Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-17
Territorial Cribbings.

| Cattle stealing is one Of the pastimes | in 1avapai county
 l The Prescott Real Estate Association
 will soon incorporate.
 John Holmes, of Turkey Creek, owner
 in the IIrmeslte and other good lodges, IS in Prescott.
 Another biz brother of J. 0. Dunbar,
 of the Tombstone Republican, has set tied in the Territory.
 Second Lieutenant R. r. Ames,
 Eighth Infantry has been granted leave
 of absence for five months.
 The Legislature will meet on the Sth
 of January, in Curtis Hall, and not in
 the HOwey building, as was intimated
 recently.
 Jas. ROdcnda, of Yuma, son of the gentleman who has SO frequently rep resented Yuma in the Legislature, IS visiting in Phenix.
 C.L. Mosher, left Phenix Thursday morning for Castle Creek. to report on mines for an Eastern company. He will be absent ten days.
 Captain q. T. Olmstead, U. $. A., has arrived at Whipple and taken charge of military telegraph llnes m Arizona, re- leving Lieutenant Ward
 Miss Ida Jones, n very good Prescott girl, is about to return home from vis- 1t 10 relatives in St. Louis. Miss Jones has friends wherever she IS known.
 Mr. Samuel 4. Henszey, of the Pres colt and Thirty fifth Parallel R. R., has left Philadelphia, for Prescott. He will be able to tell when the branch Is to be built.
 Casa Grande IS thriving. Two black smith shops are added to the business Of the town. The solitary little Mexican of a few months ago now has about twenty companions. and school house has been erected for their intellectual Casa Grande proposes to make an effort for the Gunsight road, ! having over PicachO the advantage of an already fourishlng Southern trade. l
 The Phenix Gazette says: A well ! known Phenician silently wrapped up his stock of collars, socks and other ! worldly goods and skipped out" We'd !, nesday night. RumOr has 1t that few i gentlemen waited on him early in the | evening and requested his departure | from these busy scenes, never agaIn to | and of course he was considerate | as to his friends interest in hIs health | and welfare, and went.
 The brothers William T. and Julius l Brown left Prescott a day or two ago | for California, leaving their brother, c. | D. Brown, in Prescott. Wm. T. Brown, | several months ago, received a painful | wound in the foot by the accidental dis charge of gun. The wound has never | healed, and his visit to California at this l time is made for the purpose of having | Dr. Cole try bis skill on the manned | foot.
 The Pheuix Gazette says that Thurs day morning at about l o'clock the dread ful cry of fire" was raised. which proved to be the large hay stack of Mir. John Burger, containing sOms sIxty-five tons of baled gram hay. Upon iEvestIga- ton 1t seems tO have been the work of an inceudiary, as the fire was lit in some loose straw upon the sidewalk, short distance from the stack. The loss amounts Co about Sl,2O0. The grain warehouse and blacksmith shop nar- rowly escaped destruction.
 On Wednesday about noon the atten ton of a number of Mineral Park citi- zens was attracted by a dense smoke in the neighborhood of the Lone Star mine. which on inyestig ton was found To arise from the dwelling house of W. F. Grounds, near the mine. By the time aid arrived thu house was totally destroyed. not a thing being saved. The origin of the fire is unknown, as no one bad been in the house since early in the morning. The loss will be somewhere in the neighbOrhood of Sl l,OOO; but can not be definitely asc rtained until Mir Grounds gets back from Texas.