Arizona republican., 1902-02-08

RETURN OF JUDGE STREET Judge Street was expected to return this morning and there was much speculation among lawyers as to whether he would hold a session Qf court today.
 4 WRECK.-A wood wagon was wrecked on North Third street about dark last night. The left front wheel fell off. and down went McGinty. tha Mexican driver. The wagon was loaded with stumps.
 A CHILD'S DEATH.-Marcia Jones the 3-yeIr-old daughter of DT. and Mrs. C. Ii. Jones of Tempe. died last night after an illness of a little more than week. The cause of death was menin- @itis. There was from the beginning little hope that the child would re- cover.
 NEWSPAPER FOR DOUGLAS The thriving town of Douglas is to have a newspaper. The paper will be a siX-column folio, and the first mum ber will be issued about Friday, the 14th inst. Pending the erection of q building and the arrival of printing ma terial. which has been ordered. the paper will be printed in Bisbee.
 HORSE DROPPED DEAD.-Horses who value their lives at all will GO well to avoid travelling on Washington street. between First and second. Two or three weeks ago a horse fell dead there. and yesterday another horse did the same thing. It belonged to a man by the name of Danan. Some kind of horse curse seems to finger in that vicinity.
 THE COUNTRY CLUB.-The usual afternoon tea will be held at the Coun- try club today. Mrs. W. F. Robinson and Mrs. l.. F. Dwight will serve choc- olate and sandwiches. There will be 8 | handicap tournament for both ladies and gentlemen at 2:3O D. m. The mem ! bers of the club are practicing indus ! triously for the annual tournarent on l February 22.
 1 MORE RACES.-There will be two l running races and several harness | events at the race track Monday after noon. The running races will be be- tween Fannie and Croppy, two Flag staff horses. and Wild Oats and Rabbit two Fl Paso horses. One race will be for 550 yards and the other for 300 yards and there will be Sl0O a side in each purse.
 CORNER STONE EXERCISES The citizens of Benson are preparine ! to hold exercises at the laying of the ] corner stone of the rev reform schoo building. and a committee consisting 1f B. Maier. M. F. Castaneda and Steve Roemer has been appointed to make phe preliminary arrangements. Some prominent official of the territory vii be asked to be present as the guest oi the town and deliver an address. l POLICE COCRT-In police cour yesterday a hearing was given tn, cases against several of the leadinl l i1h
 iCense. The facts in the controyers,
 nave been previously published anc
 nothing new of importance being de
 veloped at the trial. The court tool
 -he matter under advisement. Tn,
 only other case was a charge aSains
 Jennie Doe. She failed to appear. anC
 her bond was declared forfeited VISIT OF A MINING MAN Mir
 Charles D. Lane. owner of the Forum:
 mine and some valuabl mining prop
 critics in Alaska. was Phoenix visito
 yesterday. He was accompanied by r
 !. Martin. general manager of tn
 Fortuna mine. Mir. Lane was also tn
 owner of the ship that bore his name
 and which was wrecked few month
 ago some distance above Vancouver ol
 t return trip from Alaska. Mir. Ian
 left last night for Tucson. and Nil
 Martin left on the same train for Sal Francisco.
 A SACRED CONCERT-Tne Bdptis
 people have been giving special atten tion to church music of late. and vii
 soon give an evening of sacred song
 The quartette includes Mrs. A. E. Elm
 tree Mrs. A. II. Thompson. pr. R. M
 Dodsworth, Mr. l.. w. COggins.-Mis Mary E. Halsey. accompanist. Las
 Sunday evening Miss Gussie Russel
 gave q solo, which received high com lmendation Next Sunday evening Mis
 Evaline Taylor will give d violin solc . Dr. Dodsworth and MT. Coggins wi sing David and Goliah.'
 MAIL CONTRACTS.-Hen GeOrg :. yesterday received notice from the gov
 crnment that he had been awarded tn | contracts for carrying the mail fror
 Phoenix to Arlington, from Phoenix ! i.iscum and from Mesa to Lehi. Thes . are said to be among the first contract let Hitherto all the star route con tracts have been in the hands of lars
 contractors living in the east and hold