Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-17

Mr. Jesse Ellis, an industrious citizen ot Williamson Valley, vas in Prescott Monday and imparted the news that his brother farmers and stock raissrs are pleased with the last years profits on labor and business
 In @ days the Atlantic S Pacific rail- road will be completed Go the Colorado ri-er ir opp0si;e directions. Through travel will then commence from the Atlantic to the Pacific by this pictures que and snort route
 The Tuscumbia Mil and Mining com pany has closed down for the winter. During the run the past season they turned out lj0 bars of silver, averaging about 1000 ounces each They VIII probably not start up again until April.
 The following are the officers elected at the last meeting ot Cochise Lodge, No. 5. L. O. O. F., for the ensuing term: E. c. Lane. \. G.: VI. F. Shaffer, '. C.; c. $. Batternan, I. E.; E. c. NOrdsren, ?. s; J. Lenoir, T.
 MT. M. A. Jackson, formerly city edit or of the TucsCn Star, and lattsrly in the employ os the Epitaph, has taken his departure for the State Cf SInaloa, Mexico, where he goes tO take employ ment wit some railroad company
 At the convection of Arizona Chap ter No. l. R. 4. NJ. Monday evening. the following officers were elected for the ensuing year; J. T. Alsap, II. P; Newell Herrick, k.: J. B. Creamer. Scribe: J. B. Kelly. Treasurer: H. II. McNeil, Secretary.
 The last seen of O'Brien Moore was at Fort Worth, Texas. He was magnif- gently arrayed Tn a seven-dollar canvas Overcoat, which be borrowed from a journalist of Tombstone. Its a cold day when OBrien gets left.-TOmbston Re publican.
 4 stranger who happens to be in Tombstone over Sunday k aStonished at the respectful observation of the day. The streets are as quiet as almost any Puritan village in New England Al least so says the Tombstone Republican.
 Captain W. II. Seamans and wife have returned to Tombstone from Empire Mrs. Seamaus enjoyed the trip very much. While there, by invitation of NIT. Vail, superintendent of the Total Wreck. she went through the mine. which inter estei her very deeply.
 The bridge over the Big Chino on the 4. X r. E. R.. was completed last Wednesday and the first train passed over ihursday. Track laying westward k being rapidly pushed and 1t IS ex- pscted that the road will toe completed to the Colorado river by the first of March
 Mr. J. c. Wall. superintendent of the Peabody mine. ls in Tombstone He re- ports things In statu quo at RussellviUe. and there Is no probability of the com pGny starting up before the new year. Al Burlington, the foreman, starts on A holiday trip 10 San Francisco to-mor- TOW.
 Theodore W. BOggs, who commenced mining ID Big Bug district in 1883, and who has remained there all the time. was recently ID Prescott. Th5o. owns. I in the Blackberry, the largest mIne so far opened ID the district. He says that a great many miners are doing assess meut work.
 The Prescott Miner says. Our next Legislature will be composed Of average men, who will see Co It. We hone. that many remedies are applied Co unwhole- some and weak laws. A lawyer remarted few days since in our presence that many of the laws were so open that A good sized dog could be thrown through with ease, while some of them were en- ! tirely defective, and in fact uonsensical. ]
 The nuptials of Miss Margarita Serra- no, ward oi Judge and Mrs. De Forest l Porter and Judge Campbell, one of | PheuIx's prominent attorneys, was cele- | brated Wednesday evening at : o'clock. | at the residence of Judge Porter. Rev. l. H. Cox Otiiciated. Invitations were | issued to a small number of the most in- timate friends of the contracting par | ties.
 Chisholm, the great cattle man of New i Mexico Is visiting Tombstone on busi- | ness. IL must be remembered that ii was against him that Billy Bonnv, the | Kid, had sworn the deepest vengeance. and came near eXeCutIngIt on more than one occasion. The Kid at one time srir- prlsed three Of Chisholm's herders, killed l two of them, and sent tue thirI in with e message tO Chisholm that he would 1 serve him m the same manner # he ever caught him.
 Hon. II. C. Dibbls has returned 10 Tombstone from Tucson, vhither he went from Winchester on a telegrrm from George Hearst. Mr. Hearst did not go to San Francisco as was feport- ed, but returned to LOrdsburg. New Mexico. Judge Dibble IS now busy making arrangements for the removal Of the holsting works of the Trench mine near Harshaw to the Ingersol mine. He expects to have them run- ming inside of thirty days.
 Messrs. Briggs and Ben Goodrlch of Tombstone, have brought all the cattle belonging to the estate of John Me henzle, deceased, nov on the Mckenzie -anrh, near Beusou, numbering some hing over four hundred head, for which hey yesterday Taid the neat sum of 2 .s,OtD. This, ID addition to two hun ! fred already owned by the gentlemen. | puts them among the leading cattle men ,f the county.
 The Nebraska State Journal. of a re- ent date, gives our worthy Territorial | Secretary the following "send-of.' Col. II. M. Van Arman. secretary of 'tate of Arizona, passed through Kan as City last Sunday, en route home rom Washington. His many friends in hls city will be glad to learn that the ovlal fellow who once had a desk in the ournal editorial rooms, is prosperIng in ls new home and IS on the high road hat leads to wealth and fame. g