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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
WORK OF APAcHEs IN SONORA.


 A correspondent of the Tombston, Epitaph writing from Oposura, Sonora makes some very plain statements as t, the Apache depredstions in that locality He deals some heavy blows or Mayor Strauss's denial of Indian depre dations telegraphed from Hermosillo il that State, and shows that the Star ha. falsitied the facts. "All the murders and depredations," says the correspond ent, "commItted in this district before and since Crooks victorious return from the Sierra Madres are regularly report. ed by both the civil and military au- thorities-the former to the State Gov. ernment and the latter to the General commanding the federal troops ID So- nora; imagine the surprise, contempt and indignation of Governor Torres and General Topeta for the author of of the article alluded to-" He adds that if newspapers m Arizona de- sire to post their readers upon Apache Outrages and assassinations in Sonora, they need not make inquiries of people coming from here, but can obtain official information at the Mexican Consulate Tn their respective towns as reported to those officials by district authorities in this State" This statement of the cor respondent referred to is true, and every well informed man and journalist in ArlzOna knows 1t to be fact, or should know 1t. The CITIZEN long since ascer- tained and published the substance of the official reports forwarded to the Mexican Consul in thls place, verifying the reported depredatIons in Sonora. But when certain newspapers continued to misrepresent the facts, and ig- nore positive evidence, the CITIZEN dld not feel called upon to reiterate the statement from day to day. The writer Of thls article called upon MT. Lomeli, Mexican Consul at this place, again to- day, to ascertain whether he had any further news from the Sierra Madre country, but he informed us he had none. In answer to the question, "how many Mexican citizens had been mur- dered in Moctezuma and Sahuaripa dis tricts, in the region of the Sierra Madre mountains since General Crook re- turned" he answered as follows:
 ''No less than twenty Mexican citizens have been murdered by the Apaches in MOctezuma and SahuarIpa districts since General Crook visited that locality last June. A large amount of stock has also been stolen, and other property de- l have no authority to give out any official reports I may receive from my country for publication, but I stand ready to verify what have stated by exhibiting the official reports to any American citizen who IS honestly in search of the truth"
 This is positive and conclusive evi- dence of the depredations which have been going on in Sonora during the past three months, and those who longer deny the facts and persist in misrepre- senting the condition of affairs in that country, are not particular in their search after the truth.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

SOME one writes a very doleful ac- count to our neighbor of what he has learned about the Denver exposition. Your commissioners" says the writer, represent one of the richest mineral districts in the world. They have placed on exhibition here the finest col lection of ores ever seen, gathered from every camp in the Territory. They have endeavored 10 show to the world some of the possibilities of Arizona" It is really deplorable that these Arizona commissioners have failed in their "en- deavors to show to the world some of the possibilities of Arizona" Denver must be s town of wonderful optic powers, If to the exhibit things there is 'to show them to the world" The con- ception of the idea of exibiting at Den yer was mistake; the appointment of commissioners from Arizona to attend the exhibition WAS a mistake, and the shipping of ore to Denver for the pur- pose of placing it on exhibition was 8 useless expenditure Of labor. trouble and money. The failure of the exhibit | ion Is matter of no importance to Ari- zona, and had it proved a success, or in other words, had the managers who are now so roundly abused | by this correspondent, made 1t a paying investment for themselves, il would not have benefited Arizona one two-bit piece. If by the bursting up of the Denver show, causing the Arizona men to remove their picked specimens of ore" to Cincinnati, even induces one man in Porkopolis to invest in Arizona mines, the change will have been for the | better. There are no tenderfeet in Col orado to buy mines "by specimens" and if one or two can be scooped in from Ohio the Arizona Commissioners will | have accomplished more than the CrTI- ZEN looked for. The fact is, We need no commissioners to 'ishow the possibilities of Arizona to the world" The cer- tainty that Arizona yields Sl2,00O,O0O worth of gold, silver and copper bullion annually IS a thousand times better than all the "possibilities" an Arizona Com missioner can preach up. It is aston ishing that men who have lived in q mining country for years should be de luded into the belief that mines can be sold by picked specimens" of rich ore
 You might show mining man ore that
 would go s20,OOO to the ton, and it would not excite him in the least. Horn silver
 and small strstRs of rich ore are mol
 what capital is looking after. Show 6 mining man a lode of three or four feet of $50 free ore and you will have nc
 trouble Tn disposing Of 1t at good
 round price. Mining exhibitions are humbugs, and the one at Denver IS nc
 better, nor is it any worse, than other
 similar exhibitions.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
Assistant Adiutant Ge
\ Dead lifY.

