Arizona republican., 1898-06-27
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS.
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdl Local Interest.
News of phOSnix and Tributary Re-
 zion. The Doings Of PeOpIe and e Other Matters.

"To the park" was the wat.hwcrd of Phoenix all day yesterday.
 Judge w. H. Sti1lwell left last night | for Washington to report for duty as paymaster.
 The man who frets most about the heat is the one who consults the ther- 1 mometer most.
 There will be meeting of the Young Mems Republican club tonight. Busi- ness of importance is to come up. Dewey crackers and Manila bombs | will furnish Phoenix with noiss enough in seven days.
 The man who will start buttermilk l fountain in Phoenix will be recognized as it's greatest temperance advocate. To those who make no effort to keep up with the calendar the store windows furnish evidence of the near approach of the glorious Fourth. Miss Grace Lockwood of the Chase Daniels company left last night for her home in Chicago, having been summoned on account of the serious Illness of her sister.
 Because it was Sunday it was no | J c. and the person who said this was in formed that his argument was not based on good foundation.
 Richmond P. Hobson, the hero of Santiago bay, is cousin of Rufus w. Pearson of this city, now with the Rough Riders" He is also a nephew 1 of Congressman Pearson of Tennessee. A stranger in Arizona asked yester- l day morning if it was the heat that l caused dogs to bark all night long | One of the leading men of Phoeniy l made answer that it was caused by a dereliction of duty on the part of the dog officers.
 | Wall street has not furnished a sen sational argument for many weeks. One of the great debaters of that | forum remarked yesterday, Somehow we appear to have lost somebody or something and we are at a loss to ac- l count for the absence. Perhaps it is simply that the heat has affected us"
 In an account of the Rough Riders who fell in the fight near Santiago last Thursday, The Republican yesterday morning mentioned one of them, Cor poral White, and stated that he was uOSulA DOy anu Hdd U~SLi employed by the Sunset Telephone company. An acquaintance of his yes terday corrected that statement. Cor poral White was another person, a member of the Tenth cavalry.
 While war is going on abroad and politics are claiming considerable at tention throughout the territory, there are plenty of evidences that the min ing industry is quietly pushing itself. Scarcely day passes that the busi- ness houses of Phoenix are not pack ing material for camps in the hills, and without purpose Of advertising men coming to town give good ac- lcounts of properties not far distant now showing promisingly under de- velopment.
 It seems to be a difficult matter for some people here to realize that Phoe- nix is city. There was fire on Center street Wednesday night. il would have taken about half hour to | clean off the debris from the sidewalk Here it is Monday morning and the people of the city having occasion to ? use that lively thoroughfare are obliged to get out into the middle ol the road to avoid the wreckage. The question is being asked, is there a city ordinance relating to such a matter?
 Crowds were at the Phoenix park all
 day yesterday and while the nata- torium walls were stretched to the limit to accommodate the hundreds O1 bathers, there was shade and comfort
 in plenty on the outside around the grounds. The only disappointment O. the day was brought about through [ the failure of Professor Eberhardt': band to put in an appearance. It wa. reported that this failure was in conse
 quence of the disruption of the orga nization. MT. Pratt, the manager O the street railway company, regretted the failure of music, but inasmuch a the pleasures of the day were not par ticularly marred, the regret can b.
 put on record to his credit.
 One may walk the streets of Phoe
 nix from end to end and crosswise
 stopping to listen to the topic of con
 versation of every group of citizens
 and hear all sorts of things of interes
 during the day. Opinions are freel
 expressed regarding the war, it's man
 agement and progress; about navie
 and their makeup; the rise and ia
 of empires; the fallacy of bulletins
 the funny ways of the Herald; tn
 latest case in court, and SO on, bu
 chere is only one time and one place i c town where base ball is talked at al oJ From 11:30 p. m. until 12:30 a. m. z
 Coffee AIS restaurant, the gang
 gathered and the world at large is shr
 out. There is Hogan, King, Mollo s, and one or two more, and betwee
 swallows of hot coffee and nibbles (
 substantials, one hears all about re-
 ords, averages, percentages and ever,
 thing else connected with the willo
 and the sphere.
 (. Isom Ayres. colored, is in troub > again. A few days ago a couple