Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-01-01
TELEGRAPH.
COAST NEWS.
Attempted Assassination in Tombstone.

Attempted As-assinatioa in Tombstone. Special to ihe cTrIzES.l
 TOMBSTONE, December 29. f. About 11:3O last evening, as. Deputy United States Marshal. Virgil Earp, was crossing Fifth street. an attempt was mado to assassinate him. Five shots were fired in rapid succession from shotguns, loaded with buckshot. It is thought three men did the shooting. They were concealed in a vacant building the oppo- site side of Allen street. Immediately after having fired they ran through the rear of the building to Toughnut street, down past the Vizina hoisting works and disappeared in the darkness. Earp was wounded in the left arm just above the elbow, fracturing the bone; also received a shot above the groin, the shot coming out near tine spine. The wounds are very danger ous, probably mortal. Several shots pierced the windows of the Eagle brewery, entering only few inches above the heads of the men at S 'V1eins table. Thjie good night'sE,ae me faro Ins. Was as eyer a poUfn F U"ns second time the ~- .sriers" have tried to carry their threats of killils certain citizens into execution. Intense feeling prevails among the better class of citizens.
 Murder in California
 LINCOLN, Cal, December 29.-A woOd- chopper named Henry NJ. Smith was found dead in his bed in a cabin near this place yesterday. The evidence dis closed that deceased Lad been murdered and placed in lis bed afterwards by some parties as yet unknown.
 Murder ard Arson.
 VIRdISIA, Ney., December 29.-Last evening the dollhouse in Six Mile Can yon was discovered to be on fire. The house has been kept for years by Perian- der Pollock and wife, very respecta- ble old couple. There bodies were found lying in the front room. It is supposed the murder was committed by some one who thought the old people had large sum of money about the premises.
 Smallpox in Oakland.
 SAN FRANCIscO, December 29.-The citizens of Oakland are uneasy about the number of cases Of smallpox in the city, and fears are entertained of an epidem- ic. \ general purifcation of the city Is talked of.
 The Grain Market.
 SAN FRANCIsoo, December 29.-Wheat Higher. No. ], SL62 sll6j; No. ?, S1.57l leo.
 Barley-Feed, higher at 1.5091.5j.
 Potatoes-1Oc@Sl per centaL
 Heroic Ef5r.
 Los ANGELES, December 29.-Dr. Jos eph kurtz, of this city, was called upon yesterday morning To visit a Mexican woman named Cruz, living at Florence in this county, who was prematurely de- livered of SIX perfectly formed female children.
 The Tombstone Townsite.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., December 31.- Acting-Attoney General Phillips, on the 24th inst, submitted to the President an opinion in regard to the Tombstone, Arizona, cases, which was to-day re- ferred to the Interior Department. The opinion Is in substance that the location of townsites cannot deprive persons of mineral rights previously acquired. Persons having previously preempted the mineral land have lawfully the right to go ahead and take out the mineral in the ground of a townsite, but they must not destroy any of the town improve ments or streets; that its surface may be preserved for a town, but the mineral underneath the surface belongs to the parties who have preempted the mineral land there, but that the mineral must be taken out without detriment or injury to the town.