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Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Contention Capers.
Deaths Doings-Two Persons Asphyxiated MuT-
 der and Face for Life.

Special Corres pondence of the CITIzES.l
 CONTENTION, February 22nd.-O On Tuesday night man by the name of John Gibbens, lodged with a Spanish woman whose name l was unable to learn-a prostitute. They left pan Of charcoal burning on the floor, and the mans clothing and hat lying near it took fire and burned, sufiocating both Of them. The room was adobe and had neither window nor chimney, only one very tight fitting door. From the posi- tiOn of the mans body he must have made an effort to get out. He was found lying across the bed and the body of the woman. The walls of the room, the bed clothes and the bodies were very much discolored by the smoke. About a week ago some Mexicans got into a fight in this same house and one of them, named Lonordo Moreno was shot and killed. The two men that did the shooting mounted their horses and rode out of town, firing their reyolvers in the mir. Three COW boys mounted theIr horses and pursued them, and q very exciting running battle was witnessed by about one hundred citizens from the top of Head Center Hill. About fifty shots were fired. The murderers were so closely pressed that they had to leave their horses land take to the brush. Night coming on, the COW boys secured the horses and came in. The murderers escaped and next morning were seen riding between Benson and Tres Alamos, having stolen two horses from the Nor mons. G.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Myers District.

There are no mines in the Territory, as little developed, that are attracting so much attention in mining circles as those of the Myers district, in the western DOT ton of Pima county. There are several important interests outside of the Gun sight mine, and from the following ex- tracts that we are permitted to make from letter received by a gentleman Tn this city, it will be seen that an encOur- aging degree of activity prevails
 In the Gunsight mine they have 121 men working-some being employed on the outside. They are now sinking a perpendicular, three-cOmpartment shaft, between the Gunsight and the Eastern. and say they are going down 800 feet, Part of their hoistIng machinery is now at the mine; the rest of 1t on the new road from Tucson and will be here in a few days.
 The Mineral Bed mine, on the west of the mountains has let a contract to sink hundred feet more in the old shaft. The boys that have the contract are down about forty feet.
 s. G. Williams and others have sunk fifty feet on the Mcclellan and also fifty feet on the Montezuma. They have now started a tunnel to tap the Montezuma ledge at a depth of 800 feet.
 On the same side of the mountain, P. T. Bowling is sinking a shaft on the Euro mine to the depth of 800 feet. He has some fine looking ore from that mine.
 At present it is rather a "hard game" for work here. Everything is full and there are some idle men in the camp.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
A Notable Wedding.

The pleasant home of MT. H. c. Hooker, at Sierra Bonita, was the scene of a notable event on Tuesday, it being the marriage Of his only daughter, Miss Ida to Hon. M W. Stewart, Of the firm Norton & Stewart.
 At eight o'clock in the evening, while the parlor was occupied by a number of invited guests, the brothers of the bride, Masters Edwin and Joseph, the ushers of the occasion, entered the parlor, followed by Bishop Dunlop in his ministeral robes, NIT. Stewart escorting Mrs. Hooker, the brides mother, and the bride leaning on the arm of her father.
 The solemn and impressive service of the Episcopal ritual was soon pro- nounced and the happy couple received the hearty congratulations of their numerous friends.
 Among the guests present upon the occasion were: General Howard, h. dian Inspector, a brother of Gen. O. 0. Harvard; Col. J. c. Tiffany San Carlos; Gen. E. i. Carr, Lieuts. Glass and Earth, J. H. Norton, H. A. Morgan, Col. and Mrs Foulk, Dr. Morviile ar q Clark Carr. Camp Grant; Col. 4. Seeley and F. R. Chamberlain, Wilcox; c. P. Leitch and Burt DunlOn. Eureka SDrir,ps tba latter a cousin of Bishop Dulop; Mr. McCon- key of New Mexico and Mr. Karns of Los Angeles.
 The newly married couple will pro- ceed to housekeeping at once at Will cox, Mr. Stewards headquarters. They are tendered the earnest congratula- tions of legion of friends, who wish that their years may be many and their journey through life marked by no milestOnes Of sorrow.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Myers District.

