Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-12-17
Territorial CribbinEs.
Phenix wants street lamps.

, day night.
 There Is genuine live Marquis il
 Prescott.
 Gila county is having a jail built fo her evil doers-
 The celebrated Reavis steal Is set fo
 the 18th instant at Tucson.
 The ladies of Phenix will give grand
 ball on Christmas night. Morris Goldwater, of Prescott, Is can
 didate for President of the Council.
 Prof. W. P. Blake. of San Francisco
 is paying Pinal and Silver King @ visit Brown Dick, the Colorado horse nov in Prescott, is the fastest horse ID Arr :. zOna.
 I Dick TOms5n, sentenced to Yuma fol robbery, has been pardoned by the Gov ernOr.
 None cf Maricopa county's newly elected county officials have as yet hied their bonds.
 One firm in Los Angeles ships pro duce to Arizona to the amount of sSo' coo month.
 J.J. VosbuFg and J. Il. Deveraux re turned to Globe this week from then Eastern visit.
 Private Logan won the medal et the competitive drill of the Prescott Rifles ! Friday evening.
 Deputy [. s. Marshal, J. W. Evans, conducted three prisoners from Prescott to Yuma Sunday. | Work on the Globe and Casa Grande road, via Pioneer camp, IS progressing most satisfactorily. William Ransom has returned to Globe from a brief visit to relatives resi- dent of Buffalo, \. |. c. W. Curtis, the Prescott lumberman, passed through PhenIx Sunday on his return from California. l. IS said that some members in the 1 legislature in Maricopa county will have | their seats contested.
 Adam Weir, who.it is said killed Pete Clark at Flagstaff Friday last, Is now Tn the Yavapai county jail.
 4 few days ago at Holbrcok, Apache county, man name unknown, was shot and killed by hIs partner. Room rent in Prescott Is alarmingly high owing to the fact that tue demand IS greater than the supply.
 The Tempe people will have a Christ mas tree at the schnOlhOuse to gladden. the hearts of the little ones. Mrs. Marr, mother of Daniel and Joseph Mar, Ot the Verde, died at her home in Boston or the 3d inst. William Woods, of Williamson valley, Yavapai, has sold his fine ranch and stock to Jerome W. Sullivan.
 
 Old Mir. Wallace, a very good citizen, died at the hospital m Prescott on We'd Eesday, of sOftenIng of the brain.
 Secretary Van Arman has been look ing after some of his mining property. lie returned to Prescott Monday. The scarcity of ''hen frait" at Pheuix still continues, and that tOOthsOme arti- cle still commands 50 cents dozen.
 Several large loads of machinery ar rived in Prescott Thursday morning be- longing to the Howell Smelling COmpa- ny.
 Ratiill Stephens, a brother of the late Hon. l.. A. Stephens, died at Gilbert last Friday. Mir. Stevens was about 6j wears old.
 There arc more frame houses going up in Phenix than any other place In the Territory. The days for adobe houses have gone by.
 Nebraska owns ,, 2,5S2,Gs6 acres of land reserved for educational purposes, and holds notes for Sl, ,529, ,3l6 for property sold. Arizona needs the same.
 "Buck-a-hi Steve" the half breed h. dian scout, was In Globe las. week. lie denies the report of a recent fight with hostlles in PapOOse canyon. Mrs. Isaac D. Smith has returned to Florence from Ler summer visit to San Francisco, and her numerous friends there are glad to welcome her home.
 Captain Gerald Russell and his brave company, of the Third Cavalry, are at Fort Verde. The Captain, years ago, fought tine CAIrIcahuas under COchise.
 C. D. Brown, who has been for a long tune in charge of the hOisting works at the Tiger, has resigned and hIs place IS taken by Mir. GrIgsby, late of Cherry Creek.
 The bss. trotting time made at the Prescott races last week was 3:l1. The track must be slow, the horses poor or else the horses were not put to their best speed.
 The Globe and San Carlos Telegraph company have declared a dividend of one dollar Der share, payable December 2jth, making the sixth dividend paid by this company.
 llr. Joseph Collingwood, an old plo- neer of the Territory, and one of the early settlers of that city, IS reported as dying at Florence. We sincerely trust that hIs time is not yet.
 Charley Smiley, who has been ID the employ of John '. T. Smith, at the Phe- nix mil for a long time past, left Mon day for Moutcre! HuutT, California, where he VIII engage m business.
 We are in receipt of the Great Regis ter Of Pima county. It was printed in excellent job. Printed In pica on good paper. every name standing out clear and distinct Prescott Courier.
 The Silver Belt has a report from Salt River that circular letter from the POstoilice Department has been re- ceIyed there. asking bids fer carrying a weekly mall from Globe via Stanton, Grapevine and Reno to Camp Verde; service to commence July lst, 1883.
 Gov. Tr.tle Friday upon a certificate of the count as made by Secretary Van Arman, sent Hon. G. II. Oury, at Wash ington, his commission as Delegate to Congress from this Territory, and to ". R. Horton certificate Oi his election as Superintendent of Public Instruction
 The Atlantic and Pacific railroad will be at Beach Springs by the lst of Janu- ary, prepared to receive and deliver F-- fTha a.rr,n1~vr hove apr,a 15w hundred men at the fort laying track, etc. It IS still a matter of conjecture where the railroad will cross the river.
 About sixty hands are now at work on the rock cut for the Mesa City canal, and after this work IS completed. the ditch I5 to be enlarged throughout. The cU. spoken of obvistes all risks from having the water shut oh by high water.
 The early part of the week fully tweu- ty wagon loads of immigrants arrived at Mesa City from Utah, some of them remaining and others continuing their journey to Graham county Among the latter was Capt. James Pace, Of the Mormon Battalion, who passed through Arizona thirty-iVe years ago. While the far maids of Arizoua are wearing sun shades for the protection of theIr cOmplexions, Eastern railroads are blocked up with snow, and the car dIDal rcd tips of the noses of the peO- pie afor1 more light than the present comet
 Herald: PheniN has one great regret to-day, and that Is that our streets are set with cottonwood trees instead of ash, pepperwOOd or some other clean and graceful tree. The day will soon come here when the cottonwood on our streets will give way to something less dirty and generally annoying.
 The old shaft at the Sterling mine has over eighty feet of water iD it, and in the bottom ot the shaft there ls corpse