Arizona republican., 1902-01-12

mine. is in the city shaking hands with old friends, as he was formerly a res | ident of Phoenix. He will remain here | till Mir. Robert Mitchell. the newly appointed assistant general manager. returns from Jerome. when he will re | turn with him to La Cananea
 POLICE COURT.-The only case in
 police couIt yesterday was another chicken forage controversy. and it was settled amicably by the alleged oTen- der agreeing to kill the chickens and go out of business. Officer Russell ar rested a Mexican for drunkenness. but it was after court adjourned. SO he was put in pickle till Monday after noon.
 RAIN.-It rained here last night though nobody knew it, except those who had to be out in it. and they could have dcdged the scattering drops if they had cared to. The little sprinkle though, was encouraging, for it shows that the weather bureau peo- pie or Jupiter Piuvius ore whoever is in charge of the rain factory. is get
 ting the machinery oiled up. prepSra-' tory to a test run.
 WALKER'S MARE WON. - Two
 Walkers roan lilly yesterday afternoon won an exciting and close quarter of q "
 Boy. The race was won by a very short nose. just long enough to avoid a dead heat. The result was brought about by the filly's rider Commodore Passey, who brought her into the lead at the last moment. The time was 25 seconds and the purse S200. MT. Rosen- baum is still confident that he has the better horse and wants another race. LIEUT.. WILCOX HERE-Lieuten- ant George B. Wilcox, who served with troop B of the rough riders through the Spanish-American war. arrived here re- gently from Bisbee with his family and they are domiciled on West Adams street. Mrs. Wilcox is not enjoying the hest of health and they came here hop ing for her improvement by the change or residence, while at the same time the children could receive good school advantages. Lieutenant Wilcox will return to Bisbee soon and it is reported that he is slated for the position of clerk of the court of Cochise county.
 BASEBALL TODAY.-There will be baseball game at the park today at 2:30 between the Mansfields and the Bremen. The lineup of the Mansfields is as follows: Graham, catcher; N. Donovan. pitcher: Osborn, first base;
 
 stop; Ike King. left field: Thoraldson. center field; Mccarthy. right field. An other aggregation is being formed to beat the Mansfields. So far as it is made up it consists of Ray Judy. Frank Morgan, Tom Crawford. Charles Price. Alex Cunningham and Dan Javins Three other high priced players are being negotiated witb-
 WILL BE HERE SCON.-It is un- derstood that the term of enlistment of Walter T. Gregory, who is now at Jefferson Barracks. Mo. will expire shortly and that he expects to come back here immediately after his dis charge. Walter served faithfully with the rough riders and since then has had an outing trip of aoout three years ir the Philippines with troop k of the Fourth cavalry. During his vacation there he has had nothing particular to do except eat hard tack, shoot goo zoos. lay in the hospital. stand guard and sprint through the swamps at all hours of the day and night. Still he feels as though he has had enough to hold him for awhile and is anxious to try Ari- zona again.
 CEMENT IS ALL RIGHT-There appeared in the Tempe department of The Republican yesterday morning q statement regarding the affairs of the Phoenix Construction company. statement which the gentlemen of that think might be very injurious to them. It was stated among other things that the company had q large quantity of cement stored there for the last eighteen months and that it was worthless. It was supposed that the correspondent at Tempe had in formed himself regarding the character Of the cement, not that in making his theory that it had grown worthless by age. As a matter of fact cement. if kept. does not deteriorate with time. A representative Of the company called at this office yesterday accom- panied by gentleman who has no in- terest in the company and who said that he had examined the cement. He said he found it in as good condition as when it was put in storage.
 A BUSINESS SUCCESSION. - The W holesale and retail liquor business of Brothers. lon Center street. has passed into the hands of Alex Rhein- stein & Co. MT. Mclczer will hereaf- ter devote his entire time to his min ing business, having his headquarters at Nogales, though he of course re- tains property interests in Phoenix and is one of the most optimistic friends of the city. Mir. Rheinstein is probably as well known as anybody in this city