The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-08-10
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES, Cal, July %, 1872 To the Editor Of he .4riz0nn Miner:


 To the Editor of he frizonn Miner:
 The Railroad Question.
 Heretofore this question has furnished grand theme for popular discussion; and now, to greater extent than at any time previous. is the subject absorbing the public interest There are two principal reasons Tor this. Tn the first place, the proposition on which the people are to vote has been made public. Its conditions seem fair nsomuch as terms of requirements are concerned; but the amounts and conditions of payments, 1 am inclined to think, will he found to con stitute dose which the good people of Los Angeles county will hesitate to swallow. The other reason t. which have referred + that recent railroad movements at the E's: seem decidedly favorable 10 the early con>truc- tion of the Thirty-second Parallel Road to San Diego.
 Now, the people of Los Angeles are largely of the opinion of the writer, that Scott Is made of soundcr material than that which constitutes the corporat" existence of Stan ford. The Central Company has lied out rageously to the people of California resident on the section through which its line pl>>es,
 
 arrangement with it's chief. and should he, pursuant to such arrangement keep iaiti. II would be the f,st and oaig i1stan n which he would have done so. This Is a weeping statement, but ir is a true one.
 We all feel convin reI tha if Scott em- barks in the g parallel enterprise, its early completion will, from that moment, be SC cured. San Diego is the natural outlet If the vast resources of this county, so that the extension of a road between this city and San Diego is inevitable As you are aware, the project is already in embryo, and it re- auires only the quirkening influence of frend- ly capital to carry 1t upward into active life.
 Herein I have presented the general fca lures of the railroad question as it stands at present. ani having done this, will rather await the suggestions of others than offer any of my own.
 A Serious Acci lent.
 At this writing, regret to state, Captain Bean, editor of the Ne,oS, i> lying in very critical condition-so critical. indee l, that n, recovery is, by many, despaired of. For years past the Captain has suffered from occasional attacks of hemorrhage of the lungs. On two occasions, since the 4th inst, he has been confined to bed in consequence of the recur- renee of these attacks; and on Satur lay last, after a prolonged term of wakefulness, he sought to procure rest by the influence of an opiate. Two ordinary doses of morphia hay ing failed to procure him the reces~ary rest, he very recklessly, determined to increase the quantity. and actually swallowed some ten or twelve grains of the drug Within less than an hour afterwards he was in a con dition of utter unconsciousness. Doctors were called in and instantly proceeded to ap ply antidotes and restoratiyes. hut without the slightest effect until finally, Dr. Rich ardson, formerly of Arizona) by the aid ot a galvanic battery restored him to animation. The utmost attention has since been necessa " to prevent his relapse into the peculiar stupor from which he hai been aroused. Even now bis condition is critical indeed, and his recovery is extremely doubtful.
 Arizonans on the War-Path.
 A man named Horton, who claims to be from Arizona, has been doing some tirst-class fighting at Anahiem. A peace off CT who had so far forgotten himself as to remonstrate with this plucky gentlemen, (they say that every person and thing in Arizona wears -armor of thorns) received, for his pains, 8 Commission to be at peace for whole 'terni- ". IL was a sg.E '0us piece of business so scandalous, indeed, that the authorities have foand it necessary to tie the hands of this scalp-ioving Arizonan in 5000 to appear. before tue grand jury.
 The O her Arlzonan is an ex arISv officer .e.epea bupkelburger, who. hath rank nI Cn,,-YsE=-. The >,sl9l.s4s.' now practiciug attorney at tEe-isos Angeles Bar, but even this exalted position was not sufficient to io- suire ntl 9wu a certain shootist named l enedy, vao emptied his revolver at thc .1olonel, declaring, the while, his intention |" skin the Colonel and prorure for himself pair of buckskin pantaloons from the hide. lie didn't succeed, however, and so chagrin- cd did he become at the collapse of his cher isbed project, that he has gone, no one knows whither-and, of course, without his "huck- skin pantaloons. The menaccd Colonel, however. is not satisfied to let the matter rest, and has sworn out warrant for the ar rest of him that would have robed hi. de- prayed person in this worse than Dolly Var den wTrowserloons" EVIL MERoDiCH.