Arizona republican., 1898-02-07
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of Dayin Phoenix and It's Tributary Region Presented In Nutshell-Dofngs of People and Other Matters.

A carload of caulifiower will go cut this week to Chicago. The car should be labeled: This car IS loaded with Salt River valley caulifiower."
 Glance at the weathar record and sand a copy of The Republican c-n- taining it to some eastern friend. It speaks volumes, that very same record.
 Architect Gregg has completed sev- eral archi ,ecturaI designs. One of these is of a hotel designed for Globe, | which is making a new start on pres perity lane.
 Providence has brough, tcg ther in Phoenix two one-legged men, one with the right and the other with the left leg missing. They give exhioi- tions of tandem riding.
 The cement walks on Fira. street and First avenue will be compile, ed this week. These improvements will mean increased business with mer- chants who are located on the reetS named.
 Billy Evans, an old time mining man from the northern part of the terri tory. is in Phoenix. MT. Evans owns three claims in the Walnut Grove dis trict, which are said to be very rich in copper and gold.
 Died, February 6, Margaret Cris- well, wife of Samuel Cr:swell, aged 69 years months and 16 days. The funeral will take place this afte noon at o'clock from the residence, one door from the corner of Lincoln and California stre cts.
 Bob Doll, the owner of the Gia Mon- ster mine, will start in operation the ten-stamp mill now on the prem ses very soon. Rec:nt developments in the ore have been very promising MT. Doll feels safe in expending a little money on the proposition.
 The boys of B company, N. G. A., gre making extensive preparation for the masquerade ball to be given by them on the nigh Of February 14. They hope to sell at least 150 tickets and they are deserving of a liberal patronage. The tickets will be sold at s1, ladies admitted frae. The management will require that ali masks be raised at the door.
 Joseph Pratt yesterday gre eyed a letter from George TOu:ey of New | York, general manager of the Ang O.
  1 hat he expected 10 visit Phoenix soon, when it is possible that arrangem5 5nts may be made to resume work on the company's grounds in this valley. A part of the land not occupied by the cultivation of canaigre is now being sown to wheat.
 A larger crowd than ever a tended the Pioneer band concert at the city ', ,,1n dow EN Aver | thing pleased the audience eXcsp. the size of the programme, which was no. long enough, but tha- YVES easily managed by the band by adding ttree CT four other selections. '"The Trip to Coney Island," an exceedingly com plex number, was ma significantly h. dered, as was also a ccrne. duet and a bass solo.
 A Fresno (C3D newspaper, com meniting upon a report from Wash 1 ington that warship is to be sent to | the island of Samoa to punish the natives for the destru ction of a mis- sion founded there by an Arizonan i says the rumor is not founded on rehson. In the first place if an Ari- zonan had been wronged he would not ask for a warship as long as his own
  1 the next place Arizonans do not run 70 the establishment of missions A Mexican named Serrano was cut on the hand yesterday by a colored bootblack named Scott at a North First street barber shop. Scott was arrested. There are two stories about he cutting. Scott says it was done ir fun and unintentionally. He said he
 
 when Serran no caught the knife blade in his hand. Serrano says Scot pur- posely aimed the knife at his stom ach with intent to infiict a fata wound and that he intercepted tn.
 weapon with his hand to sa-e h: life.
 While at the Pioneer band concer yesterday afternoon John M. Burnett who is of all inventive turn of mind received an idea which will revolu tionize the manufacture of mu fca Instruments. The exertion by tn musicians of filling their instrument and keeping them filled struck MT Burnett as not only necessary, bu actually cruel. He believes that storage receptacle for compressed ali might be attached to the instrum nts | Ihe a4i 1iASuI US SlO1 SU III sltlf duC so that the musicians would hay nothing to do but manipulate tn : keys and stops. This principle wa applied years ago, though in a crud
 way, to the bag-pipe.
 The congressional seeds 10 be dis tributed to the farme.s of Arizon will be sent out this year from tn
 office of the experiment. station a : Tucson. Heretofore the quota of con
 gressional seeds for Arizona hay
 usually failed to reach persons inter H ested in them or caring for then
 therefore, arrangements were mad this season to have these seeds dis tributed from the experiment stat1ol
 In relation to these seeds it migf , be stated that they are all tested be | fore leaving Washington and all al a | true to name and show a high pel centage of germinatiOu Farmer