another would hardly have started fire at that time of night.
 A PEACE DISTURBER.- Jesus Miranda was arrested some time on | Tuesday night by Deputy Constable Lee Redwine. for an aggravated dis | turbance of the peace at the corner of Seventh and Jackson streets, vicinity pretty hard to jar. For this he got twenty days. Miranda drew knife on the arresting officer and scratched | his hand with it. The officer quieted | him by beating him into insensibility
 with his gun. For this Miranda got
 sixty days. He said he remembered
 nothing of the events of the night be-
 fore. When he woke up in a strange
 place, surrounded by bars yesterday
 morning, he had queer feeling in his head and thought he must have had some trouble. His suspicion was strengthened by the dry blood which ! had gathered on his shirt.
 MIR. EXCELL WILL REST.--Many ! Phoenix people will remember F.. O.
 F,Xcell, the famous singe, who visited | Phoenix this spring with tha company of special Sunday school workers, and will also remember that while here | he was suffering from a bad cold and
 could not sing but litt'e. It was the | first time in years that he had had a l throa; trouble that affected him at all seriously, and he called upon a local ! physician for treatment. He was told at the time that he should rest abso- lutely for a month, so far as singing ! ,is al he could not do, and the result was that
 he has had considerable trouble ever since. Yesterday the physician who
 treated him here received a letter from | him thanking his fos past favors and good advice and announcing that he [ had finally decided to act upon i, and will give up singing for month at l least, or until he fully recOvers. He | is now in Chicago.
 | WITHOUT JURISDICTION.- The ! case of Ed. McCourt, charged with i being a vagrant, came up in Justice Burnetts court yesterday. The defen-
 dant had been arrested on a warrant from Justice Gray's court, issued on complaint of Deputy Conctabe J. A.
 Porterie. A change of venue was taken
 to Justice Burnetts court, where 1t
 was decided that there was no Juris-
 diction. In 1893 the legislature passed
 law taking the jurisdiction of such
 cases out of courts of justices of the
 peace in incorporated towns and giving
 it exclusively to police courts. The
 case was dismissed on the motion of
 Judge Kbbey. acting for the district
 attorney. and the costs amounting to
 $775, were taxed against the complain
 ing witness. It was doubtful if Me- Court could have even been convicted