Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-09-03

Muskogee District, Greek Nation. Eacl
 man received one hundred lashes on tn
 bare back. The sentence and punish
 ment have caused considerable excite ment, but no attempt was made to res cue the prisoner, and each received tn, lashes with sullen and stoical indifler ence. Their backs presented horribl, sight after the whipping was applied being cut and bruised in a shocking manner.
 NEWPORT, R. l., August 29.-Presi dent Arthur attended fox hum yesterday afternoon. The start wal witnessed by large number of specta tors. About thirty followed the hounds The President last night was the guest of John Wells of New York, who gave an elaborate dinner.
 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 29.-Tht Labor Convention adopted resolutions favoring the rights of workingmen; opposing corporations and mOnOpolies and endorsed the nomination of Thomas | A. Armstrong for governor.
 DENVER. August 29.-Jacob Daub, an old German butcher, was foully mur- dered and robbed on Platte river bridge last night. He formerly lived in Erie, Pennsylvania. There is absolutely no clue to the murderer.
 ST. LOUIS, August 29.-A special from TaylOrville, Ills, says: Emma Bond was resting quietly at midnight, out the at- tending physicians agree that she has a poor chance of recovery. Death IS ex- pected within few days. lt was thought once yeste r6ay that sLe was LeId, ros- piratiOn having ceased for while. WASHINGTON. August 29.-The report of the Commissioner of the General Land office for the fiscal veal, ended June 30, lSS2, will show the inroad up- on the area of public domain IS un- precedented in the history of the country. The report of last year show ed the disposal of land by cash sales to the amount of ll,5S7,6l7 acres. This years report will show, under the same head, II, ,699, ,S99 acres of agricultural laLd alone, including trifling sales of Indian land, to which should be added sales of 37,063 acres under the desert land act, and 7,59i acres of coal lands. The homestead entries last year covered 5,O2S, 100 acres, while for the fiscal year just closed there were taken under this act the enormous area Of 6,34l,1 129 acres. The increase in the statements under the Timber Culture act Is less striking, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1882, the last report showing entries under this law Of 1,763, 799 for the fiscal year closed June 30, 1881, while the number of acres was 2,9u9,797. The grand to- tai of acreage taken for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881, was lO,S0l, ,23l against 15,699Sig for the fiscal year closed last June; total receipts of the office for the fiscal year closed last Jun Sj, ,40S, ,S0i, while for the year just closed the receipts were SS,36l,O ,O9l. Most of the cash sales were for agricultural lands. Among them California sold 14j. 274 acres at S3OI6H; Colorado, 4,lsy acres at $llG,9S0; New Mexico, 4,32I acres at S63,GOO; Oregon, 57, 70 acres at Sl145l2; Utah, S,690 acres at Sl1,242: Washington Territory, I26, A acres at $240, ,230; Wyoming, 2,7Sl acres at S6,6OO.
 The mineral land entries for the fiscal year ended June 3O, 1881 covered 27,lS7 acres; for the fiscal year just closed 31,- OG4. Most Of these entries were made in Colorado, with r, ,l25 acres; then follow ed California with S,113, Montana with 1879, Nevada, l,S6j, Arizona ItqritOry l,209, New Mexico, l,0l4, Utah, l,l42, the rest all being under 5OO acres. There does not seem to have been much activity in the way of pew discoveries in the Black Hills country since Dakota shows only lSl acres taken for the year.
 Under the Desert Land Act there were l0S,5 ,560 acres taken during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1881. There was some increase in this class of settle ment during the past year, there being taken l66,O65 acres. The settlement under this act was confined to three States and eight Territories, the largest amount now taken in Montana, which leads off with 6l,6S2 followed by Wyo- ming, with 43,29i; Oregon, 2772; Utah, 7,2l7; California, 1l6,99O; New Mexico, s,367; Arizona Territory, 5,926. Receipts for this class Of sales were S99,lS2.
 The immense tide of emigration which has poured into the west during the past year has made its mark in vast tracts taken under the homestead law. In the Southern States, also, there have been quantities of land taken under this act but over one-third of the whole of the homestead for the past fiscal year have been located ID the single Territory of Dakota, where entries covering 2,lS1, ,4lJ acres were made as against l3S,6j2 for the fiscal year ended June 3O, 1880; Minnesota comes next with the home stead of 5SS, ,334 acres; close to 1t comes Kansas with 537, ,452 and Nebraska i37,- PIP.
 Under the timber culture act the class of claims were limited at seventy -four out of each complete section opened. A settlement of 2,609,797 acres were en- tered under the timber culture act dur ing the fiscal year ended June 30, lSS2. Dakota furnishes over One-hah or the amount. There were taken up under this act during the past fiscal the follow ing acres in the respective States and Territories: 135,5l3 acres in ATizora Territory; 136,l27 acres in California;; l,tI33 in Colorado; 1,47l,ll9 ID Dakota; 339j9 in Idaho; 6236 in Iowa: .,92,2S in Kansas; 1,01S in Louisiana; 179,S90 in Minnesota; 45,409 in Montana; 3lS90l in Nebraska; 1,120 in Nevada; 3,ij2 In New Hampshire; 3,S3l in Utah, S9SGJ in Washington and 2,2S4 in Wyoming The collections in thus class of entries for the year were S70,41S. and fees Sl63.-
 
 aggregating 6l5, ,SG6 acres taken up Un- dor the various acts providing Tor State selections for school purposes, swamp indemnity, railroad selections and Va rious kinds of scrip. Colorado furnished the largest amount of this kind Of loca- ton, which covered 25S,659 acres. Next came Alabama with 93,94S, Nevada G9,S05 and Nebraska with 6S,5ii.
 BOSTON, August 29.-The Democratic State Central Committee have taken the bull by the horns and voted to have the State Convention at Fremont Temple on Tuesday, September l9. This will be the day before the Republican COZ vention at Worcester, and will result m the nomination of a Democratic can didate before the Republican nOmina- tion is made. It looks very much as if Uncle Benjamin" were going to run any way, and if he had decided that 1t would be better to start in strong on his own account than to be charged afterward with the weakness and cowardice of waiting to see whether the Republican nominee would probably be easy to beat. Of course no one is au- thorized to say publicly from Butler that he will be a candidate, vet the atmosphere of Parker's was decidedly Butlerish, and it is the evident expecta- tion of the Democrats that he will be their standard bearer in the coming campaicn. There IS hopeful feeling in the Democratic breast just now, and to show the unity in the ranks, Judge Abbott, and old line regular, and at one time q bitter hater of Butler, was chosen to preside over the convention, and Albert Palmer, a renegade Repub- lican, who cast ID his lot with Butler four or five years ago, was made Chair man of the Committee on Resolutions. It was decided to give hearing on a woman-sufrage petition the day before the convention, and 1t is now thought probably that favorable action will follow. But the application of the oarsuf fracists for a hearing IS of