Arizona republican., 1896-07-18
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Happenings of Streets and Town.
  Epitome of the City's Local
 Intelligence.
The Doings of Day In Phen'x ana It's Tributary Region.

looking up the printing for the next general election and preparing for that great event, for which candidates are not yet even nominated.
 The Adams hotel walls are now com plete as far as the top of the second story and the work is rapidly progress ing that the structure may be complete and ready in time for the fall rush of arrivals.
 Secretary McMillan of the local com mittee of the National Irrigation con- gress, has established his office with Thos. Armstrong. Jr., in the Elem ing building, and is now taking hold with all vigor of the preliminary work of advertising the coming session.
 The Santa Fe train from the north arrived last night about g o'clock, the delay from the usual arriving time of 3 being caused by the necessity of run ming carefully and by the fact that to the passenger train had necessarily been given large amount of the de- layed freight for haulage.
 Northern Arizona. thanks to the north and south road, and to its low excursion rates, is this year getting a
 
 nix. Flagstaff especially would be the gainer in summer if its people would offer the proper inducements to visitors and would arrange for their reception and comfort on arrival.
 Youngstrom & Welch, the plumbers, are removing their location from the cellar of the Fleming building to the building opposite the Ford hotel in the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Hyde. They have added to the firm William Wheeler, an expert mechanic, formerly with Coon brothers, and will enlarge their business to considerable extent
 Janitor Harry Troops denies that the failure to place signal weather bureau flags over the city hall has been due to anything save his disinclination to report daily to the weather bureau of flee for the reports. He states he is willing to place the flags, but will not go after the reports. In the mean time the city remains ignorant of the mutations of the weather.
 This afternoon at 2 w. o. O'Neill ot Prescott will speak at the court house on the subject of "The Reclamation ot the Arid Region MT. O'Neill has drafted a bill for presentation to con- gress that will, he and many others feel assured, serve to provide the funds for the expansion of the cultivated area of the Uniop, enlisting the as sistance of the general government yet providing for the repayment oi such funds as may be appropriated by congress.
 Yesterday the weather was marked by lowered thermometer and by z violent west wind about D. m., fol lowed by a sharp dash of rain Throughout the evening the showers continued, the wet spell giving al promise of continuance The road: are again avenues of mud and tht prospect for farmers and for busi ness seems to improve with ever! drop. The storm was peculiar in th' direction from which it came, rair rarely being known from that quarter The river is not at flood, but is hold ing up well and the canals are full O water
 The melon shipping trade is now al important one in Phoenix, the melon going to every point of the compass Yesterday a shipment was made b. Buxton to the unlikely point of Saf ford, in the upper Gila valley, a poin