Arizona republican., 1898-07-05
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The Doings of People and Other Matters.

A letter was received yesterday from MT. James A. Fleming describing the further development of the Black Warrior at Globe. The ore body in sight is twenty-two feet high and fifty-five feet wide. It is estimated to contain 100000 tons, worth $10 a ton.
 The bicycle races, high dive and all the sports of the programme at the park yesterday will take place today at 2:30 o'clock sharp. The entries stand as they are. The prizes have all been bought and paid for. The grand stand was packed yesterday with 800 persons.
 Harry Beatty and Frank Chase, the former lately pressman and the latter bookkeeper for the H. H. McNeil com pany, are among the members of the Phoenix company which leaves to- night. Both are among the most pop ular young men in town and each has a large circle Of lady admirers.
 In the list of wounded before San tiago last Friday the name of Major A. W. Corliss appears. Major Corliss was quite we'll known in Arizona He was stationed at Fort McDowe1l for four years and was a member of c company. At his request COrliss White, son of Mrs. Shipp, was named after him.
 Among the applicants for enlistment last Saturday was a white haired old man. He was told that he was too old He replied that he could walk as far, carry as heavy load and shoot as straight as any man in Arizona. What more could the government want of a soldier? But the regulation re- garding age was insuperable and the applicant was denied. As the old man turned away tears were running down his cheek.
 The display in many of the show windows on Washington and other business streets yesterday was mag niicent. Goldberg Bros. window contained a fleet constructed of fire works which were afterward given away. There was left in the window a tin battleship representing the Maine. It lay under drowning walls Of a Moro castle, also built of tin. Other attractive windows were those
  pany, Talbot & Hubbard, Ben L. Bear and the W. A. Watts company. The decorations of the New York store and P. T. Hurley were magnificent.
 There was a pleasant meeting of the volunteers at B company's armory last night There was no end Of beer, cigars and sandwiches. The first was contributed by Louis Melczer, the ci- gars by Sam Seip and the sandwiches by Coffee Al. The meeting was kept up until a, late hour: feature Of It was an eloquent address by Captain Russell. Quartermaster Sergeant Nib lock suggests to the people of Phoenix who may be desirous of serving their country that some of the boys going out are in need of certain supplies which they are too poor to buy. The ouartermaster sergeant says thax II these things are turned over to him ne will distribute them among those who need them most. Yesterday he made a collection of blankets and turned them over to the ladies Of the Red Cross society.
 The most exciting spot in Phoenix yesterday was the alley in the rear Of the Anheuser saloon, where all the fighting men of the city congregated and had it out There was one bloody incident Eger Jones, a cowboy, and a youth named Fred Hyde, known as the Alligator Kid, came in contact: Jones bit half of Hyde's left ear oil and before he could be arrested he es- caped from town. A warrant was is sued for his arrest and officers spent the afternoon and evening looking for him. They went out to the residence of his parents west of town, but be- fore they arrived there he had gone and they could obtain no trace Of him. The greatest conflict of the day oc- cured between a cow-puncher named Riley, better known as "One Eyed Riley" and all the living members oi the Cline family. MT. Riley kept one or another of the Clines getting uI from the ground all the time until they recognized the futility of getting up at all as long as MT. Riley was in I the vicinity. When the fight was l over MT. Riley expressed a regret that ] the Cline family was not bigger. He believed that he could handle about l seventeen more of them.