Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-14

We have had but little rain, although we are threatened with 1t daily.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July l0.--From a re- port of Hon. II. c. Burchsrd, director of Uuited States hints now here, the fol- lowing facts have been learned regard ing the production of precious metal, California in 1882; no figures for 'S3 yet obtainable. California takes the second place among the gold and silver produc- ing States. Thirteen hundred thousand dollars from product 1881; total produc- tion estimated, S17645,0O0.
 King and Bigham, managers of an in- s;itution known as the Merchants Col lectiDg Bureau, have disappeared from the city, taking with them some thou sands of dollars feeced from merchants ID different parts of the Pacific coast, pald as subscriptions to the bureau established to collect claims of all kinds.
 Emilio Gronaver, Swiss, in military service for the past ten years, commit ted suicide at the PresidiO barracks, Sunday morning, by shooting himself with 6 musket.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.-Apia, Samoa, was visited on the 24th of March by a sudden hurricane. Six vessels riding in the harbor were totally wrecked, as fol- lows: The barks Solide and Brjgadler barkentine Venetian. brig Sheet Anchor, schooner Milfana end sloop Apis. The schooner Vavas, wrecked temporarily, has been repaired and set sal for this port. No particulars have yet been re- ceived. The losses are heavy.
 EUREKA, New, July 10.-Sunday af- ternoon at Hamilton. White Pine county. John Speicher, German 34 years of e, committed suicide by shooting. He left a note saying that be had lived long enough, and to sell hIs property and di- vide the proceeds among his creditors. The man was cTszsd from drinking. He had killed three men, and this preyed on his mind which probably was the im- mediate cause of suicide.
 SEATTLE, W. T., July 1O-To-morrow workmen will begin driving piles for an immense wharf for the Oregon Improv- ment Company; it will store five thcus- and tons of grain, besides a great quan. tity of miscellaneous freights.
 The entire sound Is obscured by smoke; fires doing damags to forests of different sections of the country. Rain is much needed.
 TRUcKEE, Cal, July l0.-For long time pat opium fiends and vagrant tramps, the rough scruffs of this state and Nevada, have fiocked into Truckee and made it their headquarters. So great has been the influx of these charac- ters that the business men determined that it should be stopped. Accordingly a raid was made to-day on the public streets and twenty-two criminals were arrested, charged with vagrancy. More arrests are to follow. IL is claimed that if this legal measure does not succeed. 1901" will be organized
 FL PAso. Tex, July 1l.-Policeman Moody was buried with great pomp this a ternoon, the mayor and city council. fire companies and principal citizens, on foot and in carriages, formed a process sion more imposing in its character than any ever seen in the city before.
 The investigation of the murder has been postponed until tomorrow, in the hope of capturing Doughty. The four men arrested this morning were ar raigned before the mayors court on a charge of carrying arms. One plead guilty and was fined, and all were chen discharged, but were immediately rearrested on wri from the justices court against them as accessors to mur- der, and they are now in jail awaiting examination, to be had tomorrow morn- ing. There appears to be no evidence against them, and they will dou Utless be discharged. or only held as witnesses agFinst Doughty. The latter fled into Mexico. and the Mexican authorities are assisting to catch him. He can scarcely escape, and if brought to this city would probably be lynched. A purse of five hundred dollars has been raised by the citizens as a reward for hls capture, and the governor has been re- quested to offer a reward on the part of the State. Doughty is we'll known in southern Arizona. and lives near the line in New Mexico at place called Willow Springs ranch in the Burro mountains.
 Judge J. F. Crossley, of this city. has been appointed by Governor Preland to represent the State of Texas at the Santa Fe Tertio- Millennisl exhibition.
 The rainy season has fairly begun, and rain falls now every afternoon.
 An agent of the Bell Telephone com pany is in this city to establish at once a telephone exchange. The wire and in- struments are en route.
 FL PAsO, Texas, July l2.-The preliminary survey of the uncom- pleted portion of the Mexican Central railroad has just been finished. The grade will be very light the entire dis tance The comnaDv Dronoses to start a stage line from the terminus of this end to the end of the track from the City of Mrxico division.
 A company composed of gentlemen of this city, Psso del Norte and Chihuahua have been formed to erect water works in the city of Chihuahua. and work there on will begin at once.
 SAN FRANCISCO, July 12.-J. W. Davis, of Florence, Arizona, in an interview with an Examiner reporter. states that the people Of Arizona are dishearteneI over the present status of the Indian question. They have little confidence in the peaceful replacing of the rene gsde Apaches on the San Carlos reserva- tion- Arizonsns are of but one opinion, l and that is the Apaches should be re- moved from the territory.
 VICTORIA. B. C.. July 1.-The English | Iyndicste leased I5.O00 acres of agricuI