Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-09
EASTERN.

NEW YORK, July 3.-A consignment or prOselytes to MOrmouism arrived here yesterday, numbering 922, under the su- pervision of Elder Irvine, Dr. Ormsley, missionary 10 and thirty-two missionar-
 les of minor rank. The immigrants had
 a fair amount of luggage. A majority
 are young people.
 WAsmSGSToS, July 3.--The Presi-
 dent to-day returned tol the House the
 Immigration bill, without his approval.
 While expressing his entire sympathy
 with the object of the bill, he pointed
 out several serious defects in 1t. A
 good bill of some character, correctly
 passed. be said would receive his prompt
 assent as a public necessity and blessing COLORADO STRINGS, July 3-A water
 spout visited this vicinity last evening,
 The center Of the storm was al Manitou Springs, in which place the houses were
 more or less damaged. The water came down the mountains through Williams, Ruxton and Ute Pass Canyon, forming a wall x feet high, sweeping everything before it. Several parties of excursion- ists during the day had gone up these Canyons and it IS feared some perished. One body was washed down Williams canyon. swept past tho hotel, lodged in the floor. A buss filled with passengers which had started for the train was
 swept from the street and washed down
 the torrent and dashed on the rocks. All escaped with slight injuries. Maui- tou. Cliff. Beebe and Parker hotels were
 more or less injured and cattle and horses were carried away. Hail stones
 measuring thirteen inches fell breaking
 windows and destroying shrubbery. Over a mile of the track f the Denver and Rio Grande was washed away. The wagon bridges between Manitou and Colorado Springs also were lost. Loss
 is placed at from S75 to SlO0O00. It IS expected that reports tomorrow will
 disclose further loss of fife.
 WAsHISGToS, July 3.-The amount
 paid for pensions on account of the late war to March lst, 1882 IS $500, ,7sl ,95O. There are now on the roll 2j0000 pen sioners of the late war. This does not in- clude 30,OOO, estimated, pensions on ac- count of the war of 1872. Annual amount drawn by the 250,OO0 late war pensioners is S27,jO0OOO, and of the 3OOO0 war Of 1872 pensioners IS S2,SO0,- 600 or aggregate annual value S30,30O,- OO00O0. The general opinion of the best informed members is that Congress will adjourn sine die the 17th instant. The corner stone of the Garfield Memo rial Church was laid this afternoon on Vermont Avenue. the site of the Christian church which the late Presi- dent and family attend ed.
 WAsmNGTOS, July 3-The opinion Is becoming quite general among the legal fraternity that the Star route cases will not be given the jury, but they will be thrown out of court by Judge Wylie and the indictment dismissed The rulings of Wylie upon the evidence thus far pre- sented iustifes this conclusion and the cousel for the Government admits that they have taken their strongest cases first and if the evidence now being sub ! mItted is not strong enough to convict l the other cases will fall
 WAsHrSGToS, July 8.--The Sunday | Gazette prints the following to-day; | The Cabinet recently considered the | propriety of the request made by the l Chinese Minister to allow the passage l through this country en route for China of sixty thousand Cooljes from Cuba IL was affirmed that great hardship and | expense would accrue to them, if they | were not allowed to take this route. | The executive very properly denied re- quest. The Pro-Chinese press, every | where, with socialists as usual ignorant | of the facts had taken up the diplomatic falsehOOd of the astute Celestials here | and continue to descant lustily on the | wrong done COolie men and brothers. l What wrong pray: It was said that the Chinese Cuban IabOrers would have to return home by way of England That is a falsehood. Everyone of them went to Cuba by ship from Hong Kong to Panama, crossed the isthmus and thence by vessel from Carribian Co Cuba Prob ably not one of the sixty thousand refer red to ever came to or landed in the United States. Why then should they return this way and by the most expen- sive methods for such persons. We allude Co this matter, first, to deny the Chinese pretension and second to show in what manner and how shrewdly the Chinese dealers in labor are endeavor- Ing to circumvent the law. If the Cuban CoOlies should be allowed to pass through the United States, by far the larger proportion of them would re- main.
 WASHINGTON, June 3.-House-By New York, a resolution of inqury. It recites the Constitutional