1894 news clippings from The ARIZONA REPUBLICAN USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for commercial presentation by any other organization. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. submitted by burns@asu.edu January 3, 1894 Yesterday morning, the clothing house of Goldberg Brothers and the saloon of Hans Herlick were entered by burglars and the cash drawers of each establishment rifled. Goldberg Brothers loss was about $30 and Mr. Herlick's till was relieved of about $14. Eugene Angelman and Alford I. Peters of Tempe came over New Years day with their best double rig and as their horses were not accustomed to city life they demolished the dashboard just as they got within city limits. The young men spent a pleasant day in the metropolis nevertheless. The new shoe store of Godwin and Avery in the Fleming Block will open tomorrow morning. It is beautifully fitted up and stocked with a full line of fine footwear. The attorneys in attendance upon the supreme court find a favorite restaurant in the Commercial dining rooms which are kept up to the highest standard by Miss Kate M. Walsh. Juan De Dios Sanoqui, charged with selling liquor to an Indian, had a hearing before Commissioner Crenshaw yesterday and was bound over to the federal grand jury for $250. Charley Williams, a colored man in the employ of Joe Brennen and a white man engaged in an altercation at the corner of First and Washington Street yesterday. No arrests were made. A.F.C. Kirchhoff is refitting the old Martini Saloon just east of the Gilson Block on Washington Street. He has a glittering array of bottles containing all sorts of spiritual tonics and promises to cheer the wayfarer no matter how hard the panic may have hit him. Sheriff Murphy returned yesterday from Florence with J.W. Doane, charged with being one of the parties who forged J.F. McCarthy's name to a check for $87.50 and passed it at the Palace Saloon. Doane was arraigned before justice Johnstone and his hearing is set for tomorrow. January 10, 1894 Judge Wallace is confined to his bed with la grippe. Julius F. Scheick is very sick and confined to his room. Gov. L.C. Hughes came in yesterday from Tucson. Mrs. Lyall, an aged lady of 70 years of Phoenix is in a dying condition. A colored servant for the household of Frank Meador arrived in Phoenix yesterday morning. Dr. Meyers, the oculist who has been accidentally detained in Phoenix will leave Friday morning for Prescott. Miss Anita Schwartz, the little daughter of Major Schwartz and wife gave a pleasant party to her friends Monday night. Miss Anita had reached her eleventh birthday and invited all of her little friends to join her in celebrating and at 6 o'clock a delightful luncheon was served. E.E. Todd has returned from Tucson. Mr. Todd is connected with A. Redewill as an expert piano tuner. He had tuned over two hundred instruments in Arizona. Pratt Brothers are selling out at cost for spot cash only. Now is the time to get a Domestic sewing machine or paper your house cheaply. January 12, 1894 Marshal Ming has a new telephone in his office. The office of Justice Johnstone is embellished by the most ornate sign on Wall Street. New signs of the Valley Abstract Co., T.E. Dalton and George E. Perkins were placed on the old Hartford Bank building yesterday. Samuel Doane, whose examination on a charge of forgery was continued to yesterday before Justice Johnstone. B. Dayton, advance agent of the Madeline Merlin Company came in yesterday. Madeline Merlin will appear at the Phoenix Opera House Monday night in "The story of a Kiss" and Tuesday night in "Frou Frou." She is endorsed by the entire dramatic press. Detective Will Smith, who has had a great deal of experience hunting Chris Evans and is well acquainted with the habits of bandits, is in the city. John Doyle for being drunk and disorderly was fined $15 and went to jail. Pancho Yescas was given twenty days for trying to stab a Mexican woman. She also threatened to disembowel Officer Blankenship. Two dangerous knives were found in her possession. She went to jail. The Mexican who was arrested day before yesterday having been found in possession of stolen harness belonging to F.A. Woods was dismissed yesterday by Justice Johnstone. The employer of the prisoner arrived and supported the story that the harness had been bought of a junk dealer near the depot. The story was further corroborated by the junk dealer who said the harness had been left with him by a Mexican named Laguna to be sold on commission. Laguna at the time said he had been given the harness by a man named Frenchy in payment of services. M.H. Hill and wife