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Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

4 DISPATCH from Casa Grande an- nounces that trouble Is imminent at the Pima agency. located seventeen miles north of that station. It appears that the difficulty grows out of the attempt of the agent, Mir. R. G. Wheeler, to erect the agency in model temperance society. There is a stringent law against selling liquor to the Indian, and the way to reach the abuse, which NIT. Wheeler has sought to correct by disciplining the imbibers, is by bringing the vendors to an account for selling contrary to law. The Pimas are usually peaceable. All the damage they have ever inflicted upon whites has been done by individual Indians while under the influence of liquor. We can not think that anything serious is likely to result now, but the appearance of the ladies and children from the agency at Casa Grande indicates that there is some fear among the authorities. This may be somewhat owing to the excite ment created by the Apache outbreak. The recalcitrant bucks, six hundred strong, are expected to arrive at the agency to-day, when the matter will be determined. It is intimated that there may be outside influences at work to stir up these unusually peaceable aborigines If such is the case it should be investi- gated and the parties properly punished. This Territory has a big enough curse in the warlike Apaohes without having the Pimas on the war path.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

THE Texas Pacific is evidently bound to hold onto the immense land grant through this Territory, which expires by limitation next year. They have their surveying party at Camp Thomas. The line is being run through Globe and San Carlos. The road, If constructed, will open mp a very valuable section of the Territory, and We are disposed to say amen to its construction. But we are opposed to its hanging onto its land grant without fulfilling its part of the agreement under which the donation was made, and simply attempting to buldoze a corporation which without any grant has given us a railroad, which with all it's faults and high rates has been of incaleulable benefit to the Ter ritCry.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

SECRETARY LAKEWOOD it appears has some theories on the Indian question and Is disposed to try the experiment. of subjecting them to local laws. In an ill., teTview recently he spoke of the neces- sity of acquain 5ing the Indians with and subiecting them to the laws of civilized society for the protection of life and property. He said: "I had thought if should remain in office long enough to make report to Congress, of recom- msnding the trial of the experiment. of Indian Government. I have thought that l might tame some tribe that was clearly self-supporting and has made considerable advancement towards civi- hzation, say the Omahas in Nebraska, and erect their reservation i'll a county under the laws of the State or Territory. The matter ought to be arranged. I think that the Indian Agent would be chosen County Judge or Justice of the Peace, and that other minor offices should be chosen by the people, and there should be trial by jury, as in other parts of the State. One of the most seri- ous drawbacks to all our efforts to civi- lize the Indians, in my opinion, is the entire absence of those laws which in a state of civilization protect the innocent, punish the guilty, and hold society to- gether"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

TIE Florence Enterprise strongly fa- vors the appointment of Secretary Cos per as Governor of the Territory. Mr, Gosper certainly has all the qualifca- lions for the position, besides being a resident of the Territory and interested in our growth and prosperity. Whether in or out of office he will continue to be a resident here, and it is such men that the Territory should support. If, how ever, the administration appoints a gen tleman from the East we hope he may be as able gentleman as many others who have come into this Territory for the first time with government commis- sions in their pockets, and who have since become thoroughly identified with us. This Territory has undoubtedly had some occasion to complain of Fed eraI appointments, but as a rule We think they have given satisfaction.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

IHE East is still rent with railroad wars. A Chicago dispatch says tha; Vanderbilt recently in contempt oi Court voted sufficient shares of the c. C. C. X l. Railway to make it a part of his system. President Jewett, of the Erie has moved to commit him for contempt and to take possession of the road. A great fight has commenced between these two men and there will be legal war to the knife. IL would not be strange If Vanderbilt, whose contempt in violat- ing an injunction was plain, should bring up in Jail. The Erie proposed to take possession Cf the road, if nece essary. VI ct armis, and under the direction of the Court. Vanderbilt is determined on shutting off tLe Erie's communication with Chicago, and the Erie is equally determined to remaina thorn in the flesh to that magnate by not only keeping it's connection, but by making a through line to.that city. Vanderbilt is believed to be working with Gould, and it looks as though these two men had de- cldod to divide tLeIr plan of operations, Vanderbilt to command the territory east O. the Mississippi and Gould west of It, leaving a little middle ground about Chicago. An opinion has been advanced by an eminent railroad su- thority that such a compact has been verbally made and Is now being carried out.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
EFFECT or THE FAILURE OF LORD s
 WILLIAMS.

