Arizona republican., 1901-02-25

bloom, and on the best watered places ;kr. bright yellow flowers have been in blossom for week. Yesterday several parties went out and gathered their huggies full of the peoples. In the Paradise valley. to the north of the range of mountains north Of the city p-ppies are found in the greatest pro- fusion.
 LIGHTNING IN A CLEAR SKY For two hours last night the south western sky was aglare with frequent flashes of lightning, but there were no clouds in sight.
 RIVER IS HIGH-The rise in the river which began Saturday, continued all day Sunday and yesterday there was over foot of water coming over the Arizona dam. Th9 river was un- fordable yesterday. The. water coming down now is very muddy, in fact much dirtier than usual.
 CHA BEND LITIGATION-A civil suit involving majority of the popu- lation of Gila Bend according to the last official census will be tried in Jus flee Burnett's court today, where 1t has come on a change of venue from the court of Justice Luther Kaltenbach at Gila Bend. There is said to be no such thing as neutrality at Gila Bend. Every man is either for or against everything in sight
 BIG WOOD FIRE. III. r. Hanna han, a teamster who drove to the city yesterday to secure supplies for cattle camps north of Gila Bend. says that an immense lot of wood owned by several MeXicans, about thirty miles from Gila Bend, in the Gila Bend mountains, burned last Thursday morning. Han nahan says there were nearly 1000 cords in the pile which, at A.5O per cord. would be valued ar $4,500. He says the fire was of incendialy origin.
 RECALLS EMBALMED BEEF. - General Charles F. Eagan passed Mari copa on Friday morifing on his way to California. General Eaean was the the chief Of the cammissary depart- m mt during the war wlh Spain. but he let his temper get the better of him in controversy between him and General Miles on the then very inter- ostlng subject of embalmed beef. He was suspended, but was lately re- stored and retired as if nothing had happened to interrupt his official ca rear.
 A DOUBLE COINCIDENCE-T men by the name of John Doe who are not in any way related to each other and not even acquainted will be tried in Justice Burnett's court today. IL is a double coincidence that they have the same name and that both wert drunk.
 SHEARING MANY SfIEEP-Many visitors from the city are viewing the shearng of sheep at the Hugh Camp bell camp, north of the Black canyon bridge across the Arizona canal. There are probably S0,000 sheep herded in the valleys within ten miles and no scar city of feed. in fact enoug1 to feed five times that number of sh4ep. Several thousand ewes have been aken further west; for lambing. and are located near a butte four miles up on the canyon road. At the camp there are a half hundred men at work. The shearers are paid four cents per head and some of them can shear from 100 to 150 day.
 THE KIND FOR ARIzONA.- Last September Mir w. l.. Ninson came from the big state of Texas,to Phoenix. lie was so well pleased with the ely and Salt River valley that he deter mined to make it his future home. He is now engaged in business here. MT. Vins3n Is of such a hospitable turn that he likes others. to enjoy good thing with him. Actuated, by this characteristic, he st about informing his eastern friends of the salubrious climate and fertile soil he had found. The power of his facile pen has al ready drawn to the territory a crowd of twenty. with more to follow. The latest arrivals consist of Col. Charles l.. Keity of Lufkin, Texas, in company with the family of Mir. James A. Ew- ing of the same place. Col. Kelly has for the present rented a residence In Brills' addition. Col. Kelly is a gentle man of means and expects to make in- vestments in Phoenix and ranch land In the valley.