Arizona republican., 1898-04-23

Sheriff Orme yesterday appointed 0. c. Smith of Tempe general deputy sheriff.
 The summer theater season was op- ened at the park last night by the pre- sentation of Ruth" to a large audi ence. The play was given for the beneft of the free library.
 The movement of cattle still cSntip- ues. Tomorrow J. w. Sullivan will ship five cars from Glendale to llu-ch- inson, Kan, by the Santa Fe. The next day Ed Peck will ship twelve cars from the same point to La Junta.
 w. L. Hathaway, former district manager of the Mutual Life Insurance company in Phoenix, has been offered the general agency for Arizona and New Mexico to succeed W. E. Harper, resigned. The headquarters will be at Albuquerque.
 Elders Walter B. Lewis and George F. Ellsworth, assisted by F. T. Pom eroy and Lafayette Dana, will hold Mormon services at the opera house in Phoenix on Sunday morning at 10 a. m. and ? p. m- The public is cor dially invited to attend
 A special came down from Prescott yesterday afternoon having on board President Murphy of the S. F. P. &P., G. M. Sargent, general freight and pas senger agent; W. A. Drake, chief engi- neer; H. c. Storey, trainmaster; MT. B. B. Gage and Arthur N. Gage The party will return this afternoon
 The excavation for the paving Of Washington street was finished on the south side yesterday and the business of putting in decomposed rock was commenced. It is so much of an eXca- vation that people who stood around and watched it feared that the council was going to construct a subway
 D. A. Abrams was exhibiting couple of bulletins yesterday, one from Washington and the other from Ha- vana, addressed to himself. The last read: "All regimental bands playing ''There1l be hot time in old town tonight The Washington bulletin states briefly bands playing 'Jno get your gun
 Among the reminiscence exposed to the warlike atmosphere yesterday was an old, but well preservd flint-lock musket in one of the windows of the Phoenix National bank. Under it was the inscription '1776-1S9S; carried in the revolutionary war by the ancestors of Hon. James A. Fleming" The gun was made in 1747.
 'The Tea and Coffee Expert" monthly New York journal devoted to the retail grocery business, in it's latest issue prints interior views of one of PhoeniX's stores and says: We have another unusually interesting number this month for our readers. The illustrations are very striking and to the point. The photo of the interior of an Arizona store is particu- larly interesting, and shows that even at that remote point stores can be found far ahead of many to be seen near home''
 J. V. Edwards came ill from Mari copa yesterday morning. He js now certain that war is on, because he saw thirty cars pulled by two engines go- ing 'lickety-split" through Maricopa the night before, loaded down with sol diers, guns, cannon and other military arrangements. Maricopa is fully alive HOW to the situation, and MT. Ed wards asserts with somewhat the ear nestness of municipal authority fhat his town will not be behind Phoenix or other places in Arizona uf her size when the call for quotas is made.
 The most warlike place in Phoenix now is the entrance to the city hall, decorated yesterday by City Assessor I Aon ir the cornice over the main entrance. The doorway to the executive cham bers is festooned with another and the doorway of the secretary's rooms is enwrapped in bunting. The as sessor caused a Cuban flag to be painted and it hangs from a ; central chandelier. There is a myriad Of lesser flags and the whole decoration is set off by colored patriotic pictures from Puck and Judge.
 Patricia Mettendorf, a little girl of the West End school, died on ThIrsd ay night under peculiar circumstances. Her death is believed to have resulted rom eating mulberries. She was at school on Wednesday, but the follow ing morning was attacked by what was believed to be cholera morbus and dled in great pain that night. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon. Mulberries in themselves are healthful enough if ripe and picked from the tree. Children eat them ripe and green 1ndiscriminately. They knock them from the tree with sticks and pick them out Of any kind of dirt into which they happen to fall
 George Buxton has just received a report Of a successful experiment which has been made too late to be of any advantage this season, but from which fruit Taissrs and dealers may profit next year. Not long ago he shipped box Of strawb rries to Ch.- cago. They were ripe at the time of shipment, but were sound. They reached their destina, ion in good or der Very early berries bring almost fabulous prices in the north, but t is almost impossible to get them Some have been shipped from California. but they are always shipped green, and