Arizona republican., 1901-07-28

Mrs. J. A. Welch, director of club. gave a lecture on Schumann and played sev- eral selections from him.
 THE JAIL. MADE HIM CRAZY, -. Sheriff Murphy of Tucson arrived in
 the city yesterday morning with R. E. | Wilson, who had been committed to the insane asylum. Wilson was arrested at Tucson some time ago on a charge of | forgery, and was held to the grand jury. In default of bail he was sent to jail Soon after that he began to man fest symptoms of insanity and lately became violent
 | NOT A PHOENIX MAN.-The man arrested west of Prescott on the charge of insanity, says the Journal Miner, gives his name as George Oliver. He | is a machinist and gunsmtth and came from New Mexico overland, via Tue son, Phoenix, Congress and Kirkland. He denied being crazy, or at least. more so than ordinary people. The | examination was not concluded when
 this information was obtained
 A LITTLE MORE W.ATER.-Reports from the Arizona canal dam yesterday afternoon indicated that the river was again rising slowly and had recovered | the. loss of the preceding day. It was estimated that there was upwards of twenty thousand inches in the river, all told, which will give the Grand and Salt good heads during this run. The late rains have apparently been far | back on the headwaters of the Salt river and it's tributaries, and the raise | in the river in the valley is conse- quently slow, but is more likely to re- ! main steady than if the rains were in the lower foothills.
 PROBATE COURT--An order was granted out of probate court yesterday allowing the guardian of the estate of ! Bertie C. Evans to invest funds of the estate. An answer was filsd by Mrs. | Bessie Musselwhite to the petition of F.. A. Spaulding for letters of guardi- anship of Glen A. Hart, minor h5ir of the estate of Lester G. Hart. The petition is opposed on the ground that there is already a guardian in the, state of Colorado, and that the peti- | tioner is the administrator of the es-
 
 II. B. Wilkinson administrator of the estate of Final s. Mcclure, filed his final account and a petition for dis charge. The matter was set for hear Ing on August 6.
 LOOKING AFTER BUSINESS Building Inspector F. Sunderland has laid aside his heavy coat and rolled up his sleeves and is now ready for any thing that may turn up in the line of his official duties. He is inclined to think that he is not getting all the business he ought to have. He says the new building ordinance requires a permit even for the electric wiring of house. and from the way he sees To- cal electricians scoO,ing up the street with fans and other electric appliances under their arms he ,magines there is construction work going OF that he has not been apprised of He suggests that people altering their houses in any way apply to him before he has to ap- T1y to them. He imagines it will cause less friction.
 CAT ORDINANCE WANTED.-A reader of The Republican requests that some publicity be given to the dis turbing prevalence of cats in this city and sugges;s the agitation of an ardi- nance making every cat owner buy Il tag for his pet. He says cats arg a greater nuisance than dogs and he does not believe it fair to demand license on dogs and allow ten thou sand cats to go hithsr and thither at will. He cites the habits of the two animals in strength of his position. He says the dogs do some of their singing in the daytime, but the cat is strictly a nocturnal bird and he has lost more sleep by reason of feline disturbance than he has over all the dogs. mosqu
 toes and sprinkling carts put together. Thsn, too, he argues that one can teach dog something He can be made to entertain if he don't do any thing else All a eat can do is to eat, get in the way and sing at the wrong time. This complaining individual when he came to Arizona was meek and good-natured Sunday school boy. But cats have spoiled his disposition, tinged his hair with gray and almost drivin him to drink He is a single man. of course, as all single men are responsible for new and so-calIed cranky ideas, but he says h. has been on the verge of matrlmony a half dozen times, and was halted each time by the thought that if he had wife she would keep q cat and he could offer no legal argument against It. He wants an ordinance prohibiting; the keeping of cats, or making the owners of such worthless property contribute some thing 10 the revenue of the city to pay for the trouble they create. He thinks that in that event here would be many who could not afford heluxury. and the official cat killer would remove at least n nOftiCn of the nuisance