Weekly Phoenix herald., 1883-02-09
Telegraphic.

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! PREscoTT, Feb. 6-M Masterson
mining assessment bill was ordere
TO final reading.
! Several ladies' asc present today i
the Council chamber.
Mining legislation is receivin.
friendly attention in both houses.
Moye Wicks' Apache memoria
passed the Couacil.
Davis act to allow persons an
corporations to change their name
by petition to the District Court
Hughes opposed tie act. It wa
mads special orfs,s=s ~ next Mo2dAy
Nothing of Importance in th
House.
bpeci al to the HERALDl
COUNCIL.
PREscorT, Feb 5-The Counci
to-day passed sever..l bills, one t.
cause road overseers to pus up finger
boards at ali crossings and forks OF
roads.
HOUSE.
Webb introduced a bill for the
purpose Of preventing the S. P. r. L
from consolidating with other roads
Ellis bill forbidding the carry
of deadly weapons, has passed the
House.
The House railway bill will pass
today, but will fail in the Council.
WATER LEGISLATION.
Water legislation is taking much
of the time of the Council. A mum
ber of acts have been Introduced on
that subject today.
There is report going that min
ing journal is soon to be published
in Tucson.
DISTRICT COURTS.
An Act allowing The District
Co urts to change he name Of per
son and corporation passed the Coun
Gil today.
INVESTIGATION
The Council passed. q resolution
calling an investigation of the Yuma
and Ehrenburg wagon read txpcI d
itures.
REMoNsTRANcE.
Tombstone demonstrates against
Savage's Firemans Act.
SCHOOL BILLS.
Lemons School Bill Committee
has split and the business has been
made u special order for tomorrow.
Arbitrary Mexican GflcsaIs.
SAN FRANCIsC, Feb. 2-The Alta
publishes a letter from George Caleb,
master of the schooner Adrianna, of
of San Francisco, dated at LII Paz,
Mexico. The writer complains tina
in December he anchored in dis
tress with cargo, and drifted. le.,k
ing, in the bay near La Paz. He
was seized by tae customs autholi-
ties, taken TO La Paz and thrown
into Jail. He was refused legal adj
vice or communication with the
consul. The yes sci is de-
tained under suspicion Of smuggling
with present prospect of release.
The AltG vouches for the character
of Captain Caleb
9Eiciai in Trouble.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2-Chas. D.
Commissioner of immigra-
ton, & state anpoiBtive officer, was
arrests d tO-uight on three warrants,
each charging him with felony in
lppropriating to his own uses sums
collected as fees of his office and due
he state, aggregating $22, 900. He
'urnis es bail in $4,000. His Office
.as recently been subjected to al
Investigation by Legislative COM
nittce Bunker and his friends
,laim that a full investigation will
show that there has been no misap-
a Eseprieve.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 2-Sin Lum,
! ChIDaman under sentence of death |
whose execution was 10 have taken
,lace to-day, has BEEN granted re-
'rieve for one mouth by Gov. Stone
nan.
The 2EysteriOus Tacomn Dis aster
SAN Francisco, Feb. 3.-Later
ew= FROM the wrecked steamer Ia
oma leaves the fate of those re-
lainiug ON board still doubtful
he second mate had charge on deck
Then the ship struck, but neither
aw nor heard breakers until the
nip went ON the sand among them.
he ship was supposed to be well
Fl the shore and the only theory IN
of the disaster is a pos
ble arrangement of the compass.
he night was dark but foggy.
Late TeIeSrams.
Gen. Pope has ordered TO Oklaho-
Ia all available troops at Forts Re
o aud sill to cxpcl Capt. Payne and
is raiders.
On Saturday. San Francisco fu-
lres in barley dropped rapidly, and
losed as follows: April SLIT; May
11615; March III.
The Mexican reciprocity treaty
as not been sent 10 the Senate. 1t
rumored that it NAV not be sent
lis session, but if there be a called
ession after the 9Th of March it will
zen be forwarded with the PRESS
ent's recommendation for immedi-
te action.
A blizzard is prevailing over Kan
IS, and the streams are so deeply
-ozcn that stock can get no water.
Forty bandits have captured the
own Of Ahuscattan, northeast Mex
-, and are holding the prefect, the
judge, and nine justices
Dr. ransom.
Ranger, of Pheuix Park, Ireland,
,ill positively identify the TWO per-
Ons arrested as the men he saw
irving from the scene of the mur-
er of Burke and Cavendish.
A dispatch from Cheyenne says
ne heaviest snowstorm in the histo-
y of the Territory fell the last week.
'attle are suffering for grass. The
is 80 degrees below zero
nth no wind; trains on the Union
'acific are blockaded, but the pas
engers are furnished with food.
When the winds come the drifts win
lockade the trains in places for four
miles.
Twenty-three persons were killel
" stampede in a wool factory in
}Om baV. India