Arizona republican., 1898-07-30
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs Of Gen.
 er0I LOCd! Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOiHgS of People and Other Matters.


 Of George w. Kleiner.
 Governor Murphy left Chicago Thursday night ard is due at Ash Fork Sunday noon. It is expected that he will come directly to Phoenix, reaching here at S:5 Sunday evening
 Thomas Devar, an attorney Of June ion City, Kan, has written to Phoe- nix making inquiry about Jeremiah Malcolm, who was at one time here. MT. Malcolm was interested in some property at Junction City, but is be- lieved now to be dead. An effort is being made to distribute the property.
 Under Sheriff Henry Orme yesterday received letter from his son Norman at the College hospital, Brooklyn. The letter was written by comrade of the Rough Riders" at his dictation and was very cheerful. At the same time MT. Orme received a telegram in which it was stated that his sons im- provement was steady.
 Perfecto Aldai, charged with the wholesale theft of wheat from Haynes & Hawkins, was tried in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday. He was convicted and sentenced to 100 days in the county jail. Ar. attempt was made by his parents to reopen the case, pleading his youth. They said he was only a little more than four teen. Experts on age say he will never see twenty again.
 A claim and delivery suit was be- gun in district court yesterday by Mamie c. Fulwiler against w. K. James to recover a quantity of grain valued at about S700. The defendant bought the grain of a man named Lee White, who had raised it on the plain tiff's land under what is known as the Choppers contract or agreement. White sold the whole crop, including Mrs. Fulwiler's share.
 The territorial board of educa ion will meet at Tucson today to make changes in school text books and en- ter into contracts with publishers One thing that will almost certainly happen is dhe adoption of the vertica! system of penmanship. Attorney General Frazier, who has been on the coast for the last week, is expected to be at Tucson to prepare contracts with the members of the university faculty for the next year.
 George Buxton yesterday received letter from his father, who is now at San Francisco on his way home from the Klondyke after an absence Of more than year. MT. BuXton's written i'm pressions of the Klondyke are not such as will stimulate emigration to that rich, but inhospitable region. He is still interested with C.. F. Morgan in several claims there. One thing MT. Buxton believes should ba included in the outfit of every man who starts to the Klondyke, and that is q good sized fortune
 J. E. Walker rsturned cn Thursday night from an outing at Flagstaff, where Mrs. Walker is spending the summer. MT. Walker put in the mos of his time thinning out the trout in Oak Creek That is the best trout stream in the territory. The only trouble for several years was that the fish increased in numbers in spite Of the efforts of local fishermen. Some body sent for Mr. Walker and after that what fish were left in Oak Greek had room to breathe, swim around and take lhealthful exercise. The people of Flags -aff then started fund for the payment of MT. Walkers traveIing. and other expenses to Oak Creek at least once year.
 The report Of L. L. Plank, assignee of the Irvine Stationery company, was filed in the office of the county recorder yesterday. The report shows that when the assignee took charge of the property last November it consisted of merchandise, s7.317O8: fixtures, s400, and accounts, s54S.77. Within six months there has been collected S298.40; sales of merchandise, S5.959.33, and sale of stock and fix lures, $1,S54.59. The general expense of conducting the assignment was s1.239.SS; for labor and salaries, s1,67O.55; stock purchased from pro ceeds of merchandise, $2,500, and there was paid to creditors $2,700.S9. A few of the creditors were preferred The others had agreed to receive 25 per cent of their claims. The remaining stock and fixtures were purchased by w. K. James for s1,854.59.
 A gentleman who read in The Re publican yesterday morning that a hot bath is a cure and preventive of prickly heat, said that that knowledge had already come to him by an experi- ment. He adds something regarding the manner of taking hot bath, something which few understand. The novice naturally fills the tub with hot water and drops into it with an inn pression that he has been fatally scalded. As soon as the temperature of the body and the water have been capitalized this impression passes away. The better way is to get into the empty bath tub and turn on the water at the desired temperature. This en- ables one to take a hotter bath with out any unpleasant sensation what ever. The hot bath is beneficial not