Mir. L.D Cmllson came in from Myers district this morning, where he had been surveying townsite and several mining claims for patents. The patent for the Burro Burro mine has already been applied for, and in few days application will be made for patent on the Montezuma and Mcclellan lode.
 The work on the Gunsight three compartment shaft is being prosecuted day and night, the shaft ia now down sixty feet. and it is fine piece of work. It is under the personal supervision of Mir. D. T. Russell, formerly of the Com. stock.
 Work is soon to be resumed on the Westward and Atlanta mines, and will be continued uninterruptedly.
 The Mineral Bed North Extension is proving to be very promising claim. 1t is located immediately north of the Mineral Bed mine, over the mountain, and as the mines on the north side ap- pear much superior to those on the south side, great hopes are indulged in of its being bonanza. The croppings are fully twelve feet wide, extending the entire length of the claim. A shaft has been sunk at the narrowest point on the ledge, twenty-five feet deep, where the vein is about four feet wide and is grow ing wider, with clean walls. The ore from the bottom of the shaft assays S7lO per ton. Parties from the East and San Francisco have examined the prop erty and have made tempting offers for It. The Mineral Bed proper, at a depth l40 feet, is twenty-five feet wide, and shows rich ore. It is owned by an ill., corporated company, and its stock 8 selling in Philadelphia at a price which places the value of the mine at S150,OO0.
 The townsitc of the new town of Chill son, was laid out in a pleasant level mesa about a quarter of a mile from She Gunsight mine The townsite contains 4SO acres, and was located by Messrs. Russell, Chillson and Spencer. The Tucson and Gulf of California railroad will pass through the new town, and the depot will be located within it's limits. 4 very lively camp is expected to spring up at this point, as soon as the mills begin their output of bullion.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Board of Traae Neeting.

In response to a call of the business men of tine city, a meeting was held al Levin's Hall Wednesday, evening for the purpose of taking preliminary steps in organizing a Board of Trade.
 The meeting was called to orIer by Mir. W. c. Davls, and Col. James II. Toole was elected chairman and Solon M- Allis secretary.
 Judge Haines thought it best to com mence by making a regular organization and determining the qualifications of members, officers, etc.
 Hon. Hugh Farley made a few re- marks, in which he referred to the necessity of concerted action in regard Co the location Of the depot and the roIte through the ciiy Of the railroad from Tucson to Calabasas.
 MT. James Buel thought the duties. aims and jurisdiction of a Board Of Trade should be defined, and upon his suggestion tho chair appointed the fol- lowing committee Of five to prepare a constitution and by laws and report at a future meeting: John $. Carr, Hugh Farley, Albert Steinfeld, W. c. Davis and J. $. Mansfield. The Committee was advised to correspond with Boards Of Trade in other cities as 10 plan of organization, etc, and to meet at the office Of Mr. J. $. Carr on Thursday evening, to adopt a plan of action.
 In response to a request that all pre- sent favoring the organization of Board of Trade in Tucson, sign a paper to that effect, the folloEing responded: James H. Toole, John $. Carr, J. $. Mansfield, Wm. C. Davis. Theo. Welisch, l.. Zeckendorf & Co, John Haynes, Leo II. 5 Stevens, Samuel H. Bgehman. Adolf Gold & O., L. Dexter Lyford, N. H. Culyer, II. Loewenstein, Chas. Detoy, J. A Browder Brown & Whitmore, W. r. Stevens, James Buen, Q. II. Roberts. has. E. Drake. C. T. Etchells, J. 5. Fried, Jos Bayer, J. c. Handy, B. A Jaeots, II. Farley. $. II. Allis. NJ Katz, E. B. Pomroy.
 The meeting then adjourned subject .o a chll through the newspapers.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
The Wrishtson District.

