Arizona republican., 1903-02-25

POLICE COURT.-Ihe only cases III police court yesterday were Andrew
 Garcia, for drunkenness, and Ignacio
 Robles, the brave man that passed the
 whis1ey through the jail window.
 A TALLYHO PARTY.-Prof. Smith
 gave the members of the Curtiss band
 a tallyho ride to the ostrich farm yes
 terday, followed by a banquet at Cof-
 fee AIS. It is said that MT. Peters of
 the band got a whole pocket full of ostrich eggs.
 SUGAR BEET PLANT.-Those who
 want to gain an idea of what the Salt
 River valley sugar beet plant will look
 like when it is constructed may do so by calling at the board oi trade room, where pictures of the plant at Sebe waing, Mich, are on exhibition. The plant to be erected here is to be ex- actly like it with the exception of the
 minor changes necessary on account of the difference in climate.
 DISCHARGED.-J Lanston, ar rested for robbing Frank Bird in a sa- loon, was discharged yesterday by Jus
 tice Robertson. The alleged crime con- sisted of taking three ten-cent pieces out of Birds pocket while the latter
 was rather sleepy and presumably little under the influence of liquor. The
 officer entered just as Lanston was
 nalllng the third dime. On the stand Bird said that he was willing to give
 Lanston money when he asked for it, and Lanston claimed that he did ask
 Tor il and was instructed to take it
 out of his pocket. This he partially verified by a witness who heard the
 two men talking. It proved to be q
 regular thirty-ceEt case
 CHRISTIAN CHURCH PICNIC.
 All members of the Fifth Avenue Chris
 tan church have been invited to bring
 their lunch baskets to church on next
 Sunday morning and stay for dinner.
 The first Sunday in March is the day
 observed by this church all round the
 world as missionary day, and it will be
 properly celebrated by the Phoenix
 church. After a sermon appropriate to
 the occasion by Pastor Bagby at II
 o'clock, basket dinner will be spread
 on the lawns and in the lecture room.
 This will be followed by a conference of the congregation at o'clock. al which reports will be heard from the
 various departments of church work. It will be the first meeting Of the kind ever attempted by this church and it is
 assured that there will be a large at i tendance.
 A MISSING BOY.-Mrs. Clarence Grider of Columbus, Kan. is very an- xlous to learn the fate of her son who was in Arizona when she last heard of him, very i'll, and at the time an en- ployee of the American Bridge com pany. Not knowing how to reach tha company she has written a letter to it in care of Postmaster McClintock for delivery. She recites that her sons name is Ray Grider and that he served in Cuba during the Spanish American war, re-eniisted at the expiration of his first term of service for service in the Philippines. He became very i'll in the Philippines and was sent back to San Francisco, having lung trouble. His physician advised him not to go back
 to Kansas during the present winter on account of the climate so lie secured employment with the American Bridge company and came to Arizona. Just when and where he worked here is not 1 known, and when he last wrote his mother he was suffering from hemor- | rhages, and she is fearful that he may l have died. Any one who knows any
 thing regarding the young man viii l favor his mother by writing her.