Arizona republican., 1898-08-15
LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS
SmolI Paragraphs of Gen.
 erol Local Interest.
News Of phoenix and Tributary Re- zion. The DOingS Of PeOple and Other Matters.

John J. Wood of St. Louis was at the Hotel Adams yesterday
 F. H. Botsford of Los Angeles is in town, d guest of the Hotel Adams
 Mrs. w. J. Welcome returned on Saturday night from weeks outing at Prescott
 Among yesterdays guests at the Hotel Adams was Charles J. Heine- man of San Francisco.
 Mr. R. H. Barker, citiz.n member of the board of control who had been spending week at Prescott, re- turned on Saturday night.
 MT. B. A. Fickas left last night for Indianapolis, Ind, as delegate to. the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias. He will be absent about three weeks.
 James Keene, connected with Wells, Fargo & Co.,, with headquarters at Nogales, arrived in the city yesterday morning to take the run on the 8. F. P. & F. for short time.
 George Buxton yesterday received letter from Cecil Shaver, who went to Alaska about six months ago. He is connected with the Kohler-James Mercantile company at Juneau and is doing we'll.
 MT. Sar1 Korriek. proprietor of the New York store, will leave tonight for the east to purchase goods. He will first visit Chicago and afterward New York, Philadelphia and other importing and manufacturing cente-s.
 The Spanish American lodge No. g organized last night with the fol- lowing officers: E. Gonzalez, presi- dent; C. Ceschetti, vice-president; J NJ Melendrez, secretary; P B. Sal agar, vice-secretary; Gregorio Ava rado, treasurer; Modesto Fontes, usher; Y E. Sonoqui, collector; di rectors, R. Silva A., J Flores, J. So- telo, R. Corona and M ArviZo A Mexican girl living at the corner of First and Van Buren streets was awakened yesterday morning by a hand laid on her A man, the owner of the hand, was standing over her She SCI canned and the intruder ran away leaving a shoe behind him. The shoe js, about a number seven, half worn and broad toed It is DOW at Justice Johnstones office, where the owner can obtain it by proving his ownership and paying for this notice. After an interim of two weeks the Pioneer band appeared at the city hall plaza last night. In this time Phoe- nix had come to full appreciation of the luxury of these Sunday evening concerts and there was a bigger at tendance than ever. The band rose to the occasion and played better and more spiritedly than ever. Beside the turnout from town there was quite an audience from Tempe and Mesa, for | these concerts have become part O. the Sunday evening life of those towns
 I Louis Melczer recently returned 1 from trip to Jerome. While he was there he met a man from the east whJ asked many questions about Phoenlx
 He asked if it were true that it was municipal offense to expose a ther- mometer on the street between June i and September l. MT Melczer said he had never heard of any such regu- | lation, but that he had seen many thermometers on the street and that
 between the above mentioned dates | as interesting curiosities. The man from the east said that he must have been incorrectly informed. but he had
 been told that such legislation as he had described had been enacted in or der tc prevent an inflammation of the public mind and to prevent strangers from going away with exaggerated iieas regarding temperature.
 A story and an absolutely true one is told of one of the best known busi- ness men of Phoenix who lately took his family to Prescott to remain dur ing the rest of the summer. He was hunting a house At last he found one, a pleasant brick cottage, and moved in. The next day he went to i the Burke hotel and describing the house he occupied. he Inquired: What kind Of people are those living the
 next door below me?' We'll was the reply. ''I do not think they belong to church, and so far as I know have
 never been in the penitentiary ''I
 was afraid,'' said the Phoenix man ''that had not got in.o g. respectable
 neighborhood. I heard curious goings
 on there nearly all night and much iCOuNSTSdtlOu ludi WOu1uH llhc lily little boy to hear" He was then told that he had settled down in the heart
 of the tenderloin district He was further comforted by the assurance that he was the first respectable per
 son that had ever lived in that beau.
 tiful brick cottage and that if he re. mained there long enough he might have leavening and reform .k-
 But he hadn't gone to Prescott as g
 reformer, so he moved out
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