Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-14
GUAYMAs LETTER.
Slow Communication by Mail and the Profanity it PrOdueeS-Railroad PrOgress-A Commercial Fraud A Strike Thwarted-Sam Brannan-- Suspicious Characters Fall Out and a Murder Follows.
GUAYMAs. August l. IsSl


 President Garfield However, as she had left San Francisco on the 9th, and no Tucson mail had reached us before or since her arrival, a great deal of agi- tation was caused in the American col ony, everybody believing that, owing to the severity of the Presidents injuries, he must by that time have given up the ghost Overland news was hourly ex- pected, but nothing came. The days have been passing, and resembling each other pretty drearily for about four weeks, and news from the States has been as scarce as a white crow, until yes terday, when the arrival of the "estadO de Sonora" brought us Alta Californias up to the 20th of July. Every one is glad to hear of General Gartield's im- proved condition, and many wishes for his speedy recovery are expressed
 We are still expecting an overland mail, which is being promised us every other day, with result always the same deception. l have had no letter or paper overland for one month, but for tomorrow morning we are again prom ised q general delivery. Our Socrates of postmaster explains 1t this way: Something is wrong. There are four wayB to look at it. Maybe it is the star route contractor who has not 'pungled up,' euss him, or it is the United States government who has not instructed Dr. Lord, cuss him, to pay up what Is due; .aIu flnge Eaa.1 eral government, may the Lord be kind to the republic, has forgotten to settle the little bill, or, worst of all, it lis to be apprehended that Juan Moreno, the "divil fly away wid him" is getting un- duly easy about what he has a right tO obtain, and refuses tO carry the mail any longer until he sees the sugar.
 These four propositions, no doubt, are sensible, but what the Guayameas query is the following: If pay my postage on letter to my correspondent, and he does ditto, why, then, do l not get my mail, and what the deuce have 1 got to do with star routes, Mexican or United States postOffices, CT Juan Moreno, or any one else? l, the party of the first part, pay according tO agreement, and l want this agreement carried out by the party of the second part. The greatest dissatisfaction prevails here on account of this miserable business, and the mer- chants are loud in their maledictiOns.
 Railroad matters are progressing most favOrably. About 6U,0OO cross ties ar rived here last month by different ves- sels, and there will now be a surplus on hand after Hermosillo is reached. There were only enough rails to get within seven miles of that place, at last ac- counts, but a big ship is now in the offing loaded with iron, and the chances are now that there will be no interrup- ton after the State capital is rehched, and that the work will be proskcuted vigorously onward to the Arizonh bor- der.
 The track today is laid to within twenty-five miles of Hermosillo, and by the commencement of Septembfr we may hope to get to that city be rail.
 We have had the opportunity to ad- mire a little Yankee wooden nutmeg foolin'" here during the last few mpnths. A man, whose name Is c. W. Sturthvant, came here in January, and proved by undeInable papers which he disTllayed that ne vas the representative Cf the San Francisco Chamber of COmIherce. His energy and business aptitude were all that could be desired. In Feb1uary, Ill left On the Newborn for San Fran cisco, with many orders and a gbOdly amount of money. He returned in March, some orders being filled. and some towing tO the clerks stupidity at the wholesale house, of cOurse) having to be expected by next steamer. It is hardly necessary to tell your readers that Mr. c. w. Sturtevant turned dut a fraud. He swindled the merchantsh here out of over 5000 by his cock and bull stories, and he was SD plausible ih his romancing that he got away with S{50 from q merchant whose name l will not mention, after the same had been waIrued several times. When no more was to be got out of this community he made tracks for HermOsillO, not, Eowever. without being arrested at the depot. 4 sOft-hearted railroad official, who saw the arrest, went the gay C. W. S.'k se- curity. He IS probably not a sailder man for this little incident, as heI has lots of cash, but 1 think he IS a wiser one. HermOslllO was fOrewarned, ye; unarmed. The gay commercial deceiver has got away with abOut SjO0 of the filthy lucre there. and Is now speeding his way towards San Francisco overland, not well ballasted with coin, bnt rejoieIng at bis own witness, which has causeh so many people to heave malediction Il bon his well-parted-in-the-mi "cabdZa." He is q hard nut.
 On the 10th of July a carriage carrFing 5000 in Mexican eagle dollars Twas stopped 50 miles from Hermosillo OII the Altar road and the money earned off There k no trace Of the robbers, thOngh 5000 reward has been offered, and it Is not probable that they will be fohlnd either.
 The Boston ship Highland Lights has arrived here, bringing seven passe1ger cars for the Sonora Railway ConpAhy. General Manager D. B. Robinson lsi on tour of inspection tO the front beyond Hermosillo and IS not expected Jack very soon. Though | would not waIlt to say anything unpleasant against the old railroad management, think it but fair to say that under Col RObinsbn's administration things have wonderfully Improved on the road and that this Is being observed by the public is very ev- ident. Furthermore, the employees ofthe road are pleased. There was a little strike
  by some dissatisfied working men of the Dennis Kearney stamp. 1t resulted in 42 men being dismissed and, as I was told by a decent men working on the road, for good and sufficient cause. Since then, however, all except the ring leaders have been taken on again and no further complaints have been uttered.
 The pioneer colonization" Samuel Grammar, is still here and does not 1ru- pose to return to San Francisco a$ at first announced. He has had law suits with his employees for wages and what not. but the doughty Sam gets away with the pot and reigns undisturbedI at the Hotel del FerrO Carril, notwith- standing some amusing little peculiar ities which might have done honor to Artemus Wards " amoosing little cUls," the Australian kangaroo, but do hot seem to delight other guests of the hotel, when they happen to sit under the balcony. Mr. Grammar intends to start for his domain shortly aud ii is possible that he will take some scouts | with him. Here is q chance for Col | " Malinche as poet laureate and chief of the staff. Only he must must hurry, | Or he will como too late as vra havA a