Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
Territorial Cribbings.

Phenix is full of strangers.
 Prescott printers on a strike.
 Measles are prevalent in Phenix.
 Hay is in demand in Globe at s30 pc ton.
 Flour will soon have to be imported into Stafford.
 The cornsf stone of the Tombston' City Hall wiIl be laid on Thursday mex at , p. m.
 MT. Joseph Johnson, of Tempe, IS dan gerously Ill.
 Large amounts of grain are beinI hauled to Phenix. | Wesley c. Clanton, Is quite sick, a Lower Big Bug.
 The farmer, of Salt River Valley ara busy sowing grain.
 Professor Blake left Pinsl On Thurs day for San Francisco.
 Vim. Kurtz, late leader of the Pneni1 band, is i'll the Tucson band.
 Phenix is to have a swimming bath with rock sides, loo feet square.
 Prescott Is at present the cheapest and best market in Northern Arizona.
 Charlie Besse has had cataract re- moved from his eye and IS confined to | his room.
 The Phenix city authorities are ' placing culTeTts across needed street i crossings-
 Coke is constantly arriving in Globe and copper being taken to Willsox by return tesms. The Lille boys, who caused the COW boy excitement last summer are in Mohave county.
 Mir. J. l.. Clark, of Florence, is the l father of another con. He arrived on the 9th and is doing well.
 It IS estimated that S4O0 is spent daily for hquors and cigars ID PhenIx. Just think of 1t. S240,OOO year.
 Misfortunes come not singly. On Sun | day last the infant sou of W. D. Gang horn, Esq. died at Camp Thomas.
 The Drill thinks Tempe cannot fail to become q great railroad center soon, and is the proper place for reduction works.
 SI1ty-twO children are now in attend ance at the Globe public school Tue coming week will probably terminate the session.
 Prescotrs three answers are kept pretty busy pulvsrizlng and assaylnE rock from Yavapai county's mineral bo- nsuzas.
 A number of persons are buying lcts at Picecho and 1t begins to To k as though boom was approaching that station.
 Col. Mike Gray bought $50 head of the Mckenzie cattle sold recently. The remaining fifty head were taken by the Goodrich brothers.
 The Phenix hotels are crowded with strangers from abroad. who come to look after mines and gain knowledge of the other resources.
 MT. Robt. Steinegger, sssayer for the Central Arizona Mining Co, will le we on Saturday next tO spend the holidays at home in San FrsnciseO.
 The new bell for the Phenix Catholic church will be placed on scafOld now being erected by the side of the build ing. Its weight is l,l6O pounds.
 Several new buildings will be erected st Picscho station soon. One Of them will be devoted tO hotel purposes and another to livery and feed busin0ss.
 Wo are informed that the Mckenzie ranch on the San Pedro, near Benson, has been sold to Mir. ChlsOlm for Sl,5OO. It strikes us ss being a good bargrin.
 Last week NIT. Thomas Nevland, Of Fsgle Greek sent word to the Com ander at Camp Thomas. that Indians were committing depredations near his ranch
 Brick laying on the Tombstone City Hall is in full blast, and taxpayers will soon have the satisfaction of seeing what they are going to get for their money.
 There IS very little freighting being done from BOwle nOrthwaTd at present. Several freight teams returned from thence to Snithville this week with empty wagons.
 The weekly mall between Stafford and Clifton ceased with the down trip of Thursday last Mail between the two places will now go tri weekly via Teyis- ton and LOrdsburg. II. \. Thompson's well, seven miles from Globe on the WillcOx road, has sn abundant supply of water. He IS now building tanks for the accommodation of teamsters and stock men. There IS at present in Prescott quite m army of loafers, men without visible means of support, who ought to be art rested under the vagrant laws of the Territory and put to work. Mir Mcdonald, of Mesa City, was Sail urday surveying lots in the new town half nile south of Hsyden's Ferry, nea | Tempe. A large invoice of immigrant has arrived for this vicinity. Thomas Granville, miner, and fr some years a resident of old MeXio, died in Globe Friday from a protrsctd | attack of chrome dysentery. He ws kindly cared for by Mir. A. R. Wright.
 Carpenters are at work on the roof of | the new church at Florence, and ln | soon have that part of the work cI1- pleted. This will be the largest as S-ll | as the finest church eiifice m the TTn- tory.
 Among the list of crimes not enuher- ! ated iu the statute, and for whln no punishment Is provided, IS the Opeiing | of exchanges on an editors table.Rnd | making of them miscellaneous distIbu- tion.
 Prescott Miner: Talk about Iros- | perity in this county. The tidal raVe has fairly commenced, and within the | last month at least a dozen new Ius,- ness houses have started up in our midst.
 Dick Thompson has been partbned from the Territorial prison by thsGOv- ernOr. The pardon IS just and correct measure. as there were mitigating cir- cumstances connected with Thompsons misfortune.
 The emigrsuts from the east find much to amus6 them on their arrival IR Yuma. Their attention seems equal ly divided between gazing Gt Wesver's | palms, and staring st the uututOred and scantiiy clothed children of the forest.
 The new iron turn-tabls at the Yuma roundhOuse was finished early last week. | and on Tuesday morning the first en- zine was turned upon 1t. It works like a charm and is SO easily balanced that one maa can turn the heaviest locomo- tive.
 Drill: The weather is beautiful. The ! thermometer ranges between 60 and S0 degrees. We have only had fire in one stove twice this winter for a little whIle in the morning. We shall have nev pO- tatOes and fresh strEvberrles for New Years.
 There are two large pack trains run ming now regularly between Pinal and Pioneer. The amount of stufTs that is thus transported ia very great. Why cant We have a wagon road? We shall wait for the action of our new Super. visOrs.
 The Departments IS collecting ginfOrms ton concerning the resources of Arr zona for the use of persons who intend to engage ln farming, stock-rsisIng, etc ] ~rI,s ,v,1T r-,b.b1w b. ar,ho1,a4 5r |