of Tempe visited Phoenix yesterday. Miss Flossie Hanny was taken suddenly yesterday, supposed to be la grippe. The condition of Judge Wallace was more alarming yesterday and his friends are fearful of the worst. L.W. Coggins and J.W. Osborne went up to the Phoenix mining district yesterday to look after some mining properties they have there. Ed Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler and Cassidy, has located in Phoenix at 220 East Madison Street. January 14, 1894 Luke and Hurley will reopen the Reception Saloon next week. They are making many repairs and will refit the house in fine style. Joseph Rehling, the popular proprietor of the Candy Kitchen has sold his establishment and will remove to a ranch. Mr. Rehling has made the Candy Kitchen a success by his honorable business methods. Colonel J.T. Simms was robbed Friday night by a thief breaking into his room at the Lemon House. January 15, 1894 S.H. Drachman and Company received a large consignment of cigars and tobacco yesterday. J.W. Blankenship has found a bunch of keys with the name C. Misson, San Francisco engraved on the ring. Frank Kirkland, Colonel Cotton and Smith Updike were hunting last week and brought in more game than they could conveniently handle. M.E. Hurley purchased from them sixty five ducks and forty five geese. Members of the fire department are requested to meet at the Fireman's Hall tonight at 7:30 to discuss important business. Absences will be fined. By order of Guss C. Clark, Fire Chief. January 21, 1894 U.G. McWilliams, a prominent resident of Buckeye was in the city yesterday on business. W.S. Johnston and wife of the Ryder Lumber Company of Tempe were in Phoenix yesterday. Sheriff L.K. Drais of Pinal County accompanied by Under Sheriff Hinson Thomas arrived in the city yesterday. Rev. Daniel Kloss accompanied by his wife, drove over from Tempe yesterday to attend the meeting of the Horticultural Society. Rev. Vaughn met his wife and two children at Maricopa yesterday morning. Mrs. Vaughn has been visiting the old Georgia home. A.J. Peters and Perry Wildman, the merchants of the south side accompanied by Mrs. Wildman were in the capital yesterday on business. Fred Heinlein went to Yuma last evening to inspect the new store building recently erected by Althee Modeste, an enterprising merchant at that place. Mrs. Sara French and her daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Finney arrived in Phoenix yesterday morning from Missouri. Mrs. French was in Phoenix some years ago with her husband who died. She has now returned to make her permanent home in the valley. The broken leg of Mrs. Terrell who was injured at the skating rink was reset by Dr. Helm yesterday. Mrs. Nellie Maurey, a well known lady in Phoenix whose kind attention to sick people has endeared her to the hearts of many, has purchased a lot in the Palo Alto Addition and will erect a residence. Investigate the suit cloth of F.A. Lombard, the Wall Street tailor. All kinds of fruit and ornamental trees cheap. R.E. Farmington, Prop. Phoenix Nursery. January 27, 1894 No less than 165 tramps left Tucson westward bound yesterday. They were corralled on their arrival from the east and for fear that they would turn themselves loose on the town were kept under guard at the freight yard. In the party were several fellows of apparent respectability who have been reduced to the hobo method of traveling by failure to secure employment. Several came from Fort Worth Texas. A.E. Pierce left for Denver Wednesday evening. The day of his departure Mr. Pierce closed up five contracts with purchasers on the Fruitland subdivision each for ten acres or more. S. Wilson, the cyclist, made another run from Mesa City to Phoenix yesterday and reduced his record to 1:20 the time made the day previous being 1:35. January 28, 1894 Jim Reenie is a daily reader of the War Cry. Professor A.H. Fulton of the Tempe High School spent yesterday in Phoenix. There were two new faces in the county jail yesterday. Armado Bernal committed by Justice Johnstone for twenty days for misdemeanor, more particularly described as quarreling with his mother. The other was James Brooks, brought up from Gila Bend on a commitment for sixty days for petit larceny. Feb. 1, 1894 T.F. Kelley of Tempe was registered at the Lemon Hotel yesterday. S.C. Smith and Frank TenBrock of Glendale were in town yesterday. Mr. W.B. Pratt returned on Arbor Day from Los Angeles with his wife and baby. Mr. C.F. Leonard, so long one of the chief salesmen at Pratt Brothers, yesterday severed his connection with that firm. Flossie Hanny who has been confined to her bed for several