Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
Arizana News.

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 Heavy showers of rain have fallen south of Prescott
 TLey are working one hundred men in the Silver King mine.
 Prescott indulged in cloud burst, and Granite creek boOmed.
 Gila county has paid her debt to Ma ricopa county. The amount was Si,So0.
 The electric light man IS looking over Tombstone with view of establishing works there.
 The military telegraph office will be closed, but the operator will run Il on his own account.
 Dick Brown has been appointed con- constable at Benson.
 The postUfice at Phenix issued 500 money orders ,ag0regatiDg SlS,OOO, dur ing the month of June.
 Sixteen Sweet sixteen, We suppOse,l young ladies recently visited the Eureka mlne, to the great astonishment of Fore man McGovern.
 Governor Tritle has gone to Santa Fe. He will extend hIs jOlrney 10 Cailtornia | which is not good.
 England Is planting her pauper Irish in the United States, and the United States are planting their pauper Indians ID Arizona.-lSilver Belt.
 A large amount of machinery for the new petroleum furnace being erected by the Old Dominion Company arrived this veek.-LGlobe Chronicle
 The Prescott Journal believes a rail road from Prescott to Ash Fork would pay running expenses and far rate of interest the first year 1t IS in operation.
 c. E. Hitchcock, an Arizona pioneer, while examining d cotton slide recently ou the Alabama river, suped ant Tell striking his head on plank sfi- uIng him so that Le was prscitated iEto the river and drowned.
 It Is understood that the Atlantic < Pacific company propose tO put an lrou bridge over the Colorado rIyer to super csde the wooden structure, and at a point further down the stream than the latter. .-Mohaye County Miner.
 \ young man named Ezekiel, whlle working at the Pioneer, ruptured him self batly and has suffered much pain since Sunday last He has been admit ted to the Globe hospital, and Is under charge of Dr. C0ok.-lGlObe Chronicle. Mir. F. NJ. Murphy, senior member of the firm of F. M. Murphy < Co.,, yester- | day received hIs commission from Gov ernOr Tritle Co represent this Territory at the Santa Fe and Denver expOsitiOns. and left on tue Ash Fork stage to-day for Santa Fe.-PrescOtt Journal.
 Mir. James W. SheabaD, the editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune, who has | just died from Overwork, was the found CT of the Chicago Times, now oneo of the leading journals of the country. No man in Chicago ever did as much jour nalistic work as Mr. Sheahan did, and it Is unnecessary to add, he died poor | She assessment roll for the year 1883 foots up the nice little snm uf Sl,9l5,- 6l445, of which Sl.327, SIP % Is real pro perty and S5SS, ,0J0 4j Is pers nal proper | ty. This Is an increase of m're than | million and quarter dollars over the assessment of last year and IS due large ly to the railroad company. .-MOhave Courty Miner.
 The press of the country are generally favOring the removal of the Apacles tO | the Indian Territory. The west should force this issue into the next national cam aign. The Indian policy has been a record of shame and plunder of the Indians who in turn have murdered, robbed the frontiersmen, and laid waste and desolate thousands of homes.-Pres- colt Miner.
 The report that St. Ormand, ex-Sec- retary of the Territorial Prison Commis- sion, has skipped the country Is confirm e1. He did not get away with any of the Territorial fund, but did leave with S375, obtained from boarding United States prisoners, which should have been turned over to the Commissioners at their meeting in April. The country is well nd of the petty pilferer.-Phenx Gazette.