Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-05-05
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 Phenix held it's municipal election last
 Tuesday.
 The hills around Prescott are full oi
 prOspectOrs.
 Secretary Van Arman arrived ID Pres
 colt on Monday.
 &ge French opened court in Pres cott on Tuesday.
 Judge French opened court m Pres colt, ou Tuesday.
 Mrs Moses Clanton Is slck wlth pueu- monia at Camp Creek.
 The Tombstone postoflice Is rated back to fourth-class office
 Hon. W. B. Horton inspected the Phenix public schools on Thursday.
 Mrs. P. A Craigue, Of Prescott, has gone tO Kansas to spend the summer.
 B. F. Click, of Agua Fra, Yayapu county, will visit his old folks at home m Virginia.
 Mrs. Geo F. Coats and her daughter.
 Miss Laura. have gone to Los Angeles, from Phenix
 Mabel Fife, dau ;hter of Wm. and . c. c. Carrier, of Phenix, died Weiues- day morning.
 | A number of Phenix merchants have | pledg ge themselves to keep their places of business closed all day on Sunday.
 Ex-Governor Powers has been secur- ing all the available teams and men possible, m Phenix, to push his canal contracts ou the Glla Co speedy comple- tiOn.
 At the Phenix city election. held | Tuesday, there were elected, De Forest ] Porter, mayor; G. II. V. Luhrs and Wm. F McNulty, cOuncilmen; NJ Mitchell, treasurer, and Henry Garfas, marshal
 The Gazette says C. v Beach of the Miner has returned from CalfOruIa where he purchased new job press and secured W II. Webber, AL old Arizona printer tO take charge of the mechanical department.
 The examination of D. c. Jones charged with robbIug young man named Hiram Fuller, of Sl3i Was con cluded last evening before Justice M1-- ris. whp h-ld the d-f-n iant m the -Uu Of Sl,OOU to answer before the grand jury.
  Iu-ed at Date creek a short time ago, while assisting in rounding up cattle .- at St. JOsepl's hOspIt.i m Prescott, get- ting along nicely. It Was at one ume feared that one of his feet nd have % be cut of, but the necessity for such proceeding K now happily passed,
 Prescott Journal The Territorial Board of Education held meeting re- ceutly ID thr Governors office, when Territorial Treasurer Butler reported S2.j9S on hand. The following appOr- tlunmeut was made of S2,536.f 70, on a basis of twenty-five cents Co each child of school age, and the Territorial Audlt- or was ordered Co draw warrants ? the amounts: Yuma, SIj2; Apache. S23l; PInal, Sl55; Yavapai, Sj2D. Pima, S62l. Msricopa, S330; Graham, Sll2I3; VI have, S57; Gila, SZ375; Cochise, sZ&3.jO.
 The lands belonging to the Atlantic and Pacific in thls Territory will be sold to the first applicant, 90 that one may now select land and it will virtually be- come hIs when the application reaches the office of the land department of The company. The rule will be to consider the first applicant the buyer of the laut indicated. unless the land has already been improved by some one else. Tn thls case the man who has improved the land without title will toe gwen chluce ro buy the same ID preference Co all ap- Dlicants
 Sheriff Orme, says the Herald, re- turned last evening from his hunt afteF the Indians whn committed the assault ln old man Sears and his wife On Wed lesday. The Sheriff was joined st Tempe by small posse and then pro 'eeded to the SacatOn Indian Agency, where a demand was made for the Iu- irans- The agent got the names of toe -ssaIltlng party and expressed hls glllIngness to do all In his power Co lave them delivered over 0 the and informed the Indian hiefs that .he men must be delivered Ip or troops would be sent for Co take hem. Mr Sears is badly wounded, but lot necessarily fatal