Arizona citizen., 1877-03-31
PinaI County.
FLORENCE, March 26. 1871.

Lay udllCc NaS ldu aL OQlVerS Hall
 in honor of that notorious reptile slay-
 CT, St. Patrick. All enjoyed themselves
 highly. There Was quite a sprinkling
 of the married as we'll as single. A
 shooting afIray occurred here Saturday
 before last, between certain parties be
 loning to the "gente fina." A gen
 tleman little under the influence of
 the spirituous made some sort of gross
 remark to certain high spirited young
 lady Miss J. Biggerbottom. The lady turned out to be most decidedly on it, and whipped out her pistol and let drive in the regular devil-take-the-con- sequence style The "caballero is not dangerously hurt and the lady is under legal restraint. She seems to take the matter easy.
 A gentleman resident at this place, who is unsophisiica,ed in "ways that are vain," was outrageously swindled here the other day. For the present I will omit names, as the matter will soon be thoroughly investigated The job was nicely fixed up and certain '' pals of the sharper were to step up at the proper time, for the purpose of disputed points should any come up. The sharper had a small with the figure of some heather dIety, in relief, engraved upon one side; the opposite side bearing d rude imitation of a Hazard, trying to- suicide The game was played by the sharper ealing out heads win, tails you lose" and in the nice little game ihe victim was heeced out of one hundred and seventy five dol
 ars Mr. Victim afterwards made he surprising discovery that he had no chance to win at all, and some of lis friends will swear that the little
 oker contained some kind of arrange ncnt that would bring the right side ID every time.
 Last Monday morning, without tine lid of telescope, large fleet of .choOners commanded by James Quin an, hove in sight Destination, Yuma, oaded with Silver King ore and other products.
 Mir Wells iB his historical address published in The Miner of the 9th, ls' n error regarding the definition of the name Arizona, as well as Tn other par iculars. The name Arizona. is of Papago origin and is two distinct words, joined together, as Indians do, to convey this meaning, ;iz: "Ari," little or small and Soma "I lr Yona," fountain or spring. This name Arizona" Is the Indian name of a small stream which rises near the Planchas de Plata in the State of Sonora, and is so called by the Indians
 o this day, and is written Arizona byl
 he Spaniards. PrIor to the Gadsdenl Purchase from the Republic of Mexico, ! hat portion of Sonora, now included within the limits of Arizona, and lying north of the little town of Saric, was md is called to this day by the name ,f Arizona, the Spaniards adopting the Indian word as they nearly always did n their early explorations in the New World.
 The mines and the excitement about hem are still ascending. If the man n the moon should suddenly drop rom the agricultural regions of that he would be astonished to ind so many men (not lunatics) ex- .iIed over the mines. Aaron Mason las lately bought out McMorris in the for Sl0000, and Colonel Mason purchased of Mir Griffin an interest in the " Hidden Treasury for which he paid handsome sum in ash Other transactions have been nade but interested ones are unwilling O give particulars. A San Francisco nan said 10 me yesterday, that he never would say anything about a mining for if he should get hold f a good thing and let it be known,
 is fellow San Franciscans would trump up some claim, real or imagina. V and badly bleed me. Why is this nus Miners having good claims hould be very careful in bondingi lem, for in the end they may regret
 On a recent trip 10 Adamsviile. I ob- erved that nearly all wheat, barley and | ats were in "lle milk" Friendly. indians are coming it to Adamsvillei , be ready for harvest. |,
 On looking over the hotel register Of. | le Elliot House kept by J. C. Loss & 'ro-, l was surprised at the extent of. , -avel. Over 200 names were register ; there since March $. Two other [ otels here seem to be doing q rushing l usiness. Mir. A. Hamerslag returned !, ere by Fridays stage. He has been , San Francisco for the firm of which ! e is member-Jos. Collingwood & Co a re has many friends he-e lt