Wehave not at hand the necessary data from which to form an intelligent opin- ion of the causes which have led to the misfortune which has just befalen the house of Lord < Williams.
 It il not our purpose in this article to speak of their manner of doing busi- ness, or any other reasons which might suggest themselves as possible causes for the failure. Time will develop the true causes.
 It is matter Of congratulation that this failure will in no wise aife,it any other business house in the city. AS far as this city was concerned, the firm did its business mostly within itself, 10 that i. will not carry in its wake the failure of a number of business houses directly or indirectly connected with it. There is no occasion, so far as we can ascer- tain by careful inquiry anon! the leading business men of the city, to ap- prehend any serious consequence aside irUnI tue homentary SHOCK anu tnc questions which will naturally arise. The leading houses in this city are all on sound financial basis and doing a legitimate business.
 When the first furry is over matters will settle down and confidence will be entirely restored.
 The legitimate business outlook in Tucson was never better than at pres ent, and this failure can produce only a momentary effect.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

TIE telegraphic report of the Indian scare from the Pima reservation on the Gila, Is another of those sensational re- ports calculated to do Arizona immense harm. The whole story Is absurd IL the extreme. The Pimas, as every one knows who has ever spent any time III Phenlx, are thoroughly domesticated and self supporting, and know too much of the ways of the world to sacrifice their com fortable home in such an outbreak ss thereln described. If they desire the blood of the agent 1t would not be neces- sary to 20 to all the trouble reported. for he is practically unprotected and they could walk in and kill him at any time. We advise people abroad not to take any stock in such sensational reports. They should remember that the war crJ in Tucson is, "The Indians mUSe co!' -Tombstone Epitaph.
 If the above is true, why in the nt me of common sense did the chronic ia llt- finder and groWler of the Epitsph pub lish the dispatch alluded to in the very same column in which this criticism ap- peared? It endeavors to create the -m- pression that the reason it takes its news secondhand is because the news is not of enough consequence to obtain It fist hand. The public is not deceived by such owlishness. The most contsmptible part of the Epitaph's course IS its fir gs at Tucson. It iS a notorious fact that in this Territory, outside of the little circle of country about Tombstone, 1t is di.li- cult to find copy of the Epitaph taken. It has been the policy of that paper to decry every section of the Territory to build up Tombstone. Now the mining interests of Tombstone have not needed that kind of bolstering. The mines show for themselves that they abound in rich mineral, and the effect of the Epitaph's course has been to the general injury of the Territory. Take the attack made by that paper on the Silver King mine. It was neither III good taste nor warranted by the facts. The Silver King mine is unquestionably one of the most valuable properties on the continent, and such Il property alone is sufficient to sustain the reputation of this Territory for mineral wealth. To endeavor to run down sucl, a property is to aim blow at the most important interest at the Territory. Now it accuses Tucson of mercenary motives in desiring the removal of the Apaches. If the people of Tucson want the Indians .emoved for the purpose of opening the reservation up to settlement, they cer tainly have as high and noble motive for their course as the editor of the Epi- taph for wishing to retain them, in order that he may be appointed Indian agent. Now the CITIZEN supports NIT. Cum for that position, but 1t does not advocate their retention simply to make a1lace for him. We leave that to the Epitaph.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
Globe Gossip.
IFrom the Silrer Belt. ]