But, really, do you know it Is ex- tremely difficult to realize IL in 1883, and that we are still in America, says a Quebec letter. The old town (which ascends in conformation as it decreases III age) was founded in 1898 by the in domitable Cartier, and successive generations have contributed to it's store of historic memories until LOW 1t stands confessed the most ancient and most interesting city north of Mexico. It Is built on three terraces, the first of which is called lower town, and forms with Beauport, the oldest portion of the settlement; the second is known as upper town, and contains the Basilica. Laval university, the new parliament house, the convent of the Ursulines, the seminary chapel, the Gray nunnery, the old Jesuit barracks, the governors gar den, and all the nicer class of dwellings, and stores; the third is crowned by the citadel, the Plains of Abraham, the jail, and the Wolfe monument, and from its summit there IS a view l have never seen surpassed. To the right, the St. Law renee rolls Its mighty flood; the harbor is filled with shipping, the new quay cieeps slowly out into its "deep-sea
 destination, and Point Levy is idealized by distance into cloudlsnd city. To the left slopes away the relenting rug eedness of Cape Diamond, until it meets in the Plains of SillcOy, and is lost in the purple bosom of the Lauren. tine hills. The Plains of Arabir have turned their harvest of death to a wealth of turf, where the cattle browse unmo- tested about the grave of Wolfe, the martello tower crumble away Tn the sun- shine, and birds nests choke the loop holes, and vines Haunt from the caves Below, the ciIy looks like page out oi | the"Arabian Nights" for the roofs and l spires are sheathed in tin and sparkle a: bravely as if made of silver. This, by the way, is distinctive feature of Que
 bee; the tin is of So pure Q quality that it does not need to be painted to pre- serve it from the weather, and some oi the shingles" on the Basihes, whict were fifty years old. were almost al bright as their new neighbors on tht English cathedral.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

AN official dispatch has been received at the Hagme stating that "the disaster st Ischis was trivial compared that which like causes produced in Northern Bantam. Last Sunday, without any warning, there was 8 tremendous out burst of subterrsaesn thunder, and the volcano of Krakatos vomited forth an ink-black cloud, which spread over the clear tropical sky with incomparsble qulckness involving the land in com plete darkness. Then it began to rain scorie and dust, and in a very few minutes the greater part of Northern Bantam, a very fertile and very populOus country, was completely destroyed Tremendous explosions followed, stones and volcanic matter being hurled to distances of from two to three hundred miles. The sides of the great volcano blew out into the sea it's structure collapsed, and the entire island of Krakstos slowly subsided into the crater and disappeared. On Monday morning there was not vestlge of It Co be seen, the ocean having taken its place. The volcanic activity of the region was intense, but 1t was thought that the worst was over when, about noon, the inhabitants of the Morak coast and it's prosperous settlements between Morak and Jeringen were alarmed by tho sudden receding of the ocean from the shore, and on looking out to ses they beheld a great wall of water, varying in height from ninety to thirty feet, approaching the land. It destroyed everything m it's path, overwhelming the entire coast, sweep ing away all the dwellings, Lighthouses, and government building within reach, and retiring charged with a vast freight of lead snd ruin. There IS no estimate furnished in the frsgmentary and panic-striken dispatches of the loss of life, but according to the best informs- tiOn it must have been something appalling. The next day sixteen active volcanoes rose out of the sea, between the site of Rrskstos and Sibisie island, and Thursdsy last the great volcano Of Sorugapan burst forth, collapsed, and resolved itself into five distinct vol canoes
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

IE We may believe the reports which .7l1au- from Chihuahua, the renegade Cl.r-ealls hay forgotten their solemn promise to the Grey Fox t:'') and in- stead oi coming in to San Carlos, they l-r noR trying to make terms with the Mexican authorities for twenty leagues ..la-= %. land in the Sierra Madres. How these reDegades must mourn the ass Of -le old men and women they put - tle care of General Crook, to be fed by t4e United States, Yetif the story t4t Teaches Us from Chihuahua is true, 'aey arc willing to "let bygones be by g-ues. and will enJeavor to "stem the aie' without the councils of of the old lelaui women who brought Crook back from Sonora.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
N PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR.