days with pneumonia was able to be out yesterday. License to marry was issued yesterday to William Dixon and Laura McBrayer. Armann and Withoow, the manufacturing jewelers of the Gregory House Block on East Washington Street are doing some of the finest and most delicate work that has yet been seen here. Weltha P. Meredith and Ella Short yesterday began suit against the Salt River Valley Gold Mining Company to recover $2057.41 amount alleged to be due from the defendant for board for its employees. Julies Goetz, a young man employed by Fowler Brothers looked into a revolver muzzle on Friday night and paid a dollar for the opportunity. He had been in the southern part of the city and was on his way uptown at a late hour. Someone stepped from an alley to the sidewalk and requested Goetz to elevate his hands. This was done and the footpad came closer, still keeping a revolver which he held in his hand, pointed at the young's man head. He went through his victim's pockets but only found a dollar. After satisfying himself that the search was complete he said to Goetz:" Now you may go. Next time you come down this way, bring more money." Feb. 9, 1894 Carpenter Bridgeman who is doing the partition work for The Republican's new office in the Fleming Block, must be creditied with having prevented what might have been a lamentable conflagration. when he went home in the evening he took with him a nail keg full of shaving which had been saturated with oil, accidentally spilt by the painters. When he awoke early yesterday morning and attempted to use the shavings for the purpose of lighting his fire he found them already ignited. Edmund Hume, janitor of the Centeral School building is seriously ill of pneumonia. A Redewill has moved his stock of pianos from his store building to his residence, the Goldman property on Washington Street. J.A. Plattner, the harness dealer, yesterday purchased from Ben Goldman of Tempe, one of the most valuable driving horses in the valley. The price paid was $250. There is a little girl of thirteen in the western part of the city who deserves a special mention. She is the little daughter of J.A. Phillps, the confectioner, whose wife is helpless in a sick bed but whose helpful daughter sets the house aglow with neatness and precision and softens so far as possible the affliction which rests upon the family. Miss Freda Rosenberger left las night for Bisbee. Frank Nicholson will leave this morning for the Port Malo Mine to make a survey of the property . Blanche Rainard was hustled from court to court yesterday with an expensive and breath depriving rapidity. She was fined $10 in police ocurt for creating a disturbance and was later arrested on the comlaint of Paul Flamaund for calling him a vile name. Mme. Rainard in lieu of a defense presented a spicy description of the habits and customs of the French quarter. H. Memmering, the young man wanted for cashing a worthless check at Luke and Hurleys was captured yesterday by Asst. Marshall Blankenship on a warrant issued by Justice Johnstone. He was given a hearing and bound over to the grand jury. It also devleoped that on the same day he cashed a check for $5 at Kirschoff's Saloon. Nihgt before last he telegraphed to his wife at Los Angeles with which to make good the amounts of the checks. Memmering came here from California nearly a month ago and was engaged in the business of soliciting orders for enlarged photographs. March 4, 1894 George Wood, a sleeping drunk, was discharged yesterday from police court. Lucas Leon was convicted yesterday for disturbing the peace and sent to jail for fifteen days. Joseph Lambeye and Filomena Martinez were married yesterday by Justice Johnsotne at the residence of the bride's father, Appolonio Martinez on the south side of the river. The groom is a prosperous ranchman and one of the promoters of a valuable canal taken from the south bank of the Salt River below the city. Nicholas Micca, an Italian, 61 years old, arrived in Phoneix yesterday having walked from San Bernardino, California. "Old Nick" as he is referred to is a hale, hearty old man. He encountered friends of his own nationality at the Depot Saloon. March 5, 1894 The partnership heretofore existing between Dr. Hughes, Walker and Dameron is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Drs. Hughes and Dameron will continue their office in the Young Building opposite the Commercial Hotel and the office of Dr. Walker will be at his residence, No. 729 West Washington Street. March 8, 1894 District Attorney Hereford of Pima County is in the city on legal business. F.W. Simon a prominent lumber man of Flagstaff was