Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-11-06

expeditions next summer, and the scheme of Polar observations. Captain Adams, of an Arctic whaler, says of his recent voyage: Had he not been on whaling voyage be could have reached Dease and Simpson Strait and made north west passage" 'I believe, he said, "that the northwest passage can be made by way of Pearl Sound and by that way only, and that if Franklin's vessels had been steamers, he would have made it ID ISIS. l may myself live to go into Lancaster Sound and report myself at Honolulu"
 Small boys are put in jsIl at New Or leans for hanging on street ears.
 Every other person you meet has bronchial tIouble.-N \. |. Herald
 A colored military company has been organized at Fredericksburg, Va.
 Willard and his party arrived at Chi cago from san Francisco Wednesday.
 Nearly the entire tobacco crop of Bed ford county, Va, has been destroyed by frost.
 Concord grapes to not keep well; but they are of high flavor this year.-,N. |. Herald.
 Cleveland's subscription to the Gar field monument fund to the 22d ultimo, amounted to Si3,62j.
 The. Union Pacific begins on the 6th instant to run regular traiEs between Omaha and Denver on tue Julesb lrg cutoff.
 At Keokuk, Iowa, the river has fallen an inch within tveuty-four hours. \ speedy abatement of the high water ls anticipated:
 The Department of Agriculture esti- mates the potato crop at 6S per cent. of full yield. In some districts lt has
 been almost a failure.
 Mrs Hickok, residing on Carroll ave nue. Chicago, died iu the dental chair of
 Dr. \. H Tagcrt, while under the inill- ence of chloroform.
 The recent New York meeting of Civil Service reformers effected national or ganization whose headquarters are at II
 Pine street, New York.
 At Kalamazoo, Mich. an unknown
 thief stole fifty thousand three cent stamps from an open safe, as the post
 office was being moved last Monday.
 The sowing of forest seeds has been begun by the Shakers at Enfield, Conn,
 and the State authorities are consider ing plans for encouraging this needed industry.
 There is a man in Peoria, H., vino
 during several years, has squandered al
 most SIS,0O0 in the Royal Havana and 9.tbssIE, lotteTies; and he has never yeL ter, Pa, Tuesday, and eleven other freight cars completely demolished. The body Of Ellis QGett, engineer, Is under the engine.
 Senator Perley, Monday, at Eureka, New, signed the contract to grade the first twenty-five miles of the Eureka and Colorado River Railroad The matter had been hanging fire for some months. The work now goes forward without fur ther delay.
 The identity of Vim. Kuhl, arrested at Milwaukee, Is nCt yet settled. Parties are there from Pepin county, Wis consin, wLO say he k the desperado Lono Williams. II Is expected if he proves to be Williams, the mob will lynch him.
 By a falling elevator full of pig-iron. in the Vulcan Steel Works, St Louis, Monday nigLt, two men were horribly an,i fatally mangled. In the same works Hugh Hogan was covered with molten iron, upset on him from a ladle, and will die.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad made the first trip with the fast train from CLica- go Monday, starting with five Pullman cars. There were forty-eiEllt passengers through for New York The Philadel- l phia and PittsbuFg cars were full. The l train reached Jersey City in thirty-six | hours.
 R. Strauss, wLo lived in Virginia City l in early days. recently returned from | the diamond fields of South America, | with him valuable store of l diamonds which he dug at West Grl- | qualand Pc worked there five years ]. with excellent success, and sold his claim | before leaving f1r S50,00.
 This Is one of the latest fish stories: When General Stoneman's vineyard at 1 San Gabriel was irrigated last summer. a large catfish was carried out into the vineyard, where he was found on the following day, after twenty-four hours residence on dry land, apparently dead, button placing tt in a trough # revived in the course of an hour.
 Numbers of beavers are found on the Humboldt and its tributaries. They are at fellows, weighing from twenty-five to 70 forty pounds. On the South Hum- )oldt there Is one place near Sbeppards anch, where they built a dam last win CT and turned Jhe water out on his meadow, lrTlgating 1t. They also built 1 : rock dam near by.
 The owners of the celebrated Medical lake in Spokane county. W. T.. have procured evaporat0rs and are engaged 1 ' n making powders. The water contains ( ne fifth of one per cent of solid matter. The powders may be dissolved in rain 2 -ater, which will then contain all the lediCal properties Of the water taken ! irectly from the lake. A. D. Eglin, of Yakima county. W. T.. q as about six thousand head of sheep on be Sulphur Greek ranch. This region peculiarly fitted for sheep raising, be- lg bunch grass country, free from s age brush. The high hills of the Moxee, ' mtanum and Sulphur creeks are first l' } be rid of snow m the spring, thus af- Y 'rdIng early pasturage for flocks. The Central Pacific and Eureka and 4i allsade Railroad agencies at Palisade ave been consolidated, that is to say, ne set of officers will attend to the busi- -ss, at that point, of both companies | s; he change went into effect Tuesday. 1t ti not true that the Central Pacific has J, ought the Eureka and Palisade. The tl of agencies is simply a tr ove m the line of economy. q At Oakley. a Mormon settlement in ul pose Creek Valley, Utah, & terrible ac- SC lent occurred September 18th by the l5 plOsion Of two cans ol powder in If Dve. The powder, 1t seems, was placed 'h the stove by the owner. The stove Is put up and fire bnilt in 1t without on moving the explosive. Five persons 4u re sitting around. and all were injured. pa le building was badly demoralized. twas asserted Saturday, in New York. at negotiations were in progress for nu ? sale of the well-knoWn Jumel estate. IT npusinC about fifty acres, and extend w : from One Hundred and fifty seventh One Hundred and sixtv-ffth streets. 1 from the Harlem River to St. Nieh- idt s and Tenth Avenue to a syndicate. Ad nposed of Jay Gould and other capi- Az Ists. The price asked was SI,00000. ter e intention of the purchasers, it Is d, IS tO use the property as a site for B yes 'rld's Fair in 1885 Hu