Arizona republican., 1903-01-11

directory was compiled and there have been so many changes since then it is now of but little practical value. MT. Skinner expects to complete his work in about two months and can make the enterprise profitable only by the liberal patronage of the merchants and other | advertisers. He has had considera ble previous experience in the same kind of work.
 MAIL LATE.-The postoffice force has been greatly handicapped in it's work for few days past by reason of the fact that most of the time the mail from the south has been arriving sev- eral hours late, sometimes not getting here till II o'clock
 CHURCH EXPANSION-Th official board of the Christian church of Phoe- nix has recently been enlarged by the addition of Jas. Hauxhurst. Dr. w. H. Emmons, F.. T. Morrison, A. H. Line barger, T. T. Powers and Geo. H. Wolfiine. A meeting of the full board will be held in the church parlors this afternoon at o'clock to organize and to hear reports from the various de- partments of church work.
 RAILROAD BUILDING.-R. Toohey, who is here from Tombstone. says he has completed the grading work on the Tombstone railroad and the steel will be laid in probably a couple of weeks after its arrival which is expected any day. His grading teams have been sent to Cochise station and will be em- ployed for some time to come on the grading of the Cochise and Naco rail- road for which contracts were recently let
 AN AUTOMOBILE TRIP.-Thomas Oberle will leave for Tucson this even Ing to join Shirley Christy, manager of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, for Arizona, and Mir. Schuster of the Tucson office of the same company, in an automobile trip through southern Arizona. MT. Christy recently purchased Q new machine which has been delivered to him in Tucson. The tour is expected to cover period of about three weeks.
 SIMONA'S WEAKNESS. - Simona Peralta was before Justice Burnett yesterday charged with drunkenness, peace disturbance and general GUS sedness of conduct in the neighborhood which she infests in the southern part of town. About once every two months she is before one of the courts of the city on a similar charge. She explained yesterday for the first time the cause of her weakness. She is victim of the degrading influence of the onward march of civilization. She is not of Mexican birth as even many of her neighbors believed. but is a Mohave- Apache. When she was quite young she was taken in charge by a white family which was in the habit of keep ing liquor about the house, and there she says she acquired a taste for it which hes to be satisfied periodically. This explanation did not prevent the court from imposing a fine of s1O.
 THE REPORT COURTEOUS.-Wit 2 heart so full of gratitude it leaked like a collender. Recorder Jobs yester- day gave a reception to the members or the police force and a few friends who dropped in at the city marshaIs office. Preparations for the occasion were hastily but carefully made. The decorations consisted of handsome po- licemen in blue clothes, hanging in fes- tOons from the windows of the big room and tastefully grouped. about the hall in knots, punches, and bouquets. A handsome punch bowl, in wickeT-work. graced Detective Russell's desk While the outward appearances of the re- freshment booth made the boys all feel as though they were participating in all the pleasures of a real wake. it's true inwardness could not offend the most fastidious. Harmony between the recorder and the police was once more restored and the incident of their trouble declared officially closed.