in town yesterday. A.B. Titus will leave for Wickenburg this morning to look after mining interests there. March 9, 1894 A foreclosure suit was began in district court yesterday by Joseph Alkire vs. R.E. Farrington. Murdock's Phoenix Fruit Store formerly the Candy Kitchen will after the first of next month occupy the adjoining room now used as a barber shop. John H. Barry and Miss Jennie Ivy were united in marriage yesterday at the Lemon Hotel by Rev. G.L. Pearson. The bride is the sistr of Mr. James Ivy. Thomas Stevens, the man who was cut with a knife at a social on Tuesday night and Andrew Darnell, a participant in the festivities were arrested yesterday for a disturbance of the peace. It is understood that W.W. Walls has agreed to sublet the mail contract which he holds to A. Hunsacker and that the latter will shorlty again put his stage in the road covering the entire trip from Phoenix to Mesa. Diego Contanaro for disturbance of the peace got five days on the street gang. A valuable horse belonging to Charles Stevens, the livery man died yeterday. It was one of the horses belonging to the famous hack team of the stable. Mr. John Armstrong the new editor and manager of the Arizona Star will arrive in the city this morning. The six room brick cottage of O.T. Sturtevant at the corner of Seventeenth Avenue and Adams Street is nearing completion. It will make a beautiful home for the owner. Back in Iowa Mr. Sturtevant used to be in the hardware and stove busienss. He will engage in it here to some extent later on. March 20, 1894 Francisco Ochoa was arrested yesterday on a charge of stealing a pony from a Pima Indian, Tan-Tuey-Us. Ochoa was discharged with an admonition not to fool with horses in the hands of strangers. The hearing also demonstrated that it takes a mighty good pony to bring from $7 -$10 dollars. Frank Fish, the young Texas lawyer, supposed to be insane, was recaptured yesterday. Since he walked out of the jail office last Friday he kept himself concealed presumably outside the city and only stole into town to get something to eat. He had a meal ticket at the Commercial Hotel lunch counter and when he called there yesterday, the proprietor telephoned to the sheriff's office. Under sheriff King responded and induced Fisher to return to jail. Dr. Woodruff has removed his office and residence to northwest corner of Second Avenue and Jefferson Street. Calls day and night are promptly attended. A week from tomorrow will open the Gem Saloon. Extensive preparations are being made for this event. The location will be in the basement under the store of B. Heyman Furniture and formerly occupied by the Maricopa Loan and Trust Company. Floors are being painted, walls papered and private rooms are comfortably furnished. Billiard and pool tables will be set up. Monumental schooners of beer will be sold for a nickel each. The Wall Street Sample Room is the most quiet retreat in Phoenix. It handles nothing but the best liquors and finest cigars. No loud talk. James Rennie, proprietor, No. 12 Wall Street. Three boxes of new spring hats, trimmings, flowers and ribbons have just been unpacked. Wait until March 22 for our new line of leghorns from 25 cents to $2.50. Mrs. R.A. Brown. Beds available at the Star Lodging House, No. 47 Jackson and first Street, two blocks south of City Hall. H. Rixen, prop. When in Tempe go to the Butte Stable for a team. The proprietor, J.H. Pritt, understands his business and has the finest turnouts in Arizona. Everything is new and of the best. He has good saddle horses too. March 10, 1894 Patricio Vellas and Manuel Bojoquez on Sunday morning stole a cook stove from the residence of J.W. Williams near the city. They were overtaken and the stove recovered. G.C. Waddell of Prescott who lodges at the Lemon Hotel, was robbed on Sunday night of clothing valued at $70. His room, which faces the military plaza had been entered by a window. His trunk was broken open and the contents scattered about the room. A tobacco sack containing a lot of valuable jewelry was overlooked. November 1, 1894 Mrs. E.A. Fry, whose maiden name was Eliza Ann McKnight now residing with her daughter, Mrs. Lewis W. Collins of this city is heir to share a great estate of John McKnight. Mrs. Fry has also another daughter and a son in the territory, Mrs. Elmer E. Patton of Phoneix and Joseph M. Fry of Fry's Station. The parties are to be congratulated upon their good fortune. Two Mexicans, Ramon Bega nad Delores Ortegas have made what seems to be a rich strike near Gold Hill. They came down to the city yesterday to bring a large variety of gold ore taken from the La Pompa claim. Major