The Wrightson district, at pre-
 sent comparatively unknown Is yet
 destined to rank foremost among the
 bullion producing districts of Arizona.
 Many of her lodges are large, clear,
 defined and regular. They are most
 favorably situated with an abundance
 of water to supply all needful purposes
 and timber enough to satisfy the most ! exacting, which renders the facilities for | the reduction of ores unsurpassed in
 Southern Arizona, and the near sp- proach of the Atehison and Topeka Railroad at once brings the district into | close communication with the outside
 world, and with the probable establish
 ment of a depot in the foothills of the
 district it will have advantages posses
 sed but by few, a fact that the miners
 have long been conscious of as they dug
 away and developed their claims, well
 knowing their worth, and with patience
 waiting till the hour would come when the realization of their then distant hopes would be at hand, and with the
 whistle of the approaching locomotive their good time seems to have come, and they have cause to rejoice accord ingly, as their rich and favorably located ledges cannot fail to bring them in the ducats. The Mansfield mine situated about three and half miles from the line of railroad is said to be a giant among the best. At intervals it has been worked for the past six years, and its title before the law kept clear. At the surface the ore contained galena and l could best be reduced through the pro cess of smelling, but to the depth of 1 fifty feet the ore body which Is full | eighteen feet wide, gradually under went a change for the better, becoming | richer, wider aud more free till now it is | considered first-class for milling pur- poses. Originally commencing at about | three feet the vein has through the pitch of the hanging wall increased to about six times it's surface measure ment The foot wall Is perpendicular and against it the seven foot wide shaft has been sunk, the hanging wall pItch- ing away with increasing depth of shaft. Some of the ore assays very high, and other again at lower figure making a general average of about S46.50 to the ton which, considering the immense body together with its favorable location makes it mine of great value It is the property of Judge Bragg and J. $. Mansfield the eoriginal locator. They have already been offered SJ00O0 on a working bond, but the terms of payment were not acceptable and it was refused, much to the regret Of those making the offer, and who were buying it upon the of experts employed for examination, and who pronounced 1t to be one of the best pieces of property to be found in that section of Arizona. Immediately upon the refusal of the bond the owners again went to work and every increasing foot in depth convinces them that they were wise in their deci- sion.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
1omp,ittee See;in9

The Board of Trade committee met at the office of Wm. B. Hooper < Co, last Thursday night MT. J. H. Hull, adjuster of the San Francisco Board of Trade, was present by invitation. He stated that the San Francisco Board was organized with a President, Secretary and Board of Directors, and its prime objects were the extension of trade, protection of the credit of members and the collection of its members accounts. They meet monthly, and each member gives his ideas of what will promote the trade of the place. In case of a failure a repre- sentative is sent to the locality. The body has a constitution and by laws.
 On motion, the chairman, MT. J. s. Carr, was authorized to correspond with and obtain copies of the constitution and bylaws of the Board of Trade, Chanber of Commerce and Merchants Protective Association of San Francisco, and Mr. W. c. Davis was also invited to write for similar papers to Chicago, and Mir. J. $. Mansfield to Denver.
 The meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the chairman.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
The Assessment Pian.
IDanrar NewsI


 "No hOistine works--nOt it know it. You can fool away a good deal of good. hard coin on hOisting wOrks.' "HOw in thunder do you run your miue?' "On the assessment plan, sir. That's the latest and most approved method. When we have a good map of the lower work ings We don't need any works to speak of. 1 keep a man in Virginia at S6O a month to superintend the location and write weekly letters, and stay in San Francisco, in my office on Pine street, and levy the assessments every sixty days; that is as often asIthe law allows. I am the President, Board Of Trustees, Secretary, Treasurer and evefythipg- more especially the Treasurer. Ofvecurse draw a salary for all the offices, and when l get through drawing salaries I turn the rest over to the agent in Vir- ginia to pay Offthe hands. By not en- ploying any hands he saves enough to pay himself. This IS what I call scienti- fc mining, sir. You get the silver out of the pockets of the stockholders and leave the vast argentIferOus and auri- ferrous deposits in your claim for your children, who can go right ahead and develop the mine just as soon as the public quit putting up, which isn't at all likely to happen. As long as people are being born in Nevada and Californla my mine will run like chronometer clock But, said the Utah man, "my style of mining keeps lots of men at work 'SO does mine" quOth the Golden Gate chap. Thousands of men are working night and day to pay the assessments. It keeps the country as busy as a bee hive" and the speaker sauntered to the telegraph office to order assessment No. 36.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
San Diego Items.
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Hunting parties are out daily, and they meet with fine success, killing quail and ducks, the former in large numbers.
 A gentleman just in from the Ready Relief mine, Julian District, informs us that large quantity of very rich ore is being taken out the pick of which is being shipped to jewellers in San Fran cisco.
 A summons and restraining order were served upon the Tax Collector of this county yesterday, to prevent his taking any further steps to collect the taxes on the Southern Pacific Railroad in this county for 1881. They are for midable looking documents.
 The Railroad Company are now build ing a slopinG stone wall along the front of the grade on the bay. The present work Is to repair bad wash. The entire front will be protected in a similar way, as soon as practicable. The stone is brought from Temecula canyon.
 District Attorney Will NJ. Smith, of this city. received an offer yesterday from Creed Raymond, attorney of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, to confess judgment in the two tax eases now pending, entitled "San Diego coun- ty vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Com pany." for the sum of S67,600, costs and attorney's fees. As the amount Is only about half what is due, the offer was declined
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
The Indians.

