Arizona republican., 1896-12-16

l.. H. Taylor of Reno, Nevada, is newcomer.
 John W. Cassett of Maryland arrived last evening
 The Little Jessie mine has declared another dividend.
 Fred S. Pheby, a mining man from Silver City, New Mexico, is in the city. The Shriners will meet at the lodge rooms at 4 o'clock this afternoon for parade.
 Sixty passengers arrived on yester- day mornings Maricopa & Phoenix express.
 Clark Gapen, superintendent of the insane asylum at Kankakee, H., is at the Adams.
 The Tucson city council has under advisement proposition to widen Congress street.
 Freight traffic on the Atlantic & Pa cific is brisk, and the crews are enjoy ing only short lay-Overs.
 Captain w. A. Glassford of Denver arrived last evening and will take seat today in the irrigation congress. Attorney T. w. Johnston, who was taken ill in Phoenix, is still under the weather. He is now at his home in Prescott.
 The Prescott mining exchange notes a marked increase in the number of visitors inquiring for Arizona mining investments.
 A Boston reporter was promoted to an editorship because he wrote up a foot ball game without referring to the ball as the "pigskin."
 Dr. William Dufield has been awarded the contract to attend pa tients under the control of the probate court and county jail.
 Sixteen carloads of beef cattle went out over the Maricopa & Phoenix last night. They were billed for Los An geles and San Diego, Cal.
 Hon. Peter R. Brady, councilman elect from Pinal county, has been in the city several days. MT. Brady is an old time territorial lawmaker.
 The storm signal has been flying above the weather bureau several days. Yesterday it was semi-cloudy, the only indication of a disturbance in the elements elsewhere.
 A report is current that several min ing sales are on the tapis and are like ly to come off before many days. The properties are located in the Brad shaw mountains in the Rumble Bee district.
 The boys of the Indian school band made an excellent showing in front of the Commercial hotel yesterday morn ing. They play admirably, and their musical education was acquired within two years.
 In the live stock show in New York a man exhibited Shropshire sheep one year old which weighed $40 pounds and was three feet across the back. This chap is given milk baths, dried with sponges and laid away for the night in blankets.
 Charles E. DeMund, one of the firm of the DeMund Lumber company of this place, was married recently at King City, Mo. The bride was Miss Mary E. Carter, and the event is de- scribed by the local paper as having been a very happy one.
 It is reported that a great deal oi canal and ditch building and cleaning has taken place in the upper Gila val ley this fall and that preparations have been made for the planting of the largest crop that was ever planted and sown in that section.
 Dr. H. A. Hughes, superintendent of the insane asylum, has ordered six silver instruments for the purpose ot educating a banda silver cornet band. He proposes that patients shall furnish their own music at tht weekly dances that are held at the in stitution.
 Among the delegates from Pima county in attendance at the irrigation congress is the Hon. Charles D. Reppy member-elect to the Nineteenth legis latre. MT. Reppy is the editor anC proprietor of the Florence ! Tribune and was chief clerk of the last legis lative assembly.
 An enterprising cobbler down il Maine has rigeed a portable bushes