Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Local Intelligence.

SUNDAY. FEB. 26, 1882
 Local Intelligence.
 THE Masonic Hall will soon be corr pleted.
 TRE population Of Phoenix increased ten pounds few evenings since.
 TUcsoN escaped It, but the surround ing mountains have eon their wrappers of white.
 A SPLENDID milk ranch. near a good market for milk, is offered for sale in our advertising columns.
 TIE old Lord & Williams store, COT ner of Congress and Main streets IS nov ready for its ncw occupants.
 MRS. kENpALL has opened new ho- tel in Prescott, and the editor of the Phoenix Herald sometimes eats his din ner there.
 LEoPoLDo CARRuLo will put up a large two story building in lieu of the one he is now demolishing, corner ol Main and Mesilla streets.
 TIE Chinese New Year Is not reckon ed according to calendar years, but from the date of the accession Of the reigning Emperor.
 MEssRs. W. H. GILLETTE and \. B. kel- log, surveyors and engineers on the Southern Pacific railroad, are registered at the Porter Hotel. They arrived last evening and came directly from the front
 HW. DREW will you let the K. Of R. .S S., of Tucson Lodge No. 8, K. of F know your address immediately, or call at the Palace Hotel, or on Joseph Perry, Attorney, and make yourself known?
 ABOUT twenty-five Chinamen are kept at work filling up and grading of in front of the railroad shops. A large drain has been put in, leading from the new ash pit out on the mesa towards the Buell. addition.
 AN architect in Kansas City was, by the proper adjustment of a strong rope, entirely cured of drunkenness. Like all architects he had once been a man of great wealth and fearing poverty he climbed the golden stairs.
 PHGSN needs no Diogenes to.ind her honest man. Through a mistake he was paid five dollar gold piece for an adobe quarter, which he without compunction in his soul, returned to the man who gave it. One honest man in Phoenix and Tucson is full of them.
 ONE of the timers working on the roof of the gas tank building, slipped and fell to the ground, distance of about twenty-five feet, but fortunately for himself he fell in a most favorable place and sustained but little injury. He got up and at once recommended his work.
 TIE Martha Washington tea party proved to be as expected, an entire sue cess. It was well attended by many of the best citizens of the town, who took 8 pleasure in appreciating the willing efforts of the ladies under whose care the party had been gotten mp and by whose good management the cause they espoused will be greatly forwarded
 MR DANIEL W. LYON, who with MT. Thos Hughes, is the owner of the Prince Rupert mine in the Wrightson district, is in town and reports properties look rng well in his section, and that as a rule they improve in depth. On the comple- fion of the railroad the district will open up as the many valuable properties in that section are sure to attract attention.
 DR. GRANT, an intimate friend of Gov ernor Tritle and for the past twenty-six years a resident of the Pacific coast, ar- rived from San Francisco this mOrnin 2 and registered at the Porter. The Doe tor has been suffering from a severe at tack of pleurisy, and comes for a few weeks soiourn among us in the hope that our climate will restore his former good health.