Arizona republican., 1893-07-21
LOCAL BRIEFS.

just sudorific enough.
 Two cars of lumber for the Phoenix mine arrived yesterday.
 Kemp & Co.,, shipped car of barley to Gila Bend last evening.
 Iron floor beams for the Fleming block sidewalks have been put in place
 Dyspepsia may as well take bac k seat for while; green chilis have come to town.
 The new superintendent of the Ph9- nix Electrict Light & Power Co.,, arriv- ed yesterday.
 Down in Tucson the naturalized Frenchman is asking these days, how does your prlckly heat carry itself?
 Mir. Milwaukee Pabst made his pres ence visible in Phoenix yesterday through the medium of car of beer consigned to his friend E. Gang.
 McNulty X Co.,, got in a carload of canned meats, ham and bacon yester- day. Phoenix lives solidly, no matter how hot the weather or constricted the times.
 The executive department is wrest- ling with the historical conundrum, "did Arizona amidst her other crimes, ever have any annual legislative ses- sions?"
 Territorial Secretary Bruce lreceived letters from Cochise county yesterday announcing copious rains that had made stockmen and everybody else se- renely happy.
 Newton S. Hadsell, of Glendale, bought three lots with water rights yes terday from the New England Land company for $l ,372.5 50. The property is in HaGsell's addition to that town.
 Telegrams have been received for sending the remains of Harry NJ. Bissel to Cincinnati, his boyhood home, where they will sleep amid scenes of early happiness ere the evil days came when he had no pleasure in them.
 Not to be outdone by the Herald's mule colt, our wheelmen are now talk ing of bicycle effort in the same di rection. A healthy "Columbia' crossed with the Evening Thomas Cat is expected to produce a freak greater if possi ble, than that wonderful sunset sheet.
 Next Sunday the Stringtown baseball nine propose to cross bats here with PhGnix in social game, preparatory % the tournament with Tucson al Phoenix Park, July 30, 3l and Angus, l, for a purse of s5l0 (possibly s1 ,000, gate receipts and the championship oI Arizona.
 A notice in the court house corridor, requests drinkers at the ice reservoir not to throw water on the floor. There is new linoleum there and the inference seems to be that visitors should throw their unused potatiOns on the ceiling where plenty of old dust and cOowebs still remains.
 IL may not be so awfully bad to stay in Phoenix this summer when nearly everybody has gone away, after all Pratt Bros. got in 200 novels yester' day. SO that one can swing on his ham. mock with an electric fan running and coolly read how other people sui fer making love on the coast or in the loitiest mountains.
 According to eastern funny papers women love dogs as well as their chil dren. Certainly, some women in Ph9' nix grab up their dogs and hide them whenever the canine license collector appears. Yesterday two Mexican ladies of that description were hauled before Recorder Schwartz. They paid their licenses and secured their free dom.
 There were seven women before Re corder Schwartz yesterday, all very much below suspicion. Four of them like wise virgins, had $40 worth of oil along which they poured into the city tank. Three had no oil, but since nc case could be made against them, th, } marched forth ss triumphantly as their four prudent sisters. This is not nc cording to scripture, but true all the same.
 With silver's slump the wise man is turning his attention to gold claims Phnnicians now are figuring on a trir to the Superstition mountains where they propose to locate a dozen claims or more with their eyes shut. Tenderfeet they say, have often struck it rich that way, and why shouldn't the Hassay. amper? Anyhow, if the gold excite ment continues, every foot of Super stItion ground will be saleable and now is the time to stake it. In the Lead vile days of 1878 .79, thousands of dol lars were realized by simply enclosing 8 few acres within six stout stakes and calling them the American Treasury "R. A. Miner" or similar phitocratiC n