Arizona republican., 1904-12-24
A CHRISTMAS TREE-There will

a CHRISTMAS TREE-There will he Na Christmas tree at the Christian church tonight, along with an eXce4- lent musical and literary programme All the children and their friends are cordially invited to be present.
 AN ELDERLY FAMILY CIRCLE The family circle at the county nos pital the number of it's inmates con- sidered. probably contains more advanced age average than any other aggregation in Arizona. There are naturally few young people in such an institution, and just now there are more old people than usual There are twelve of the inmates whose ages will average so years, and one of them is 94 years old. His name is Irving Pierce, and he is in very good he2llh' all things considered.
 MARICOPA CHARLEY'S PICTURE -Maricopa Charley is perhaps the only Indian in this part Of the country that ever received the attention of an artist Miss Eva Luke; daughter of County Assessor Luke, from photo graph of the Indian, has just finished a Iife-size head of him on silk, winch she afterward constructed into hand some pillow to be presented to Mrs Jake Miller. The picture of Charley Is lifelike in color and in the many wrinkles for which this aged Indian is distinguished. Miss Luke also sue ceeded in catching the bright Indian gleam of the eye.
 AN ATTACHMENT SUIT-Early yesterday morning papers in an at tachment suit were filed in district court by F. NJ Mognett against 2. Sunderland for the recovery of a note for S4,34L6O, given December of last year. Service was obtained before noon. attachment having been made on various tracts of land lying in that part of the Churchill addition known as Sunderland's subdivision. Before the recording of the attachment there was filed in the office of the recorder a mortgage given to H. J. Bennett cOv- ering the same property. Several more suits for back taxes were also filed yesterday.
 HIGH SCHOOL WARRANTS PAID TODAY-Au vouchers for high school warrants on file in the office Of County Superintendent Fulton have been writ ten up, and the county treasurer will today pay all warrants that are pre- scented. Those holding warrants should take notice of the date, today, Decem- Der 24, for after today no payment will be made till January. The county treasurer must close his books pre- paratory to turning them over to his successor, and next week will be de- voted to that business which cannot be interfered with by the payment of warrants. Present them today or wait till next month.
 POLICE COURT-AIexander Gar srso l1.,r examined by the city recorder and discharged. They are the two men arrested the day before for fighting As indicated in yesterdays paper, Gar cia was the aggressor and got the worst of the battle having a hole as large as a cellar door punched into the side of his head. He admitted yester- day that he was at fault, whereupon Rivas was discharged. Garcia was also discharged, on the theory that lib- erty was a worse punishment for him than jail sentence. It will be a couple of weeks or more before he is able to work, and in the meantime jail life. with regular meals, would be a snap. Two Mexican women were also tried yesterday and sent /fo jail under seatence O. fifteen days each for try ing to maintain a residence in a re- spectable part of town.
 CHRISTMAS TREES-This city is a veritable orchard of Christmas trees now, and the harvest will begin this evening. It will take until Monday evening, and perhaps longer, to gather all the fruit. There will be countless family and neighborhood trees, and all the churches will have Christmas en- tertainments and trees. The first fruit gathering began last, night at Bethany chapel in the Brill addition, where