Arizona republican., 1902-09-15

ASSAULT AND BATTERY.-A man named Bauer was arrested by the police on the charge of assault and battery directed toward a number ot boys with whom he had trouble near the garbage dump in the river. He claims they tried to steal the bottles he had picked up there and they deny it. Bauer was taken before Justice Burnett, who released him on his own recognizance till today.
 PASTOR CALLED.-The Fifth Av- enue Christian church yesterday, by an unanimous vote. extended a call to the Rev. w. H. Bagley to the pastorate of the church. MT. Bagley has been pas tor of the church in Salt Lake city for four years past and previous to that time occupied important pulpits in Denver and Waco. Texas. He is at present temporarily in Oklahoma, and is expected to arrive in Phoenix some time next week, and to begin his Iabors for the church on the 2Sth inst.
 TRANS CONTINENTAL TOUR Mir and Mrs. NJ. Stein returned home yesterday morning from a trans con tinental tour in the interest of the Chi cago store. Neither one crossed the continent entirely. but both together they covered the whole field from ocean to ocean. Mrs. Stein went east visit ing Chicago and New York, where she purchased a large stock of goods, in cluding a millinery stock. She also employed a first class hat trimmer who returned home with her. MT. Stein went west and to make sure he had covered the whole country to the coast, took a spin out on the Pacific. going from Los Angeles to San Francisco by boat. He too made some purchases for the stock of the Chicago store, of such goods as can be secured on the coas. at right prices.
 GUN CLUB SCORES.-Quite a large number of shooters faced the traps at the weekly practice shoot at the grounds yesterday afternoon. No prac- tice will be had Wednesday on account of the non-arrival of a shipment of blue rocks, but there will be plenty on hand for next Sunday at o'clock. The scores made were as follows. McNeqgh, 10. 9. :, s, :, 9, g. s; Aitken, 10, 9. &. g. 8. 9; Graham, 9. 8. :. s. 8: Pinney. 3, s. S. 6 @, :: Harrison, 6 9 9 9 g, ,: Morrell. [. :. 8. g. [, 8. :; Wallace. ,. 6, f. :; Randy. ,. I. I; Price. 6, :, '. 8.
 MASS MEETING sTAGE.-County division and the changing of the county seat are two questions before the peo- pie of Graham county that have now reached the mass meeting stage of consideration. In fact the warfare has been so ingeniously conducted that both questions are merged into one. Solomonville has been the county seat Sin Rant1 stopped at Henry Morgan's bailiwick on their way up the Gila river some hundreds of years ago and naturally it would like to remain so. Clifton and other towns in the east end of the valley which are the product of the nineteenth century, for some years were content to be wagged as the tail of the dog, but they think now that the tail is big enough to have dog of it's own, so they insist on county divis- ion. Meanwhile during modern times, Stafford. which is an agricultural set clement a few miles from Solomonville, has grown to be some pumpkins and wants to become a county seat of some kind. She don't care whether she is the county seat of a big county or little one just so it is a county seat. A conspiracy was therefore entered into between Clifton and Stafford. They were to work together to get the county seat removed to Stafford, then Stafford was to help Clifton confiscate the east end of the county for a domain of her own. The scheme was working all right till the other day some of the Clifton con spirators began to doubt the good faith of the Stafford people. Then came the
 i,.1,f faY1 and in which all maintain that they are true to their mutual vows. It is in order for anyone needing a second hand courthouse to apply to Solomon vile for quotations.