Arizona republican., 1898-08-22
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS.
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People ard Other Matters.

, ". R. Patterson, the Los Angeles. cattle buyer, came in from the south yesterday.
 Secretary c. H. Akers left last night fer Prescott, where his family is spending tLe summer. He will return tonight.
 The train from the north mas been about two hours late for the last three nights. The delay has been caused | by washouts on the Santa Fe Pacific. Judge J. D. Bethune, James Shirley, l s. c. Smith and w. H. Smith, all Of Prescott, came in from the north last might.
 Sam Seip returned last night from a visit of a month on the coast. He did not extend LIS visit to Pennsylvania and Alaska, as he Lad originally in I tended.
 Joseph COburn, young man who came here from San Francisco several months ago for his health, was taken to the Sisters hospital on Saturday suffering from the fourth hemorrhage within a week.
 | There was an enthusiastic meeting | of the Mexican Patriotic club at the l district court room yesterday after noon for the purpose of making addi- tiOnal preparations for the celebra tion of the Sixteenth of September. | Morin F. Aitken will shortly leave l for Prescott to take charge of the bot ting works there. He will still re- | tain his interest in the works here Mr. Aitken has for some time been 1 the owner of the Prescott works, but | he had had them leased for year. The lease has just expired. When the Pioneer band concert be- gan at the city hall plaza last night there was not the usually large audi ence present for the reason that the opening was two hours earlier. But before it was over the crowd was as lbIg as ever and as appreciative as ever of ar excellent programme.
 Manager c. B. Goodell of the West ern Union, and J. E. Johnson, the office messenger, went to the falls yesterday by the bicycle route. This was the messengers first visit to the falls and he thinks that farmers who complain that they can't get enough water are unreasonable. He saw great deal running over the falls and going to waste without any effort being made toward it's salvation. Beside this pleasing discovery by MT. Johnson the monotony ct the trip was broken only by punctured tire.
 Phoenix is about to have another ice factory. The assurance is given a Republican reporter that capitalists who have been looking over the ground for some time past have pur- chased ffty-ton plant to be located near the Santa Fe freight depot, and will shortly begin the erection of the buildings. Before the opening of warm weather next spring the citizens oi Phoenix will have large increase in the supply of ice as well as adequate cold storage facilities for all purposes It is expected that the price of this lvery necessary commodity will be ma teriaily reduced.
 A Mexican immersed himself in 2 , whole lot of trouble yesterday by get ting drunk. He was a cowboy anC mounting his horse began terrorizins T section of the southern part of tht ) city. He rode along the sidewalk an( assailed every person he saw with vile language and threats of violence Jailor John Rock went after him or a wheel. The Mexican fled and as { bicyclist is handicapped in trying tt capture a horseman he would prob ably have gotten away but for an ac cident. He was riding up Second
 street. Opposite the city hall he fel
 from his horse and lay senseless o1 the ground. The jailOr had to dras him to jail. When he was searched i
 was discovered that he had been com
 hitting a more serious offense. H.
 was carrying a revolver.
 It has been reported from time t( time that Hon. w. A. Rowe of Prescott had severed his connection with th' territorial democracy because he could
 not follow his party into fields O
 financial heresy. This has alway. been enthusiastically denied by dem
 ocrats and as MT. Rowe has made nc
 public expression, it could not bt , known whether or not he had for
 saken the faith of his fathers Ther,
 was an incident at Prescott last weel which leads even local democrats tt
 believe that MT. Rowes financia
 views are stronger than party ties
 The territorial executive committee
 Of which MT. Rowe is chairman, had
 meeting, but though it was easily ac ,: cessible to him he was not present, an, ] Lieutenant Wiley E. Jones called it t. )order and presided.
 1 A gang of sneak thieves of nor | than average ability has been operat ing in and about Phoenix fo
 the last week. Among thei
 
 south side, an account of who's
 robbery has already been publish !: One circumstance connected with = shows that it was elaborately planned MT. Yaple's granddaughter, a daughte