John a. Black, Tucson's leading jeweler was an arrival in the city yesterday. W.F. Defry, the well known engineer employed on the Gila Bend reservoir came in from Los Angeles yesterday morning. R.M. Dameron, the Five Points grocer is selling his goods all over town as well as in his neighborhood. November 7, 1894 William Rickard of Humboldt, Iowa with wife and two sons have arrived in the valley and will make their home here. Mr. J.K. Bruce, late of Prescott has bought a one half interest in the Lemon Hotel and is already installed in the management. Mr. Bruce is aman of wide experience in hotel matters. James Berry, an old man connected with a policy game at the Palace was stricken with paralysis in his room in Mark's Lodging House last Sunday. He was not discovered until yesterday by Mrs. McKittrick and is condition is now precarious. He is being cared for by his friends. Berry is an old time sporting man and his family lives at Socorro, New Mexico. Mrs. M.E. Watson of Rockford, Illinois is expected to arrive in the city this morning on a visit to her daughter Mrs. A.L. Fisher. She will reamin during the winter and will make real estate investments. John Drain, a brother of Henry Drain of this valley has recently come from Blackburn, Missouri on the strength of his brother's representation of the oportunities afforded by the Salt River Valley. July 25, 1894 The second tilt of Henry Owen, colored, with the law was disastrous to him. He was convicted yeterday in Justice Johnstone's court for stealing Bob Girgsby's premium Buff Cochin chickens and was sent to jail for fifty days. Known as "Chicken Owens", the jury took fifteen minutes to establish a connection between the disappearance of the chickens and the defendant. August 21, 1894 George W. Wood, a supposed burglar had a warm reception where ever he went on Sunday night. Mrs. James Sawson, who lives on the east side of Madison Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, saw a man prowling about the house. He had previously heard him trying the doors. She armed herself with a revolver and going to the door took a shot at him. Marshall Malloy, who was a block away heard the shot. A man running in the opposite direction landed plump in his arms. This was wood. He was scared and confused and offered a variety of explanations for his appearance. The marshall took him back to the house. Mrs. Dawson heard them coming and htinking the original burglar had returned, inquried who was coming. The marshall fearful of becoming a target lost no time in explaining. She was unable to identify Wood but he was locked up on a charge of vagrancy. August 25, 1894 Dennis Madigan, Charles Walz and John McGoff arrived yesterday from Gila Bend. Madigan desired to light a cigar last evening so he approached an incandescent lamp in the Palace Saloon and endeavored to get a light from it but the thing wouldn't work. Someone remarked that that beat the Texas statemnan's act of blowing out the gas. Dr. Hughes was called to Gila Bend day before yesterday to assist Dr. Thayer in the amputation of the leg of a little child of Eugene Carruthers. The case was a pitable one. The child, a little boy of four, was affected with necrosis and the tibia was almost entirely destroyed. The same disease has attacked his left arm. August 28, 1894 Uncle John Ware, whom all old timers know, is in town. He is living in the Bradshaw and comes to the city so infrequently that his visits are noted. They would be noted anyhow by reason of his tall and commanding figure and his hearty laugh which agitates the atmosphere and shakes the windows within a dozen blocks. Many years ago when the town was young he was a prosperous blacksmith and owned all that part of it lying on both sides of South Center Street. From out the varied and exciting incidents of his long life one stands preeminent and was contributory to his white hair which surmounts his tall form like a light of Pharis. One morning he awoke from a night's sound sleep in an adobe building now occupied by the Phoenix Oil Company. The first object upon which his eyes rested was a stark corpse on the floor besdie him. He turned from it in fear only to see another dead body on the other side. He was now awake and filled with a curiosity concerning the cause of such unusual mortality. He ran into the street half dressed and learned that his guests were victims of brawls in different saloons and had died coicidentally. Those were days before ice and embalmers and a proper respect for the dead. April 4, 1894 A suicide was narrowly averted at the city prison last night. Jailer Lindsey had gone to bed and was