 Mrs. A. F. Southerland is steadily i'm proving in health.
 Geo. L. Turner, Sr., the elder Middle ton, and his son Frank have gone to Cherry Creek to gather their cattle.
 The Arizona Stage Company intend to have q stltion at the South Pioneer. They are hauling the hay for their horses now
 Mir. Albert Steinfeld. of Tucson, Q me mber of the house of l.. Zeckendorf & Co.,, was in town for few days of this week.
 Al Siebert thinks that all the animals stolen by the Indians, and not yet recOv- ersd, are in the mountains between Fort Apache and Cooley's ranch.
 FEE. Chilson is an important man this week. His clever and amiable wife has presented him with a girl baby. We wish them both joy in the new addition to their family.
 Seven hundred bushels of barley were sold by San Carlos Agency Indians last year. This year six thousand bushels were sold. The increase of corn raised this yea over last is about 5000 bushels. '9feneral Fremont has resigned" so sayB an Associated Press telegram, and they never lie. We look upon it as the most important news that has reached Arizona for long time. Now if General Willcox is tried and not paroled, an AriZonan se- lsctsd to fill the position of Governor of tais Territory, and Guiteau hung we will be happy.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
Foreign News Notes,

The insurgents have attacked Mendia Tunis. Fighting continues all around Susa.
 Walsh and Simpson have been released from KilmainhaIn jail on account of their health.
 The Bishop and clergy of County Kil- dare have adopted resolution indorsing Bishop Croke's letter. A railway collision occurred near Lei cester Saturday. Three persons were killed and many terribly injured.
 The Board of Trade of London has placed officers m the new turret war ship lying in the Tyne, fearing she is destined for Chile.
 The gale continues at Cork. A Norwe- gian vessel went ashore at BallycOttOn Saturday morning, and all hands except two were lost.
 Five hundred policemen were in Down. ing street, ready for action ID case of disturbance Sunday at the League meet ing in Trafalgar Square.
 Several more arrests have been made Ireland under the Coercion Act, includ- ing the Secretary and a member of the Clareville, County Cork, Branch Land League.
 At the next setting of the German Bundesrath, a vote will be taken on the question of prolonging the minor state of siege for year, and extending it to Harburg.
 Hon. Lionel Sackville West. the newly appointed British Minister to the United States, sailed Saturday from Liverpool on board the steamer Indiana, of Phila- delphia.
 Two hundred vessels are storm-bound in the Firth of Forth, among them twelve large sea-going steamers. Many vessels ost all their canvas, and some were par ially dismasted. Much wreckage is coming ashore.
 The British steamer Clan McDuff, of tbe ~Clan" line, from Liverpool to Bom- bay, foundered Thursday night on the Welsh coast. Three of the crew landed, but the remainder, thirty-one in number, gre supposed to be lost.
 Abdul Kahn has written to the Ameer announcing that he captured Herat after the battle outside of the city, during which the Herat Infantry deserted Ayoob Khan. Abdul occupied the city without resistance. The Ameer ordered the illumination of Csndahar, and announced tlle restoration of peace in Afghanistsn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

A DESPATCH from the City of Mexico says that the Garfield memorial services organized by Governor Fernando and the City Council, were the most impress sive ever held in Mexico. The attend ance was extremely large. Hammeke Inmex, representing the city, said the City of Mexico lays crown of laurels on the tomb of the virtuous citizen, sol dier and statesman, James A. Garfield, and expresses its profound sympathy for his widow and orphans.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
EASTERN NEWS.
Cabinet Rumou

Cabinet Eumors-
 WASHINGTON. October24 24-E1-Senator Howe, it is believed, has accepted the position of Attorney General and will probably be nominated. Ex-Governor Morgan has written the President, giv- ing reasons for not accepting position in the Cabinet, but does not positively decline.
 For ths Michigan Sufferer
 Nrv YORK, October 4-The Michi- gan Relief Fund amounts to SlOO,353
 Appreciated ia England.
 NEW YORK, Ger 24-The Tribune's London dispatch says: The saluting of the British flag at Yorktown, creates a deep feeling of grateful sympathy and every Englishman cordially echoes the sentiments of the Presidents prOclams- tiou.
 COwardly Murder.
 ST. JOSEPH, Mo, October 23.-James Finney. a wealthy farmer living near the city was assassinated last evening while eating supper. The assassin fired through the window at the victim. Several suits were bending against Finney at the time, and t thought the deed IS connected with them in some way.
 2. D. Morgan for the TreasuTy.
 WAsHINGTOS, October 4-President Arthur sent in the nomination of Edwin D. Morgan, of New York. to the Secre- tary of the Treasury. This was the only Cabinet nomination sent in to-day.
 Morgan Confirmed
 WASHINGTON, October A.-The nOmi- nations of Henry NJ Garnett, of New York. as Minister to Liberia; Jno. NJ Bailey, of New York, as Consul to Ham burg. were made. The Senate confirmed Morgan as Secretary of the Treasury. Many still believe he will only remain in the Cabinet until wint and then ConklIng will succeed j. !, and that this is the programme. Dvubtless MOr- gan declined at first and was induced to accept perhaps on these grounds.
 The Sonata
 WASHINGTON, October 24-In the Sen ate the President presented a cOmmuni- cation from Secretary Windom trans- mitting the Melvine report. Tabled and ordered printed.
 Edmonds on behalf of the Juadiciary Committee: The committee doubted if the law warranted the method pursued
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
Counsel for the Dsson,e in euit.au', Case.

