The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-03-08
Pima County Matters.

We make sp the following from things" found in the Tucson Citizen of Reh 22:
 F.M. Hodge, village marshal, was collect ing dog tax, S2. per head Wonder if oar city fathers wont tax dogsf
 District Court was to have convened Mon day last
 Dr. wilbur and A. Mickey had gone to the San Carlos River, to engineer water ditches for the Apaches oi that reservation.
 Mr. ID. A. Bennett mad informed the edit or of the Citizen that two hundred men were in the mountains near Crittenden, prospect ing and mining.
 Ice in Tucson, snow on tops of adjacent mountains.
 NIT. Coles Bashford, Secretary of the Ter ritory, had clerks at work, copying and pre- pairing for the printer such laws as were passed by the last legislature. The paper says that said laws will be in the hands of officers entitled to them, by the first of July next. We learn from a gentleman who re- gently arrived here from Tucson, that these laws will be printed m sOIne Eastern printing office, and cannot but regret that fact, on account of the idle printers and printing ma tcrsl at home in the Territory. or a meeting to organize Democratic
 Party in the Territory, W.F fleming of ]
 Alsap, of Maricopa, secretary. As yet, we
 have not been favored with copy of the
 proceedings, nor had the Citizen. Freight was again arriving from California
 eta Yuma and Gila route, a change for which the MINER has cOntended.
 II. Lesinsky < Co. had closed their business at Tucson and started the residue Of their goods for Messila, New Mexico. Samuel Drschman, an old and good friend of the MINER, was about to start business in
 the building just vacated by Lesinsky * Co. | Mir. L. Ieckenlorff had arrived honIe from
 a visit to the Atlantic States.
 Capt. T. J. Jetferds, agent for and friend of Cachise, was at Tucson, and represe nted Cachise and his Apaches as all right, a rep reseDtation, the strict truth of which, we must be excused from believing.
 Rev. c. A. Reeder, wb!o,n of Prescott, had started for other localities. He expects to go East in sh5it time. A Prescottitc, just from Tucson, informs us that owing to the almost universal belief in Romanism, which prevails at Tucson, Rev. Reeder failed to mak3 much of an impression there.
 Dr. Wilbur has succeeded in moving the Grsdt Apaches to their new home on the San Carlos, near the new military post at Mount Graham. He gives the Citizen the following information
 The Final Apaches acknowledge Eskevanzin as Their Cbtcf with eight sub-chefs, and the band number lj2 men, 257 women and 40 children that the AriVlipas chief Is Chquto Capitan, with four sub-cbiefs, and tue band consists of 3s nen, 5l women and S9 children that the Tontos ac. knowledge Paypeylay chief with two sub chiefs and the band embraces 34 men, 46 women and y7 children. Among these several bands are six women, eleven children and one man, eaptiyes from other tribes. Ttess statements give total Of 2S5 men, 36O women and 6Os children. These figures include chiefs and eaptivss. Tine Doctor figures up the daily expenditures Of the agency at <213.l1 The san Ca-los reserve agency is about 70 miles by the trail from the old one at Grant
 When the base Lieut. Whitman was agen, for those Indians he used to swell their mum bers, on paper, so as to enrich himself and friends by pocketiDg the proceeds of extra rations.
 On the subject of amendments" the Git izen accuses the Hon. Fred. Henry of this County, of getting of the following:
 MT. Speaker, l am opposed to these eternal amendments. MT. Speaker, when Gabriel topts bis trumpet on tue final day of judgment, some member from the then rural districts of Arizona will jump mp and in shrll notes offer an amend ment, and fl it carries ii would so confoRnd the dead that they would net know whether it was an alarm of fire or war-whoop of Apaches.
 Two sisters of St Joseph were getting ready to teach the Papago Indian children, at San Xavier.
 In the MINER of last week, we alluded to certain resolves of the good citizens of that part of the Gila River near Florence, and now transfer said resolves, with names of the citizens, to our columns
 FLORENCE, A. T. Eeb. IT, 1873
 At meeting of the citizens of the Gila River, | held at Florence, it was
 Resolved, That whereas life, security and law. ful and rightful possession Of property have been for years past and still continue to be insecure i'm this immediate vicinity, and in fact throughout | tbe whole Of the upper valley Of the Gila and | whereas, sucb insecurity is caused by the wanton and unlawful acts Of certain bad men and despera. dos who neither fear regard the laws of God or man, and have set both at defiance and whereas. the tardy administration of justice, not only in Plma County, but throughout the whole Territory of Arizona. seems to have embroidered certain lawless men in the commission of violent acts in our midst be It
 Resolved by the law abiding citizens of the up per Gila valley, That We have this day met and considered calmly and our feeling, ana disagreable situation and the bad name that II necessarily brings upon the whole community we have resolved that will by our mild strength aid and assist all officers Of tbe law in the thiuI aud fearless discharge of their duties and failing 10 procure this protection 10 which we are entl tied, we are determined to put stop in a summa. ry manner to any more lawess acts in our midst ana further wish 10 give notice to all lawle char 'nA' "c pS'S noTne "itu their acts until further forbearance on our part would seem in encourage these parties and that in future we are determined to put an efiectual stop to the further commission of such violent acts as have for line last four years dlsgraced our settlement.
 Louis Depuy, Jos Collingwood, John Deylne. ' rank staples E. w. Reagan, Peter Van Haren, M l.. Stiles, Edward Catbemar, Thos. e. Irwin Wm.. Long, Patrick Holland, r. N. Grifiio, steph. enRamirez, Hill DeArmitt. Nj. Rogers, l.. Ruggles. A alexander Gay; r. K Brady, Patrick Hylan, b. c. Thompson, 8. B. Wise, Chas A Paige. stenhsn Richard, John D. Benner, Thos Mcclellan. 6 a. Mason, J. w. Anderson, A. Hamerslag.
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