Arizona republican., 1898-04-07
CITY AND COUNTY IN BRIEF.
Small Paragraphs of General
 Interest.
The News of Dayin Phoenix and Its Tributary Region Presented in a aNutshelI-Dotngs of People and Other Matters.

pl6dSduI uduCcS dL Iue I1OIei AudulS last night
 George w. P. Hunt of Globe will
 arrive in town Saturday morning to at tend the Odd Fellows grand lodge. Several citizens of Globe will arrive
 in the city by private conveyance to- morrow evening. They come to attend
 the grand lodge of Odd Fellows.
 The Tucson and Bisbee visitors left 1 for their respective homes last evening
 after two days pleasant stay in the
 city with the Shriners and friends here.
 John P. Kelly of Mercer street, Jer-
 sey City, Pa., writes to The Arizona
 Republican inquiring about his broth CT, James P. Kelly, whom he believes
 to be in this country.
 Officers Ga1pin and Molloy pulled a
 Chinese opium joint last night at 10
 o'clock, and four Celestials captured
 at the den will appear this morning
 before Recorder Jobs.
 | Francisco Montana and Trinidad
 Montana were arrested yesterday by Officer Porterie for participation in the bloody battle of the block on Monday night. The records of our court and penitentiary bid fair to again repeat the names of Montana and Ce1ayo. The Salt River valley is now wear ing its sweetest smile It would re- ward any one who has not seen it be- fore this time of year to take drive out through the country and feast , their eyes on the moving fields of al falfa and grain, the labyrinth of cot tonwoods and whatever remains of the thousands of fattening cattle. The sight is convincing.
 The sales of property by the county treasurer goes merrily on, and the customers of the county do not appear to change much as the crier sings along down the line of the alphabet The same faces are before him from day to day and the same responses are made to the question, "Who will take the property and pay the taxes?' 'I will" 'I'1l take the south foot ''I'll take the south one-quarter inch of the south foot" And 'Sold' is heard in the land
 It was thought that the limit had been reached when green shoes came into fashion, but yesterday some of the people were given an opportunity of viewing the dudiest kind of real dude thing in shoes. They were Of clear purple leather, with uppers del icate tint of blue and perforated like a porous plaster, embellished with white celluloid but cns, and all this with white satin strings The day was when a man wearing anything of this description in Arizona might look for shots at his feet.
 The case of W. H. Linn ct al vs. the Gila Bend Reservoir and Irrigation company will, in all probability, be heard ip the United States supreme court some day between the 21st and the end of this month. It is a case of great interest to this valley and to
 many people who have become in one way or another interested in the large scheme of irrigation arranged for by means of the Wolf1ey dam at Gila Bend, and it does not make much diff ference, as far as benefit to the county is concerned, which of the parties win the law suit, if it is only decided quickly. Whichever side wins, the enterprise itself is all right and is bound to go ahead.
 A good suggestion comes from one of our practical business men regard ing the sprinkling of our streets. His idea is that a number of individual sprinkling carts be built, and every householder and storekeeper consti- ute himself a committee of one to do the sprinkling in his neighborhoOd. There would be good chances for com pines, two neighbors or two store keepers could hitch themselves to the cart and do the sprinkling for the block once or twice a day for a week and then two others take the duty for another week, and so on. He says that in localities where ladies only reside there could be used female sprinklers after the fashion of female bicycles.
 Quite a group of attorneys were gathered in the court room one day this week awaiting the advent of the judge, and as ever on such occasions there was talk. The subject on the carpet was to a layman a very strange and somewhat uncanny one, i. e., the honesty of the legal profession" Not smile was to be noted on the faces Of the group, not even a blinkie
 winkle of an eye. It was all so earnest and apparently sincere that the re- | porter rubbed his eyes and pinched ! himself. But they talked right on, and when Ben Goodrich, probably the most | popular lawyer of this and the Cali fornia bar, wound up the talk by say
 ing. When you consider that all the
 wealth, money and property of the civilized world passes through the
 hands of the lawyer every thirty-three
 and third years, and that the record
 of loss is so infiinitesmal that it can
 not be even fractionized, then you are
 compelled to render to the profession
 the credit that is justly due it,' the | reported walked away in such a dazed condition that he forgot to call at the
 office of the probate judge for some items about marriage licenses and in sane subjects.