Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-08-21
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A Protestant church has been opened at Oxaoa.
 Two violent shocks of earthquake oc- cured at HOllister, California, at two minutes before eight Wednesday even ing. Buildings were shaken with tre- mendous force.
 Three herders were attacked by h. dians in a pass near AmargO, Colorado, Tuesday night Two were killed and the other escaped. The bodies of the murdered men were found Wednesday. A Victoria, B. C., dispatch says the town of Yale Is in flames. Nearly all the business houses, three hotels, jail, court house and residences have been destroy ed. The flames broke out in the Gale donia Hotel, and swept everything be- fore it.
 As Father O'COnnor, of New York, President of the Independent Catholic church, attempted to deliver a lecture at WatertOwn, Ontario, Tuesday evening, he was interrupted by a mob who hus- tied him from the platform and seized hls manuscript. OCOnnOr was escorted to his hotel by a constable. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of the participants.
 The Official Journal, Mexico, pub fishes a communication exchanged be- tween the governors of Sonora and Ar izona in relation to the trouble of the cowboys in Sonora. The cOmmunica- ton shows that great harmony exists on the subject between the two governments, who, with the United States Marshal at Tucson, will endeavOr to prevent an in- vasiOn and protect the lives and proper ty of the inhabitants of both countries.
 Wm. c. Phelps, an old man and a wOOdchOpper by occupation at Tulare, California, was brought before Judge LOvejOy Thursday, for preliminary ex- animation on Q charge Of murder, and was held to answer. Phelps was a chrOn- ic thinker, and imagined that a Mexican had put strychnine in his coffee. He walked out with shotgun to where the Mexican was at work and emptied one barrel into his body, killing him almost instantly.
 At the mint investigation Thursday the instructions of the government to the superintendent of the mint, fixing the charges on inferior. were those which ] the counsel for Dodge claimed were the authority Dodge acted upon. The coun- sel acknowledged that more recent changes had altered rates, but claimed that Dodge was authorized to act under the old schedule until the new one had been officially received. Several em- ployes of the mint were examined as to the amount cf wastage in coming and expense entailed by defective casting of gold and silver. All admitted that there was a better result for labor now than last June.
 H. B. Slaven has just returned to San Francisco from Panama, and reports l that the contracts for building stations along the line Of the canal are under way and that many engineering parties are in the field. Shipments of lumber from San Francisco have recently been made. ! One schooner took down one million feet. The steamer Granada on her last trip took S00ODO feet and the COlima on her last two trips took Sl0,000 feet. At Gatun and Empire, on the Atlantic side, heavy works are under way. Slaven < Co, who hold the contract for building houses at each station for the accOmmO- 1 datiOn Of labOreTs, are sending skilled 1 wOrkmen by every steamer. The firm | has fifteen men on the Isthmus force at present employed in canal work proper, aside from engineering parties, which ]! do not exceed 2tO labOrers Preliminary work is not yet finished and the engi- | neers have not established the route l clear across the isthmus and do not know whether the opening on the Pa l cific side will be above or below Panama.
 In the mint investigation Monday ex- Governor Low, President of the Anglo 1 California bank, testified that he had l nothing to do with placing Mir Dodge ! i'll his present position. He had neither | asked nor received from superintendent l Dodge any favor not granted to any oth- ! CT depOsiiOr at the mint. No lOw-grade | bullion, 70 his knowledge, was ever received from the Anglo-California bank | uDOn express stipulation from Mir. Dodge ! He did not stop sales of Northern Belle l bullion to the Carson mint because the I express charges on coined silver from Carson tO San Francisco were in excess ! of the savings of expressage of bullion | delivered at Carson. Don't think l sug- gested Dodge as the successor of La Grange until the report had been made | on LaGrange's case. Subsequently in | reply to a letter from Linderman, I | wrote to him saying that Dodge was the | best man III the country for the place.
 AN article appeared in the St. Louis sometime ago, stating |