Arizona republican., 1898-07-22
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdl Local Interest.
News Of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOings of People and Other Matters.

notarial commission was issued yesterday to James J. Franklin.
 A Mexican died suddenly yesterday morning while at work on Ohnick's s ranch near the river.
 A carload of watermelons went out over the s. F. P. & P. for Albuquerque last night. They were shipped by tn . Melon Growers association.
 There are several hundred of Gov ernor McCord's latest report to the secretary of the interior, still on hand. They may be obtained on application to the governors office.
 MT. J. F. Elwell left for Prescott last night to arrange for the entertain ment of the excursionists who go Whipple on August 6, and secure re- duced rates at hotels.
 Willard 6 Grosvenor, the architects, yesterday awarded the stone cutting contract for the new Goodrich build ing to l.. R. Legier, for something more than S2,000. None of the other contracts have yet been let.
 The capitol site commission yester- day morning resumed the struggle with the plans and estimates for the new capitol building submitted the day be- fore. It will be some time before the commission will be ready to announce the adoption of plans.
 A single drunk was in police court yesterday. He was fined $4. Recorder Jobs admits that fines for this class, of offenses is pretty light, but he says that that is as much as the traffic will ho <l h. the recorder fears that people would quit getting drunk altogether.
 George Buxton yesterday received a telegram from his father, George o. Buxton, whose arrival at Port Town send from the Klondyke was men toned in the telegraphic dispatches of The Republican on Wednesday morn ing. The telegram was sent from Seattle. MT. Buxton Is now on his way to San Francisco.
 A pardon was granted by Governor McCord yesterday to Landro Imperial. who was sentenced to Yuma from this county for assault with a deadly weapon. His sentence of ten years dated from May 20, 1895. ne pardon is issued on the recommendation of Superintendent Darlington for good behavior and general usefulness about the prison.
 Ex-Governor Hamilton, chairman of the meeting held at the executive chambers on Wednesday night to take measures for welcoming Governor Murphy on his return to Phoenix, has not finished his selection of the com mittee of twenty-five, but will do so today. The names Of tt i. members Of the committee will be given out today, together with whatever programme may be decided upon.
 A wild rumor reached Phoenix yes terday that A. L. Barber, formerly an auctioneer here, lately shot and killed F. F. King at Fl Paso, Texas, and was lynched by a mob. King was also a former resident of Phoenix. Something more than year ago Bar Der eloped with Kings wife and was last heard of at Fl Paso. The story of the Ell Paso tragedy could not be verified or traced to any special source It was reported that some one had seen an account of it in a Texas news paper. King left here several months ago, but whether he went to Texas is not known.
 Fertile as the soil of the Salt River valley is, and it is as rich as the fields along the Nile, it is capable of being made even more productive. A farmer who brought a load of alfalfa to town yesterday said that he arranged his coming to town so that he could all ways haul a load of compost home. He has been doing this until he has a considerable part of his ranch GOV cred. He has observed that the yield of hay on the covered part is greater by a. ton to the acre at each cutting, so that the compost, which costs notn- ing but the time spent in the applica- tion, yields not less than $25 an acre each year.
 District Clerk Gill yesterday re- ceived a copy of the proceedings in a coroner's inquest held upon the body of an unknown man found in Wolsey Tank canyon eight miles north of the cattle camp on the Gila. The body was found on June 25 and the inquest was held four days later by Justice Frank Baxter of Agua Caliente pre- cinct. The justice sent an accompany ing letter in which he explained that he had withheld his report of the pro- EOOO0AAAoS, 1 ing on the case might be developed The Christian name of the dead mar l is supposed to have been Martin. g German, about 45 years of age. The jury believed that death had resulted from heat and thirst. The body was badly decomposed when it was found J. w. Benham, who according to tht books of ex-Collector Long, has tht alias of Wing Hi or Lee Hop, does no
 specifically deny his Celestial nativ
 ity, but he says that he is provided
 with the necessary registration paper.
 obtained under the Geary exclusion
 aco. He invites investigation. A fur
 ther investigation of the ex-collector' books yesterday throws suspicion upo1 ] the nativity of another Phoenix busi
 ness man who had previously beel )teFDS.