Arizona citizen., 1874-03-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Special Dispatches to THE CITIZEN.
PRESCOTT AND VICINITY.

PRESCOTT, February N.-A letter of Guar termaster Gen. MeiggS on the reduction O1 expenses in the army, was received here yesterday. It is general in its application and says the amount paid out for monthly salaries to civilian employees must imme- diately be reduced two-thrds. In the de partment of Arizona this decrease will be from $9,000 to S2,S00, and under no circum- stances will the order in this regard be diSobeyed. This reduction does not apply to telegraph operators who are paid out oi the earnings of the line.
 PRESCOTT, March 2.-Lieuts. Woodson and Rodgers are at san Diego en route to their proper stations from leaves of ab- Sence; the former goes to Grant and the latter to Bowie. Capt. E. H. Leib and a small detachment Of recruits are passen- gers on the Gulf steamer to reach Yuma next week; also LieutenantS Heyl and Lockwood. Capt. Leib goes to Grant and the others report to headquarters for as signment.
 Lieut.. William Allen, not long since promoted from sergeant, is assigned to company l, l2th Infantry, at Camp Mo- have.
 Col. Mason and wife arrived at Fort Whipple yeSterday-having been twenty days on the way from Los Angeles with rain nearly every day.
 Lieut.. Fleming, l2th Infantry, has been relieved from duty at Beales Springs and ordered to Camp MOhave to act there as Quartermaster and commissary.
 All civilian employees at D. Ort Whipple were discharged on Saturday and their places filled as far as practicable by enlist ed men.
 Col. Roger Jones, inspector-general of the military division of the Pacific, is ex- pected in Prescott about March b.
 PRESCOTT, March 5.-COlonel and Mrs Mason left Prescott for Camp Verde March third.
 The firm of Flanders & Penelon, Pres cott photographers, succeeded last week in making a very creditablc cabinet like ness of Gen. Crooll-the only one taken for years. It is very life-like.
 Tie bids for contracts to supply forage and transportation from July l, 1871, to July 1, 1875, were opened by Gen. Small yester- day. Great interest was manifested and the bids were very low. Many prominent getlemen were present from Tucson and other points. Among them MeSSrs. OchOa, Ewing, Bennett and Drachman, and ali these expect to start home next Saturday or Sunday.
 Col. Roger Jones, inspector-general, will make tour Of this department during this and next month.
 Colonel Sprague, paymaster, will pay the troops at Yuma to-day or tomorrow.
 Mrs. Nelson, wife Of the paymaSter, gave a farewell reception at her residence last evening. Next week she returns to San Francisco on visit to her home.
 Reports from Beales Springs are that the Indians are quiet. Reports from Verde represent the sanitary condition of the Indians there as excellent; Indians are and want to commence putting in crops.
 Tine mail arrived punctually this morn ing, bringing papers and letters from Tue son the first time in a month.
 Gen. Crook left for Verde this morning and will continue on to San Carlos and and may be expected in san Car los any time after March 9. It is believed here that the General will take the field in person and keep actively employed the of Randall, Rice, BabcOck, Brown, Hamilton and Schuyler until the san Carlos renegades are all reduced to He has said but little upon this matter, but did express himself fully able to force the san Carlos bands back as soon as the weather moderated enough to 4nable the troops to move in the noun aims,