Arizona republican., 1898-05-02
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs of Gen.
 eraI Local Interest.
News of phCeRix and Tributary Re- zion. The Doings Of People and Other Matters.

It was a beautiful, but a quiet Sun day.
 The shower Saturday night did much to purify the atmosphere.
 Al Ezekiels of Tucson, formerly dep uty United States marshal, was ill the city yesterday.
 Arthur Preston, lately head cook at the Ford, has bought the Blue Front restaurant on North Center street. Dr. William Duffeld was hastily summoned to Saeaton last night to at tend Hon. H. J. Cleveland, the agent, who is seriously ill.
 E. L. Storment and wife of Salem, H., arrived in the city yesterday. MT. Storment was for several years su- perintendent of the territorial normal school.
 Chief Justice and Mrs. Street last week went from Yuma to Los Angeles to hear Melba. Mrs. Street says she would not have missed it for garden full of roses.
 Judge Barnes was ontne street Sun day morning with bunch of La France roses on his coat, and was mistaken by several for Gardener Fur ner of the court house.
 Judge and Mrs. William H. Barnes returned Saturday night from Pres colt, where legal business has detained the judge for week, while Mrs. Barnes was enjoying life entertaining and being entertained by the society of that city. They spent a quiet Sun day in Phoenix, returning to their home at Tucson last night.
 How the cars were missed yesterday on Washington street. Their absence caused the street to have all the ap- pearance of an eastern village where the blue laws prevail against unneees- sary noises, and the inhabitants be- lieve it sinful to be seen in public ex cepting at church and to and from the same.
 Bruce Perley returned on Saturday night from Congress. At the time he left funeral was going on, that of a man who had been crushed to death in a mine. The accident is said to have been due to his own recklessness in having effectively timbered the part of the mine in which he was working. He had been injured sev- eral times before.
 The street cars will be running again some time this morning, pos sibly by o'clock. The company has lost not a minute of time since the break occurred at the power house to repair the damages, and the manage ment is now assured that such steps fc1y tr i'm fho lie against inconvenience of a similar character in the future.
 One arrest Saturday night insisted that he was ''the only pebble in the city jail, and despite the warnings of the officers continued a noise which the latter considered as inexcusable He was threatened with the hose, and the threat was intellectual to stop him. As last resort the officers ac- tually turned the hose on him and well, the rest of the inmates secured needed sleep.
 Washington and Adams streets pos sess many inequalities due to the lay ing of water or gas mains. It is the fashion in this town to only half fill the trenches, passing vehicles being relied upon to contribute the remainder in either mud or dust It makes things easy for the pipe layers, and profitable for the wagon repairers, but mighty unpleasant for those who have to use the roads.
 A little Phoenix girl went to the de- pot the other night to assist in seeing a detachment of cowboys off to Fort Whipple. There was nobody among them whom she knew, but she wept as bitterly at their departure as if she were related to all of them. On her return home she was still in grief. "Pm glad" she said between sobs, that John can't go to war; As a matter of fact John is only about six months old and consequently safe and below the military age.
 The boys from Graham county were loafng in their rooms at the Commer- cial yesterday afternoon. A. ID. Webb was joshing the cowboys, Of whom he was one Then another cow boy, George Bugbee, late Southern Pa cific agent at Bowie, came ln- NOW there is Bugbee,'' said Webb; "he has just resigned a S200 month job for a monthly salary of SIS. That's what I call good business judgment and it shows a man with level head. q don't get quite so much money as l did with the railroad company" said Bugbee, ''but I get something else-my board. Ihad to pay for that when l was working TOT the railroad com pany."
 Constable John Beck informs The Republican that his brother was the f only American working for R. C Lowell at HermosillO, he being the foreman. From letter received from this brother a short time since it appears that they found great diIi.- culty in obtaining laborers other than Yaqui. Taking the account of the riot in connection with MT. Beck's state ment the Yaquis are in sympathy with the cause of the United States against Spain. It is not impossible that Professor Lowell may lay con-