Arizona republican., 1898-05-23
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 erdI Local Interest.
News of Phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS of People and Other Matters.

1 cream was made to stand the brun
 of the regular Sunday demand for lux urieS.
 When our citizens begin to show
 their patriotism by remaining up al
 night in order to hear confirmation O
 battle rumors, it is encouraging to tht
 belief that all would be warriors bolt
 if there came real necessity.
 William Newton died in this city
 late on Saturday night and his funera
 occurred yesterday He was 45 years
 of age and quite well known on the
 coast. He had lived at various places
 ln Colorado. He came here from
 Ouray.
 tween the policy games and the pat rOnS. That is, the games are not get ting rich and some of the patrons are
 hitting it. It is well to consider in
 this connection the large number of patrons who do not hit it.
 The prediction is yentured that if a person with a delicate musical ear should stand near the corner of Cen ter and Washington streets on a Sat urday evening any time after o'clock and listen to the various noises al leged to be music for five minutes, the aforesaid ear would be ruined forever.
 There is no class of men in exist ence anywhere who can stand prosper ity in a more dignifed manner than the Arizona cattlemen. Quite g mum Der of them in this section of the ter ritory who are reported to have large rn!lc in fhQir ha 1tc ,f recent sales, do not even sport dia- mond overall buttons
 Under the name of Union Politica Hispano Americana" Spanish-Ameri- can Political Union), an organization was formed last evening at the fire mems hall. Ninety members were enrolled. The officers elected were: President, Pedro B. y Salazar; vice president, J. M. Melendrez; secretary, E. Gonzalez; assistant secretary, R. Saabedra; treasurer, F. A. Madrid, sergeant-at-arms, Julio Marron; trus- tees, J. Sotello, A. Bernal. R. Corona.
 Ten days ago J. W. Leahy, formerly connected with Armour's packing fac tory at Chicago, died in this city. He had a brother at Beech Springs, Tex, and telegram was sent to him and in the meantime the body was held to await his arrival The brother was in the country ninetyfive miles from the nearest telegraph office and a mes senger was sent after him. He will arrive in the city this morning and he funeral will take place at o'clock his afternoon.
 Jimmy Murray, one of the old-time ic in ,poOUnrinCr O from an attack of rheumatism in cured recently while at the mines which the late Eugene Campbell and John Leibold sold to parties repre- sented by Frank Nicholson. When in town Jimmy is fixture at the Com mercial hotel, and there is a general regret whenever he takes notion to again go forth on the hunt for ''goold." There are few of this kind left and as they drop off one by one the rising generations know them only by his tOric relation.
 Henry Stein, who was mentioned in The Republican yesterday morning in the case of Stein vs. Freidman, called at The Republican office yesterday to say that the account of the proceed lngs was quite correct, but that the publication of MT. Freidmans state ment was calculated to disturb the cordiale between himself and the county hospital authorities. MT. Stein says that he never complained to Mir. Freidman or anybody else about the food at the hospital. It was as good as could be found at many res taurants in Phoenix and furthermore he said he had no fault to find with his treatment there.
 While George McFall was eating dish of strawberries yesterday he came upon a bug which had been overlooked in the general excitement of preparing the berries for the table. me bug was about as large as haiI grown Texas fever tick and did not look unlike one But there were pc culiar marks on it's back which at tracted the attention of Col. John stone, who was sitting next to the It was put under mag nifying glass such as miners and use A perfect and dis tlnct human face was revealed, includ- ing even a mustache and eyebrows. It IS of a Mongolian type and somewhat resembles pictures of Ii Hung Chang Col. Johnstone is in possession of this curious chronological freak.
 'Six-Bits" is dead. .'Six-BitS" was the best known dog in town with the possible exception Of Police Jack, but he was a much more aristocratic dog than Jack. He was owned by James Rennie. The most remarkable thing about Six-Bits' death was the manner of his taking off. He was mercifully anesthetized yesterday. The trouble with Six-Bits was that he had con- sumption. It threw him into a de- cline just as it does men, A sort of sputum was produced and MT. Rennie
 caused it to be submitted to a mic roscopic examination, which disclosed tue presence of the tuberculosis bacilli.