Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-20
Local Intelligence.
Pima county has l,5O0 taxpayers. Hotel travel is pvcae1fnolv brisl- V

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 Pima county has l,5OO taxpayers.
 Hotel travel is exceedingly brisk now.
 The sampling works will be here next week.
 A. c. Dorn is bookkeeper at the Park brewery.
 Mocklng birds are plentiful in the markets.
 Silver City has a gymnasium. Tue son needs one.
 Mayor Strauss leave of absence will expire on November lst.
 Two marriages are promised for De- cember and one for November.
 The wheat crop Of California this year amounts to over 500,O0QOOO bushels.
 A. Chisholm, of Total Wreck, will soon start blacksmith shop In Benson.
 The climate of Tucson is perfectly free from all asthmatic and consumptive complaints.
 The postal route from Tucson to American Flag Is to be extended to Msnleyvile.
 The first story of the new school house IS up, and already the building presents fine appearance.
 4 forty mule team passing up Con- gress street last night reminded one of "auld lang syne.'
 D. H. Russell is cutting out a tomb stone for the grave of James Lynch. IL Is of choice Italian marble.
 Lieutenant James F. Simpson, of the Third Cavalry, at Fort Huachucs, IS reported 10 have gone crazy.
 The City Council retrenched and the Supervisors are retrenchlnE. The legl-- lsture and Congress are next to be heard from.
 Everybody m Tucson has suddenly got to be a general or colonel. Titles have sprung up like mushrooms after storm.
 The big elephant "Chief' has a record that would make a cowboy envIous. He has only killed five or six men. He Is muzzled now.
 Paul Reicker has secured the contract to survey the line between Graham and Pinsl counties, the price paid being SZ97 per mile.
 Parties from HermosiIlo who were personally acquainted with Eustis, con- firm his death and also that of Smear don at that place.
 There are four orders of knichthood in Tucson, namely, Knights rempiar, Knight of Pythias, Select Knights and the knight hawks.
 A gentleman from Sonora. eIP Plaining to tenderfoot about the climate ID So- nora, said that in winter IL was summer, and in summer It was hell
 The Good Templars lodge has grown so in membership that It has been com pelled to seek larger quarters a. the Lo- comotiTe Firemen's hall
 That piece of silver ore that MT. Toole IS exhibiting is a daIsy-rich and rare. 4 few tons Of such ore would make a Rothsehild of a fellow in short order.
 Dr. Peter c. Gelcich died at Hermo- sillO on the 7th instant, from yellow fever. He was a brother to Dr. Y. Gel cich, prominent physician of Los Au- geles.
 W. E. Atkinson. who left here last August with the government surveying party for the northern part of the terri !. tory, has returned looking hale and . hearty. 4 grandson of our esteemed towns | man 4. R. BarrumO, has accepted the . position of confidential stable groom at the celebrated Burr0 Breeding Rancho gF Tl-r, Tgea nTafrrHr ~a-r- A1rar ] ra.
 A party of prospectors are searching for the old Tucson tunnel, that was opened into a rich ledge, and deserted in Indian times. It IS believed to be in the Tucson mountains.
 The insinuation of the Phenlx Herald that the Tucson journalists wrote edi- torials on the circus to get free pass emanates from cold Jealousy. The circus didn't go to PheuIx, you know.
 The Supreme Legion of Select Knights, A. O. .. w., which has just closed Its third annual session at Buffalo, New York, attached Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona to the grand jurisdiction of Kansas. The pay of passenger conductors on the A. T. 6 5. f. road has been increased to Sl25 per month, that of freight con , ductors to Sl00. and that of brakemen | | now range from Sj5 to SS0, according | | to class. The increase takes effect Nov ! ember lst. Paul Riecker showed ye reporter to- day chunk of ore that was two-thirds native silver. The piece was an inch ' and half thIck. He said 1t came out [ of an eighteen inch vein, and was called [ the County Line Mime. The piece in l hand would certainly assay S2S,000 He 2 also said there was good o-e on each q side of this particular pay streak As to its location he refused to make any V statement. !