Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-08-13
Local Intelligence.
Apricots are out of market.

The opera house foundaloh Is heafi! finished.
 The sO.ton smelter at Pelton started up a few days ago.
 The prospects for a successful feast are looming up grandly.
 Railroad contractor John Courtney has returned to CalRbasas.
 California grown apples are plentiful Native grown apples are scarce.
 Your name on the old register IS val ueless. Register again or you get no coin.
 The city and county assessors report money exceedingly scarce and hard 10 get hold ot
 Colonel Watts, Superintendent or the Helvetia and Josephine -mines ID the Santa Rltas, IS again m town
 The interior of the dining room at Porter's Hotel has been handsomely and artistically decorated with colored fans
 Hon. Jno. Manly, a |. $. Treasury officer. Is in town, and has been for the past ten days. He is stopping al the Porter.
 Judge A. F. Burke of Wilcox died in that town August lst of Bright's disease of the kidneys. He was aged abort thir- ty-two years.
 Geo. E. Brown has been elected del egate from the Lower Agua Frio to the Republican Convention to be held on the sixteenth in Tavapai county.
 Messrs. David Hughes and Seeley Owens, smelters in the employ of the Columbia Copper Company, arrived m town last night, and are stopping at the Palace.
 Some fine specimens of copper ore from the AjO district were left at the assay office Of Mir. c. R. Wores this morning. They assay a about seventy-five per cent.
 Judge 4. NJ. Bragg has been granted A vacati ,n of three days. H. goes with party of capitalists to examine hls mines on the Temporal GHlch in the Santa Ritas.
 1t is reported that Judge Stillwen will. on leaving the bench in Arizona, accept a position on Texas railroad at a salary of S6,O0O year. The Judge Is wished well in his to be new position.
 MT. Moroney's little daughter, that for the past two weeks has been confined to her bed through a severe attack of ty- phoid fever, Is slowly recovering, but Is not yet considered out of danger.
 Complaints about the postal service of Arizona still continue. NIT. J. S Mans field received a portion of his Eastern maIl ten days behindhand. It came by way of Prescott, which Is explanatory, but not a unsuitable cause of the delay.
 Notes from the Empire district: The drifts of the Forty Nine, on the 93-foot level are opening up good bodies of ore. The shaft on the Michigan Boy at a depth of twenty feet is all in ore, and constantly improves with increasing depth.
 Colonel Ray went on a visit to some of his mines in the Silver Bell district. and found some Of them being worked by other parties. The difficulty was soon compromised by those working the mines buying the ColOnePs interest out right.
 The gold medal in the shape of 8 watch key, for which ten dollars reward was offered a couple If months ago and which caused the key to be placed on deposit at the CITIZEN, pending the payment of amount offered has long been here waiting for the owner 10 call.
 The Health officer ordered @ dis charged pest house patieuta twenty-five dollar suit of clothes. The City Council thoughtthe suIt over fine and hesitated about allowing 1t, but finally dId so with the suggestion that similar patients be hereafter provided with less expensive wear.
 On Friday morning last an attempt was made to burglarize the store of Sisson, CrOcker q Co.,, at Benson. When dis covered by officer Brown the thief start ed to run, but as a bullet tapped him On the back he came to short halt He then quietly allowed himself 10 be led to tine jug.
 Notwithstan ling the great care of the | physician, says the Tombstone Inde- pendent, ID communicating the sad in- telligence of the drat of NJ. NJ. COrella to his wife at the Battle Greek San itarium, iu Michigan, ii came near taking the life of both mother and In- l fant child. We are glad 10 learn Mrs. l Corella IS cOnvalescIng and will soon | return 10 Tombstone.
 Mir. H. NJ. Lewis. for the past thirteen l months iu charge of the mercantile | business ofJ. E. Carroll, at Shakespeare. l passed through Tucson Saturday en | route to San Francisco where he will l pass the next several months. He re- 1 presents business in Shakespeare to be |
 
 solidated smelters will, with increased | facilities, soon resume work. A large amount of custom ore has been engaged. l Francisco Motto, the young Italian violinIst whose nightly performances at | the park attract admiring crowds, IS | said by capable judges to be without 1 doubt the most skillful and accom- l plished violinist that ever played before | a Tucson audience. He first came | prominently into notice at the Italian | concert given in the Masonic Hall some | months since, when he was repeatedly l encored, and since that time he has | been deservedly popular.
 John NJ. Davies. representing the Los | Angeles Times, the most enterprising | as well as the largest paper in southern | California, is in the city. MT. Davies | has been at various points as far east as | Deming. He has written up the mines | of Tombstone and tomorrow will go to | the Total Wreck to inspect the bonan- | gas of the Empire district. Mr. Davies | will also devote several days to the in- | terests of Tucson. He finds many old | acquaintances who are glad to welcome l him and is making many new friends.
 4 couple of would-be cowboys had a scratch at each other last night. One | was knocked down and had his pistol | taken from him. When he got up he imagined that bullock was behind ] him, but on finding that the danger was | not so great he returned and IS sald to have squarely held his own, and when one of his brother cowboys ieered him for his weakness in showing his back, he got wrathy and threatened annihila- ton and had not the other fellow huggtd a full arsenal he would in all probability have made good his word.
 From Mr. Dana Harmon, now in town, and who Is largely interested in Tyndall district mining properties 1t is learned that new company, the Mineral Noun tain Mining Company, organized m Iowa and backed by sufficient capital, have begun developments on a group of mines owned by them m the district named. They are now working on the Lucinda, and are sinking a two fifty foot shafts wlth the purpose of cross cuitiny from the bottom of each. Should the showing prove satisfactory, developments will then be pushed ahead on much larger scale. 
 How the CRinamer do H.
 On Friday last there was tried before Justice Meyer and a jury the case of Chan Tin Mo, merchant of Tucson,
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