Arizona republican., 1896-12-17
BITS OF LOCAL NEWS.

Despite the fact that the city is filled with strangers no arrests have been made for peace disturbances or other infractions of the law. This is noted by the visitors, who favorably com ment on the orderly appearance of the city.
 One of the features of the late cleo tion of chief at the Papago reservation was big feast by the retiring chief, to not only the reservation Indians, but about 900 tribesmen from the out side. The feast was given at night, and consisted of chile con carne, pumpkin and beans. The piece de re- sistance was beans. Of this delicacy there was no less than fifteen ollas full, squaw presiding over each olla.
 James Griffin in addition to being a clever young man, is an embryo de- tective. A few days ago he went to Congress and Fools Gulch with a stock of clothing. While at Congress he had an excellent assortment of pants and other useful articles of wear ing apparel on display. Two wander ing hobos stole seven pairs of the trousers. MT. Griffin had customer who was particularly interested in se- lecting a line of check pants, but the keen eyes of the salesman noticed that the pile of clothing had dwindled. He started on their trail and within twenty minutes Griffin located his men and from their persons hauled to light six pairs of check pants. One pair was missing, but the detective soon located the trousers in the grave yard. The thieves were taken to Prescott and the stolen pants returned to the owner
 Dix w. Smith, one of the best known attorneys in the state of New York and about the best informed on irrigation matters, who is in the city as irrigation congress representative from the Empire state, was agreeably surprised to find Phoenix such pleas ant place and he thinks the climate is wonderful In regard to the irri- gation congress, MT. DiX stated yester- day in the convention that he had the pleasure last week of spending a day in company with President-elect Mckinley, who authorized him to say before the national irrigation con- gress that he sends cordial greeting to the convention and all efforts put forth by the body in the cause of ir- rigation has his best wishes, and that during his administration anything that would come before him for the interests of the west would receive his closest scrutiny and attention.
 H. N. Gardiner of Orange, Califor- mia, is in the city and has on exhibi. tion at the headquarters of the irriga. tiOn congress a contrivance that is at tracing much attention from farmers and those interested in irrigation. Il is an automatic water gate for use il canals for the purpose of delivering { steady and even flow of water. Int box is provided with two gates, ont in front and one in the rear. Int water flows through small orifice ant rises to the level of another orifc, near the top of the box, the overflov falling into another box. If an un usual flow of water enters the bo, the pressure releases a spring whicl operates gate in the mouth of tn box and no matter how much water i in the canal the same amount cal only flow through the gate It is al invention that engineers have beel working on for years. A Californi man named Beale is the inventor.