Arizona republican., 1898-07-04
GLENDALE INTERESTS.
Chat About One of Our Most
 PrOqreSSiVe Towns.

Glendale, July 2.-(Special corres- pondence of The Republican 1.-The hegira of the summer exiles has set out. From seashore and mountain drift alluring voices that WOO the opu- lent rancher and the purse-proud cattleman to their cooling retreats. While the man who has no hay and grain to sell, and no prime yearlings, protests that an Arizona summer is a foretaste of paradise and sweatulates in silent scorn.
 H. P. DeMund of the DeMund Lum- Der company spent Friday looking over the firms branch business here.
 Shipments this week include twelve cars of cattle and sixteen of hay. The hay market continues SLOW, but the demand is fully equal to the supply at s750. Farmers are unanimous in the belief that the price will rise and as they are in a position to hold their surplus none is being forced onto the market.
 H. L. Betz left on the excursion Thursday night for LordsDurg, Cal, where he will spend month or 50 of the heated term. His son, Ike, will see that the brick business does not languish in his absence.
 The witnesses who were called to Phoenix Wednesday to testify in. the case of the New England Land com pany can supply data for a new yer sion of the old story of Tantalus. It is assumed that all of them were burn ing to let loose the fateful lightning of their evidence.
 Word has been received of the death of c. E. Nolan, which occurred in Chi cago last week. Nolan was a patient struggler against a fatal disease and as one of his friends remarked, he was nervy to the last. While here he was and took a lively interest in political matters.
 The flag that floats from the school house, the luminous reminder of our victorious fleets and armies, Is sadly in need of repa1rs. It was placed there by Ira Hartzell just before he left to join Teddie's Terrors and has not been taken down since.
 The drug store case will probably be crowded out of this term of court so that the incense from this popular shrine of Bacchus will continue to arise as of yore. And on Sundays, from odorous morn till moonshiny eve, it will still be the bfest port of the cracked and battered derelicts from many dry and dusty harvest field.
 Don G. Storment has taken the place of Fred Harwell as clerk in che Glendale Grocery company store. He is a cousin of Will Storment and came here from Sparta, H., with his brother J. c. Storment, few weeks ago.
 c. R. Hunter is cutting his third crop of hay. This crop was grown without particle of irrigation and promises as heavy a yield as the sec ond. The secret lies in soaking win ter irrigation. The maximum amount of irrigation required by alfalfa hasn't yet been found.
 The stamp provisions of the new rev. enue law make a man sorry he didn t enlist. There is a grain of consolation however in the reflection that not all the patriots are at the front As Mil ton would say, "They also serve who only pay for stamps
 Jerry Sullivan stopped off Thursday between trains. He is shipping a large number. of cattle from Del Rio and other points on the main line. He states that his sheep are in fine fet- tie, as the ranges have been blessed with copious rains.
 Thompson's seedless grapes are now in abundant supply. Large quantities are being shipped by express. The crop is light but quality good as ever.
 Moore, Van Fleet and Mccartney left Wednesday for few weeks camping trip to the Hot Springs. All are in search of health as the triumvirate jointly are afflicted with every ailment known to the medical fraternity, be- sides a constitutional aversion 10 ditch water.
 Young America should be able to celebrate this Fourth as never before. He can easily imagine that every sky rocket is death-dealing projectile and every torpedo a veritable ship-sinker E. P. Be1vin is now stopping at Rancho del Sahauro The suit brought against him by the owners of Rancho de Margauta hardly merits mention, except as an indication of mighty pe- culiar business methods. The possi- bility of any intentional irregular1ty Tn Belvin's accounts was never admitted by those who knew him. No man in Glendale could obtain a better bond. His integrity is unquestioned.
 The domestic tribulations of the Boyd family are again forced on the attention of reluctant public by the arrest of Boyd at the instance of his wife, who alleges cruelty. Boyd has always been considered a harmless old gentleman and his friends are loath to believe him guilty. It is mistake, however, to suppose that he is a nrnaohpr Hp ic ono of tho pjllarS Of