Arizona republican., 1898-07-28
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdl Local Interest.
NxwS of Ph0enix and Tributary Re- zion. The DoingS of People and Other Matters.

The Baptist Young Peoples Union will hold lawn fete on the grounds of MT P. T. Burtis, corner of Second and Folk streets, on Friday evening.
 Letters of guardianship were granted in probate court yesterday to Aurelia Hardy of the estates of Ter Children, Warren, Leonard, Wilfred and Hattie Hardy
 The Los Angeles Times of recent date notes the arrival in that city of Senator w A. freeze of Phoenix, A. T., heavy real estate man and noted mining expert.
 The Sixth Avenue hotel has been purchased from it's late owner, A. D. Walsh, by J. Ernest Walker. It is now being conducted by Charles B. God dard, who will probably purchase it soon.
 The regular weekly meeting of the Red Cross society was held at the as sembly room last night. Beside the transaction of routine business the matter of the comfort of the boys at Whipple was discussed.
 Captain Omstead of B company, N G. A., yesterday received a letter from Sergeant Lamson at Fort Whipple thanking the members of B company and other contributors to a big box of tobacco and other supplies lately sent to the boys at the barracks.
 Miles Archibald, who came in from Yuma yesterday, was asked what diff ference, if any, he had observed in the temperature of Yuma and Phoenix. Mr Archibald was evidently disgusted with both. "I don't notice any" he said; ''after the thermometer gets above 110 it might as well go to 160."
 A late special dispatch from Wash ington to the Globe-Democrat says that Whipple Barracks has been des ignated as the address of the soldiers Of the regiment lately recruited in the Indian Territory, Oklahoma, New Mex ico and Arizona. This leaves no doubt that this regiment is destined for service in the Pacific.
 The moon put on a halo last night, ore of the most beautiful ever seen. About 8 o'clock all the colors of the rainbow could be quite distinctly discerned, Later all disappeared or were merged into various shades Of gold, blue. pur- pie, all circled about by a deep crim- son. This latter phenomenon which was observable until midnight was even more beautiful than the earlier and brighter halo.
 Hon. Dan H. Ming of Globe, cele- brated by reason of his long residence in Arizona, his services in various leg islatures and his interview with the with reference to badly needed rain in Graham county, arrived in town yesterday morning, The interview is said to have occurred on the summit of Mount Graham, from which circumstance Mir. Ming has been called the Moses of the Upper Gila.
 A civil service examination was held at the court house yesterday by Ex- aminer Walden of the postoffice, for positions in the general land office. These positions are for clerks, ste raphers, typewriters and land of flee bookkeepers; clerkships in which a knowledge of land law and public is required; typographical and clerks with a general knowledge of land surveying. There were two applicants, c. J. Dyer and Malcolm Gillette Similar examina- tions were held yesterday at Noga1es, Tucson and Prescott
 Sam seip is going to the coast to- night unless it halls or does something else not now expected. MT Seip has been contemplating this move ever since the extremely warm weather set in two weeks ago and all his friends conspired to visit him one at time and tell him that it was the hottest day on record. They related stories of numerous sunstrokes, so that about ? o'clock in the afternoon MT. Seip concluded it was too hot to work with safety, went home and began prelimi- nary preparations to go to the coast. It will be an extreme change in tenn perature that will head him off now.
 venport-AnGerson ill Phoenix. Ariz., July 27, 1888, by Rev. g. D. McCreary, MT. Henry B. Daven- port and Miss Miriam A. Anderson, all of Maricopa county, Arizona. The marriage was solemnized at the Con- mercial hotel. Both parties are we'll and most favorably known in this county MT. Davenport has been fer some time engaged in cattle raising near Gila Bend, and for the last two years has been deputy sheriff. The bride is the eldest daughter of Captain John s. Anderson of Gila Bend Mr. and Mrs. Davenport left last night for Los Angeles. They will remain on the coast about one month.
 Richard Fletcher of the Richelieu yesterday received a telegram from Los Angeles apprising him that he was a father. The event was not wholly unexpected, though he was surprised by the details. MT. Fletcher desired that it be boy and no scrub, either. It must be a record breaking boy ,uoiohf Ho ouon honod that it mi oh