Arizona republican., 1895-10-19
NEWS. IN A NUTSHELL. Happenings of Streets and Town. Epitome of the CHy'S Local
 Intelligence. The Doings of Day in Phoenix and
 It's Tributary
 Region. 

the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix tel egraph office for Joseph Dougherty.
 Gus Hirschfeld of the Palace saloon yesterday transferred the property to Liberman & company of Tucson Gus will, however, retain the manage ment of the popular resort as he has done in the past.
 The Tempe & Mesa railroad is pro- .gressing swiftly with the laying of rails and it is now only a question of a few weeks before Tempe and Mesa will be more closely united and the iron horse pulling between both cities.
 The board of trustees of school dis trict No. yesterday filed suit in the district court against Thos. K. Elvey. The suit is to recover an acre of land property which the district was dis possessed of by ,Elyey.
 The Phoenix Baseball club held 8 business meeting last night. Arrange- nents were made to play at the park tomorrow afternoon picked nine from Tempe and Mesa. All the old bills of the organization were accepted and will be paid. Stewart was reinstated to membership. Alick Harlow was added to the team and will play left field.
 The city officers early yesterday morning made another raid around the city for the gentlemen who have nothing to do but to beat railroads and lead romantic life. They succeeded in bagging five who could not prop erly account for themselves. They ofao ho1.c nf thn ahair, ,cr and will be for the next ten days.
 Marshal Clark had a contract on hand yesterday afternoon in trying to remove a sleeping drunk from the cor ner of Washington and first streets to the city jail. The man was too drunk to walk and too sleepy to heed the gentle kicks administered various portions of his anatomy The mar shal finally had to pack him to jail like sack of barley.
 The trustees of the Tempe public school yesterday gave the teachers a half holiday to come to Phoenix and visit the schools of this city and thus obtain a general idea of how the To- cal schools are conducted The teach CTS of the Tempe school who visited uOCllA WCl luCIpol A. OICW Mamie Garlick, Nellie McNeil and Mary Wingar.
 Fred Carr has been getting into trouble. It all came about his get ting into watermelon patch and help ing himself to the juicy fruit. The proprietor of the patch, who keeps lynx eye on his watermelons, sur prised the intruder in the midst of his repast. The result was a warrant is sued for his arrest. His case came up for hearing Tuesday in Justice Johnstone's court.
 The following real estate transac- tions, reported by Coggins 6 Brown, abstractors, were yesterday entered for record: The Fowler company to Thos. Schusler, s1a of s1a of swh of sw14, sec 1, tp 2 n, 1 e, $275; Geo. H. Kane and wife to George Kinney, 75x150 feet in SC cor of block 1, and 1371aX150 feet in ne COT of block 61, Tempe, S2,000; James L. Baltee to Norte Anderson, deed to lot 95, block "A," University addition.
 Work on the diversion dam of the Agua Fria Construction company will be closed down Saturday for an in- definite perio1, only caretakers being left on the ground. Though the dam is now nearly complete, the managers here preferred to temporarily cease work than to continue without im- mediate funds at hand. President Beardslev is now in the east and the financial difficulties are not believed to be serious.
 Sheriff Mel Greenleaf of Yuma, yes terday arrived in the city, but eluded the reporters all day. It is supposed his mission here is in connection with the Sortillon murder case. The United States district attorney was