Arizona republican., 1903-02-03
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THE POUND.-The city pound opened it's yawning gates yesterday to receive three horses and a colt.
 KINGS DAUGHTERS.-T What sOever circle of the Kings Daughters will give social in O'Neill hall on Friday evening.
 FOUND A WHEEL.-The city mar shal has a bicycle of male persuasion and Spaulding manufacture. that was found behind a.tree Saturday night by Attorney Sharpe.
 A CALICO BALL.-The Daughters of Rebekah will give a calico ball at .O'Neiu hall tonight They will furn- ish aprons for the ladies and neckties for the gentlemen.
 EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING.- There will be a business meeting of the Epworth League in the parlors of the First M. F. church on Tuesday even ing. Members and friends are in- vited.
 ELKS' BANQUET.-The Elks will give a banquet Tuesday night of this week in their hall. for the entertain ment of all members and their families a special invitation being extended to all visiting brethren.
 ". C. T. U. MEETING.-The regu- lar meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance union will be held at the reception room, corner of Center and Monroe streets. Wednesday afternoon. bginning at 2:30. All are cordially in- vited.
 THE RAIN.-It has been raining here off and on for the last thirty-siX hours. There has been DO notable dcwnpour but several good soaking showers, totalling a precipitation that will be of inestimable benefit to this valley. The streets are joyously mud dy and umbrellas are in demand
 RURAL ROUTES.-The three rural route mail carriers made their first off Cial trips yesterday getting back to the postoffice promptly on time and in good order. Notwithstanding it was a muddy day all went well. Without any malice toward the mailcarriers it is to be hoped they will have days equally as muddy at least once a month from now till the storage reservoir is built.
 WATER MEETING POSTPONED The water meeting that was to have been held at Doris theater yesterday was postponed for qne week. This was partly on account of the indictment weather that would have prevented large attendance and partly because MT. Maxwell was suffering from a severe coId and wanted to husband his strength Tor today's meeting to be held in Mesa City.
 BACK FROM MEXICO.-Chaplaiu Winfield Scott returned home yester- day morning from an extended visit in sonora and points along the border line. He has been engaged in mining as well as evangelical work during his absence and is interested with others in a group of claims adjoining the Ari- zona- Mexican properties. better known perhaps as Le Gran Proveedora. On the way home Chaplain Scott spent Sunday in Benson where he preached to an attentive congreg gation.
 EMITTING THE JAIL-If the emi- grafton from the county jail continues there will shortly be nothing for the j2ilor to do. Within the last two days ten men have gone out. Some of them wen- on the expiration of their sen tences. Among those who left yester- day were An Sing, An Gee and Louie Nunn. who were taken to San Fran cisco to be deported to China. The first two were caught at Red Rock. . week ago and the other was found ille- gally in the country at Flagstan.
 A FORECLOSURE SUIT-Suit was begun in district court yesterday by Mary Stappers of New York against Charles Prange of St. Louis and John Mather and Patrick Devine The suit is brought for the foreclosure of q mortgage given by Prange to the hus- band of the plaintiff to secure note for s2,4C0. The mortgaged property consists of the Sunrise, the Ophir and the U. s. Grant mining claims in liar qua Ealas. Mathers and Devine are made defendants because they claim to have an interest in the property. FRANK KING IN. TOWN.-Frank M. King Of Tucson, an old Phoenix boy. returned to town yesterday for the first time after an absence of six years. None of his former friends knew him until he had introduced himself. When he went away he weighed 129 pounds. His weight now is considerably more than 200. He was for a long time ths. city editor of the Gazette. He was afterward under sheriff and then be- came chief clerk of the Nogales GUS tom house. For some years he has been in the cattle and mining brokerage and real estate business in Tucson, and he manifests every sign of prosperity. |. POLICE COURT-Frank Wilton O; Montana was tried for vagrancy yes terday and discharged. He proved him self hardworking man with corns on his hands, a union card in his pocket and hard Hck in his career. Jose Cota