The Unitei States are now at peace gi.l all the world, and there are no pros r.,ts of a war Yet there IS nothing like b-iag prepared for an emergency, and that old aJase, In time of peace prepare f-- war" applies to this age of the r--lis history as well as it dld to the -ss-. There Is nothing like knowing ms. what We can do and how it may be i,ra. ID case 1t becomes necessary. The report comes from Washington that Al;ataut General Drum is preparing a circular letter to the Adiutant General ai each state in the Unlon. requesting ,-v and complete information as to the raiitian and numerical strength of the -....ia organizations of each state, the .ai-c. being to form a national militia fs- usa in the event of an emergency
 The idea is 10 take advantage of the srovleice gained in the late war, and Ezsp !t fresh and in such shape that it nav be utiI.sd in case 1t is needed. I've want" says Gen. Drum, "to have -rs-y.hins arranged so that within trs-.y-four hours after the President -tor.5 issue a proclamation Of war com 1.s.s formulated instructions regarding .al mastering of volunteers would be on .5s vay Go tbo Governor of every state ID -le union, these instructions to be followed bv information relative to the stations to be assigned to officers and .r-g9-, and this agaln by other papers connected with the mgtter-sll in proper a-ler-s1 that there would be no delay and 1a misunderstanding in getting -7s-ythilg in running order"
 Tlr action of Adiutant General Drum s c5umeudable. Everyone who was old enough to take notice of events will remember the great confusion We had in lsI. when We were going to do sucA big tl1s- ia so many days-"9) days"-we 5-lrv-. was the time set to close l s-. ,le rebellion. But at the -al o5 that time We had | auls more than a big mob collected 1 together, without any knowledge what ever ot the duties to be performed. The 1 rav material was as good as could be | r5lueei by any nation ID he world,
 5atit had to be moulded into shape and | ,.nrlt how to maueuyer in the field. | lll il many cases even how 10 load | '-5i- guns. They were, many of them
 i,-1- tle w.rk-shop. store, counting room
 s1i office. and kenw nothing whatever
 ofc4up ..te An army of 5000 veteran
 soldiers. could have fought their way
 .lse-s-i1i! through every Northern
 S,s-- during the first few months of the
 var, 0g- r4v recruits would have been | them like sheep before the slaughter.
 Ess t5avoii anything like a repetition
 ' sucl weakness, that General Drum | l0w seeks to perfect some sort of
 0-gauizatlon.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

HE Southern Pacific railroad Is do- --sa heavy freighting business, not H;.siandinE 800 bottoms are in San .'aH''sco and on the way from Europe ''ct-sDes of grain. A very large pro- 3'5iion ot the present wheat crop of the laell' coast will go to Europe via the southern Pacific and New Orleans. IL heslortest route from the Pacific to ls Atlantic, and owing to the reduced -as they can put California wheat ID Liverpool over all other routes, wall al ways enable them to do their share oi tl- hrsin..s
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
An Insect ENterminnfor.

Pyrethrum, or Persian Insect Pow. der," bids fair to be the best of insect extermnators. The powder is cheap poisonous only to insects, and very ef. fectuaL At the experiment station al Amherst they mix a tablespoonful of the insect powder in pailful of equal parts of water and buttermilk, and sprinkle 1t on entrants, potatoes, or other plants infested with bugs or worms. The buttermilk makes the pow. der stick to the plant, and in about hsli an hour the insects get good mouthful of it, curl up, drop to the ground and die. Should it prove effectual against the rose bug on grapevines, pyrethrum will certainly be blessing. The plant is easily grown in gardens.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
CiVil-SerViee Reform.
san Franeisco Now L,tter.