aroused by an usual noise in the cage in which Elie Rochefort, a crazy frenchman, had been locked all afternoon.In going to the cell he saw through the bars the prisoner, naked hanging from the roof of the cage. He cut him down in time only to save him from strangulation. The rope with which the prisoner had hanged himself was made of strips of a quilt tightly twisted together. Soon after he was cut down he became violent and tried to knock his brains out by striking his head against the iron bars. Dr. Walker gave him an injection of morphine after which he grew quiet. April 5, 1894 Elie Rochefort, the Frenchman who tried to commit suicide took a more rational view of things yesterday and was released to appear in ten days and answer to a charge of disturbance of the peace. There is a story connected with the affairs of Rochefort and the woman Blance Reunand who says he tried to kill her on Monday afternoon. She says that he is either insane or a murderer at heart but she is inclined to believe that he is crazy. He called at her house and said he came to kill her and was prevailed upon to eat dinner saying the killing could wait a few minutes. Having finished his meal he drew a knife and made a dash for the woman. The point of the weapon almost touched her and she ran screaming into the street. Rochefort was arrested but not before he had wounded another woman and an officer. Until six months ago Rochefort was an honest ranchman near PHoenix. He became acquainted with his countrywoman and an affection, at least on his part, sprang up between them. The advantage of the union was all on the side of Mme. Renaud. For years she had lived as a prostitute. Rochefort made a proposal to her to become an honest woman. He has since insisted that she has persistantly refused. April 4, 1894 Officer James Blankenship made a good catch last night and landed the burglar who went through Winthrop Sears' residence on Sunday night. Among the stolen articles were a diamond ring and a valuable chain. Descriptions of these articles were left at the jewelry stores and with the officers. Yesterday a strange colored man sold a ring to a gentleman named Ramsey at the Palace Saloon. The ring was taken to Vantilburg and Davison's to be slightly altered and was recognized by description. The colored man called at the Palace again last night and was picked up by the officer. When searched, the chain was found in his pocketbook. April 4, 1894 J.W. Sleeth, the colored man arrested night before last by Officer Blankenship for burlgarizing the house of Winthrop Sears, was taken before Justice Johnstone yesterday for a preliminary hearing. He made no denial but explained that robbery furnished him the only means of living. He was held to the grand jury for $500. April 4, 1894 John Dewitt has erected a very attractive cab stand sign in front of the Palace Cigar Store. Sam Goodman, the new wholesale commission merchant, received yesterday a car of beans and a car of potatoes. Thomas Stevens, colored, one of the late proprietors of the Gem Cafe, is among the missing and his wife is in receipt of a note saying goodbuye but containing no other specifications as to his departure. Stevens is the individual whose face Col. Jamison incised at a late meeting in a Washington street saloon. Luther Martin, who was a member from Apache County, of the late legislature and who never returned to the north, is placing his Golden Remedy upon the market. It is said to knock rheumatism and liver and kidney diseases higher than Cleveland did the Bland silver bill. A sister of F.A. Woods is expected to arrive on a visit from Indianapolis today. Mrs. George W. Hoadley and Mrs. E.H. Hiller left on MOnday night to visit friends at Tucson. Harry McKean, formelry with Wells Fargo left yesterday with his wife for Prescott where he will take a position with the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix railroad. Mrs. James A. Fleming and her mohter departed last evening for Denver Colorado. Mrs. Felming has not been enjoying the best of health and a change of climate has bene recommended. Last Friday night there occurred from the Gregory HOuse what was regarded until last night, as a mysterious disappearance. James Vacil came to the Gregory House several weeks ago from one of the mines in the northern part of the territory suffering from Bright's disease. He left the house Firday and has not been seen in the city since. There was a belief that he had committed suicide. Last night a message was received from the county hospital that the missing man was there. August 14, 1894 Billy Blankenship and Henry Wohler opened an upholstery