Arizona republican., 1896-08-05
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL, Happenings of Streets and Town. Epitome of the City'S Local
 Intelligence. The DoinRs of a Day In Phcen'x and
 It's Tributary
 Region.

Commencing today the street rail way company will take off one car during the daytime, leaving two cars running.
 Reports from the north say that it has been raining very heavily and prospects good for continuance Of the storm.
 Fay Knowlton now has his bicycle shop open to the public. He carries a good line of wheels for rent and is fully equipped for doing repair work.
 Deputy United States Marshal John Slankard yesterday arrested Mexican named Antonio Oehoa at Tempe on the charge of selling liquor to Indians. He will be arraigned by Commissioner Crenshaw this morning.
 Robert F'romm, chief of the. fire de- partment, will leave today for Salt Lake City to attend the convention of the fire chiefs of the United States. The city council donated $100 to help pay his expenses on the trip.
 Col. c. D. Poston in a lengthy com munication to the city council com nicipaI police force had stolen his
 
 communication on the table.
 A. A. Long, Mark Long, Selim Nicholson and Sol Levi returned yes terday from three days fishing ex- cursion at the head of the Arizona canal. They report having a good time and caught plenty of fish, but none were in sight when they re- turned.
 At meeting of the city council Mon day night an ordinance was passed inn posing a tax of SS per quarter on those people doing business in Maricopa county and outside of Phoenix, but so- liciting patronage within the city linn its. The tax will be imposed in order to protect those paying licenses in the city.
 The river commenced rising yester- day morning and by noon was past fording. Yesterday evening a man and woman attempted to cross at Tempe with a buggy, but the vehicle was caught in the quicksand and wrecked. The woman was nearly drowned before she was rescued. The river at last accounts was higher than at any time this summer.
 "Under the Gaslight'' is still the at traction at the park theater and will be for the balance of the week. The threatening weather has interfered with the attendance, but those who attend are well pleased with the show and the people forming the company.
 Probate Judge Grouse yesterday set aside a homestead for the family of the late Thos. Jones of Lehi.
 Talk about hot weather in Phoenix, why, it is cool here compared with some eastern cities. An exchange from Frankfort, Ky, says that it was 98 in the shade there few days ago and that people were positively suffer- ing. With the thermometer lowering in the nineties in the east it is much more oppressive than it is here at 12O degrees on account of the rarified at mosphere of this climate.
 J. M. Clemens is the ranger who hails from the verdant hills around Prescott that reported to the police Monday that a Frenchwoman named Leo robbed him of a purse containing $175 Sunday night. The woman was arrested and her trial set for yester- day afternoon, but when the hour ar rived Clemens, the complaining wit ness, was non est. The reason was learned a little later when a telegram from Prescott reached the sherif's office to place Coleman under arrest as he was wanted on a charge of rob bery committed in Yavapai county