Arizona republican., 1905-03-14

has heard nothing concerning the con tracts for the dam for which bids were opened some time ago.
 VETERANS BALL-Lawton Camp United Spanish War Veterans, will hold meeting tonight at Veterans hall. The members of the camp are making a special effort to have the an nual ball a greater success than ever All the curios which the members of the local camp secured during the war with Spain and the Filipino insurrec- tion, will be on exhibition in the ball room March 16th.
 HIS THEORY REVISED-H. R. Patrick said yesterday that he had re- vised his theory of building country roads, as set forth in Sunday morn ing's Republican. He says now that in stead of two five foot borrow pits and forty feet of roadway. he thinks there should be fifty feet of ditch and a tow path for canal boats. The country road in these parts has become a leg end of a former age. The crying nee essity now is more canals and dongo- las.
 POLICE COURT-Leonidas Robles was convicted in police court yester- day on the charge of leading a life of shame in violation of the city ordin- ances and Ben Perkins, a colored in dividual was convicted of being her paramour Both were jailed for fifteen days. Several colored men were pres ent at the trial and some of them were heard to say the only fault they had to find with the sentence was that it should have been six months and the dose repeated twice year.
 THE SUPREME COURT-The su- preme court will meet today, the date to which an adjournment was taken from the January meeting. Opinions will be handed down on March 31, in several cases. One of these is the case of Zach Booth, under sentence of death for murder. There are several other cases of greater or less importance pending. It is also likely that the members of the court at this meeting will redistrict the territory for judicial purposes to make room for the new fifth district.
 LAST NIGHTS SESSION-At last nights session of the Chatauqua meet ing Prof. Mark BeaI recited Dickens Christmas Carol to a fair sized and greatly pleased audience at the Hard- wick theater Mrs. Hibbs sang sweet ly Sorrow is Mine" and responding to an encore, Rock Me to Sleep The Prior Brothers quartette also sang and were recalled three times. The sessions yesterday were very interesting though the rain prevented some from attend ing who otherwise wiuld have been there.
 A RUMOR AFLOAT-Someone last night placed in circulation a story that the depot and both hotels at Maricopa had been destroyed by fire. The origin of the story could not be learned but it hardly seems plausible. The Western Union got it's regular wire to Maricopa into service last evening and that wire runs through the depot at Maricopa and on to Los Angeles. It was working uninterruptedly all night, or until press time this morning which it would not do if the telegraphing portion of the depot were burned. In support of the rumor however it might be stated that both the Phoenix operator and the Los Angeles operator tried diligently to rouse the MaricOpa operator, after the rumor was heard, and he made no re- sponse notwithstanding the fact that he is usually easy to call. If there has been a fire it evidently was not an in cident of total destruction to the depot at least.
 NEW RATIONS-Articles of the following corporations were tiled in the office of the county recorder yester day: Prevalent Investment company, capital stock, $1OO.0OO incorpora.ors M. w. Darnell. M. Wiegand and ". s. Darnen; Goldfield Fraction Mining company. capital stock, $1,0OO,pO1 in corporators NJ. C. Gardener, R. E4. Gel