Arizona republican., 1894-08-24
LOCAL BRIEFS.

The will of Thos. Ruff was yesterday admitted to probate.
 J. W. Wentworth of Payson, Gila county, was yesterday appointed notary public.
 Phoenix park has become the popular resort of warm evenings for quiet, rest and refreshments.
 The Five Points grocery of R. M. Dameron, while not the largest, is one of the most reliable.
 L. A. Lane was the solitary subject of Recorder Schwartz vengeance yes terday morning. He was fined $2 for drunkenness.
 The Drachman company sells cut-rate tickets to Seoul, Nagasaki, Shanghai or any other peaceless antipodean port as we'll as to all railway points in U. s. George Woodside, a colored barber learning to ride wheel, collided with one of Minors ice wagons. Nothing was left of the bicycle but g pile of scrap iron and sad memory.
 MT. D. H. Burtis returned yesterday from several weeks stay at various sea- side resorts of Southern California. Recuperated by his rest he enters upon the management of his business with all his old time vigor.
 The following transfers of real estate were yesterday entered for record: F. M. Mognett to Mrs, Lizzie Winters. east half of lot 12, block r, Churchill's addition, $200. The Arizona Improve ment company to the same grantee quit claim to above described property
 M. E. Huoley yesterday leased a business room in the Gardiner block for three years. He will occupy it about the middle of Septemb Der with a fully equipped meat market including a large cold storage plant. A part of the machinery was received yesterday. The steam for the plant will be fur nished from Gardiner's mill and electric light works.
 Miss Nellie Walton and mother &C., companied by her uncle, James Mans field, of Philadelphia, set out yesterday upon a camping tour of Mesa, the Superstition mountains and Mcdowell. Miss Walton's music pupils who know | how richly she deserves an outing, trust the trip will be beneficial and with naught to mar it's perfect enjoy { ment.
 Walter O'Brien, the veteran gardener who so tenderly cares for the vegetation of the little plaza at Yuma station, one of the few green dots between Fl Paso and Colton on the Southern Pacific road and who makes the fountain play when the train is Tn, subscribes to lengthy and we'll written arraignment in the Yuma Times of millionaire John w. Mackay, in which the latter is charged with that basest of crimes, in- gratitude.
 J. T. Johnson is the enterprising young business man who will In few weeks open a strictly high class, pure dry goods store in one of MT. Coles store rooms between the Fleming and Mahoney blocks. He has been for five years past Tn the employ of L. Zecken- dorf x Co.,, of Tucson, where he had charge of the dry goods department. His brother, also dry goods man of experience, will be associated with him. The store will be called "The Great Eastern"
 The assault of the Yuma Times on Millionaire Mackay and the card from MT. Fitch Tn his defense which appears in another column suggests the opinion of the ''old boys" of the relative merits of the bonanza kings as expressed by one of them at the time when some San Francisco crank, crazed by losses in mining stocks, attempted to assas- .sinate Mackay by shooting him in the back. "Is it Mackav he shot at ?" said the 49er. "Mackay Holy Moses, the man must have been crazy. If he wanted to shoot somebody and do some good to us all, why in - didn't he walk block or two further and take 8 pop at Jim Fair?"
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