Arizona citizen., 1874-02-07

THE CITIZEN. SATURDAY, February :, 1874.
 
 LOCAL MATTERS.
 COMFORTABLY furnished rooms to let by Geo. Cooler as per advertisement to-day.
 MARSH & Go. have slaughtered many fat hogs this week and have more on hand.
 FIRST LIEUT.. VIM. l.. CLARKE has taken charge of the quartermaSter's stores at Tucson depot, Major Furey having been ordered to Fort Adams, Rhode Island, as Stated in THE CITIZEN last week.
 VHE grain fields in the valley just west of TlASon, present a beautifully green ap- small grain in them, is as fair as the farm CTS can wish.
 UNTIL notice to the contrary is given, the Yuma stage will leave Tucson at p. m. The roads are again in fine order and the stages come and go with their ac- cuStomed promptness Snd regularity.
 TIUE weather this week has been good enoHgh in Tucson. Early in the week, a WerE little rain fell and quite respectable sN&wers came down on Wednesday. Light frost appeared about every morning. The days, however, have been very pleasant.
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 T,I. goods direct from New York and Phila- delphia. Their stock E now large and complete to meet all local demands either at wholesale or retail.
 VIM. B. HOOPER & Co.'S train arrived from Yuma on Thursday evening, with govern ment stores forS San Carlos and Chi ricahua reservatiOTIS.k In the lot are blan- kets, carpenters tooE and crockery. The whole was consigned to E. N. Fish G Co.,. for reshinmenf Els.
 THE mileannbssh qstlunszs s,hz 7sla S1rI- ZEN last week, viii come rn te-lnorrow about noon, on the frnck af the llaifNay house. between. here and Lowell. Mooreas "Plunder," Lees Grey Eagle a 9 q Gahdber,s "Red Fox" gre entered. and poOIs for them will be sold at Congress Hall tonight.
 SAMUEL HUGHEs and associates in min ing in the PapagO district. have just ship ped, by GOldbcrg'S train, 700 pounds Of ere to Yuma for Shipfne It to San Francisco to be thoroughly worked. It will be sent across the Atlantic if the cOnsignees in San Francisco believe a better test Of it can be had by so doing.
 SAMUEL DRACIIMAN has 6 letter from Yuma which says the train of Barnett & Block started 5from there on the 30th ulti- mo; that the same evening the teamsters went back S town, took In some more whisky and got into fight in which two of them were killed and three others soon brought up in jail. Of course they had a good time" all around.
 SOME months ago H. S. Stevens put up firSt-cla S windmill to pump water at his residence. This week a lead pipe has been put in the ground and made to con meet wVp the tank of the windmill and his proherty at the corner of Main. and Mesilla streets. Trees have lately been planted on the back ground of the latter which we understand is to be converted into fine hotel.
 IT has trarspireG that one Of the men hung SyIthe citizens of Tucson last Au- gust, mSFdered the Baker family at Blue Water station, December 2l, 1871, and also killed a nan not far from TucSo- within few years past. How many more Iii7r- ders he committed, will probably never be known. There has nothing come to light since that hanging, to show any of them to have deserved better ending.
 FRANCIsCo ROMERO died very suddenly on Monday. He had killed beef and had fl half skinned, when he rose to com mfnce on the other side and in doing SO, Nmarked Eff this pain don't soon leave ny side, it will kill me-" and he never spoke again. No post mOrtom eXamina- tiOn was made but it is thought that the bursting of a blood vessel caused the sud- den death.
 ABOUT the middle of the week, num- Der of trains loaded with barley for Camp Grant passed Tucson. I. GOldberg's train of six teams and wagons left Cn the 4th for san Diego. loaded with United States arms for Benicia arsenal and hides for the San Diego market. The train will bring goods in return for a wholesale and retail grO- cery and hardware store to be established in Tucson by Lazarus & Co.,, in the corner lately occupied by J. Sampler.
 PERsoNAI.-E. N. Fish left for Yuma by stage of last Saturday. Theo. Welisch re- turned from New Mexico by blackboard of last Monday, whither he had been to pur- chase A large stock of choice goods for his store atF. T. Hayden'S old stand. Judge w. J. Osborn and wife left for Florence by private conveyance on Tuesday and ex-