It is with pain that we have to an nouncC that under the Pendleton CivIl SerUce Reform bill provisions We com. peted this week for a position as stamp kicker in the PostOifice. The pain comes in because we were ignominously un successful, although there were only forty-fye candidates. We were caught on the fly, as it were, in geography when the Examiner asked us what was the population of San Marine, in the Apennine Mountains. We answered 3,462,Sl6 for bluff guess, but be would not have it and, remarking that there was only forty.six people there since the hog cholera broke out, cheerfully signal led the way ont at the back door. Such are the perils of competitive examina, tiOns
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

Now that artesisn water has been struck iu the San Simon valley, others will be encouraged to sink wells ID similar formations throught the Terri torv. There ure, so We are informed, a number of flowing wells in the San Simon valley, with sufficient supply Of water for irrigating purposes. We hope to be able to chronicle other similar strikes in artesian wells m Arizona before long. Let the good work go on' The benefits to be derived from such wells can scarcely be over stlmated-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

FL LPAso Times: Last week a couple Of gentlemen who were taking some fifty head of cattle by freight train to Arizo- ns for breeding purposes, discovered when they reached this point, that the cattle were not looking well, that they were exhausted, and one or two of them were down. They concluded to unload inc cars and give the cattle rest of few days. They were driven down to old Fort Bliss, where in a short time they commenced to die. Up to date. sone thirty-fve COWS have died out of about fifty in all, have died. The disease is undoubtedly Spanish fever. A close watch should be kept upon Texas cattle shipped into this Territory. The disease is caused by long drives over arid plains of Texas, and is believed to come rom alterations between the hoofs. It often breaks out in the Indian Territory and southern Kansas destroying thOusancs of cattle. If they carry the disesss info that country there is no reason Vhy they should not bring 1t here.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

lHr gaand reception of the St. Der l-.is D their arrival in California, by '-e S,s Knights of that State, will be re- 2euo57ed by those who read the Cali ,-'l.a papers. It was then supposed '-ry would win the first prize for their -lscp.lur and Hardeism, but some Corn crackers and Hoosiers stepped in and Pl,ei them from the field. On their return home the St. Bernards did some Very loud srowling, because they were -.' treated fairly in the contest, and -'V San Franciscans are sorry they did -;io-low the Appollos to Europe, in' ',e-l oi attending the Conelave.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

orE surplus mines will all find a mar Ae' now, Governor Tritle's commission CTS have taken the Arizona selections ot yie' which were on exhibition in Den yer to Cincinnati, where the rich men of Fofkopolis will no doubt buy up all the -aines that have samples on exhibition. They are the kind of men who "go the whole hog"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15
AriZOna News

AthN.
 Track layers are now within four mile of Clifton.
 It is believed Clifton will soon becom, a money order office.
 They have side walks constructed O beer bottles at Clifton. It is safe to sa! they are empty.
 Benson also wants money order de pertinent to their postofiice.
 Smallpox still fingers at Phenix, not withstanding the strenuous efforts of th, citizens to eradicate it.
 About the 10th of the present month through train will be placed on the Atlantic & Pacific railroad. An express mail and baggage car and Pullman sleeper will run through without change from Kansas City to Oakland.
 A vampire bat. fifteen inches in length from tip to tip of its wings, was caught ID the Clarion office on Saturday even ing.-Clarion.
 It becomes the sad duty of the Senti- nel to chronicle the death of MT. Jos. B. Mason, the brother-in-law of Mir. Wm. F. Miller. Mir. Mason was we'll and favorable known in this community. He was for sometime in charge of the c. D. NJ. < $. O. at Castle Dome.- Sentinel.
 The steamer GlIa, which left here last Saturday morning, took twelve passen- gers, and the following freight: Castle Dome, S.460 lbs; PicRcho. 5S,070; Nor toms. 7,662; Clip, 60,373; Drift Desert, 6l0; Ehrenberg, 26,4S0; Col Res, 1, ,422; Chino Valley, BIO Aubery, g, ,SS0; Mo- have, l6i. Total, 2l6,4jl pounds.-Sen- tinel.
 Messrs. Beverly Cox and Eugene Caruthers have purchased the Ash Dale ranch and summer resort, on upper Cave Creek, from MT. Chaney, the locator. In addition to the beautiful creek bottom. all heavily timbered, there are miles of well grassed mountain range on either side of the valley.-Gszette.
 In Justice Swain's court yesterday Jake Freudenburg, ex-deputy sheriff, accused of embeZzlement, waived an examination and was held to answer be- fore the grand jury in the sum of 5000. As yet the necessary bonds have not been given.-Epitaph.
 Sentinel: Hon. Ira Buffum and Cap tain F. W. Smith have arrived in Yuma, from the Gulf of California. These two gentlemen have been spending five or SIX weeks hunting and fishing and have hal glorious time. They brought back some sea turtles and jewish. Captain Smith says the weather is cool and pleasant at the gulf, and that clans and sure enough shrimps, big fellows, no crawtish about them. They were ten days on their trip up river, the motor employed being Indian power.
 Certain military telegraph lines are to be sold. Bids are to be received up to September 30th at Whipple for their purchase.
 A man called BGrro Pete, while riding from Dsgg's ranch to Pine Springs, last week, was killed by lightning. The bolt struck him on the breast, glanced went through the saddle and killed the mule.-Globe Chronicle.
 The ranch. known as the old Alexan- der ranch, two and one-half miles be- low town, on Granite creek, owned by John Duke, was yesterday sold to A. l.. Moeller for S6,0OO.-JourDal.
 It is reported that Mir. George Marks, of Contention, who was brought from Guaymas some days since with tonto fever is hardly expected 70 recover.-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

