Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-09-29
Arizona News.

Notwithstanding our many draw backs during the summer, building mas stead fly continued as 1t bas, indeed, for the past year. There is no particular excite ment about it, but good and healthy growth which promises to be contln- uous.-Phenix Her.
 The Mohave Miner is agitating the subject of telephone communication be- tween Mineral Park and klngman.
 The Alta, of Mineral Park, has ceased to exist, the Miner of that place having purchased the goodwill, material, etc, and consolidated the two.-Dally Min CT.
 Persons who have tried the waters of Fitzhugh's hot springs, tell us that Tor rheumatic affections, general debility and other ills of the flesh, the waters are good. The springs are near Castle creek, about 90 miles to the southwest of Prescott, and l5 or 20 miles east Of Walnut Grove.-Courier.
 Peter Moore, of Camp Thomas, brought to town yesterday and sold to the Globe Mercantile O., 5,OOO pounds of potatoes.
 Crops on Salt river were never better than this year. The crop of sweet pOta- toes is very large.-Chronicle.
 Gov. F. c. Powers came in from his Gila Bend Canal last evening. He re- ports twelve teams ct work with two more hired to go down to-day. He was, to-day, working upon the Peralta grant matter getting ready to make his report to the Surveyor General. He has writ ten to Mir. Hopkins, the Government expert, who is now in San Francisco in vestigRting some matter pertaining to the title, for him to search the author ities as to what constituted a "Spanish vara common measurement, ln HAS, at the tImr the concession was made. He wants this question settled before he makes hIs final report.-Gszette.
 The New Mexico uni Arizona railroad company Is enlarging the freight ware houses at Fairbanks by removal of part of the warehouses from Contention and Nogales to that place Republican. W. 4. Nash, editor of the Benson Herald, came up yesterday. He reports he work of rebuilding the burnt district going on at a rapid rate, and within b fortnight from this date the town wIll be reconstructed in a much more substau- tial manner than before the fire Epl- taph.
 The gas company promise that the new iilumlnant will be served to con sumers in this city by the 2Oth oi October.-Epitaph.
 Chief Justice French returned from Mineral Park this morning on the Ash Fork stage. Notwithstanding he has held twenty-twO days term of court at Mohave county and lost two nights sleep on the return trip, he Is as active as a youth In his teens. Journal
 The CITIZEN makes a mistake in stating that a smallpox scare exists IL Prescott. Our city nus taken means t. prevent its introduction here, but uo one has ever exhibited any alarm or fright over the situation.-JOurnal.
 THE Tombstone Republican gives al accOnnt of a band of Papago Indians who recently arrived in that place wit h lot of stolen horses, a number of which they sold. On Sunday last NIT. MaxOn, who owns ranch on the So- noita, Tn Pima county, arrived in Tomb stone and laid claim to a portion of the horses. This IS new trick of the Pap agoes, and the thieves should be hunted down and punished according to law before the disease grows to undue pro- portions. Stock men should be careful about making purchases from Papago Indians in the future.
 About thirty bucks and squaws of the Hualapai Indians are camped just b. yond the post. The dude mania must have struck the tribe, for they sport billed shirts and swell clothes for Hualapai, and don't look as if much starvation had been going on where they came from Miner.
 The smallpox cases at Mesa City have been reduced to ten, with a probability of those convalescing.
 The meeting of the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company tonight promises to be an interesting one, If all the rumors atioat are to be credited.-Republican.