Arizona republican., 1898-04-18

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 Other Matters.
 The churches were all well attended yesterday.
 Deputy Sheriff Charlie Slankard was able to be at his post yesterday after 1 a week of severe illness.
 Count the number Of young and old men on the streets these days wearing the roses of springtime in their button holes.
 Frank Hogan, who for the past year has been head waiter at Coffee AIS. has been advanced to the position of steward.
 The summer exodus 10 the mountain and sea bids fair to delay itself this year until fall sets in. No more de- lightful and bearable climate could be asked than this of April
 Asking citizens for news items these days and expecting satisfactory replies is a disappointing process. The na- tion itself is in their eyes and in their minds, and the only Iews they know | is war.
 Yesterday the roads out from the city were liberally traveled, and every liveryman in town blessed the rain of Friday evening for settling the dust Good roads mean increased demand for livery teams.
 Dr. H. B. Stroud yesterday received notice of his appointment as surgeon of the Maricopa & Phoenix & Salt River Valley railroad to succeed the late Dr. Helm, since whose death the office has been vacant
 W. J. Wiant of Marion. O., who has spent the last three months in Phoe- nix for his health, left last night for home. He is SO well pleased with the country that he will return early next fall with his family and will go into business.
 The real Arfzonfan despises the um- brella- He is superstitious about it. firmly believing that an umbrella brought out into public view shuts off the chance of rain. Umbrellas were not known in Arizona until late very late in the nineteenth century. One of our prominent attorneys was congratulating himself Saturday even ing on the fact that he had been for tunate in a certain percentage Of his supreme court cases this term, at the same time admitting that he had lost the cases he had felt sure of winning, while those he had won were a sur prise to him in the winning.
 A man named Davis was engaged yesterday in enlisting the sympathy of the police and deputy sheriffs. He is also trying to secure their co-opera- tion in the recovery of a S180 watch. which he thinks was stolen from him in the block on Saturday night A considerable part of that night he was in such a condition that it could have been stolen from him with little risk of detection.
 County Recorder F. w Sheridan returned yesterday afternoon from his cattle range on the Verde sixty miles north of the city where rodeo is new going on. There are about six days more riding. MT. Sheridan thinks he will get about 150 or 200 head of cattle out of this roundup. The ranges, he says, along the river are getting a lit tie short, but back in the hills the pasture is very good
 A gentleman who is here from Kan sas City thinks that an establishment for canning tomatoes should be a sue cess in this locality. At Las Cruces N. M, the factory there shipped tC | points north and south twenty-five carloads of canned tomatoes last year. | If it can be done there it seems reason | able that the Salt River valley can | do equally as well. putting up peas. corn and small fruit at the same time. The physicians O. Phoenix report | that there is a mournful falling off in 1 sickness at present Only few eases | of scarlet fever are known, and a too, | too healthy condition prevails. This | is said to be inconsistent with the un- plethoric shape of the medico's purse. ! One doctor stated yesterday that if it were not for the sickness and disease coming in on trains daily, the frater- nifty would starve. There Is no local disease. or sickness here.
 Mir Ben Laub of Louisville, Ky, who has spent the winter m town, left last night with his family for Los Angeles. After brief stay there they will re- turn to Louisville MT Laub came | here early in the winter and was | joined by his family MT. Laub says he leaves Phoenix with regret, for the winter is one of the most pleasant he has ever passed. While he does not wish to be compelled to return to Phoe- nix for his health, he hopes that he
 may often revisit it for pleasure One of the queer sights to the ob-
 server yesterday afternoon was beau tifully dressed lady digniiedly walking
 along Washington street with a huge | bouquet of roses in one hand while
 she tightly held to her person with the
 other a somewhat large package
 wrapped in newspaper. Somehow tht dampness had caused the paper tt
 separate from one end of the packagr
 and one neck and two bottoms of wha
 looked suspiciously like beer bottles
 were plainly disclosed. Roses enc
 beer? A new fad.
 Uncle Tom Byers of this city is
 natural genius in many ways. Re
 gently he has turned his attention t
 wood carving and has turned cut som
 beautiful designs on mesquite. Rat l in Jotvu