Arizona republican., 1898-08-19
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
Small Paragraphs 0f Gen.
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News Of phOenix and Tributary Re. zion. The DOingS Of People and Other Matters.

i MT. G. M. Sargent returned to Pres colt last night.
 ! Albert Won Schriltz of Jerome was yesterday commissioned notary public.
 About o'clock yesterday evening trolley yire broke on the street car line west of the capitol grounds.
 The Phoenix Plun,bing company is engaged in putting up two cyanide tanks fer early shipment. It had been supposed that galvanized iron would not withstand the attack of cyanide. but it has been made to do so by special covering.
 This Gamewell fire alarm system, ought to be either repaired or thrown away. It is demoralizing the depart ment by turning in false alarms of it's own accord. It sent in one about 9 o'clock yesterday from near the M X P. depot and another last night from the western part of town.
 Word reached Phoenix yesterday of the recent marriage at San Diego of Edwin s. Gill and Mrs. Della V. Pen gra. Mrs. Pengra is quite well and lfavorably known in Phoenix, having come here from Portland. Ore, year ago last winter with an invalid daugh- ter Mr. Gill went to San Diego week ago.
 F. E. Ellinwood must have endeared himself to the democratic delegates ly1-terday afternoon. In the midst of the sweltering heat 130 fans, all he could find in town. were brought ir and the air was filled with them. Later lin the day he caused lot of handsome t-il b.I fo ho jet, Tod the delegates If in this way he has impressed upon them that he would be as active in congress as he was for their comfort, an EllinwCOd delegation may be elected today.
 A document was filed in the county recorders office yesterday which will rather painfully surprise the heirs Of the estate of the late Michael Wormser, las it reduces the value of his property by s30, ,O00 The instrument was mortgage Of the date Of April 1. 1897, lexecuted to the Bank Of Arizona. at !Prescctt It is secured by a large area of land owned by Wormser on the south side Of the river Why the Imortgaee was held so long is not known and none but Wormser's most Intimate friends were aware of it's eZ- istence.
 Secretary c. II. Akers. who returned from Prescott on Wednesday night, brought with him a relic of the wreck iby the explosion Of a locomotive there the other day. It is a portion of the sand-box, which after having bee1 thrown a quarter of a mile, nearly crt a telegraph pole in two One sectio of the locomotive weighing eight tor was thrown about the same distance. The air pump. which weighed 500 pounds, was thrown in front of tf T postoffice at a time when the stre was usually crowded with peopl There is not the slightest piece abol the locomotive that can ever be useH again, the destruction was so con- plete.
 MT. Blythe Of the weather bureau here will be succeeded by MT. William c. Burns. who has been sent out from the central office at Washington Mr Burns has been with the bureau Hong time so that he is not only val luable official, but a very pleasant gen. tleman. He will be assisted by MT. 4. Ashenberger. formerly connected with the local office, bat since located at Portland, Ore. MT. Blythe will go to Flagstaff for a few days and will then proceed to his new post at Vicks- burg Miss. The people of Phoenix will regret his departure. He has not only made the bureau here valuable. but he has proved himself to be good citizen.
 There was decided falling off in the number of eXcursionists who left for the coast last night by the S. F. P. & P. and the M. & P. this morning. Many of those who went were men go- ing to meet their families and escort them home. Some of the s. F. F. & p. passengers were F. w. Thode l.. Castle, W. A. Davis and M. F. Davis. San Diego; E. F. Kellner, Jr. and Mrs. c. M. Dawes, Los Angeles; J. DeNlund and w. DeMund Long Peach. Among the M. & P. eXcur- sionists were: William Davis, L. D. Hufft, Mildred McDaniels. Neils Peter son and wife, George Decker, Mrs. w T. Cummings, MT. and Mrs. J. J. Gar diner, Mrs. Mills, William M Myers, H. W. Wilson, MT. and Mrs. Wilson.
 HenryMOeller yesterday made com plaint in police court against Odette Lambert and another woman named Bernard. charging them with keeping a disorderly house. The women were until lately prostitutes and perhaps are yet. though they lately pretended to have spasm of reform. They didn't want to become righteous with a sud denness which would give them a jar. so they determined to ascend by de grees.' The next upward step toward a higher life they believed would be the running of a saloon They ac- cordingly opened one on Tuesday in building on South Fifth street, erected