repairing and canvas awning hanging establishment in the alley south of Phillip's Fruit Stand. Beside that, Billy proposes to some auctioneering on the side. April 7, 1894 Mrs. Walter Talbott returned yesterday from the east where she was called a month ago by the fatal illness of her mother. The Red Corner Store yesterday received a handsome Herring, Hall and Marvin safe. Letters of administration in the matter of the estate of Charles Duncan were granted to Mary a. Duncan yesterday. Messrs. Hambrook and Schorr yesterday began painting the roof of their furniture store white in order that the rays of the Arizona sun may be driven back into the atmosphere. Two girls were thrown into the divorce mill yesterday. One contained the complaints of Sarah E. Brasswell vs. Joseph E. Braswell and the other the woes of Marian C. Watkins, occasioned by her husband, James B. Watkins. April 11, 1894 A new grocery store has been opened at Five Points in the McCarty block by R.M. Dameron. A large and well selected stock of fresh groceries will be constantly kept on hand. Goods delivered free to all parts of the city after April 16. G.M. Peralta will furnish the best dancing music. The Nickel Plate Restaurant which is growing so rapidly in popular favor will be open all night. Gardiner's Hall in the Gardiner block on Washington Street near corner of Third, may be rented for dances, parties, socials and entertainments. It is provided with seats, electric light and is perfectly safe in construction. Terms reasonable. April 12, 1894 Alex Rheinstein yesterday sold his cigar store to G.H. Hirshfield. Juan Virgil was arrrested yesterday morning by Contable Garcias for burglarizing the house of E. Garcia Sains night before last. Virgil is known as a bad man, alwasy armed and qiuck to use his weapons. J.W. Yocum of the Nickel Plate and M.T. Sullivan are preparing to leave on a mining trip to Humbug. The wife of Mr. Murray, stenographer at Judge Ainworths office will eave tonight on a visit to her mohter at Asuza, Cal. where she will remain for the summer. Patsy McQuilken who has lived in the territory for years, speaking yesterday of the steer tying contest said, "Why I knew Dave Goodin would have to get a hump on himself if he beat Ed Drew. That Ed Drew is without doubt the greatest expert in the world--I saw him get away with a fellow about twelve years ago at the Hooker Ranch in the Sulphur Springs Valley who pulled a winchester and threw it down on him intending to kill him." "Ed was on horseback and didn't have a gun, but he got down his rope and whiz it went around the neck of the fellow wit hthe Winchester at the same time Ed put spurs to his horse nad up went the fellow over the limb of a tree and there would have been a coroner's inquest and all that sort of thing if it haden't been for Billy Whalen or Dan Ming, I know which." April 13, 1894 Samuel J. Noble and Annie M. Smith, both colored were married yesterday at the Steinbegger by Justice Kincaid. J.E. Bestler , county fruit inspector, and J.N. Armstrong are gathering statistics concerning the orchards of the valley. Albert Hysell was arrested last night on complaint of Robert Linville charging him with embezzlement. He clams that some time ago he loaned Hysell some property among which was a $45 bridle and other essential parts of the bridle to a man at Frog Tanks. April 17, 1894 The home of H.H. Logan was brightened on Sunday afternoon by the arrival of a baby daughter. The store in Washington Street which was until recently occupied by A. Roth will be fitted up as a tobacco and cigar depot by A.J. Sedler. He has bought the building and rented the ground and will fit up the place in good style. Mr. Sedler is a cigar manufacturer of experience. April 21, 1894 Three pardons were issued yeteray to convicts at the territorial prison. They are: Daniel WEst, sentenced to one year for assault with a deadly weapon; George Dwyer, four years for grand larceny; and Ben Martin one year for Burglary. Charles E. White who has just opened the Lemon House Restaurant was in charge of the kitchen when the same hotel was first opened, twelve years ago by Judge Lemon. He was also in California for two years as a cook in the household of ex-Senator Leland Stanford. May 15, 1894 W.T. Benton, a son-in-law of Riley Morse, met with a serious accident yesterday morning that may prove fatal. It is supposed as no one witnessed the accident that Mr. Benton was about to or did jump into a hay wagon when the team became frightened and ran, throwing him in some manner that was caught in the lumber of the hayrack. The noise made by the runaway attracted the attention