The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-07-30
CITY SUNBEAMS,

Examine millinery at hoSeIS' Irea' reduction in prices.
 The swine plague is still raging ir ,be Salt River Valley.
 ! Nj. Dennis, the Williams sawnill man was in town yesterday.
 Charles Canall left yesterday for a v,rh's visit to Los Angeles, Cal.
 Furnished rooms to reut-lnquire al r,. residence of E. Attig. on Phoenix avenue.
 >lr,iR Cameron returned Tuesday from trip to the Verde. Jerome and Prescott.
 The A. X P. railroad have opened the telegraph freight and ticket office 4, ChalIcnder, and & postoffico will .oor lr established there.
 The southern Pacific company is d,,charging all the Chollos employed on that road through Arizona and ia filing their places with Indians.
 Ridge Price came in Tuesday night from Phoenix to enjoy the breath of the pines and many other blessings un- known in the Salt River Valley.
 The people of Satfold, Graham r,nnty. have succeeded in raising a f,nd of S6.0OO for the building of a court house and securing the county .ear.
 >L. Steve May, of Phoe nix. has quit ,,,kirn saudwichs and hot coffee, and i, m Iresthing the mountain breezes Of racsIaf. He will stay in the north ill the icicles begin to bloom. .....
 Th,. san Bernardino Steam Laundry do,. G,,t class work at reasonable r,i,., G. II. Coffin is the agent. and will send your laundry on Monday Of each week and it will be returned on Saturdays.
 The inaugural ball of the Grand Canyon Hotel promises to be the social event of the season. The ball will take place on the night of August 7tb, and good music and a good time are promised
 Emmett Reid. the sprinter, Is Tn FlaystafI ou a vacation. He says the road from Phoenix to Flagstaff is ralhcr rough for rapid travelling. but those who seem to know say that he camC up by train.
 The A. & P. railroad company are still reducing their force of men. At Williams nineteen men were let oui last week, and number at WinslOw. iu back places the machine shop forces have been reduced.
 It is possible that in a short while government sampling works will be erected at Nogales at cost of not less ,han s1O,O0O. A late appropriation by congress set aside s46.OO for three governmeu, works, one at Fl Paso and inc other two on the northern bound ary.
 It has always been claimed that il was impossible to flash photographic signals across any stretch of country Ii there was any precipitation between the two instruments. Sergeant Cor don of the heliograph station at Bisbet successfully flashed signals to the Sill yer Creek range few days ago dur ing dense rain storm. -.
 The A. & P. railroad is offering special excursion rates to the coast fol thc summer months. The round trii from Flagstaff. tickets being good fol 90 days with stay-over. privileges al San Bernardiuo. to Los Angeles Santa Monica. Redondo Beach and Sar Diego is only SSl %.
 A camping party of four young fel' lows arrived in the city from Phoenix Monday morning. They are Charle: Richmond, Will Orine, George Lorins and William Mcl,ridr, well-knoN and popular boys in the valley. The, are out for two months and will take in all the points of attraction to tour ists, They left for the Grand Canyon on Wednesday,.
 T. C. Norris. who i,as just returned from Flagslatl, says that never during the ehtire period of his residence ir Arizuua has he seen such a growth oI grass and other vegetation as there has been during the past few weeks all over ilr northern, part of the terri