Arizona republican., 1891-03-03
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

 Frog Tanks.
 W. A. Parish came down yesterday from the Union mine.
 Contractor Simms is clustering the in- side of the Presbyterian Church build- ing.
 County School Superintendent Baxter mads apportionmento of the school money yesterday.
 Indians are cleaning up the flooded districts of everything that had tioated away from houses.
 Nancy Cavaness has sold to A. W. Hoffman for $2S00 lots Nos. 1, ? and s in Neahr's addition.
 Cottonwood trees have begun to leaf out and in another week the valley will look fresh and green.
 Plaintiffs argument in the water case closed yesterday, and E. J. Edwards opened for defendants.
 President T. S. Bullock of the Prescott X Arizona Central railroad will leave for Mexico this morning.
 The school furniture and supplies for the Indian school, are on the road and have been delayed by washouts.
 Search for the dead body reported to have been seen Saturday by boy, was resumed Sunday without finding it.
 Four teams, eights and tens, loaded yesterday for the Copper camp with piping for the company's water line.
 Johnny Agard is preparing to return to Plomosa, thirty miles west of Haqua Hala, where he has fine gold claim.
 It is confidently stated that mail will be in today from Maricopa. Only the mail from the east will be forwarded.
 Dr. Chandler yesterday ordered 1900 square feet of corrugated iron roofing to be used in covering his dredging boat.
 Rev. c. H. Adams is having built handsome brick residence on Jefferson street, between Yuma and Papago streets.
 George Loring is having the old adobe building, in the rear of Dorris' fruit store, taken down and will erect brick in it's stead.
 The fruit stands are about out of Cali fornia fruit. There are several thousand pounds of it at Maricopa and teams have been started over after it.
 Mining notices were recorded vester- day of the Kittie Drew mining claim in Winnefred district, and of the Silver Queen mine in Picacho district.
 c. ". Johnstone, of the Gazette, has begun the work of putting up three roomed cottage on the site of his house that was washed down by the flood.
 Ias, Lok ka, bound between the Hassayampa and Agua Fria, had to send back for more feed before they went on with their loads.
 R. Halloran, general agent for the New York Life Insurance Company, after two weeks work in the interest of his company, left for New Mexico yes terday.
 Every horse and buggy in town was in use last Sunday. The roads were in good condition for driving, and every one who could get a rig rode out to see what the flood had done.
 Sunday and yesterday seven more six horse loads of lumber were sent up to the Arizona canal headgate. They have now about 200 men and 100 teams work Ing ana stlll want more.
 The Lewis building on Washington street, formerly occupied by the post office, has been leased to Doris Brothers for five years. They will move their secondhand store into 1t some time dur ing the month.
 At the meeting of the Board of Super visors yesterday, U Undersheriff Al Barry turned over vouchers for $250, appro- priated by the board for the benefit of the flood sufferers. The board meets again next Monday at 10 o'clock.
 w. H. Cole brought down Sunday $S0 worth of gold dust from his placer works on Humbug creek, below Keating's. 1t was the result of three days run ground-sluicing. Mir. Cole leaves today { with a load oi supplies for his camp. Wells, Fargo & Co.'S. office has been removed from the Commercial Hotel building to sherman's building, next to the Episcopal Church, corner of Wash ington and Mohave streets. The general impression seems to be that the situation is decidedly suburban for such an in- stitution.
 At the Opera House Sunday night, the , was we'll attended. Judge l.. II. flaw kins, of Tempe ,$delivered the opening and closing addresses. Another meet ing will be heldEoneSweek from next Sunday. Mrs. l.. H. Hawkins will be one of the speakers.
 G. o. Robbards, Superintendent of the Trinidad Mining Company at Whip saw Gulch, arrived from there yester- day, and says very little damage was done at his camp there. On Castle creek about one hundred cords of wood was washed away from I. N. Large's mill, but some of it lodged along the bshks and drifts below and can be taken back.
 W. A. Bondurant arrived from Hum bug Creek yesterday and reports very little damage done in that section, though the creek was three feet higher than ever before known. D. E. Keat- ing's dam was not damaged. MT. Bondurant says the road from Frog Tanks is in very bad condition, and until he, with Freighter Tomkinson and w. II. Cole did some work on it, it was impossible.
 Word was telepouhed down from the Arizona headgate last evening about 4 o'clock, that the body of man had been found on the Verde, below Me Dowell, and Justice Goodin immediately summoned Coroner's jury and, taking coffin, started up there. They will bring the corpse to Phoenix. It is no doubt the body of John Kennedy, who was drowned last Saturday evening