Arizona republican., 1895-10-17
 NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Happenings of Streets and Town. Epitome of the City's Local
 Intelligence. The Doings of Day in Phoenix and
 It's Tributary
 Region.
The Doings of a Day in Phoenix and

The celebrated mining suit of Court vs Hine was argued all day yesterday in the district court.
 The county treasurer is busy sending out notifications that assessments are due on county property.
 Governor Hughes has commissioned Miss Abbie Clay, of Globe, and w. T. Gibbons as notaries public.
 Two knights of the road were brought down from Tempe yesterday to serve a fifteen days sentence.
 Sportsmen are beginning to appre- ciate the advent of the winter run of ducks into the Salt River valley.
 Up at Prescott the Santa Fe will give metropolitan flavor to the races by running local trains hourly be- tween town and track.
 Up at Mesa yesterday new Chinese restaurant started in to popularize itself by entertaining the multitude without charge at dinner.
 B. J. Peck has secured loan through the Columbia Building and Loan association and is preparing to erect a handsome cottage.
 
 by Deputy Sheriff Blankenship in the court house plaza for drunk and dis orderly conduct and exposure of per son.
 The Ollie Tarbott Concert company of eight people arrived in the city yes terday. They are enjoying days rest for their appearance at the opera house tonight
 The Ollie Torbett concert company make their appearance tonight at the opera house. The company has the best of regulations and throughout the country the press are liberal in giving them liberal praise.
 Present indications are that the grain acreage for the coming season will be not over two-thirds of that of the last The blows are now going merrily on the grain farms, but few grain land leases have been made.
 In addition to the telephone line be- tween this city and Mesa, telegraphic communication will soon be ready The telegraph line will be in opera tion as soon as the rails of the new line are laid.
 A lively race occurred at Tempe yesterday between Mark Dailey's mare and a Tempe horse. The race was for $115 a side, but nearly a thousand dollars changed hands. The race was a quarter dash and was won by the Tempe horse.
 The Bohemian club, set of young gentlemen who hold bachelors hall, are preparing to give a feast at their headquarters. Only the young gen. tlemen friends of the club will be in- vited. King Bacchus will preside and an evening of jollity is looked for.
 The extensive sidewalk ordinance passed by the city council compelling walks from Second to Seventh streets on East Washington seems to be popular one with nearly every citizen of the east end. Still there are kick CTS, two of whom threaten to go to law on the subject.
 The Southern Pacific company has restored the old freight rates on wheat from San Joaquin valley points to Ari- zona It as formerly S6.50 per ton, but was raised to $9 and is put back to the old rate AS the wheat crop in the southwest is very light this year it is expected that there will be many ship mentS.
 The ceremony that united L. A Murrell and Miss Florence Harper was performed yesterday at p. m., at the residence of the brides parents. The welded pair left on the o'clock train for California, being attended to the depot by a large number or friends, whose good wishes were sincere and many.
 Williams, a point on the Atlantic & Pacific, intimately connected by bus mess with Phoenix, is rapidly recover ing from the effects of the late dis astrous fire. c. c. Brice, the mer-