Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-30
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SUNDAY. JULY g
Local Intelligence.
Get ready for the Feast.

Get ready for the Feast
 The rainy season is inclined to be wet.
 The town of Benson is to be ineorpor-
 ated.
 Ranchmen report cattle looking well
 and fat.
 Bishop Read left for Texas on Thurs
 day last.
 The public schools will open in
 September.
 The streets in CalabAsas are sixty
 feet wide.
 CRepairing dirt roofs is the chief occu-
 patton of Tucson citizen nowadays.
 Several car loads of California sheep passed through to Benson a few days since.
 But little ore has been shipped
 through Tucson to the Exposition at Denver.
 The Tucson thermometers are higher toned than those of Los Angeles by about twenty degrees.
 The latest project in railroads IS the
 one reported to be built from WillcoX to
 the San Carlos coal fields.
 4 pirate vessel has been reported as
 sighted on the Santa Cruz, opposite the
 steamboat landing at Calabasas.
 The Phoenix Herald hits it in the fol-
 lowing: "hughes was III hls element iA
 Prescott. Plenty of grub and wine"
 An effort is being made in Calico camp to reduce miners wages from four dollars to two dollars and fifty cents per day.
 A gentleman in from the Arivaipa canyon country, states that the mining outlook for that section IS uncOmmOnl. good.
 A new postofice called Cienega has been established in Yavapai county, Arizona, with George W. Hance as post master.
 Murphy, the defalcating telegraph op- orator at Prescott, escaped from jail by saving of the bars of his cell few eve nings since.
 The Yuma tribe of Indians numbers some 3,05a, men, women and children. They are peaceful, partially industrious and all dirty.
 In Guaymas watermelons are selling at two for one bit. In Tucson they are selling at one for two bits, and a mighty little one at that
 The ore miners in the state of Maine receive but from Sl.50 to $1.75 per day. In Arizona the average wages paid for the same work Is s4
 Men are busy at work tearing down and removing the debris of Leo Gold schmldts burnt store, preparatory to the erection of a new building
 A number of Arizona rustlers are said to be making troublesome times in and about the city of Chihuahua. But for that times would be dull.
 JJ. Coleman, late Under Sheriff of Pima county, has by Sheriff Behan been appointed Deputy Sheriff of Cochise county to reside in Benson.
 The telephone Is soon to be in- troduced to Tombstone. The gentle man ID charge of the wires will in few days go there for that purpose.
 A handbill printed in the Spanish language is being circulated through the city, advising citizens to cast their votes agaInst the issue of city bonds. Four Papagos made raise from some ae as they purchased complete out l fte saddles, brides and spurs, aggre- 1 gstiD1 gst n value one hundred dollars.
 paoaugS.a man opened lemonade ! .,.-1'S ;-I 1l, -nlx It kind of turned the l pt.anie's beadsi' sS;, s2;, row they proudly imagine 1t to be the city of theTir.Iu'e .;
 The San Francisco Call locates the town of Calico in Arizona Territory. Ii IS generally understood that the place IS In San BsrnardIno county, Califor,is
 The families of Messrs. Drake, Et- chells and Levin leave for Santa Monica. California, iu "A few days, to remHiu there dunug the b-lauce Of the summer mouths.
 The Arizona boys are. says tie Calico Pr,ut, mannfsctnrIo. adobe U.iJ- is then GeS ~sll. Fms kind or mateuai m,kes coo. and comiOrra5ie buildings. and sre just the thing for this climate. w. B. Scott, superintendent O, the Santa Catalina Copper Company, Tsrs.v- e.i no;e from his fore Inal last e.enihs. stating fiat t.e Tnuie iac- Of the Apache t1unel Is iu magnificent lUoklL.. ore. The grade for Q side track 10 the smelling works at Benson, is completed | and ready for track laying. The boiler for these works Is placed in sitiOn, and tue building is last approaching com ' pletion. The Semi -Tropic says that Colton, California, IS becoming quite shipping point for stock men, who are sending [ cattle and sheep into Arizona. Some [ SIX or eight car loads week Is about the average now. The following bullion was shipped from Contention during the week end ing July 21: Tombstone Mill and Min ing Company, three bars; Contention Mill fourteen bars, and Head Center Mill one bar. "A census of night bugs would make a fine showIng.1Couner" It was ! .aken and did make fine showing" f They number nearly twenty thousand, f ,r about three to every man, woman and 'hild in Yavapai county. T One reason why the census of Yava- a 1ai county did not loom up better Is t because the enumerators failed to get t he lackasses down. A sort of honor, lou know, on the principle that can | idate does not vote for himself.-i Sen n incl \ Dan Ming Is in Globe and will lead ( company of TontO Indians as scouts n providing the agent will let them go q t IS feared that the agent will refuse, ; wing to the treatment the citizen ave him last week while visiting the own. N Colonel White has just received dis b 'atch from Col. $. P. Sykes to the effect m hat he will start immediately for Tue on- The dispatch is sent from Boston, n be headquarters of the Santa Rita Land b nd Mining Company. The company ave decided to purchase the 4,0OO head f stock now on the range and increase he number to 10000 by other purchases D The company's copper smelter at T r Srown's Station is about ready for L peration. St Mir. Sam Lewis, who arrived in Tue on a few day ago, lately made trip V trough the Mexican states of Sinaloa P nd Durango. He represents but little ctlvIty among the mines of those sec W ions. But few Americans have as yet al ny foothold, and the general cOndi- ion of the country Is similar to that of q 'onora previous to the last few years. The city of Durango once so fine is now F cry dirty and on the highway to decay, CT he people poor, priest ridden and -iven to crime. Al The following plats have been re- ei, ei at the Tucson Land Office: Town hip l6 south, range 2S east: township 6 south, range % east; township r. ca