Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-18
News Notes.

Grape dlstllllng will began October lst in Los Angeles.
 Near Corin. S. 7. f's,t fof'sss,tt inif7Ssst have at lacked the clearings, compelling fam ilies to abandon their homes.
 The Los Angeles Commercial says that the Ord mine has been sold to par ties in San Francisco for SlJO,OOO.
 The California Southern Railroad is now regularly carrying freight by rail between National City and San Diego.
 A granite slab weighing 6,250 pounds k being taken from Temecula canyon to National City for the railroad com pany.
 A young American woman has been captured by the Indians near Lake Val lev, New Mexico, and carried into cap tivity.
 New Mexico IS now one vast pasture field. The rains have made the deserts to blossom as the rose. The extent of vegetation this season has never been surpassed in that Territory.
 The Democrat State Convention of Massachusetts is called for October 9th at Worcester A committee has been ap- pointed to prepare and forward to Mrs. Garfield resolutions of sympathy.
 The Conference to consider State div ision met Thursday in Los Angeles. Delegates were present from San Der nardino, Ventura and Santa Barbara. Little business was done. Another meet ing will be held in February.
 At Minneapolis, Monday, in the twen- ty-mlle race for the championship of the world, between Miss Cooke of Califor- mia and Mrs. Robinson of London, Mrs. Robinson tainted at the end of the fourth mile Miss Cooke rode two miles more and was declared winner.
 Oregon editors are emphatic or noth- ing. In Dallas, 1t seems quarrel broke ont recently between one Watkinds and Colonel Nesmith. Watkinds had been indicted for illegal voting, mainly through the inssrumentality of his en- emy. He took his revenge in slander- ous articles, which at last aroused the other to reply in a column of unusually vigorous English. The editor heads It, Colonel Nesmith Skins Bill Watkinds and Hang His Hide on the Fence
 The Truckee Republican states that F. J. Breen visited Truckee Wednesday. He is one of the survivors of the famous Bonner party. He spent the terrible winter of 'l6 in this vicinity with the ill., fated crew. Mir. Breen was l3 years of age at the time, but he distinctly re- members all the stirring incidents of those days. Marzen Meadows, he says, looks quite natural to him, aud he can easily locate the positions of all the old cabins. He Is now a. wealthy stock-raiser of Monterey.
 f. Kleupfer had the audacity, in q public street of Truckee, few days ago, ! to speak disparagingly of Justice Dun- ster. He thought no more of the matter until the next morning, when he was m. | formed il at he had been adJudged guilty of contempt of court, and must pav a fine of SI00 or go to jail. He re l fused to advance the cash, was lncarcer ated in a dungeon, but has since been re i leased on a writ of habeas corpus. Some courts, though not always in session, art | always the objects of contempt. The public dog-downer of Red Bluf | is trvlng to permanently drop all the un | licensed of the town into the Sacramento river. but he finds his labOrs sadly lnef | fectual. The little boys desire to sav'
 their pets, and adopt all kinds of schemes
 to divert the officers murderous efforts On Wednesday the slayer weighted hal
 a dozen dogs with heavy stone anC then threw them off the bridge into thu deep water helov. Immediately a be
 reaved youngster, with open knife II hand. dived into the stream and severed the ropes which were dragging his pet to death. All the dogs escaped; so dl' the boy. and the war between the office and children still continues.