The report of the Indian COmmissiOIA CTS for the year 1881, transmitted to COnN gress recently by the President, states that With the exception of the disturbance in New Mexico and Arizona, caused by small band of roaming Apaches, the Indians have continued peaceful and have made cOmmendable progress in various pursuits of industry. The re- suits of Indian labor for the past twelve years-since the beginning of the peace policy Board says, show an in crease of products of the soil by Indian labor of nearly twelve fold and 1t Is con- tidently predicted that the time IS not far distant when all semi-civilized h. dlans will be self-suppOrtlng and the few tribes that remain wild and savage will soon follow their example The Indian. the report says, has no more natural right to live without work than the white man, though, as temporary expedlent, 1t was cheaper to feed him than to fight him: and as We have taken away his hunting-grOund 1t Is no more than right that we should give him support while he IS learning to labor. The Board earnestly renews its recommendations in favor of granting lands in severalty tOs' Indians. This will in a measure greatly encourage productive industry am6ng them. The Board heartily indOrses all that Is contained in the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs upOn the subject of the extension of law and gov ernment over all the Indian reservations.
 The Indians should not be left without the protection and the restraint of legal tribunals of justice; and no distinction ought to be made between Indians and other races with respect to rights and duties.
 Considerable space Is devoted to the subject of schools for Indian children. So much has been accomplished by the few training schools now in operation that the Board joins the many friends of Indian civilization in recommending sufficient appropriations to establish other institutions of a like character. In addition to training schools the Board urges Congress to provide the COmmis- sIOner of Indian Affairs with much larger school fund to be used in educat- Ing the 5000 Indian children now grow ing up in ignorance.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
The Surgeons Knife-
PHnApILPHIA, February 10. t pinched In feature a woman of

PHILADILPHIA, February 10.
 l pinched In feature a woman of
 moth proportions was carried into the clinic room of the university hospital this afternoon. The subject was a Uo- man 31 years of age, the mother of three children, who had come from her home
 in Blanchard, Centre county, to have de
 termined by the knife the question of
 her existence. There were about thirty
 physicians present and a group of stu dents who watched the operation with interest. The patient was about feet , inches in height, and by actual mea- surement feet 1 F inches m glrth, or
 within three inches as great around as she was in statue. The cause of her ab- normal condition was an ovarian tumOr which had already attained a weight much greater than her body, and was slowly and surely sapping her vitality.
 The tumOr made its appearance nine years ago, and from the start grew with amazing rapidity. For some time the woman has been absolutely unable to assume any other than a sitting posture, the very act of lying down making death certain by suifocatiOn. Dr. GOodell, after administering ether, placed the in- sensible subject in the best position her enormous bulk would permit, and made the incision. The knife sank deep into the flesh, and the fingers of the surgeon separated the tumOr from the life it was feeding upon. When the mass had been completely taken away 1t was placed in a tub of the largest size, and filled the vessel within three inches of the top. The tumor was then placed on the scales and was ascertaIned to weigh 112 pounds, the largest 1t IS believed, ever removed from human being. Subse- quently the patient, now reduced to mere skeleton and hanging to life by the veriest thread, was gently lifted to the scales and found to weigh but 75 pounds or g pounds less than the mass just taken from her body. On recovering consciousness the patient could scarcely express the sense of relief she expert enced at the absence of the weight that had been a burden to her for SO many years. Dr. GoOdell, when the woman had been carefully placed in bed, ex- pressed the belief that she would live.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
IninSiicefnthr Inllian..

