Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
Local Intelligence.

country.
 Is there any bunting displayed when jury Is waived?
 The San Rafael ranch has had an abundance of rain.
 Watermelons are in market, but are quite silvery in their taste.
 A prospecting party is out-ftting for trip to the Sierra Madres.
 Eighteen miners on the Gunsight mine are at the Grand Central.
 Tombstone is going to whoop up its patriotism on the Fourth of July.
 The Chinese vegetable peddlers are selling a frst-class variety of green corn,
 4 large number Of miners are m from Gansight, awaiting payment of thelr wages.
 Tucson whisky makes snakes look like burros at 3 a. n.. especially If one IS go- ing by the court house plaza
 The Pearson block is receiving the second story in brick, and presents a pleasing and creditable appearance.
 MILO. Hughes has sold seven acres of land just north of town to the Ari- zona narrow gauge railroad company.
 The Spanish students, who were here three weeks ago, are drawing crowded houses in San Francisco, and are raklng In the coin.
 Sheriff Paul reports the thermometer to have reached III S-10 in Yuma on Sunday, and is said to have been one of the hottest days ever known.
 The electric light company are work ing tO get things ready as soon Gs possl- ble. The ten-ton boiler has been hauled to the works on Washington street, and will be placed in position immediately.
 Vim. c. Davls and others have located seven miles iu the QuIjOtoa mountains. some eighty miles northeast of town. The assays from them are reported yalu- able by the iocaters.
 The Arizona narrow gauge railway company have leased block 8 of the eity of Tucson for the term of go years, yearly in advance on the 1th day of each May.
 AIr. George P. R. Mohan, formerly of Los Angeles, will open a meat market in Tucson within a week or two, and will make a speciality of delivering meat ID any part of the city. Mr. Mohau is a fi-st-cl4ss butcher. His announcement wall subsequently, appear Tn the CITIZEN.
 A bird has whispered again. This time it says that Chan Tin No. TucsOn's lead .nC Chinese merchant, has gone tO Calita-1ia e. buy wife. We have no doubt Chan I'm will succeed, for he has iheca-h tp pay for whatever he de- s;res.
 Arizona is the strangest country in the world and the s;rangest things hap rea therein. Yesterday a young gentle man who had been a local reporter on the Star, went out to Fort Lowell and enlisted. We have heard of reporters committing suicide and getting drunk, but to be a soldier, that takes the bakery.
 The wooden wedding of Mir. and Mrs. Joseph Perrin was celebrated Saturday evening at their residence at 222 Me CnrmicL street. Only the immediate relatives were present. A large number Of wooden utensils and ware We're pre- sented Refreshments were served, and the evening passed happily away with musIc and song
 A Tucson reporter has invented an ap- plauding or disapplauding machine. It consists of a little circular metal disc, to l be held ID the palm of the hand. It will l on pressure produce a gentle concus- | sion like the quick contact of the palms. l At pleasure a missing sound or a cat-call l is emitted. Patent has been applied | for and a model forwarded to Washing | ton.
 Casey and Sinclair were detected in a neat bit of telegraphing the other day | in their cells in the county jail. They | tore the shre1s from their blankets, and | made a string to which they attached a 1 small weight and threw over the tank to | the opposite side, and then used the l string to draw bits of written paper | The guards detected the trick and stop- ped it,
 The statement made in yesterdays | issue of Fl EronteriZo, that the five !. Mexican women. recovered from capu- viiy by General Crook, said there were no shots fired nor dead bodies at the battle Of May 18th, upon a strict to day by a CITIZEN reporter, fell to the gronnd. It seems to be merely tseir opinion, as they say they were seven miles from the scene of battle as reported.
 The governments of France and Hol- land have contided to Dr. II. ten Kate the mission to study many of our Indian tribes. The doctor, who Is making an extensive tour. intends to go now to San Carlos to see the wild Apaches recently brought in by General Crook. The Gen aral has provided the doctor with the necessary introductory papers for this purpose. Mr. C. Duhem. the photo grapher, will accompany Dr. ten Kate to take the types of the chiefs and the other Apaches, and will enable the doctor to make his work more valuable to science.
 The Tombstone Republican says: The El Paso Times, of the 18th, contains @ very pretty story from Randall, who accom- panied Crook on ms campaign. Rand ll describes m glowing language how he and his courier outwitted an agent Of tue Associated Press. who start sd for Crooks camp at Silver creek ahead of him Randall, however, neg .ects 10 state that the San Franc geo Examiner and Chronicle had about the same news be sent, placarded on their 0alletiu boards at about the time his courier left Silver creek to make a sixty nile ri le. and If he will take the trouble b read the dispatches brought by the Citizen and Epitaph special courier, and forwarded all over the country, 1t will lstonish him to notice the striking re- they bear to his own.