Arizona republican., 1898-10-12
News of the Town

celyed carload, have been put Into the building.
 QUAIL SHOOTING. The opening Of the quail season will occur on Sat urday, and the hunters Of the valley are making preparations for an early invasion Of the desert places. Those who have been cut in the country say that he quail are very plentiful. The duck season opened on October 1.
 DISTRICT COURT.- The case of the territory vs L. L. Harmon, set for trial in district court yesterday, was continued until Friday. A motion to dismiss in the case of Hirst vs. the Glendale Fruit company, and a motion to dissolve an injunction in the case Of N- N. Broadway vs. A. R. Jenkins, were argued and submitted.
 THE KINGS DAUGHTERS. The Kings Daughters of the Baptist church recently procured for the church two handsome aims boxes and three Of the most attractive vases they could find in town. Both gifts were appropriate, as the collections are al- ways good and the floral decorations beautiful at the Baptist church.
 NEW CORPORATION. Articles of incorporation of the Ashland Land and Cattle company were filed in the offce of the ccuIky recorder yesterday. The incorporates are l.. L. Smith, Marshall E. Sampsell and J. J. Rooney. The company is formed with a capital Of S100,000 and Phoenix as the principal place of business, for op- Gating iH Maricopa county.
 THEY LIKE THE TGWN- w E. Buckley and J. 4. Ferguson Of Phila- dslphia, who have been at the Ford for several days, left last night for the east These gentlemen are interested in the manufacture Of wheels and spokes in Philadelphia. They saw great deal Of the valley during their visit here, and were impressed with the possibilities for making money here. They will return to Phoenix during the winter.
 WILL LOCATE HERE. Mir. G. M Ruff, a dentis- who came here a short time ago from Chicago, has decided to locate in Phoenix. He will enter into Q partnership with Dr. H. J. Jessop. New quarters will be occupied by the dentists in the Monihcn building, on the opposite side of the hall from the present rooms Of Dr. Jessop. Four rooms have bssn secured. Dr. Ruff is young man who has an excellsnt standing in professional circles in Chicago.
 4 DOG AND PARROT CONTRO~I VERSY-A family on East Washing ton street has two pets that sometimes have a heated argument If the dogs meals are placed oD the floor near polly's cage she will climb down and
 
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 IMPROVEMENT IN TELEGRAPH Tt CILITIES- The Western Union Telegraph company will soon string two more wires to Maricopa to con neot with the new overland wire now being put up on the Southern Pacific. This will increase the number of wires between this city and Maricopa to five. and will give Phoenix two di- rect wires to Les Angeles and one to Fl Paso, and possibly by means of re- peaters ct the latter place, direct com munica,ion will be had with cities farther east. This is in recognition of the increasing buisness in this growing city; g safe index of prosper ous times. Only four years ago one wire to Maricopa sufnced to carry all the commercial and railroad business of the town.
 BUILDING NEW HONES.-Mr. R. w. Chamberlain, the lumber dealer, says that there will be more building in the valley this winner than he has seen since he located here T am sending great deal Of lumber into the coun- try districts" said Mir. Chamberlain to a Republican reporter. "The ranchers are prosperous this year and tshey feel that they can afford to build new houses, CT remodel the old ones. l have sold great deal Of lumber to ranchers who live in the Buckeye country, and several very substantial ranch houses are to be built down there this fall. At Castle Greek hot springs the hotel accommodations have be- come inadequate, ard they have or dered lumber which will be used in aiiE1a aenting their hotel facilities. The lumber trade was never in better con ditiOn.'
 DOWN ON THE BUCKEYE.-Mr. Frank ?. Lee, one of the prosperous ranch5rs under the Buckeye canal, was Ia the city yesterday. He brought in a large watermelon to his son, Harvey J. Lee, business manager of The Re publican. which was the frs. product Of it's kind of the Lee ranch. Mir. Lee has made 8 very productive ranch since ne located there something over Q year ago. The ranchers under the Buckeye said Mir. Lee, are favored with an abundance of water. and their crops are always large. Alfalfa and sorghum are the chief products. Very little alfalfa is marketed owing to ttie distance it has to be hauled. It is stacked and fed 10 stock The price Of rasturage is s1.25 p6r head a month, and the cattlemen Of the ranges near the Buckeye haze sent large numbers of cattle down to Us this fall. l know cf ro bIace where a man can make a