Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-11-21
LOCAL NEWS.

Compliments are coming in from all quarters.
 The shower of stars did not take place last night. But keep watching, breth- ren. It is likely to msterlalze sometime between now and 1901.
 See "O'er the Links," by Aldrich, Paris, and ''In the Conservatory" by w. Granville Smith, in Truth tomorrow. All traine and news stands.
 Orange shipments are becoming ire quent from Salt River Valley. The se- for Chicago yesterday.
 Attorney General Wilson and Frank Cox have formed ! law partnership in Phoenix, MT. Wilson will shortly re- move his family to the capital city from Prescott, where Le has his residence at present.
 The Blue Rock Gun Clubs Thanks giving shoot is all the talk among Tuc- son sportsmen, and nothing is being overlooked which will contribute to the success of the occasion.
 An effort will be made to have William J. Brysn attend the irrigation congress in Phoenix next month. His p.ese oce would add very materially to the success of the occasion.
 The Phoenicians attendant on the Masonic grand lodge sessions at Tucson all returned this morning full of praise of Tucson and the hospitality of the old pueblo.-Herald.
 J. l.. Beckrup, of the Sonora saloon, on the corner of Meyer and Mccormick streets, is adding to the appearance and comfort of his place by the addition of good, substantial awning.
 The population of Las Prietas and La California, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, has increased in four years from 800 to 5000 This speaks well for the mining industry of our sister repub blic.
 Judge Lowell, district attorney for Pima county, is in Solomonville, where, associated with Judge Barnes be will essist in the defense of several men charged with murder, who will be tried this term of court.
 Numerous improvements are going o1 all over the city. One of the most peed- ed is new sidewalk opposite the store of W. J. Corbett. This is being placed in position and it will be great sstis- faction to walk over it without tearing clothes or shoes.
 Among the novelties with future ahead of 1t IS nickel. in-the-s slot attach ment for bicycles which are to be used for rental. Unless the machine is fed with 8 nickel ever 80 often the mechanism is such that it will lock the wheel and 1t osn not be used until the required coin is deposited.
 The Tempe News is in possession of Rn interesting and well-preserved srch- geological specimen, in the shape of 8 woven, jug-shaped vessel that had doubtless been used to hold water, and which, judging from the position of the handles, had apparently been carried up- on the back. The material used and the manner of construction Is different from anything ever made by our modern h. diaps. The interesting relic was found on perfectly sheltered shelf of rock in the hieroglyphic district ir the noun taIns southwest Of Tempe, by Mir. James Carroll, who was prospecting in that section.
 Larger tires and D-eection tubing may be looked for next year, says sn authority. Makers report that a lively interest has been taken in D-sectioD tubes, both straight and crsnked, and that there is every reason to believe that the innovation will receive popular tav- or. If IS not expected that the D tub ing will replace the round tubing to g great extent in '97, but 1t is known that the new shape will be introduced by .rQ af that it will be extensively advertised. In the matter of tires 1t is fact that the pneumatic reaches its greatest comfort when the sectional diameter IS close to two inches. And comfort rather than style is what the wheelman desires moet noEse-days.
 Wbitelaw Reid and family will reach PhoenIx November q, 10 remaln three months. be will occupy the same res;d- ence, that of Dr. Rosson, that he did last winter. He has also secured the residence of Jerry Millay. The coming winter bids fair to see many prominent people in Phoenix. Congressman Davidson, of Beaver, Pennsylvania, and J. w. Lyman. Minneapolis millionaire, are already here. Mr. Starr, of New York, who with his family spent last winter here, hae rented the Ainswortb residence on North Center street, paying $500 per month for it, and will soon be here with his family to spend another winter.
 Rosa Bonheur leads the life of re- cluse in her chateau in the depths of tbe Forest of Fountainebleau, near Paris. She secludes herself from all, and 1t was ha rhpf ho editors of The Ladies' Home Journal succeeded in getting @ proposition be- fore her that she should write her auto biography for that magazine. After nearly years effort they were success ful. and once started on her work the great painter found so much interest in it that she made over & dozen special studies and pictures of animals to &C., company the text. The sutoblogrsphi cal article, with the valuable unpublisb- ed drawings, will appear in the Christ mas Journal, Eether with portraits of Rosa Bonheur as she works in her studio and home.
 Should Dr. Stephen H. Emmens per feet his process for turning silver into gold, the bimetallists will be people without creed or calling and the gold standard will prove satisfactory to all. l In an article on pr. Stephens discovery. the National Recorder says: "When | everything that has been published op the subJect is boiled down it appears { that the discovery clsimed is & method | of disassocisting the molecular consti- | tuition of silver solely by physical power; then it is resolved into its ultimate state of atomic division, and, finally by the same force and without the use of che- mical agents, the substance thus ob tained is reassembled into metal that answers all tests for gold. In this pro- cess about one quarter of the silver is lost, but in spite of this lose Dr. Elm meme estimates bis profit as S3 on every ounce of silver converted into gold.