Arizona republican., 1898-07-11
NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local interest.
News of PhOenix and Tributary Re- giOn. The Doings Of peOp.e and Other Matters.

1! The record for warm weather at Ash Fork was broken last Saturday. inc ambitious mercury rose to loo
 Garrett Schuler last night resumed
 his duties as night clerk at the HO- el
 Adams. Charles Herman, who has
 been occupying the desk in his ab- sence, has taken position in the pCs.- office.
 A report came to the city yesterday
 that a transport will arrive at Key West today laden with soldiers wound ed before Santiago week ago last Friday and Saturday. Captain James H. McClintock is among them
 There was a large attendance of the union outdoor services near the Pres
 byterian church last evening. Rev. Dr. McCreary of the Methodist Episco- pal church preached a powerful and impressive sermon on "The Living Witnesses"
 Several Phoenix citizens are trying to get up an excursion to Prescott be- fore the departure of the volunteers. They are endeavoring to get a rate so low that the poorest relatives and friends of any volunteer there may be able to avail themselves of it.
 When the Phoenix volunteers left for Whipple Barracks, after the fash ion of all volunteers they took a mas cot with them. The mascot was pOlica dog Jack. Jack had no special inter est in the war and deserted the ccm- mand at Congress, where he is now awaiting a meeting of the common ai1 fo ioHi f0,. return transportation to Phoenix.
 One of The Republican carrier boys whose route leads him through the eastern district beyond the asylum and On the Tempe road has been sub jeoted to abuse and outrageous treat msnt at the hands of several hoodlum boys. This, he complains, has oc- cured several times lately The names of the offending boys are known and warning is given to their par ems that a repetition of the offense will cause them and the boys trouble and expense.
 A very enjoyable picnic was given yesterday at the residence of Miss Belle Hoard by Miss Rosie Davis and Miss McNulty. Among those present were MT. and Mrs. Lauver, MT. and Mrs. R. Holmes, Mr. Hayden Justice, Miss Rosie Davis, Mrs. McNulty, Mrs Dunn, the Misses Harrington, Donnie Harrington, Wayne Davis, Charles Davis, William Davis, George Roberts, Belle Hoard, M. Mickey, Glen Woods, Charles and Will Miller, c. c. Jurgen- son, Walter Cline. M. Lancaster, Mrs Miller, Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. Davis. The company sat down to a delicious repaSt. The side dishes consisted Of keg of beer, ice cream, sherbat, dtc.
 A warrant which had besn sworn out against James Dodson on Saturday night for drawing a revolver on F. B. Gabbsrt was served on him yesterday. He was taken before Justice John stone, who released him on his own recognizance conditionally upon his restraining himself. Sheriff OIme also informed him that the first break would mean his incarceration. Dod- son made about three breaks before an officer could reach him. He was locked up and immediately went to sleep. He awoke within an hour thirsty and hungry. He said he had been in jail sixteen hours without food and drink and that the lives of the Cuban recOncentradoes were luxurious in comparison with his lot.
 Entamologists have been puzzled about a little black bug which came into existence soon after the invention of electric lights. All of his habits except one. that of being the worst nuisance of the summer season, crawl ing up the sleeves and down the necks of those who work at night, are yelled. He was liable to arrest for vagrancy, having no visible means of support. Nobody knew what he ate. It was discovered yesterday that part of his bill of fare is the leaf of the palm. A million of the bugs were congregated upon the lower, newer and tenderer leaves of small palm tree in the TO- tunda of the Hotel Adams They had been eaten away until nothing but the sharp white spines were left.
 A meeting of the Junta Patriotiea Mexicana was held at the court house yesterday afternoon to make prelimi- nary preparations for the celebration of September 15-16, the anniversary of Mexican independence. More than a ripple of surprise, it was a wave, swept over the district court room when J. A. Porterie entered and took his seat among the leaders He is the man whom large majority of the members of the junta have lately been trying to keep in jail and who sought by extraordinary means to have his bond set so high that he could not give it, alleging that it was not good that he should be at large. They feared they might do him bodily harm. A vote was taken on some thing or an- other and MT. Porterie voted. Presi- dent Pedro de la Lama declared him out of order on the ground that ne was a Frenchman and not a Mexican MT. Porterie was prepared for an emergency of this sort He produced nannrS ShnWine that he Wac q chart a1,