cuoIet an,2cfvs tss sefstg. sts .oalu 'rSi
 assassin GuIt-aIi, 0r peril their popu- | lanty by endeavOrIng to save SO terrible
 wretch from the extreme penalty of | the law, yet 1t will be discovered at a glance, that the gentleman whose DOT | trait We here present to our renders, has | claims upon our forbearance and consid- eTatlCn Tn this relation, which our out
 ragged feelings could not possibly accord ! tO any other individual III this country ! He Is the husband of the sister of the
 assassin, and as such IS bound by every | law, human and divine, Co shield her, the vile of his bosom, from that indeliblo disgrace which would embitter her whole life should her brother suffer the death of felOn upon the scaffold. In this re- spect his position as counsel for the de- fense is a most difficult one; because the ear and heart of an outraged nation are turned away from him, and are certain to refuse his pleadings, hIs logic, his elo- quence and his motives any marked amount of sympathy. And yet, were he not to accept the painful position now thrust upon him, he could not fail, in
 moments of cooler deliberatiOn, to be re- garded as man devoid of all true feel ing for his family, and above all for the innocent partner of his joys and woes, whom a Tecreant brother has plunged in the deepest depths or Sore tribulatiOn at thii terrible moment.
 Mir. ScOyille was born at Pompey, OnOndago county, New York, October 10, 1891. When twelve years of age, he
 removed with his father to Ohio, where some of the best years of his life were spent hunting and trapping in the wild woods. Subsequently, however, and through his own eIertions, ns he informs
 Us, he managed to obtain an academic education and acquired an adequate knowledge of law, the study of which he commenced when he was twenty-twO years of age. In 1S+S, he was admitted to the bar at Albany, and in 1851 he re- moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he has since resided and practiced his prOfes- sion, mostly as real estate and Chancery lawyer, having never, in the whole of his practice of thirty years, undertaken a criminal case save two, in which he was successful, and into which he had been driven as he has been driven into the present case He became acquainted with the Guiteau family at FreepOrt, H., in 1S49, and after the death of the mother of the criminal, married Frances M., her only daughter. Touching his defence of Gulteau, he observes in private letter to a correspondent:
 "The force of circumstances has driven me into thus case as into the two others; but once enlisted l shall give to 1t the same tireless perseverance that com menced as habit of my life in early hunting days. and has zone with me through subsequent years. claim no work"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
Tombstone Topics.
rTomb,tone Epitaph. Oct. gsth.l ]

