Arizona republican., 1898-05-08
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOingS Of peopie and Other Matters.

E. H. Winters has just moved int. his new store rooms at 29 and 31 Wes
 Adams street.
 Another meeting of the city counc1
 was held last night at which no othel
 business was transacted than the ad.
 ministration of the oath of office te
 Councilmen-elect Morford and San.
 ders.
 At Monday nights meeting of the Red Men. chiefs will be raised up to
 fill vacancies caused by resignation oi
 Sachem Powers. All members are re-
 quested to be present at o'clock sharp.
 Letters of administration on the es-
 tate of Manuel Gonzalez were issued
 in probate court yesterday to Ramon
 Ybarra: Letters upon the estate of i Dr. A. M. Futile were granted 10 D.. c. D. Belden.
 i The Republican last night received a telegram from H. c. Pollock at
 Casa Grande saying that the condi- ! tion of H. J. Cleveland, Indian agent
 at Sacaton, is very serious, and grave doubts of his recovery are entertained. | A late copy of the Oil City Pa.) l Derrick contains a long account of
 the Sixteenth regiment of Pennsyl-
 vania volunteers. lately recruited for the war with Spain. The colonel of the regiment is MT. Willis J. Rulings. a brother of Wade H. Rulings of this city and himself a former resident of Phoenix.
 There are not nearly so many China men in Arizona as there were twenty four hours ago. Deputy United States Marshal Compton arrived from Tucson yesterday and took charge of An Yung, a Chinaman recently ordered deported. He left with him fer San Francisco last night. At Yuma he will take on six more Chinese, who are there awaiting deportation
 Mrs. Mary Wiley, wife of A. B. Wiley, died last night at her home, corner of Ninth avenue and Tweed street in Irvine addition. Mrs. Wiley was 3S years of age. and leaves be- sides her husband, six small children. She had lived in Phoenix about twenty years and was widely and favorably known. The funeral will take place at 4 o'clock this afternoon from the family residence.
 MT. Stewart brought into The Repuh-. Hcan office yesterday mo ming a freak i of nature in the strawberry line It is fully three. inches across at the stem side, the latter in the middle like a rat tail. The berry tapers to a small head and has on each side a spread wing, giving it all the appearance of a bat. Unlike the famous MaE1 1copa .'red bat of the Montezuma." it is a suc- culent breed, as are all of the berriss raised by MT. Stewart.
 One of the grandest musical enter tainments that Phoenix people will have the opportunity of attending will be presented by the Philharmonic club Cn Tuesday night at the MethO- dist church for the benefit of the pub lie library. Something new in the way of presenting choruses illustrated with a stereopticon will be rendered. Among others are several war selec- tions that will no doubt please the au- dience. Everybody should attend and they are assured that they will be re- paid by the entertainment as well as assisting in public enterprise. One of The Republicans numerous evening contemporaries thought 1t saw a hcle in The Republicans armor the other day This paper had de- scribed an event in which the prepcn- derating incident was faro game. Technical allusion was made to the lookout. the case keeper and ether at- taches of the game. The evening pa per criticised the description and said it betrayed an almost sinful ignor- ance of the noble pastime .of faro. Or all of which any man should be proud. The man who wrote that description hardly knew what he was writing about. and felt thankful at the time that he knew so little.
 The concert to be given by the Phil harmonic club on Tuesday next will without doubt be one of the finest musical entertainments ever presented to the music loving people of Phoenix In preparing for this concert the aim had been to place before the people something out of the ordinary run. This has been accomplished, inasmuch as several of the choruses will be H. lustrated with a stereopticon. Several war pieces will be rendered in this manner, which will no doubt stir the patriotic blood of the audience when it sees "Old Glory" appear accompa- nied by the music that every American loves.
 Yesterday afternoon two women, each carrying a huge umbrella, prom enaded slowly along the south side of Washington street gazing at show windows. The women themselves necessarily occupied a considerable part of the sidewalk, but with these OutSpread umbrellas they tnOtx m all