Among the intricate workings of the
 different Indian Agencies there generally
 hangs an undefined crookedness, and the Papa-o reservation, south of Tucson. seems to be no exception to tine common
 rule, only, if reports are true, the high
 handed measures taken oD that reserva-
 ton t) dispossess the hereditary owners
 Of the soil are almost without precedent
 Through scheming and conniyance, Lut
 how or through whom the mystery is net solved, woman, said to be sharp ana
 shrowi, a cross breed between a Papago
 and a Mexican, and now married to a
 German, has 80 far succeeded to the
 management of the entire reservation as to disposscss at will and by force of au- thority, said to be Governmental, any
 and al persons having rich and tillable
 lands, to her own aggrandizement, not even sparng her old Papago mother. The
 latest victim of her cupidity is the
 daughter of an old Papago chief who died about fourteen years ago, and who is now married to a Mexican and living as near a life of civilization as it Is pos sible for an Indian so circumstanced. Although showing unmistakably the full
 Indian blood the woman is quite comedy in features and dresses as well as many of her Mexican sisters,and speaks the Span ssh and Indian languages with equal ease. The entire reasons gwen by the con trolling power for ejecting her from land which k undeniably hers, Is that the woman is so far civilized and has married a Mexican and dconsequently is no longer entitled to be considered a PapagO and so must suffer expulsion, whi e the ex- polling power is herself but half breed and is now married to a German. But hereafter her pathway is not to be as straight as it has hitherto been as Mir. Ainsa has been consulted as counsellor in the latter case, and will call the atten- ton Of the Interior Department to the grossness of the outrages now being 1 perpetratei on a people under the very laws designed for their protection.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26
Profitable Huntjug.

MT. C. II. Sweetland and his son, du. ring the last three months, have com bined business with pleasure, and made daily hunting trips few miles from the city, returning each evening with from fifteen to twenty dozen birds. In the past three months they have killed 9S5 dozen doves, 70 dozen quails, and 200 rabbits and hare, which have been sold to the hotels and restaurants at prices ranging from seventy five cents to a dollar per dozen for doves, two dollars per dozen for quail, and twenty-five cents each for rabbits, aggregating for the sea- son about 5000. The average result of days hunt was twelve dozen birds and
 rabbits.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26

REV. II. w. READ, who arrived from California this morning, will preach ill the Baptist church this evening. He is said to be quite an eloquent man and famous lecturer on the evils ofintemper- ance. Mr. Read was in Arizona, in an official capacity, about twenty-eight years ago, being at that time connected with the Texas and Pacific railroad. He was also here at a later date on the organi- zation of the Territorial Government, he beng commissioned postmaster of the district with headquarters in Tucson. Now he comes back almost a stranger to find that the improvements of later years have swept away the old land marks that were then known to him. MT. Read is now working under the American Baptist Publication Society, as general mission ary for Arizona, New Mexico. Western Texas, Sonora and Chihuahua.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26

A few evenings ago boy was busily engaged at his lessons. His father, one of the leading citizens of Austin, had gone to the lodge and his mother was busy sewing. The httle boy looked up and asked, Mamma, what does the word pretext mean?" "When your father says he has to go to the lodge two or three times a week, that Is a pretext to get away from his family" The boy did not say anything but next day when he read out to the whole school his definition of pretext, he created a sensatiOn.-iT Texas Siftings.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-02-26

THE CITIZEN acknowledges the re- ceipt of an illustrated descriptive seed catalogue issued annually by D. M. Ferry and Company of Detroit, Michigan, The finely colored plates. together with irs many woodcuts bespeakes the care with which it has been prepared and the different classifcations of seeds, flowers, shrubs and vegetables, with the many useful hints contained therein, regard ing their culture and adaptibility to the different climates, makes 1t an interest ing and useful pamphlet, which will be furnished to all applicants by addressing as above