Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-04

Bush fires are destroying the forests along the King ton and Pembroke rail
 road in Canada.
 4 Berlin dispatch says that Emperor 1 William has returned and his health IS ! improved.
 The authorities of Hamburg have re- fused Co allow Hensic;, Jew, to address
 a public meeting there.
 The Florida orange growers have failed Co accept RiveTside's challenge to "eompare oranges
 Railroad taxes this year in San Der nardlno county, California, amount to ! 1it,NO0: ln San Diego, over S4N,WO.
 4 London dispatch says the dcstruc- 1 ton oi the crops by rain in the various | parts ct Ireland has been very great.
 la the International Cricket Match at ! Hamilton, Ontario, the Americans won ! the match by one run and eleven wickets. Henry Bishop was shot and killed last 1 Friday at Fort BascCm, N M., by Ihos. ! Duffy. Bishop Was clerki1g iu 8 store. | The dispute was about some goods. The 1 murderer was arrested.
 Thomas Blaci.man beat Harry Thomas 1 in @ scGlling race on the Thames from Putuey to Mortlake Monday. Time
 . minutes, 30 seconds.
 At the Congress or ,le German Chess Club Monday, Mason, oi New York, be BlackmUn, Of London, and N.I3u4eu,
 of Berlin, beat ZucEeriort.
 Wm. Walker, ossietant lighthouse keeper al Cape Arago. and Alfred Spraguo, of Empire, were lost on the bar l f-str a The graders oa t.e Leni extension.
 Utah, gre at work nearly fifty miles ont
 on the line, and are rf;siiing work. Great
 activity is manifested in the contracts.
 The report that Fannie Thomas, who
 gained sur5 an uneuvigb.e uOtoTiety in
 the murder case Gt Nalla Wala, ". T.,
 was married fesT days gso, is uniound-
 ed
 San 2trnardino asks whether this
 .st55Ily are worthy of mention; The ia- -Sfcr weighs 23 pounds, the mother llg, oldest daughter 253, next 239; aggregate g05 pounds.
 Francis c. Pease, aged g, recently from RocEllnd, Maine. Tuesday night shot dead his wife, aged Is He imme- dlatelv fired several shots into his own body and will die.
 Sixty-iwo taxpayers in Ventura county, California, pay taxes on Sl0,U00 and over: twcntv-six on S20,UJO and over; eight ou Sj3,Ugo and over, and three pay taxes ou SiU1Oj0 and over.
 About 2Jo0 wild goats have been killed on Santa Catalina Island this season. | They are hunted Tor their belts. which l sell for ZI cents a Iound 1t Is ests- ] mated that there are still about 4NG | head on the island.
 The Lexington mine and mill at Butte. 1 Montana, has been turned over to the | French Company and the S1.OMuAO cash l paid down. The new Company will | put on a z0-stamp mil at once. and in | the spring add forty s--mps more.
 Prescott, the new E. P. E. F. town. is located on the IOuchct, W. T.. where the | railroad crosses the stream. IL has d fine natural location, being above dan ger from hgh va,eF, close to an abund- ance of fire-WuCd. gls has excellent wa ter power.
 Mr. Stein, of Iowa City, kidnapped his wife, who had fled suiB for divorce against him. His acton was taken to prevent losing control over her prop erty. As he Is believed capable of des- perate deeds, the police are following him closely.
 There is rreat fire in Prickly Pear Canyon, Mont9na. Nearly ten square miles have been scuurged. Robert Ellis on Lyons Creek, IS sand to have barely escaped total destruction. He has lost upwards oi 2UA0a0 feet uf saw logs. The fire wac still raging at last accounts.
 Near Helena, Montana, August 20th. a team loaded win powder, when with n three miles from iowa, with G,Oml pounds on inc wagon, exploded. Three mules were killed and the driver blown thirty feet away. His clothing was en- -irely stripped from him and he was ,eartuly burned, and he died soon after. [ Camden * MaCee have struck Q rich mineral vein in their silver nine at Iron Nlountain.s seven miles from Shasta by urvey. This proves the mineral beit 70 be at least 30 feet thick. The ore Is -ery rich; the precise assay is not yet .nOwn. Some ore Las been taken from his mine assaying S50o0 per ton.
 The Santa Barhara Press says: Dur ng the last twenty-fcur hours J00O bar els of crude petroleum have flowed rom the ground vltt.n 70 miles of this lty. The waters of the channel are cov- red with oil, the mountain sides are coping full of it, and the hollows are .ecoming beds of asphaltum. t X Iruckee dispatch received Wedaes- , lay from Sierrayille, Sierra county, says fire originated in the store of Jolsen, [ 5:l5 ?. ID. of that day, and that the D mole town is destroyed. The losses i'll reach S3mW0 Within ten minutes } fter the alarm was given the whole J own was ablaze. 4 two-year-old child h $. ?. Barton was burned Co death. ? The track of the California Southern c ailway crossed the Central Pacific tesmship Compauy's wharf at the foot [; Fifth street, San Diego. Wednesday II 'ternooa. and the locomotive was greet tl ] with enthusiasm by large crowd as O came ID Co the passenger depot there. a he tracl1laying proceeds rapidly and III be at the crossing Of the San Diego tl yer within the next five days. S Tn Wood River. Idaho, recently. the lo yners of mine having become dis al uraged, sold thcIr clsim for Sl5O. The rchasers went down a few feet and si und the ledge and followed 1t until os came within two feet of the sur bl re. At this point 1t was fifty feet-wide th d assayed Sl.0O0 per ton. The invest al 7nt of $50 can now be sold for Sl00,- 4 special from Kingston. Ont. Cana cr says: YUng Lee Chinaman who tal 'ently commenced business here, is e1