Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-03

Blind JIm was Thursday placed on trial for having killed Stone. The jury brought in a verdict of mot guilty.
 Mr. b. N. Riordon has been appointed agent for the NavaiOe Indians, with headquarters at Ft. Defiance, ArizoDa-
 T. Brooks, Esq, has sent bands of young fat goats to Beal Springs and other points in MOhave county for sale.
 Mr. Thomas, superintendent of the Pheuix mine, on Cave Creek, arrived in PheniX Thursday evening from the mIne.
 NIr. l.. K Watson was elected Justice of the Peace at Dudleyville on the 1th. He will make a dignihed dispenser of justice.
 Hogcss T, s iqaffpaII iqaffppII .llIGDnSitaFV If tho Il { Yuma. isssss S'-.,,- -, sS--ss--t-ss pIqssco.. COurIer.
 Governor R. c. Powers will soon con mesce surveying for several townships of land on the Gila, about j0 miles be- low Phenix.
 Mrs Began, one oS our oldest resi- dents, was married last week in Oak land to Dr. Bills, brother to Mrs. Gull yer of Final Soon Prescott nill men will bring m from the east, over the A. < r. R. R. large quantities of machinery, supplies of salt, provisions, etc.
 Mir John Wright, stage agent aud merchant at Casa Granie was in Flor eEce Tuesday returning home from a business visit to Silver King. Accoring to the official count, the new school board at Florence will be com posed of Nr Vim. Jennings, Mir. W. C. Smith and Dr. Wm. Harvey. Mir George A. Brown, Wells, Fargo < Co.'S agent and bOOk-keeper for Joseph CulirgvOod, returned tO Florence Fri day from business trip tO San Fran cisco.
 Dr. Ralph Palmer, formerly agency physician at Sacaton, has located in Florence and will tender his professional services t1 those in need of medical as- sisiance.
 Miss Hattie Davis, one of San Der La-dino's most charming young ladies, arrived m Florence Sunday on visit to Mrs. W. l.. Bailey. They were schoOimates in California. There are eight candidates for Yuma already booked in the Prescott jail. Joe Walker proposes to freight them down by the pound; return freight. yuU know, is only cent and half
 Hon. Granville il. Oury made a short stay at Florence last week. He left the same day of his arrlval, for the national capital, going by the way of Texas to see his family who are visiting relatives lu that place.
 On Thanksgiving Eve during the party, at the Prescott Theatre, hand some gold quartz mounted cane will be submitted to the vote of the people and awarded to the lucky elect, ladies, oi course, and children having a right Go vote.
 Stewards Prescott stages will here after tap the A. S F. R. F. at the neW sta- :iCn on Ash Fork. The new route will, for a short tune, be by Hell Canyon. As soon as stations, etc, can be made, the stages will run through Big Chino valley.
 Prescott is now prstty well filled wItL people. Among recent arrivals Ms. Scott, one of the most successful busi- uess ladies Of the West, and MT. Morris on, a wealthy cattle owner of New Mex leo, deserve sPecial mention.
 the Indian triD9s iG A.,~nccompanied doctor will soon go East. he very likely will be asked to tell the people what be knows about the Apsches.
 NIT. James Ellis left Pheulx Thurs day for that lively new town on the Colorado, where the railroads are Co cross. known as the Needles. His hrm have started business at that point and the gentleman alluded Co takes charge of it.
 Supervisor Geo r. Cook, of Mesavllle, was in Florence last week assisting iu the ofiicial canvass of the vote. Its Board completed their labOrs Iuesday- The returns from several precincts were somewhat irregular but were not deem cd sufficiently SO to invalIdate them M. NJ Price, an old time Arizonan, who used tu carry mail and express [ -hrourh the Territory when the lndl- ans were very bad, left Prescott Thurs day for Salt river valley where be pro- | noses to raise small fruits for hls friends ' in Iavapai.
 The Prescott Democrat says lettbere ! he ,u investigation of all matters per ' tanning -n the Yuma Penitentiary mud ! Ile. Let a full showing be e1acted and a committee appointed Co see just where the bug IS. IT there have been pecu- . lators let the guilty party be brought
 forth.
 Th- Atlantic and Pacific road loaded
 and shipped to local points along the
 7orte wcs; ot Albuquerque and Tor Arr
 za1.. during October, lD ear loads of
 merchandise. The express and passen-
 ger traffic on the A. <. r. IS now payiug
 .r n.A Fr1f flo h~Trffs . a nice revenue.
 Ngr. Melville. who has been short
 limo stationed in Prescott as agent for
 tL. s. tv P. R. R. people, IS about to ac-
 cent a position in St. LOuIs as ticket
 agent. General Superintendent Smith
 Is educating yOusg nan in She ron
 tlue of business to fill the place Of NIT.
 Melville.
 Gen. Cogswell, formerly of New Mexico and ArIzona, died In Washing , ton on the 20th inst. He was one of . he three officers of the Union army who
 were held as hostages at Charleston, m
 1-G2. to prevent the destruction of tbe ! rebal prlvatecrs. Gen. COgswel was a
 fine soldier and gentleman. 3 Cgut. Fayan recently awarded the f fIHur contract TOT EluN anu ; to Nr. Truman, of Tempe, MaricOpa , county. Judge Hayden was awarded { tbl contract for Lowell, while all She B other uosts in Southern Arizona were a uo- contracted for. but will be supplied ' from California.
 . The official vote of Pinal county, by 70 precincts, will be found in another col ann. No returns were made from Ora
 e!4. Ada Mill or WhitlOcks. The ln- , -uert0rs and Judges of election Tor t those precincts are liable to heavy 3. fire, unless they can show good cause s for not holding an election. 8 IL is a common error with the people l. that lawyers appointed by the Court to e defend inpecunious and poverty -strlck-
 en criminals have a Tee from the county Q, or Territory. This IS not so, the law! ei Il must defend when ordered by the Court l. so fo do. It is the only living instance ,r v5ere tbe lawyer is the under dog IT .e tba fobt." As rule he always IS on re tor. SO far as fees are concerned. .o Prof. White, who is connected witl ,s .be -taunch mercantile firm of Bailey d i, Eaton. Globe, passed through FlOrenc, ,s Thursday, en route to Oregon on bnsl ,a ness. He says Globe is as lively an' ,o full of business now as 1t was during it