Tombstone Epitaph. Oct. 25th.l
 Tombstone NJ. < M. Co. shipped per | Wells-Fargos express lass night, four bars of bullion weighing 465 lbs. and valued at s9S51.
 From Mir. NJ B. Murray, who visited | the Contention, yesterday, 1t is learned tlsat the estimates made by the Epitaph. ! upon the importance of the consolida- tion of Flora Morrison and Sulphuret with that mine was not overdrawn. The developments in the lower levels of the mine are something marVelous, even Tn this phenomenally rich camp.
 D. w. Balch, Superintendent of the Mountain Maid mine, who was shot in the Reno, Nevada, railroad war, is so far recovered that his physician considers him out of danger. It IS said that NIT. Balch will hereafter vote by proxy in railroad meetings.
 James Douglass, Jr., of PheniIville, Pennsylvania, the discoverer of the liIi- viation process of working copper, Is a guest at Browns Hotel. He has been to Bisbee on business connected with the Atlanta mine, and goes hence to New Mexico to look ct some copper properties.
 Capt. W. H. Seamans has received a cabinet photograph of his friend, the late United States Senator Burnside of Rhode Island. It IS face that once seen would never be forgotten, representing as 1t does one of the finest types of American manhood. As public man there wes never blot or stain upon his character, and as q private citizen his heart was warm and sympathetic, ever true to his fellOw-men.
 Hon. H. J. McKusick, Superintendent Sth Division Railway Mail Service, ar rived by coach last evening, accompanied by his wife. Mir. Mckusick was ap- pointed a special agent to provide of- fees for Tombstone and Tucson. In Tucson be invited proposals similar to those published to-day and expects to secure a good office for that city. It is to be hoped that the property owners of Tombstone will be prompt with their proposals. Mir. Mckusick IS stopping at the Grand, where he will be glad to see all parties desiring to consult him on postal matters
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

IT seems pretty well determined that ex-Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, Is to be MacVeagl's successor as Attorney-Gen- eral. The ex-Senator IS a Stalwart of the Stalwarts. He published very pun gent article in the North American Re- view in favor of Grant during the third term controversy. He was strongly urged for a position in GaIfield's Cabinet. The ex-Senator is an able lawyer and a man Of incorrupible character and President Arthur will do a worthy man and relia- ble Republican state honor by making the annnintment
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

CONSIDERABLE opposition IS develop ing to John P. Clum's aspirations to be re-appoiuted as Indian Agent at the San Carlos Reservation, on the ground that he is a chronic office seeker. He always wants everything that is open and some positions that are not open. We think 1t would be well before giving him the h. dian Agency again, to put him under heavy bonds to be satisfied with thls and not be constantly asking for some tbipcy moro
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
wAsHEaros, October IS.

 QUERY ANSWERED..
 Will the Surveyor-Generalo of Arizona be authorized to order a asurvey of a min ing claim located within the boundaries of an unconfrmed Mexican grant, which grant has been reported to Congress, is the question which reached the Commis- sIoner of the General Land Office yes terday. The official replies by quoting the Act of July 22, 1851, Sec. 2319 Re vised Statutes, the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and from various other musty and mysterious ito tie uninitiated) doc uments and says: "It has always been the policy of this office to treat lands in this condition as reserved, not only from sale, but from exploration and location by mineral claimants IL is, therefore, unnecessary to enter into details in an- swer so yoar further suggestions. The Surveyor-General would be correct in refusing to order a survey under the con- ditiOns stated"
 The counsel in the case IS not satisfied AA-A AAN dAANNNA anu NA Nocto d utkCLlL- nation to go to higher authority.
 THE PUBLIC LAND ENHIBir.
 The following aggregates have just been made up in the General Land or fee of the public land transactions dur ing lnst fiscal year, and will be embodied in the official report of the Secretary of the Interior, tO be submitted to Congress in December next. The items here given show the quantity of land sold for cash under the different laws of Con- Sress; otherwise, disposed of under diff ferent laws and treaties; the cash receiv- ed, number of acres surveyed during the last year and the number remaining to be surveyed, amounting to 1,029,SSL9t2 acrea
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30

The ceremonies in Richmond incident to the celebration of the Centennial an niversary of the surrender of Cornwall, lis began Saturday. The festivities VIII continue until Wednesday night.
 The postponement of the departure Of the Marquis of Lorne from Canada for England, for two weeks, Is sald to be due to his strenuous efforts to induce the Princess Louise to return lmmedl- atelN tn Canadn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-30
TIE English and Scotch farm

THE English and Scotch farmers have appointed a committee to draft land bill. Both England and Scotland have about as much ground for complaint in regard to land laws as Ireland, and 1t IS to be hoped that Gladstone will make himself a hero by championing some measure which will be of benefit to the small farmers and tenants of the two nnr.rAr.na