Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-24
,rcrriinriaI nOf-
Every farmer in Arizoua ought to try and raise stock ot some sort.
 The Phenix Masons have in cOntem- ,Iation n good time for St. Johns day.

oi country about Giiicit Monday hieu''
 Pr, oarc to pul chase lots in kinglnaa, Nohave Colnty, -s tho advice of tLe Prescott Courier.
 A large number of emigrants are daily gong to California ever the Southern route.
 The mother of Mrs. P. Minor, arrived M Phenix Wednesday from the East. to
 ylsit her daughter.
 The Prescott Courier wants a good, live postal agent to instruct some or our AIizon2 pOstmasteFs MT Dave King and party returned | i t. Pheuiz from their trlp to the Hacu- ! var range Tuesday morning. DepGty Sheriff Murphy, Of PheuIN, | | departed for Prescott Tuesday vlth ] | Mexican accused Uf horse stealing.
 There are lot of tramps in Tomb 1
 stone, ant it looks us II some oi them l
 wore just walking around tosave funeral
 expenses-
 C. ;. Battermgn, superintendent oi the | Heai Center Consolidated, at Tomb
 stone, left for San Francisco Thursday
 on b bIsiuess of the company. Arizona requires federal money to ! a'l4aAtA lNANA0s w A-N7t t'NNA AH's 1 water; to take the Apaches away; Co erect capitol buildings, etc. There Is said to be nearly thousand dui.ars m outside wagers. on one of the
 races which wlll occur on Christmas day
 sg Doling'- track, Tombstone
 Tom BJurke. oI Williamson valley,
 has returned from q visit t0 ms old
 home in Canada. He surprised many of
 hi5 friends by introducing theIG to Mrs.
 B.
 Miller Brothers, the Spiritualistic in-
 Gividuals, are reported to have deposited | SI. .luO iu one Of tue leading faro banks
 of Tombstone previous to taking seir
 departure. Mrs. Shackelford, mother of Mrs. } B1ggs Goodrich, has arrived in Tomb
 stone direct from Sherman, Tex. She has come tO spend the holidays with her daughter.
 , The District Count at Tombstone was ] convened and adjourned Monday by the
 District Court Clerk, until the 27th, at : winch time it is hoped Judge Hoover
 may be present.
 , Captain Seamans has recsIved tele- gram from Judge Hoover in which he
 states he will leave Washington on Fr- day next, and that he will wire hIm of - ilc time of nIs a airIyal.
 Prescott people must not forget that legislators and others who will shortly
 be here to spend most of the winter, - will have tr be provided w4th comfort able roorIs, says the Courier. Q The read to Castle Greek will be lc- [ catel on a direct line from the crossing 3 O.; the Grand Canal on tue Gillett road, lu a uoftlwesterly direction to Frog Tanks, near the mouth of the creek. Hon. D. k. Wardwell left Tombstone
 for his ranch in the HuacLucas We'd
 uesd4y morning. lie will be absent
 four or five days settling up his affairs preparatory Go bis gOius to Prescott.
 Would 1t not be a sensible idea, say I | the Courier, Co change the time for the i meeting of tle Legislature Co some date ? iu September2 1T so, the change should ! ba made by the next Legislative Assem- . bly,.
 The crossing O, the Grand Canal at @ Eai's mill is said Co be almost impassa- 2 ble, and very dangerous st mght. Ihls - IS one ot the most important roads m Q NaricOpa county, and this particular 1 place should have a bridge. < man vii not be allowed to select 1 Lis own neckti. II he steals cattle, or :. even a ranch, iu this section. And yet
 some people have got rich stealing one,
 and want to steal tine other, and don't
 wear necktieS, either. Tombstone EpI- tapl.
 D. W. Siler, president of the Dauphin Mining Company, and Homer 4. Herr, , of Harrisburg, Pa, left Phenix for the
 East Tuesday. Mir. SIler will prob ' ably bring out about sixty mules to be . used iu hauling the machinery to the 7 Harcuvan Copper mines.
 J. II. Collier. of the Boston mill. l Charleston, left Wednesday morning Co ? spend the holidays with his family in
 Oakland, California. IbIs Is his first
 pzsear for three years, he having been a , resident at the mill since 1t first started l up. He will be absent for about one
 month.
 An altercation occurred Monday D nigh- at the Oriental saloon Tombstone g between Godfrey lrIho!et, OneOf Tomb stones oldest and most prominent cltI-
 zens, and Mr. M F.. Joyce, proprietor
 of tue saloon, and Chairman of the ! Board of Supervisors. Pistols were 3 drawn during the melee. Fraus Leslie of Tombstone met with . a serious. and 1t Is fe. red, fatal accident,
 few evenings since. He was going ! home and had just turned the corner of l, Fifth and Stafford streets, when he ! slipped, and he was Precipited head first on Co pile of rock, bruIsIng and ! gushing his head aud face in a frignttul
 manner.
 Tie name "Arizoua," being of Indian , or Mexican origin, probably meaus ! Blessed Sum- as m the Muhave dIa-
 iect we have "Ara"-(blessed), and the
 word "Zma'-tSuuL This probably
 Is the literal meaning of the definition
 Of our rich Territory, about the name ! of which so much has been said and
 written.
 {, Hon. r.. H. Wiley and wife will leave ] Tombstone on the morning of January ? lst. lsSj. Mrs. Wiley gong East Co r spend the winter, and Mir. Wiley Co Pres Q colt to assume his Legislative duties. [ lie Will accompany Lis wife Co Aibu- - quergue, where he will take he Atlantic g and Fac tc road and proceed thence to the capital.
 g Arizona aill, in few years, be noted for her copper mines, both as regards ? richness ani quantity. In our own im- s mediate Pcc.iou, new iuds are constantly ? being made. IT some enterprising firm | would erect a smeiterin some of these 3 districts, an impetus would be given to @ miners aad pruspectors to develop their , now idle property.
 Edward Field, Duke of the Gilded , Age, has returned from Washington. lt
 IS understood that he took steps while } ca-s to have Secretary Teller maudam-
 used, aud made Co show cause why he
 should not issue the patent tO the CiIided
 age nmc without the objectionable res eryation clause.
 \ syndicate of Tombstone capitalists
 has been formed for the location Of a , bolt of land two miles and a half long, , sklrting the eastern base of the Hua- ! chucas, for ranch and stock purposes. General D. k. Wardweu represents the . company. This is good movement,
 and one that must prove highly remun- P erative if properly managed. Mr. F. W. Hudson, late business man : a-er of the EpItaph, took his departure [ from Tombstone Tuesday morning for ] a trip along the line of the Atlantic and [ Pacific railroad. in Arizona, and will
 then cross over the Colorado river into
 California, where be viii visit the
 Ivanpah and Calico districts. His l. family remain in Tombstone during his absence.
 ? The Mohave, or California branch of D the Atlantic. and Pacific Railroad, is 3 completed Co ' point about 5O miles this
 side of Calico. in San Beruardino county. ] California. and tt is gwen ont that the , branch VII be completed Co the Colo ! rado river by the middle 0t January P next, when a connection will be made