THERE still remains one chance of punishing Frank James, the Missouri bandit. when that state gets through with its !arcical trials Of the outlaw. The governor of Minnesota has made requi- sition upon Governor Crittenden for the body Of Frank James, to answer for crimes committed in that state. If Gov ernor Crittenden should surrender 1 James to the Minnesota authorities, he would be tired according to the law and ! evidence and would be very likely 10 yat his just deserts
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

IT is foregone conclusion that the republicans will carry Ohio. With the exception of a few rural papers, which are not supposed to know what IS gong on outside of their immediate neighoor- hood, no democrats have the cheek to claim thnt Judge Hoadley has the least cbspee of an election. The republicans will carry the state by majority Of from twenty to thirty thousand.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

Quite 8 breeze in military circles at Camp Thomas by reason of the unRu- thorIzed absence of Lieutenant Porter. It is supposed that he deserted. He left Sunday, the 26th, and no trace of him has been obtained. It Is said be IS responsible for a sum of money, having been comnissary officer up to the last of June.--Repubicsn.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

In referring to an item which appeared in the CITIZEN a few days since in rela- tiOn to the statement that is going the rounds of the Territorial press that the Atchlson, Topeka 6 Santa Fe Railroad had guaranteed the bonds of the Mineral Belt road" the Journal says: The CITI- ZEN IS probably in error in regard to the statement being first made by the Epi- tatph, as the Journalifirst published the news, though not that the Santa Fe, but the Atlantic & Pacific had guaranteed the bonds. The information was ob- tained from the public records of this county, being an endorsement on mort gage recorded here, and which reads as follows: The interest on this bond is al- so secured by a guarantee fund; created by a contract between the Atlantic lS Pacific Railroad Company and the Ari- zOna Mineral Belt Railroad Company, relating Co joint through traffic, etc.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

TIE best citizens of St. Louis, think 1t was a very dark day for Missouri when the Gallatin !ury failed to convict Frank James Of murder in the first de- gree. Many other people are ot the same mind.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

IH> .s the time of year to prospect ;-e country lying west of Tucson for -,ne7, a- well as stock ranches. The country has been run over time and l'a.n, bat it has never been thoroughly i9speeted except in the vicinity where T-,er IS found. There is Q large area Of aila'ry between here and the Quiiotoa mountains that will bear close prospect lc. We should not be at all surprised 50 learn oi new and important strikes in ,-s region ot country before many -lltAs -oll around. IL Is also q fine siAzlas region. Hunt up 0 good supply 5. water and a fortune IS within reach O. tle .lcEy discoverer.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-15

The courtmartial convened at Whip, pie to try Lieutenant Simpson for con. duct unbecoming an officer and gen. tleman met this morning, and will probably be in session several days. We understand that quite a number of citi zen experts on the subject matter in, volved in the charge have been subpp, uaed to testify m the csse.-MiDer.