Arizona republican., 1891-02-04
LOCAL BREYITIES.
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The hotels are doing rushing busi- ness. J.L. Powell will ship tomorrow to Sau Francisco lSJ head of beef cattle. The City Marshal is having brush burned of evenings, cleaning up the streets.
 Arrangements are completed for the Montezuma Club hop tonight at the Opera House.
 The farmers and stock men of the val ley will be very much disappointed II they do not get the rain the weather has promised.
 A special meeting of the Ladies' Benevolent Society will be held in the parlors of the Montezuma Club at p. m. tomorrow.
 A ten-pound baby boy made his ap- pearance yesterday morning in the fam fly of D. Nicholson. Both mother aud child are dolng well.
 Frank NJ. Czarnowski and B. Sleek started yesterday for Wickenburg to cx- anime some mining properties. They will return in three or four days.
 Marshal Blankenship will have chain gang burning brush in different parts of town for the next week, and requests that no fire alarms be needlessly sounded.
 Marshal Blankenship has been waging persistent warfare upon the vagS that have infested the city since the Legisla- ture convened, and has succeeded in ridding the town of sixteen within the past week.
 The Board of Supervisors yesterday ordered the County Treasurer to trans fer $500 from the salary fund to the general fund and $30JO from the gen eral fund to the Maricopa x Phoenix Railroad interest fund to pay the in- terest coupons due.
 T. P. Banta has just completed burn ing kiln of 75,0OO brick to be used in building Ex-Governor c. M. Zulick's two story brick residence on his ranch under the Highland canal. The build ing will cost $2O,00O and will be the finest dwelling on the Mesa.
 A concert has heen arranged for in Tempe by the local musical talent, iu aid of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that place. It will occur at LiningtOn Hall next Friday evening, and many Phoenix society people have already sig nified their intention of attending.
 Captain Hiel Hale and A. E. Martin, of the Toltec Ditch Company, on the Gila river, are in the city perfecting ar engagements to put additional teams on the work and laying in supplies. There are now some twenty-five teams at work and they expect to considerably increase the force within thirty days.
 In the District Court the cause of Henry WicRenbeIg vs. the Walnut Grove Water Storage Company is still progressing. The plaintiff is presenting his prima faCia case. The Court adjourned, after the usual adTnOni- tion to the jurors, until 9 o'clock today, at which time the Wickenberg case goes on.
 Some Mexican boys who were digging in Mrs. Briggs GoOdriCh's yard g. few days ago, unearthed the skeleton of an adult. Mrs. Goodrich notified the Sheriff and after an investigation the conclusion was reached that it was the remains of some one buried in due form several years before Phoenix extended her limits so far.
 A Chinaman was held up near Mesa, last Sunday, by two MeXiCans, and robbed of Sl45 in money. John imme- dately notified the Deputy Sheriff of Mesa, who went after the thieves, whom he tracked on the road toward Florence. Nothing had been heard from him up to last night and the prObabilityis that the highwaymen will escape.
 Bids will be received by the Pos ;ofFiCe Department at Washington until March 24, 1891, at f p. m., for the following mail route, No. GSl71, from Ph9Lix 70 Pratt, thirty-fOur miles and return leave Phoenix at 7 Q. m. Fridays, arrive at Pratt in twelve hours leave Pratt at z a. ID. Saturdays, arrive in Phoenix in twelve hours. Bond required $500 Con- tract to run from July 1, 1891, to June 30, 1891.
 Colonel Gordon, of Fort Huachuca, ar, rived in Phoenix Monday. accompanied by Captain :. r. Thorn late manager of the Palace and Grand Hotels of San Fran. cisco, and wife. Mrs. Thorn is 6 niece of the late Senator sharon, of California. The distinguished visitors will remain a few days in the valley for rest and TeCre' ation, when Colonel Gordon will return to his post and Mr. and Mrs. Thorn will proceed to San Francisco.