Arizona republican., 1908-10-04
THE NORTHERN
 NEWS BUDGET
fIdgStdff'S Most Notable Court Session About Over
Coming and Going of Many NOtables In the Shadow Ot the San FranciscOs.


 correspondence of The Republican.)- District court is still in session. It did seem for a while as though ! there would be no end to the famous l Shell case. The witnesses for the prosecution were all professional men. mostly from Northern California, and ! there were so many techncalites and so many fine points of law in volved, that the case resolved itself | for the most part into a debate be- l tween the lawyers. This has been | the hardest fought case that was ever witnessed in this court, and some of the best legal talent on the | Pacific coast conducted the trial. It l took three days to take all the testi- mony, then arguments took up a | half day, and it was Wednesday noon | before the case was given to the | jury. The jury had not reached a verdict late Wednesday night The case of the Territory vs. Dun can, being a murder case from Will Hams, was taken up after the disposal of the Shell case on Wednesday. This | is a very important case and about fifty witnesses will be examined. There will be one other jury trial after this. then two or three civil cases which will be submitted to the court. It will take till Friday or Saturday night to concluded this terms business, making one of the longest sessions of court ever held in this county.
 A marriage license has been issued to DiOnisio Sandoval and Mrs. Jack Rodriguez. MT. Sandoval came here recently from Pena Blanca. \. M It is understooa the wedding will take place Friday at the Catholic church.
 MT and Mrs. Ad Topperwein, the famous and certainly expert manipu lators of the shot gun, rifle and re- volver, gave an exhibition of their remarkable skill at the target range of the Skylight Gun club on Monday last. To most of the people here such shooting as was done by MT and Mrs. Topperwein was revela ton. very few of them having seen anything anywhere near equal to it. It is not possible to describe all the wonderful feats of these people, but suffice it to say that no such shoot ing has ever been done here before.
 A. F. Potter. assistant forester, passed through here Friday night on his way to Washington, D. c.
 Henry Alberts, who has been with his sheep down near Holbrook, came in Sunday and will stay a few days.
 Hugh Anderson went to HOlbrook last Monday, where he will take over some cattle recently purchased by him.
 Robt. Erwin. the wood king. Of Sc ligman, is spending the week in town on business. Bob. says he has 500 cords of wood cut. ready for ship ment, and that he finds a ready mar ket for it in Los Angeles.
 c. C. Compton and F. c. Allen left Sunday morning with some prospect ors and a mining outfit for Tuba, Ariz.
 Mrs. C. c. Compton, Mrs. Joel Rice and Mrs. Robt. Taylor will en- certain the Ladies' Aid of the M. F. church at the home of Mrs. Compton Thursday afternoon. A good pro- gram has been arranged and re- treatments will be served.
 Miss Sophronia Compton has re- signed her place as Hello" girl and is succeeded by Miss Irene Beal. Miss c. V Nolan, who arrived from Chi cago Tuesday. will work one shift and Miss Beal the other.
 G. N Baty returned from Kansas City last Saturday, where he had been for six weeks in the interest of the mining company of which he is general manager.
 The Emerson high school was closed early Monday afternoon on account of the funeral of Miss Jennie Acker. Miss Jennie was one of the most popular students in the school.
 The w c. T. |. held a meeting Tuesday afternoon in the NJ. E. church. the occasion being the cele- bration of the birthday of Frances F.. Willard. the founder of this won derful body It was decided at this meeting to take steps at once toward having the saloons of the town closed on Sunday. This is certainly a very commendable undertaking. The next meeting of the w. c. T. U. will be held in the Presbyterian church next Tuesday afternoon at which time of ficers will be elected for the next term.
 Mrs. Dr. w. P. Sipe left Tuesday for a six weeks visit with friends and relatives in Whittier, San Diego and Los Angeles, Cal.
 Forest Assistant J. W. Allison was in town over Saturday and Sunday. He left town again Monday to take up his field work in the forest re- serve and will not return to town for five weeks.
 F. l.. Beal went to Ash Fork last Sunday. where he will spend couple of weeks on business.
 Jack Forbes. an old offender, was given a sentence of sixty days by Justice J. C. Milligan Tuesday on charge of being drunk and disorderly.
 Mrs. T. H. Curtain, wife of the principal of the schools at Williams. stopped off here two days on her way to Guanajuanta, Mexico, where she will spend the winter.
 Mrs. P. c. Gates came in from her home at Tolchaco on the Navajo res ervation last week and left Monday for Albuquerque to see the national irrigation congress.
 Superintendent stephen Janus of