Arizona republican., 1896-11-18

Nutshell-Doings of People and Other Matters.
 Ideal November weather. Don't it? The county roads near Mesa are be- ing improved.
 The population increases as the win ter months draw near.
 Considerable grain is being sown south and east of Mesa.
 Thanksgiving turkey and Democrat ic crows are already on the market. The Indian boys proved the best kickers in the football game yesterday. Manager Cook and small force of men left for the Union mine yesterday. Prescott lodge No. IA A. o. U. w., will give a grand ball on New Years eve.
 A trip awheel over the pretty road to Tempe is one of the delights of life in this section.
 A dance will be given Thanksgiving night at the Fowler school house on the Yuma road.
 The Prescott Courier is pleading for cordwood on subscription. Must be quite chilly up there.
 Governor Franklin will deliver the address of welcome at the opening of the irrigation congress.
 Fort Lowell, the abandoned military reservation, will be sold by the United States land officers at Tucson today. The ladies of the First Methodist church will open home market next Saturday in the store of the Phoenix Grocery company. J. H. Hicks, the Tempe cattleman, was in the city yesterday. He is pre- pairing to make heavy shipment Of cattle to the coast.
 The police force will not be in- creased as the mayor and council con- sider that the city is amply protected with the present force.
 w. S. Adams of the Arizona Mining News is a candidate for the position o1 chief clerk of the Nineteenth legis- lative assembly of Arizona.
 The Ell Paso Tribune reports that J Williams, formerly a section hand in Arizona, is lying in hospital at that z place, very low with phthisis.
 A minstrel company of local talent has been organized and on Friday night will appear at the opera house for the criticism of the public.
 A couple of wildly intoxicated Mexi cans shot up the town at Prescott the other day and the fire department haC to be called out to subdue them.
 The creamery building on Jackson street and Second avenue is about com pleted and the machinery is being in stalled. The place will be in operation in about two weeks.
 The Maricopa & Phoenix train dit not arrive from the south yesterda. until 2 o'clock The delay was caused on the main line, the passenger train . being sidetracked to allow specia trains to pass.
 The construction of the Adams hote having been seriously retarded by tn large number of visitors, the announce ment is made that there will be ''n, admittance" until the building is read, for occupancy.
 The w. C. T. U. reading room, re gently opened, has already demon strated that it is just what the publi needed. The place is well patronize, day and night by, those who find tim dragging heavily on them.
 The members of the Ladies' Aid so ciety of the First Baptist church ar building highly upon the success c their musical and literary entertain ment, announced to occur at tn church Friday evening.
 The long lost sisters of Milady Sholt Douglass are the attraction eXtraoI dinary at the Palace. They appear i the soberest drawing room attire, sin severely staid songs, and are ever S coy and modest in demeanor.
 Sylvester Miller yesterday filed SUI for divorce in the district court fro1 his wife, Arizona Miller. The con plainant alleges that the woman deser ed him without cause. Three childre are the issue of their welded life
 The present board of supervisors few months ago purchased a tract ( thirty acres of land for poor farm an the county hospital was to have bee removed thither. The new board, is understood, will not remove the ho pital.
 The reports continually reachir here that the Gila river is teemir