Arizona republican., 1896-02-09
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 Arizona chess tournament will undoubtedly be started tomorrow night at the rooms of the Maricopa club.
 The Republican League club at its meeting last night transacted uni1n- portant routine business and ad- journed to again meet three weeks hence.
 Forty carloads of prime valley cattle have been gathered up by Buyer John son and will be shipped to Chicago during this week. The first train of ten cars goes out Monday night in charge of c. E. Bull.
 The ladies of the Christian church are preparing to serve chicken dinners in the Gardiner block each day during the carnival Those who have par ticipated of their dinners in the past will appreciate this bit of news, for they always give the best spread in the city.
 Sixy-fve Mystic Shriners left Los Angeles yesterday morning and are expected to arrive in Phoenix this af- ternoon They will be royalty vel comed by local brethren of the square and compass. Tomorrow, it is under stood, will be given a humorous pa rade typical of the journey of the faith ful across the desert.
 Albuquerque Citizen: The people of Phoenix, Arizona, are holding prelim- mary meetings and making arrange ments for the holding of the National Irrigation congress next December. New Mexico will join Arizona in the good work and our people will do all in their power to help make the congress a benefit to the arid region.
 D. W. F. Carver, the greatest of liy- ing shots, arrived yesterday with sev- eral carloads of horses and parapher- nalia and will establish himself at Phoenix park, giving eight exhibitions, commencing Monday, February IT. He has with him a half dozen trained horses who are said to be superior in their performances to any other equines known and the doctor is a show, and good one, in himself
 The fruit growers of the valley held a meeting yesterday afternoon at the chamber of commerce rooms and agreed to form a Fruitgrowers' union to here start wholesale shipping bus mess and retail store during the time of fruit crops, wherein the public might be dealt with without the aid of middlemen and where quality would be the first consideration. The organiza- 'tion will be effected next Saturday.
 Tucson Star: An unerring barom- eter of prosperity in a country where gambling is a legal occupation is the business done by the gaming tables Tucson is certainly on a boom, for it has become a mecca of the gambling fraternity. They come from various points, but mostly from Phoenix where they say the business of the tables is in a sad condition. Among the late ar rivals is 'fCariboo" Brown perhaps the oldest and best known gambler on the coast.
 The committee of five appointed al the meeting Monday night to report the names of fifteen members of a To- cal council of administration for the coming session of the irrigation con- gress have performed that portion ot the work to it intrusted. For the consideration of the report a second public meeting has been called at the city hall "Wednesday evening, Febru- ary 12, after which date responsibility