Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-05-12
Local Items.


 Saturday from visit tO Caliiornla.
 Mrs. George Scott was in town from Dudleyville last Saturday and Sunday.
 M rs. Jsre Fryer has returned from her long visit to Michigan.
 Mir. J. J. Devine returned from Tue son this week.
 Several cases of measles budded and blossumed in day, as it were, durin z the present week.
 Mir. Mart Moloney was up from the Montezuma ranch on Sunday, and made brief visit to the metropolis.
 Mrs. M E. Bailey left last week for California to spend the summer by the seaside.
 Hon. A. J. Doran and Mai J. H. Stout came down from De Noon and went to the Vekol this week.
 Father Monfurt has gone to Globe and will celebrate mass at that place next Monday.
 Mir H. W. Klein came over from Globe Monday and went at once to Tue son. He was ca He'd home by his wife's illness.
 Within the past two weeks fully ff- teen thousand acres of government land has been taken up under the Flo rene t canal.
 The Globe stage line has new coach on its run from Florence to Riverside and is now enabled to accommodate the increasing travel.
 Five bars of silver bullion, weighing Z over 420 pounds, the product of two weeks ruu of the Reymert mill at De Noon, went forward last Monday
 Last week euded with some showery weather, the heaviest rainfall being d few miles to the west and pretty gener. ally in the mountains to the north.
 Mir. and Mrs. Omer Richie returned last week from an absence of t. wo months Tn California, where they enjoyed them selves heartily.
 Mr. John Ahern, a good shoem aker. is doing lucrative business at his trade His shop is on Pinal street, corner of 10th.
 MT. Isaac Bierry; son-in-law of Judge and Mrs. H. B. Summers, came down from Silver King this week, on a short visit. It IS his first absence from his post for fourt cen months.
 Mir. Julian Laughlin has secured a room in the rear of the office of Wm. E. Guild for tie office of the Montezuma canal company and it is being fitted up neatly.
 The farmer about Dudleyville are in the midst of their hal vestiup and very heavy crops are being gathered. Help IS quite scarce in that section and em- ployment will be given gool workers who apply at once.
 The Montezuma canal company has two ditching machines on the way to Florence, which will be used in con stIucting the canal. MT. Laughlin says he will have the canal complete ed for dis tance of over twenty miles from it's hend inside uf four months.
 Mir. H c. B B.llou killed his 47th lynx at his ranch ten miles below Florence. Saturday night. These predatory an . malls pass his place in ther meanderin. up and down the river and occasionally one that tarries to pay it's respects to his chickens contributes It's scalp to Mr. Bal lou's trophies.
 The Papago Indians residing in the valleys below Casa Grande are raising good fields of grain this year without irrigation. They take advantage of the occasional rains to store water sufficient to supply small fields and usually secure fair crops, After the summer rains they plant corn, melons and beans and raise enough for their own consumption.
 The Rev. Mir. Whittimore expects to reach Florence on or about the 25th in- stant. He has shipped his household goods and has written to parties here to secure house for his residence. Mir. Whittino els family will not come O Florence until the warm season IS over. by which time parsonage and church will be erected.
 Globe has taken time by the forelock and ordered great supply of 6rew orks, chinese lanterns, etc, for proper cele- hr ation of the Fourth of July. A series of entertainments are in progress to pro- vide the neces ssary funds for the grand occasion. The people of Florence should follow the example of their Globe neigh bors and prepare an attractive programme
 
 The Florence canal company have To cate and laid out a townsite, about five miles east of Casa Gaande, where the ca nal will cross the Southern Pacific raj road. Considerable land has been taken up in that neighborhood and in a few monShs' time travellers through Arizona will be able to see how the desert is made to blossom as the rose. From this point it is very probable that a railroad will be built to Florence.
 Quite number of Spanish speaking residents of Florence gathered at the ranch of Manuel Robles, few miles west of town, on Monday, and enjoyed q days picnic with amusemeits of various kinds. There was dancing. songs, music and feasting until evening, when all re- turned home feeling refreshed by the diversion. Among these present were Mir. and Mrs P. R. Brady, Mir. and Mrs. Manuel Robles, Mrs. Aaron Mason, Miss Elena Brady, Miss Joseia Vudino, Miss Lolita Estrada, Miss Eujenia Estrada, Miss Encarnacion Gonzales, Miss Teresa Corona, Miss Matilde Elilia, Messrs. Ramon Corona, P R. Brady, Jr., Rich. ard Brady and Juan Cabeza
 MT. Elisha Bichard was in this week from Sweetwater, on the Pima reserva- tion, where he has charge of the J. D. Rittenhouse trading post He reports