Arizona citizen., 1874-01-17
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special Dispatches to THE CITIZEN ]
PRESCOTT AND VICINITY.

| statement of awards made on proposals for supplying fresh beef and mutton and
 subsistence supplies, in the department Ol Arizona, opened January 10, 1874, by Gen l NJ. r. Small, Chief COmmiSSary of SubSiSt-
 ence. Beef and mutton on the block, F,
 Marsh and Lionel M. Jacobs for issue tC 1 troops: Fresh beef F 39-l00 cents per
 pound; mutton II S9-l00 cents per pound. | For sale to officers: Fresh beef l3 24-I0C l cents per pound: mutton l5 cents.
 Subsistence supplies: C. P. Head & Go. l for all the posts advertised, clear bacon l (SideS) 23 cents per pound.
 w. B. Hellings, pork cured and packed | in Territory: Ten barrels at Camp Me | DOweIl at 26 cents per pound; 10 barrels at | Camp Verde at 29 cents per pound; 10 bar
 relS at Fort Whipple at 2S cents per pound. l Camp Apache: Charles LesinSky, flour 95-l00 cents per pound. s. Seligman, | beans 79-l00 cents per pound. S. l.. Hub | bell corn meal ) H)-l00 cents per pound. Camp Bowie: Charles I.Pslnsky, flour } 95-l00 cents per pound. Vim ZeckendOrf. beans cents. D. A. Bennett, corn meal : 47-l00 cents per pound. Camp Grant: Nicholas Richard, flour 6 24-l00 cents per pound. Wm. ZeckendOrf, beans cents per pound. D. A. Bennett, 7 6-l0 cents per pound.
 Camp Lowell: D. A. Bennett. flour f 83-I00 cents per pound. Wm. ZeckendOrf, beans 49-l0 cents per pound. D. \. Ben nett, corn meal 74-l00 cenls per pound. T., flour S5-lOO cents per pound. Vim. Zeck- endOrf, beans l4-100 cents per pound. c. T. Hayden, corn meal l-I6 cents per pound.
 Camp Mojave: M. Goldwater, flour 7 l-I2 cents per pound.
 Camp Verde: c. T. Hayden, flour 7-16 cents per pound. c. P. Head x Co.,, beans cents c. T. Hayden, corn meal l5-l00 cents per pound. C. P. Head & Co.,, hom- iny cents per pound.
 ~ q / cents per pound. Vim. Gi!son j0O0 pounds beans cents per pound. C. P. Head & Co.
 000 pounds beans cents per pound. C. T. Hayden, corn meal } 7-l6 cents per pound. C. r. Head & Co., hOminy 6 cents per pound.
 PRESCOTT, January 12.-Quite a number of gentlemen from Tucson have been in Prescott during the past week, awaiting the opening of bids for supplies required by the commissary department. Among them were c. E. CurtiSs, of Ewing and CurtisS, Joseph COllingwoOd Of Fish & Co.,, D. A. Bennett and others.
 The weather which has been threaten ing for some days past, set in for rain on the night of 10th, during which and all day of the llth, warm penetrating rain fell which will prove great help to the country. Still driZZling and skv cloudv.
 On Saturday the Ilth, dispatch was read at headquarters from Washington saying that a new quartermaster to fake Col. ROckwell's place, would be ordered to Arizona as soon as possible. Colonel Montgomery ordered here vice Gen. Dana, has been relieved and it is reported he has applied to go on the retired list.
 A very fine office in connection with the military telegraph line has been fitted m in san Diego. Tine line through Arizona will soon be as well equipped as any on the coast.
 James Thomas, sheriff of this county. abSconded last week leaving unpaid about $l0,000 of private debts, besides taking with nim few hundreds he had collected in the vicinity of, Wickenburg. He was not indebted to the county for any Iarrn amount and his bondsmen promptly made good the deficiency.
 Hazards train arrived from Ehrenberg on Friday, 9th inst, with a large amount of freight for Fort Whipple.
 Surgeon F. l. Bailey, formerly medical director of this department, has been granted three months leave of absence bv the Secretary or War. Lieut.. Col. R. i. Dodge, 23d Infantry, it is reported has been authorized to delay joining his regiment for the present; Lieuts. Craigie, l2th h. f&ntry, and Stille, 23d Infantry, will arrive at Fort Yuma tonight. They are passen- gers by the steamer Newborn from san Francisco. Lieut. Stille goes to Camp Lowell.
 No news from any of the scouting par ties now moving through Tonto Basin has been received at Prescott.
 PRESCOTT, January 1.-The weather has not yet cleared up, probabilities are we shall have heavy rain storm within the next twenty-four hours.
 Col. Nelson, PaymaSteT, and Col. Evans InspectOr-General of the department. re- turned to headquarters last night from Camp M0jave and Beale Springs. They found the road very muddy on their re- turn trip.
 Messrs. Curtiss, Collingwood and Ben nett started on this mornings blackboard for Florence and Tucson.
 Capt. Burns scout is expected back at Fort Whipple some time during the pres ent week.
 Capt. Mason, 5th Cavalry, is to arrive at Prescott from Camp Verde to-day or to- morrow.
 Lynch and Anderson, soldiers who de- serted frcm Fort Whipple on the Ilth inst were arrested this morning at WIcken- burg.
 Dr. Tonner, Indian agent, has arrived at Prescott. He has been instructed to make an inspection of the various Indian re- serves in Arizona, and starts for the Verde day after tomorrow.
 IL is stated that between seventy-five and one hundred deserters surrendered themselves in this department under the terms of the Presidents recent procIaua- tiOn.
 PRESCOTT, January 15.-A dispatch re- ceiyed this morning from Senator Kelly, of Oregon, announces the glorious news of Gen. Crooks confirmation by the senate. No army appointment since the OrganiZa- tlon of the Territory has given so much satisfaction in this part of Arizona. This joy will be shared in by all other sections as fast as the news can reach them. A sa- lute is to be fired at meridian to-day at Fort Whipple by the battery under direc-