Arizona republican., 1906-07-26
OF LOCAL
 INTEREST

MRS. p. H. COYLE BETTER.-Mrs. P. H. Coyle, who has been quite ill of peritonitis and appendicitis, is report ed much better and expects to be out again in week or ten days.
 A PHARMACISTS ARRIVAL Jacob Bauman arrived in the city yes terday from Flagstaff to take the place of assistant with the Brisley Drug company. MT. Bauman is a registered pharmacist in Ohio and also in Ari- zona.,
 A VISITING Ranger Speed who is stationed at Wilcox, was in Phoenix yesterday conferring with the live stock sanitary board. It has been ranging frequently in the vicin ity of Wilcox, says MT. Speed, and the cattle on the range are all in fine con dition
 A STRAY HORSE-The police have a stray sorrel horse in the city pound they would like to have the owner come and take away. He is of no use to the city and will be too old to vote by next election so there Is no object in holding him any longer than is nec- essary.
 WHooPINo coUeH-It is report ed that Cave Creek settlement is en-
 
 cough, not only among the children, but some of the adults. The children have little trouble, but their elders are some of them in a most distressing state of health for this time of the year.
 BAD BOYS.-A number of bad boys make a practice of gathering near the railroad tracks where they cross the canals east of the city between here and Tempe and throwing rocks at the trains. Some day one or more of them will get into trouble if their parents or somebody else does not break up their practice. Yesterday they tossed a rock through a broken window and hit a man named Diehl on the head. wOunding him quite severely and eaus- ing him to bleed profusely.
 TAKE CARE OF THE HORSES- During this hot weather merciful men will be more than usually mercifuI to their stock. Horses should not be Overdriven or left tied too long in the sun these days, and of course they should be given a litrIe water once in a while. Two horses in a Phoenix cor ral were taken sick yesterday appar. ently on account of the heat, but vet erinarian restored them and it is re. ported that one man lost a valuable animal as the result of -exertion in the hot sun.
 A FINE RANCH SOLD-H. I. La tham & Go. and w H. Nall, have sold to Ira Beck for D. F. Crabb his SO- acre farm one and a quarter miles west of the fair ground. It is describ- ed as the west half of the southeast quarter of section B in township ?. range. ? east. The consideration being $S500. The farm is a highly improved property, being all in alfalfa and hay ing a comfortable ranch house upon it. The same firm recently sold to MT. Beck the Cavaness farm of 60 acres, which lies across the road and a little west. MT. Beck is a man of good cir cumstances and believes in getting in- to new countries and growing up with them. He has investments also in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
 CEMENT POSSIBILITlES-In view of the probable large demand for ce- ment in the completion of the irriga- ton works in this vicinity in the next few years and in the possibility of later lining some of the canals with cement, the government engineers last year began the investigation of local lime and clay deposits To determine the practicability of cement works in the valley at some future time. Last September announcement was made in these columns of the withdrawal of several sections from entry along the Agua Fria river, where good indica- tions had been found. A week or two ago MT. Duryea. the cement expert of the reclamation service. as was re- fad af he prospect. He said he could make no report at the time, though surface in dications were very satisfactory. Yes terday the local reclamation office sent out three men and a cook, with a team. to sink test holes on the ground and if possible determine something of the size of the deposits and secure samples of the various formations exposed.