Arizona republican., 1898-07-31
NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of phOenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DoingS Of PeOpIe and Other Matters.

The regular monthly meeting Of the city council will be held tomorrow night.
 License to marry was issued yester- day to Sidney M. Painter and Mattie J. Spencer.
 The infant daughter of J. j. Meyers died yesterday morning and was buried in the evening.
 Mrs. Emily Lively, wife Of ". J Lively, died yesterday mo- ming at hir home at Glendale She was 70 years of age and an aunt of MT. c. M Sturges of this city.
 Judge James Winger of Wisconsin. who has been in the territory for more than year for his health, is now confined at the Sisters hospital quite sick, but slightly improving.
 The Pioneer band concert at the court house plaza will begin this even Ing at 8:30 instead of o'clock. This arrangement has been made so that there will be less interference with church services.
 FlCld LulSGIUluS, dSSU O cal daughter of H. Lutgerding, died yes terday and will be buried today from the residence of the parents, twelve miles from the city. The funeral will be under the direction of W. H. Smith.
 It locked very much like rain about ' o'clock last night. Many uniformed persons thought it was going to rain until that veteran prognOS tica tor, Chick Fowler, came along and said Il It the rain was not due until 5:30 this evening. All who had stolen umbrellas from their friends returned them. Then it did rain.
 ]. F. Elwell returned on Fridi.y y night from Prescott, where he went 10 conclude arrangements for the excur- sion to Whipple next Saturday. The volunteers are looking forward with pleasant anticIpations to the visit of the Phoenix folks. While MT. Elwell was at the barracks a carload of tenls was received and another carload of equipments was on the way.
 A new chemical engine ordsred for the fire department couple of months
 
 ness for the horses has been on hand and the horses themselves are likely to turn up any day. The last steps toward the reorganization, or rather the introduction, of these improve ments into the department may be taken at tomorrow nights council meeting.
 There is evidently a man lest in Phoenix. Late on Friday night man short, heavy set, drunk and disrepu- table, arrived in town and went to first-class hotel. He slept on the sidewalk in front Of the Hotel Adams. Yesterday morning he was gone, bu! hls hat and coat still lay on the side walk Some one kicked them into the gutter, but nobody cared to remove authorities.
 Last Thursday David Wallace Of Tempe struck a COW with stick be- cause she wouldn't stand" and submit to a peaceful milking. The stick was of the kind of timber of which boom erangs are made. The end of it flew back and hit MT Wallace in the left eye, penetrating the iris It looked to MT. Wallace's right eye as if it were going to be the left one, but the IT, jured organ was better yesterday and there is a probability that it will be saved.
 Governor N. o. Murphy. whose ar rival in the city tonight was expected, will not reach Prescott until today and he will come to Phoenix tomorrow night. The welcoming committee will carry out it's programme adopted week ago. MT. Murphy will be met at the Capitol station by committee and will be received at the First av- enue depot by the committee of twenty-five in carriages. He will ba escorted to the Hotel Adams, where there will be an informal reception and serenade.
 Some of the ranchmen about Alham- bra are uneasy about the proceeds Ct several carloads of hay lately shipped to Los Angeles. Three or four months ago a hay buyer from the coast by the name of billiard began operating in the neighborhood of Al hambra and Glendale. He brought : good references and conducted hii business in a straightforward manner He bought about 800 carloads of hay 1 which were paid for in drafts on Lo! ! Angeles. Toward the last some O | them were returned and an effort Wal made to intercept by telegraph con signment of hay then on it's way t. Los Angeles. billiard had alread, gene to the coast. Among those wh, contributed to the consignment wa I. L. Jackson of this city. Bushes men here think the farmers are un necessarily worried. They believ 1 that the hay was bought on time an. that the reason the drafts were re turned was that they were sent in to-
 precipitately. It is possible, too, tha
 the Los Angeles people overloada
 themselves with hay just before late
 but temporary slump in the marke occurred on the coast They may hay