Arizona republican., 1891-03-10
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

holieQ barley IS worth Sl.Du per lVu pounds in Phoenix now.
 Supervisor Priest is in town attending the meetings of the board.
 Stage fare from Phoenix to the Tempe crossing is SIPS per passenger.
 Mrs. ,.ige Ainsworth will give a whist party tomorrow evening.
 c. L. stearns is on the street again after three weeks serious illness,
 D. l.. Murray has put on new wagon to supply the canal camps with meat.
 Dr. and Mrs. Chandler and Engineer McGinnis went to Mesa City yesterday.
 Freighter Crouch loaded two wagons yesterday with supplies for the toll road.
 Some ladies who visited the House yesterday, left on account of the cigar smoke.
 Water is getting scarce in the pastures and stock are being taken to the river to drink.
 Sports were out yesterday and suc- eeeded in bagging about hundred and fifty quail.
 A team loaded with supplies will leave for Keating's Humbug placer camp today.
 Contractor Riggs has a contract for building three-room cottage for Father Jouvenceau.
 J. H. Thomas, foreman at the Con- tention mine, visited PhGnix yesterday on business.
 Hon. George F. Coats has been seri- ously i'll with pleurisy, though he is i'm proving now.
 The Ladies' Guild will meet tomorrow after noon at ? o'clock at the residence of Mrs o. J. Thibodo.
 One drunk and disorderly was given ten days in the chain gang yesterday by Recorder Schwartz.
 A train was run through from Los Angelei, Sunday, but it did not bring all the delayed mail.
 Good frame buildings are fast taking the place of the old adobes that were washed down by the flood.
 J. L. Cant will start for Maricopa to- day with six-horse bus, to bring over some of the delayed passengers.
 F. A. Gulley. professor of agriculture at the Government experimental farm at Tucson, IS stopping at the Central.
 Marshal Blankenship has a force of men employed constructing city waste ditch at the west end of, Harrison street.
 Fred Wentworth, of the firm of Mohatt & Wentworth, is in from Haqua Hala to take out fresh stock of goods.
 The mail route to Fort Mcdowell will be discontinued after March l4. Next Saturday will be the last trip the stage will make.
 Yesterday afternoons session of the House was short one. Some of the members seemed to have a contrary spell on them.
 Henry Rixon is having built four room frame house on Montezuma street on a lot where one of his adobes fell in during the flood.
 Contractor H. H. Creighton is able to be out again, after five weeks confne- ment with a lame foot, which he cut while chopping wood.
 The flood washed off, or caused to leave all the yelping CUTS in Linyille addition and people in that part can now enjoy nights sleep.
 The Tempe ferry boat is on sandba A new crossing will probably have to be selected. The Gila ferry will probably be ready to run tomorrow.
 J. H. Tompkinson is in from his Agua Fria Ranch. His ditch was washed away and he will take up pump with which to irrigate his garden.
 Dr. Hughes says that the Mexican re- gently run over by the street car, and who was taken to the county hospital, is improving, and will recover.
 Twenty-Five more teams and men were sent out to the Arizona canal head. There are now about one hundred and fifty scraper teams and three hundred men working.
 The Board of Supervisors met yester- day and transferred $llO0 from the gen. eral fund to the Maricopa & Phoenix railroad interest fund. The board, after a short session, adjourned till 10 o'clock today.
 The report circulated in town yestsr. day afternoon that Tom Boyle had died very suddenly, was not go. City Re- corder Schwartz drove out to where he lives, nine miles north of this city and found that the gentleman had not even been sick.
 Thomas K. Elvey and & companion yesterday captured the championship in duck shooting. They each managed to get in two shots upon the rise of great flock, on the river west of town, and succeeded in bagging fifty-four fine mallards. Who can beat the record?
 Attorney General Clark Churchill closed the argument for the defense of the great water suit before the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, summing up the case for his clients in a most able manner. The end of the suit, as far as 1t concerns the District Court, is draw iug nighs
 A report comes from Globe that Alex. Graydon, one ot the best known men of the Southwest, has passed away. He was blacksmith and piled his trade in Phenix in 1878 and 1879. He had accumulated considerable property in Globe and was regarded as one of her solid citizens.
 D. F. Whitton died at the Alhambra Sunday morning at 2:30. Deceased came to Phoenix with his wife from Bos- ton, Mass, last October to try the effects of the warm climate of Salt River valley. but he was too weak to be benefited by any climate. The remains will be shipped to Boston next Thursday and xEftll t.f .s.nI l.. L se.