Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-06
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
Local Intelligence.

whether voters do or not.
 The Board of Equalization adjourned yesterday to the l4th instant.
 The police courts checked of eighty one arrests for the past month.
 Seth Bixby has been appointed post master of Cienega in Yavspai county.
 Mir. M. $. Styles has been appointed a Deputy Sheriff in and for Pima county.
 The county assessable property foots up in the aggregate to five millions of dollars.
 Colonel Zabriskie has received hIs commission as United States District Attorney.
 A Mir. White is in charge of the San Carlos Agency pending the arrival or Agent Wilcox.
 Br. Jared Turner who left here for La PaZ. Mexico, several weeks since, IS now in San Francisco.
 The Oracle mining camp is reported to be enjoying boom. Miners for that section leave daily.
 District Attorney, Hugh Farley, was, by Mrs. Farley, presented with young son on the 2Sth instant.
 In Phen1x eggs are worth from 30 to B cents per dozen. In Tucson they are worth from 45 to 50 cents per dozen.
 Mir. Nicholson, Superintendent of the Long Island Mining Company m the Globe district, is visiting in Tucson.
 The value in coin, of the Lake county,
 
 mated to be fully fifty thousand dollars
 Pedro Aguirre & Co, are placing their stock on the road preparatory tC the putting on of their proposed daily line
 CoLJ.H H. Watts has returned to his mines in the Santa Ritas and will not be in Tucson again for a couple of weeks.
 The Silver King stock ID the San Francisco boards was bid up to Sl6fs on Thursday last, but not a share was to be had.
 John Hanlon, the contractor, st ates that the new court house will be ready for occupancy the first week in Sep tember.
 However cloudy and storm looking 1t may be, the barometers all over town are declaring that the weather Is fine and clear.
 A Papago wooed a Papago maid; there were no matinee tickets, no ice cream or Sunday picnic excursions. A watermelon did the work.
 There have been S92 declarations of intentions to become citizens filed Tn the District Clerks office in Tucson from 1863 to the present time.
 The Cochise county Board of Equaliza- tion allowed the assessments on the Southern Pacific property to stand as returned by the assessor.
 Nine mines in Ar1zona have to date paid to their stockholders in dividends an aggregate of four millions five hun dred and fifty thousand dollars.
 The CITIZEN received a postal from Geo. A. Cum, dated on the 25th ult., in Cat skill mountains and stating that he will be here on or about the 2jth instant.
 Judge W. c. Ferguson contemplates trip to Camp Huachuca. He intends to take bis wild eat pet along and he would rather lose the trip than go without 1t. The Globe Chronicle enters the field of compliments against the irregularIty
 
 edly every paper in the Territory can echo the same sentiment.
 The Pima county Board of Supervisors refused to-day to audit the account for pursuit of the Earp party of Sheriff Behan, of Cochise county, so be asked leave and was allowed to with draw the claim
 The Globe Chronicle says that that section of the country has been so blest with rain during the last week that an Eastern man visiting Globe would not recognize Arizona as the dry and ard country he had thought to see.
 An Eastern man with eight hundred thousand dollars was on his way to the Globe country to visit the mines, but on the way he heard of the late Apache outbreak, so took an extra knot in his purse strings and returned home. The following bars of bullion were shipped from Contention during the week ending July 29: Head Center 2 bars. Tombstone Mill 1 bars. Boston Mill bars, Contention Mill F bars, 1 and the Grand Central Mill 10 bars. Mr. J. M Davies, representing the ! Los Angeles Daily Times, IS making a 1 business tour of Arizona and New Mex l leo. and will correspond with his paper 1 upon the resources and progress of the | two Territories. NIT. Dawes will reach | Tucson in a few days. Tombstone blazed to the tane of twenty-five hundred dollars on Satur- day night last, The fire originated in a miners cabin, on Fremont street, and burned a number of frame buildings in the neighborhood before the fire de- partment could suppress it. The Castle creek mines, situated about forty-five miles from Phenix, are reported to be developing into good properties, some of which are sald Co be very large and rich. One, owned by MT Buchanan, is sixty feet Tn width, and in addition to a large percentage of copper, yields g gold to the ton. A boom Is predicted. The two cases Of fforcible entry and de- l tainor, which for the past several days 1 occupied the attention Of Probate Judge | John Wood, was decided Tn favor Of the l plaintiff. T. Lillie Mercer. The defend- | ants in each case were ordered by the | court, to pay one hundred dollars dama- | ges, as prayed for in each complaint, l
  property Tn dispute and held by them. Messrs. Lully S Keisel are preparing | to open the boss saloon of the town Tn | the two story building formerly occu- pied by W. Clark as a saddle and har- | ness shop, on the corner of Congress and | Main streets When the building IS pre- pared and the stock ofhquors and cigars l laid in a grand blow out will be given. Hon. B. NJ. Simpson, United States Marshal of the grand agricultural com monwealth of Kansas, and an extensive mlne owner in this Territory, arrived Tn the city last evening accompanied by John $. Beeson, a prominent attorney of Paola, Kansas. NIT. Simpson has ex- teusive mines ID the Myers district, Tor which place he will leave in a few days. The Custom House officials are re- ported to be derelict in thelr duty, and are permitting Indians to gather bal lotes lacornsl over the line and then bring them into the United States free of import duty. It Is an outrage that Uncle Sam surely cannot stand But 1t is the old story of Republican corrup- ton in office. It is to be hoped, how ever. that the Democrats will not make use of 1t for campaign purposes.
 Over the Line.
 4 1ine looking, partly California MeXi- can. well known among the sporting fra teruitv of this city as Pancho. started. it if Is reported, with wagon and a couple of cornpanions for Sonora to attend some feast said to be in progress Tn the | .o,,+ba-,, mart oF that State. One of his