Arizona republican., 1898-07-23
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

Governor McCOrd IS nnlSnln2 nov ing into his new house in the northern part of the city and making other ar engagements for his departure with his regiment.
 A and c. G. Anderson purchased the ice cream factory of c. L. Higgins. MT and Mrs. Higgins will leave shortly for their former home in Denver. They have made an entire success of their business here and leave many friends who will regret their departure.
 Additional ccctracts for the new Goodrich building were let yesterday by Willard 6 Grosvenor, the architects. The Standard Iron works of this city gets the iron contract at $1, 300. The glass work goes to John o. White for S400 and the granite contract was awarded to W. 4. Horner for S200.
 William Orme yesterday telegraphed the College hospital at Brooklyn, N. Y, making inquiry about the condi- tion of his brother, Norman, from whom nothing had been heard since Monday, when the information was of a discouraging character. A dispatch ing that the bullet had De.S extracted and the patient was improving.
 The capitol site commission yester- day continued it's painstaking study of plans and estimates for the new build ing The commission is greatly aided in its work by an expert. MT. A. w. Gregg, the architect. MT. Gregg did not enter into the competition. Though the commission may favor some par ticular set of plans it will not adopt any until all have been submitted to Governor Murphy.
 Busy Bee Juvenile Temple, I. O. G. T. will keep open house this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Good Templars' hall. and invites all who are interested in the little folks to be present. A short musical and literary programme will be rendered by the members of the temple, which will be somewhat pa triOtic in it's nature and to still further fire the youthful heart the flag of Col. McCord's regiment will be displayed in the hall
 A telegram was received from Pres colt yesterday saying that Mrs. John R. Norton had just given birth to a baby girl and that both mother and babe were well. MT. Norton was at the head of the Arizona canal and he was informed by telephone Of the happy event. As soon as he recovered from the stroke he telephoned to the su- pervisors' office and the office of the Arizona Canal company, directing that cigars be put on tap at both places It was done, and from the court house and the canal office vast columns of shoke ascended into the heavens.
 lXy east end of Buckeye, was in the city yesterday. He reports the crop con- ditions in that section all that could be desired. MT. Bondurant purchased an eight-horse power thresher vibrator machine. Wisconsin make, with which he returns to the Gila valley to thresh out some 400 acres of grain that have been raised this year. Heretofore it has been the custom to tread out grain raised there. They have out grown those methods The yield is so large that Mir. Bondurant thinks the acreage will be much increased next year.
 Even Chinaman who is not sup posed to be very observant of things that do not directly~concern him, rec ognizes the difference between oratory and action. A group was discussing the war with Spain at the Palace the other night. A Chinaman stood on the outskirts of the conversation for awhile and then broke into it after this fashion: 'The Spaniard, he heap talkee, talkee alice time; Melican heap Dewey. Dewey alice time" The crowd doesn't know yet whether this was a mere linguistic performance or whether the Chinaman was making a play upon the name of the gallant commodore.
 The big and expensive mining suit of Jordan vs. Duke, involving valuable copper properties near Jerome, is to go to the supreme court of the United States. MT. Lloyd Johnston, clerk of the territorial supreme court, yester- day received instructions to prepare a transcript in the case. It will be SC yoluminous that the preparation will require more than two weeks This matter has been in litigation several years. At the last term of the terri torlal supreme court judgment of the i lower court for the plaintiff was af- flrmed. Since the first action was in stituted, another embracing practi. ! Iltle 1 of Jordan vs. Schuern.an, was begun and tried in Pima county on a change i Of venue from Yavapai That was also decided in favor of the plaintiff 1 This is the most vigorously foughI
 mining case brought in this territory within recent years
 Mr J. F. Elwell, who went to Pres
 colt Thursday night to make arrange ments for the excursion on August 6
 returned last evening. He reports be
 ing received very kindly by the Pres
 colt people. He secured reduced rate: at the hotels for the excursionists, ant
 also made arrangements whereby tn, Prescott people are to open headquar
 ters in that city, where private fami
 lies having rooms to rent for this oc