of Dr. Wilbur's family near whose place the accident occurred. Mr. Benton was lying unconscious about thirty feet from the wrecked wagon. He was picked up and conveyed to J.R. Morse's rsidence where Drs. Wilbur and Sabin examined the injured man. They found a frightful fracture on the frontal bone on the left side of the head and a gash extending diagonally down towards the right eye. June 6, 1894 Jose Maria Sertilon was sentenced to death yesterday. The prisoner was brought into court shortly after 4 o'clcok yesterday. The judge sentenced him to death for the murder of a new born male child, one day of age and unnamed on Nov. 12, 1892 on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. It is likely he will be hanged on July 27. June 14, 1894 Mrs. J.W. Miller and family left yesterday for thier ranch near Fort McDowell where they will spend the summer. Charles Johnstone, son of Justice Johnstone lost a part of the forefinger of the right hand yesterday in a tn cutting machine in Burtis' shop. Charles M. Conger returned yesterday from Casper Wyoming where he was part owner of the Derrick, a flourishing wekely newspaper. on account of ill health, Mr. Conger was compleled to surrender his business. He will reside in Phoenix permanently. Miss Mary Piedad Balsz will graduate tormoorw at the opera house and receive the first diploma granted by the Sacred Heart Academy of this city. An interesting program of exercises will be provided. July 10, 1894 Tom Kennedy got the longest possible police court sentence yesteray, 300 days. He's thankful athat the charter and statutes restrict the power of the recorder or else he may have made a permenent resident of the jail. Kennedy's crime consisted of stealing a valise full of clothing belonging to Jack Quinn from the Dublin Corral on Sunday night. Yesterday morning he started out to sell them and it was while he was hunting a buyer that he was overhauled by Marshal Molloy. Gus Hegler of the Phoneix Bakery was robbed by a sneak thief of $10 on Sunday night. Hegler was sleeping out of doors at his boarding place on Madison Street between Second and Third. Other persons were sleeping near and when they awoke yesterday morning they found that hteir clothing had been thoroughly inspected. July 15, 1894 Mr. Samuel Franklin, father of Mrs. Charles L. Squier is stopping with his daughter. He had left Phoenix to return to his home in peoples Valley just before the death of his son-in-law. Word was sent aftr him but passed him on the road and reached Peoples Valley before him. On arriving there he imediately started back to Phoenix, reaching here last Thursday. July 18, 1894 There was other blood than that of slaughtered cattle and sheep at W.E. Green's Butcher Shop on East Jefferson last night. It was the blood of Billy McDonald, until yesterday morning an employee of Greens. The men had been having trouble of a mixed character and McDonald was discharged. He spend the day in dirnking and about 8 o'clock yesterday evening called at the butcher shop for the purpose of collecting a small sum of money which he said was due him. He stood on the street outside the shop and a brief quarrel was followed by a shot from the inside. It cut through the glass door and pierced McDonald's right arm below the elbow. Two other shots were fired in such a rapid succession that McDonald was unable to get out of the way. Deputy sheriff Billy Blankenship who had been talking to McDonald a few minutes before was within a half block of the place and reached the shop just as Green had fired the third shot and was coming out of the shop evidently to take a better aim. The officer though unarmed arrested the shooter and disarmed him. He also arested McDonald and took both to jail. The shooting is said to have grown out of McDonald's attentions to Mrs. Green. July 21, 1894 WHY GREEN SHOT The preliminary hearing of W.E. Green for the shooting of Wm. McDonald last Tuesday was concluded yesterday. The defendant was accompanied by his wife and child. McDonald had also been released from jail. Nothing new was developed as to the ncidents of the shooting though Green's story of his motive was interesting. He related the attempt of McDonald to alienate the affections of his wife. McDonald had previously told him of having killed two men in Texas, incidents which accounted for his presence in Arizona. One of McDonald's victims had vainly tried to defend his home or his wife's honor. McDonald had also boasted of his conquests over married women. Anyway his stories had an effect over Green wehn his wife told him that the man from Bitter Creek had attempted an assault upon his home.