Arizona republican., 1903-09-23

M. E. BLYSTONE. Section Director
 LICENSED TO WED.-A marriage license was issued yesterday to John Drane and Miss Etta Gardner both of Mesa. The wedding ceremony will be performed there tonight.
 ALMONDS FOR EXHIBITION w. J. Murphy yesterday sent to the board of trade rooms a couple of sacks of fine almonds which the worlds fair commissioners will keep for exhibition at St. Louis next year.
 A LIFTING OF BLANKETS.-The residence of F.. Gang was burglarized on Sunday night and fine collection of Navajo blankets was sto.en. There were about a dozen in the lot and all of them were valuable. One of them cost MT. Gang s7O but experts say that it is worth at least S100.
 RURAL DELIVERY ROUTES Postmaster McClintock received tele- gram yesterday from H. Conquest Clarke. superintendent of the rural free delivery service announcing that in accordance with the suggestion of the Phoenix postmaster the fourth as sistant postmaster general had post
 
 routes from this city to October 18th.
 TEMPORARILY LOST HIS GRIP John Doe the nom de plume of promi- nent business man suddenly lost his temper yesterday morning and before he found it struck a young man in his employ. He repented immediately but not in time to head off a complaint against him on charge of assault and I, TDI,, Tr1 laI I,o fore Justice Burnett and paid fine of S1O
 BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY-Mrs Eliza A. Edwards yesterday celebrated her sixty-ninth birthday. Mrs. Ed wards was one Of the best known women of the earlier Arizona days. She has been here for twenty-four years, a great deal of which time she lived in Tempe. but for the past few years Phoenix has been her home. Yester- day she received many pretty and use full presents from her many old time friends.
 THE SCHOOLS GAIN.-The friends of Miss Ada B. Kelly will be pleased to learn that she has been reappointed to a place in the schools of Phoenix. At the time of making up the corps of teachers for the year Miss Kelly who had been with the schools for a long time declined appointment, hay ing accepted a position in the schools of Jerome. She went to Jerome but soon after her arrival there she found the altitude unsuted to her and she was obliged to return to Phoenix She is now in the fourth grade of the Gen. ter street schools.
 NEW MACHINERY.-T Phoenix Water company yesterday received two new boilers for it's power plant, ag- gregating 45O horse power. Each boiler required a Car for it's accommoda tion. The new boilers are exact duplicates Of the fine new boiler that was placed in operation a few months ago and the new ones will replace all the old boilers left in the plant so the ma chinery used regularly as well as the reserve machinery will all be practice ally new. Five more carloads of pipe have also been received making ten carloads received within week. Cn- loading and scattering of the pipe will begin today.
 A WIPES SPITE.-The case of Manuel Villanueva charged with wife beating was tried before Justice Bur nett yesterday afternoon and the de- fendant was discharged. He denied that he had assaulted his wife whose only witness was her mother. She said that she had seen no assault ana she intima ted that she believed that none had been made. It was shown that Villanueva and his wife have been having great deal of trouble. The court asked them what they were go- ing to do about their two children. The husband said he would take one of them but the mother replied that she would give up neither. In that un- satisfactory state the matter passed out of court.
 HE WAS ASLEEP.-A guest of the Capitol lodging house was fired yester- day morning. The Capitol hasn't any more guests than it really wants but it is q little particular as to kind. This guest was fired for sleeping too hard. He was getting more than his moneys worth of slumber and the rest of the guests were not getting enough. He went to bed, presumably with a cigar in his mouth for later on somebody Smelled smoke and the search for fire