Arizona citizen., 1874-05-30

THE CITIZEN.
 SATURDAY / - MAY 30, 1874.
 LOCAL MA TIERS. fa. s- Ot. --- ------s. THE first grain was cut in the valley in front of Tucson this week.
 AN opera-glass has been left at this office which the owner can have by proving property and paying charges. SEVERAL days during the past week the weather has been very windy and un- pleasant
 WE have not heard of any depredations committed by the Apaches for ten days past.
 THE saw-mill of James Lee has made quite a lot of lumber this week. We notic- ed a number of teams loaded with lumber for Camp Lowell. .+ TIE fine thorough bred sheep belonging to the Carr Bros. arrived here on WedneS- day. It does the eyes good to look at them.
 THE train of Judge Hayden came in on Wednesday from Yuma, loaded with goods for Fish 65 Co.,, J. H. Archibald and Zeckendorf Bros.
 ROSCOE L. BRYANT is prepared to do jobs Of painting, glazing and paper-haDging in igoOd style. He intends to leave in few weeks, and these who have work will do well to call on him.
 l WE learn that the new mail contractors have bought the stock and wagons belong
 ing to James A. Moore, the present con
 tractor. If they carry the mail as faith | fully and regularly as he has done, there will be no cause for complaint. | Gov. STAFFORD and Bishop Whitaker vis- l tied the public schools on Wednesday.
 The Bishop says he has seldom seen so
 orderly and we'll behaved scholars. Their
 advancement has been quite satisfactory, most of them understand nearly every
 thing that is spoken to them in English
 and they read, write and spell quite well
 in English.
 MIR. HARDIN purchased this week Solo
 mon Warmers place on courthouse plaza, including corral and stables, and intends | to enlarge and improve it and start first
 class livery stable. Hardin is a live man
 and makes everything stir around him.
 He has some fine horses and large drove
 of cattle on the Santa Cruz, a little above
 Tucson.
 THE blacksmith and wagon shops in Tucson are all busy. There are at least @
 dozen in all, and some quite large ones. EtchellS and Belknap each have num- | Der of men employed and do firSt-clasS
 work at reasonable rates. A wagon or l buggy made here is much more valuable than those brought from abroad, for the
 reason that in this dry climate the wood gets thoroughly seasoned. 
 THE ball at Levin'so on Wednesday even- ing was a grand success. The music by the 5th Cavalry Band was superb and the attendance was good. The floor for danc- the trees it is cool and pleasant. The flowers and trees beautifully illuminated makes it look like fairy scene. Such gatherings are sOclable and pleasant and we hope to see them often repeated.
 THE Tucson market is well supplied with vegetables, delicious oranges are still coming in from Sonora, good fresh butter is plentiful at 75 cents per pound and eggs at 75 cents per dozen. Since we are not obliged to keep our stock in cOrralS large portion of the time, to protect them from Apaches, our beef and mutton is almost too fat. With such food no one need com plain of starvation or even privatiOn, but it does some people good to talk about suf- fering on the frontier.
 DlStOP " pICelCllCO JilS COuIl house on Sunday and Tuesday evenings to large audiences. During his short soiOurn he has won golden opinions from our peo- pie, and a general regret was expressed that he could not remain longer. He eX- pressed much agreeable surprise at. the sober, orderly condition of society here and considers it quite a marvel that we have organized and put in successful! oper ation so good a school system. He left here on Thursday for PheniX and Prescott and carries with him the respect and best wishes of the people.
 MESsRS. HAMoR and McElliott who have been prospecting in the Santa Catarina mountains, between here and old Camp Grant, report seeing frequent smokes evi- dently made for signals by the Apaches. They came to the conclusion that it was not very healthy place for men to remain in, and returned to town. There are evi- dently few renegade Apaches in these mountains, and it would be Q good thing to hunt them out of there. MT. Futile in. forms us that they have made several at tempts to get stock out of corralS near Florence and that Mr. Stiles hires man to guard his corral every night.
 PERSONAL.-Wm. Futile came in from Florence on Tuesday.
 J. McElliott and G. ". Hamor came in on Wednesday from prospecting trip.
 Gen. J. F. McCaffry left on Wednesday for Prescott to attend the district court. He expects to be absent about three weeks.
 Bishop Whitaker left on Thursday with Judge Hayden for Phenix and Prescott A. Linn left on Thursday for the Brad