Arizona republican., 1902-01-16

4hcAltO, AiLZcili anu southern 1dll- fornia. The banquet will take place on the night of January r. which is the 196th anniversary of the birth of a printer by the name of Benjamin
 Franklin, since dead, but who in his day, was man of much more than ordinary importance.
 DEATH OF MRS. COFFEY.-Mrs. E. c. Coffey of Peoria. Ili.. died suddenly in this city yesterday morning. She was the wife of the general agent of the Rock Island at Peoria. MT. Coffay
 'rcrght his family here for the winter about the first of last November and returned to his duties. Mrs. Coffay who was in ill health. made satisfac- 1ary improvement until couple of days ago when she was seized with s kidney trouble for which no relief could be afforded. MT Cofey is now on his way | 70 Phoenix.
 PLEASANTLY SURPRISED-Ar. F. F. Porter was pleasantly surprised yesterday when Mir. Mays Ball of Ala bama came in and introduced himself.
 It was the first time Mir. Porter ever met him. but he was well acquainted | with his father way back in the eos, when Mir. Porter was agent for the ! Alabama &1 Florida railroad, that later | became the Louisville &, Nashville
 road. a brother of the elder MT. Ball being auditor of the road. Mr. Ball comes here for change of climate and | is stopping at the Bumney. He will probably remain all winter. He is
 not invalid, though he is not robust 1 NEW RATIONS-Articles of the following corporations were filed in 1 the office Of the county recorder yestar- day; Mineral Creek Copper company, | =an i C. c. Laybourn. G. Mercnant A w
 Force and w H. Dawson of Mime
 dpohs. Pinal Mountain Copper com pany. limited. capital stock. S1 25O. .OOO; I liucCrpora tors. F.. L. DeLestry. l.. Nash. 1 r. J. Metzger c. F. Staples. C. B l+owlby and C. Wainma1 or St. Paul. 1 Doris -IIeyman Furniture company. capital stock S1OO,O GOO: incorporators. R. i Heynan. C. D. Doris and A R. Doris.
 International Manufacturing and AIer- cantile company, limited. capital stock
 $1,000,0 eco; incorporate l.. Stevens J.
 Levin. NJ. Cohn, 4. Boschlze and F.. S.
 Compton of San Francisco.
 FAHER BOUND OVER. - John
 Faher, the ccok who took a shot at
 Francisco Lopez in front of the G. R.
 aloon last Sunday for alternating the affections Of his wife. had his pre- | | court. Nothing more than was already i known was brought out It was plain | that F'aher had shot at Lopez and it was almost equally as plain that he meant to kill him. The court could not take the motive, whatever it might be. 1 into consideration. so he was compelled l io hold him over to the grand jury He
 ixed the bond at $500. In default Of it i T'aher went 10 jail. Two brothers by l he nama of Garcia Were brought into
 court, charged with an assault on an other Mexican living in the country
 FOR WATER sTORAGE.-A meet | ing Of the water storaee commission
 was held in this city yesterday. All the ] members were present eNcept Mir. Full
 viler, who was detained by illness The
 commission today will confer with the ] owners Of the Tempe canal at Tampa i One Of the members said yesterday that 1 on account of these conferences with -he canal companies it would ba some time before d report could be submit
 ted to the people. It is understood. though not from any member of the commission, that the commission is in possession Of the result of the hydro graphic survey of the Hudson reservoir |, site. II is said that bedrock was found
 at an average depth of twenty-five feet and that it had been estimated that the reservoir could be built at a cost of
 g 100000.
 JOHN AGARD BACK-1ir. j. IT Agard is again ia town. That is a simple statement, but it means a great
 deal in thAcase of Mir. Agard He lives in the hills most Of the time and only comes to town once in two or three years. He came in a month ago and stayed for some weeks. When he left it w9s suppsr ed it was for an other two years cruise in the hills. but he came back n about two days. Being pressed for an explanation of Eis strange conduct, he only replied that when he got started his discovered that he had mere money left than he thought he had. so he turned round and came back to town. He has a rrine up in the northwest that he calls
 his bank. but there is no use in going
 back as long es he has money in his pocket.
 ARIZONA MINES ALL RICFfT-AIr W. II. Holmes. 2 mining engineer of Colorado. has been here for severa!
 days Investigating a number of Ari-
 zona mining properties for eastern capitalists. He has visited Arizona several times before in the last twelve
 years. and the territory loses nothing
 by his visits, as he has nothing but