Arizona republican., 1905-01-21

ScottsdaIe. With a few days of good
 weather the line will probably be com
 pleted to this city
 MORE TAX SUITS-Fifteen more tax suits were filed yesterday. These are more of the county actions against property for delinquent taxes, as has been previously explained in these
 columns and may be taken as a fur ther warning to those who have not yet looked up their titles to see if they are perfect.
 SUPREME COURT-The case of Mccoy against Brooks was argued in supreme court yesterday morning, and arguments were begun in the mining suit from Yavapai county of Tread well against Marrs That will be con cluded today. It is announced defin- itely that an opinion will be rendered this morning in the New York Found ling Hospital case. It is possible that other opinions will also be handed down.
 SHEEP SHEARING-Sheep shear
 ing will be commenced about Jan. 25,
 by OFtega. Luzero & Co. at their shear
 ing corral about nine miles north of
 Phoenix on the Cave Creek road. The
 sheep are from various places in the
 northern counties but mainly from Apache county. Ortega & Luzero have
 about fifty shearers and expect to clip
 about 100000 sheep. Beside the shear
 CTS there will be ten or fifteen other men employed around the camp in var ious capacities.
 HE ROBBED HIS COMRADES Constable Harry Troops yesterday ar rested a person who is called John Doe for the robbery of several of his asso- ciates. with whom he had been living on South Seventh street. John Doe managed to get together quite a ward robe, but he left his companions ex- posed to the clelnency of the weather and the disapproval of the police. From one he took a hat, from another pair of trousers, from still another his underclothes and also his coat.
 INSUFFICIENT PROOF-John D. Todd, who has been arrested twice for the burglary of the house of a colored woman in the eastern part of the city, was before Justice Burnett yesterday. The woman had procured his second arrest on the statement that he had been seen coming out of the house shortly before a gold watch and a purse were missing. But whe: they were brought into court they were un- able to make oath to that fact and Todd was discharged.
 BASEBALL-The baseball boys were out yesterday for practice and expect to have a good lively game on Sunday. They ought to. anyhow, for it is doubtful if the pickup team is any less skilled than the regular Phoenix team. If there is any difference it will be mainly that accounted for by lack of practice on the part of the picked team. But it is certain there will be enough muscle and skill on both sides to make a good contest, and those who want a good afternoon of sport may depend on getting their moneys worth at Eastlake park Sunday.
 FOR BETTER STREETS-The city fathers are moving in the direction Of street improvement, and in a way that ought to accomplish something eventu- ally. They have decided to gravel the streets in the business section of the city wherever the property owners will go to the trouble and expense of build ing cement gutters to take care of the drainage. It would be useless, they think, to grade the streets with gravel only to leave a mudhole at each side, which would eventually spoil all the graveIed portion. In addition they have decided to gravel Van Buren street from the Tempe road to the Yuma road at Five Points, those two travelled mainly by the farmers, having already been coated with gravel That will enable country men coming to town from either east or west to get clear to Center street without driving through mud. Then, if the center of town is cleaned up, it ought to be measurably lasting. Here tofore the trouble has been that where there was a little patch of good street the mud from the adjoining thorough fare was dragged over it. The council has arranged for a train of five car loads of gravel to be brought to the city every third day from the gravel banks between here and Tempe. The city will distribute it and the work will proceed as rapidly as possible.