Arizona republican., 1898-04-29
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

P. J. Cole is reported quite ill at tn,
 Vekol mines south of Casa Grande.
 Charles SMgster, a Los Angelo. l contractor, arrived in town yesterday
 morning with ninety-six mules whict
 he has engaged pasture for until {
 new contract calls for their use
 The annual convention of the w. c T. U. of the territory was begun yes | terday afternoon at the First Baptist | church and will be in session today
 The first half of the programme was ] a very interesting one.
 The orange crop in the valley this l season will be more than double thai l of a year ago. That much is assured for the fruit is already set The trees
 were never so heavily laden as now and it seems probable that some of
 them will be unable to sustain the1r burdens. A great many new orchards are coming into bearing this season There will be a festival of roses at the First M. B. church tonight | under the auspices of the Epworth League. The church will be decorated in a beautiful manner, a fine pro- gramme will be rendered and light re- | treatments served. All the roses from the famous Bartlett ranch near Glen dale, and from many of the finest rose gardens in and around Phoenix, roses everywhere.
 William H. Roehr of Bucyrus, O., died in this city yesterday morning after a residence here of nearly g year. He came here accompanied by his sister-1n-law and was later joined by another sister. During his stay
 here he made many friends He was
 a member Of the Elks, which order
 will escort the remains to the depot
 for shipment to Ohio at 6:3O this
 evening. MT. Roehr was a member
 of a firm extensively engaged in the
 manufacture of office furniture and fixtures.
 War has been formally declared
 three days. It has been in actual op-
 eration ten days, but up to yesterday evening only two casualties were defi- nitely known to have occurred. A soldier actor was stabbed in Chicago for wearing a Spanish uniform and a man was hit in the face in Phoenix last Sunday for taking liberties with an American flag. There was of course yesterday a rumor of a slaugh- ter of 100 Spaniards at Matanzas, but that was a bulletin story and is not confirmed.
 Articles of incorporation of the
 Doyle-Denniston Furnace company were filed in the office of the county recorder yesterday. The incorporators
 are Austin G. Denniston, Francis J.
 Doyle, Henry L. Scheuerman and Henry W. Mayer. The capital stock is $5,000,000 and Phoenix is men toned as the principal place of busi- ness. A branch office will be main tained at Denver. The object of the incorporation is the manufacture of furnaces for producing heat, power and light, and for the manufacture of mining and smelling machinery. Ollie Webb died a tthe asylum yes terday morning at Il o'clock. She had been taken to the institution only the day before. She was first con- mitted about a month ago. Her mind was weakened by the long and ex- cessive use of whisky and morphine. She was so greatly benefited by her stay that she was released, but she re- lapSed almost as soon as she re- turned to town. The police again took charge of her and she was sent back. Her funeral will take place al Il o'clock today. Her friends are
 making an effort to send her body tc California for burial. She was about 35 years old and had lived in Phoenix | nearly all her life.
 Extensive arrangements have beer
 made for the picnic to be given by the
 M. B. church south Sunday school which will be held Saturday at the | Phoenix park. Mr. Pratt has kindly
 given a one-half fare rate on the street
 cars to all the Sunday school children
 not only to the above named church
 but to all the children of other schools
 who wish to attend. There will be { large number of visitors, as the schoo
 has invited the friends of all the | ether schools in the city, Come ant enjoy the day with them. All who
 wish to take advantage of the eX | cursion rates are to gather at thu | church, corner of Center and Monro' streets, at 10 o'clock. The cars star 1 from Center street at 10:15 prompt and return at 4:30.
 | A special came down from Prescott last night with President Murphy O
 the s. F. P. & F., Chief Engineer w
 A. Drake, MT. Simon J. Murphy of De troit and his son, William H. Murphy
 MT. Murphy and son will visit Mesa to day. President Murphy accompanied b! | MT. E. w. Chambers, general freigh agent of the Southern California rail way, will leave for the north on spe cial this morning. MT. Chamber
 took a forty mile drive yesterday as
 companied by MT. Sargent and MT I Gillett. They visited that part of tn
 valley lying north, northwest ant
 west of the city. MT. Chambers ha
 now seen the greater part of the culti 1 vated portion of the valley and is en thusiastic over the future of this re zion.
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