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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
TIE oUIJoToAs.

PHTSIx, 4. T., Dec. F, 1883.
 EDITOR CITIZEN: Dear Sir: There are unite a number of men coming into pnenix from the mining districts north af Lere, who are anxious to find out something more ID regard to the Mac kay and Flood purchase in the Ouijotoa mountains. Many are gong Tn as soon as they get Co work. but are generally .t & loss on the subject of how to get there. and what the probabilities of get tiuE work when they do get there. If glu have any information that you can uab.ish m the CITIZEN in regard to the D. baDie tune whsa e. v W.a lsgiD, you will greatly oblige many by so doing. Also 1T yOu can inform us as to what number of mea are already m the camp, and the probability of a demand for Hlur and as to the possibility of feed f1- stock in he camp. By answering through your paper you will greatly abl.Ee a great mlny miners who always appreciate your valuable paper.
 A MINER.
 The best way to get to the QuiiOtoe uI1es is by starting ont from Tucson, for the reason that 1t Is as near railroad contamination as any other point, and Is over go d road wheIe wells have baen established at intervals of a few n.le,. aud the route affords good past u.ags and plenty of wood. But at this season Of the year, when the weather is c10l. parties who have their own con- veyances night ga in from Maricopa or Casa G-ande. but We should not advise anyone to undertake those routes, unless they have some one along who IS &C., guainted with the country, Rs there mus. be very long stretch vi hout water.
 We cannot stRte with any accuracy The number of men at the mines, but probably not more than loo, and possi- b.y u0t that many. As We have repeat eily stated m these columns, there has not Vet been sufficient water developed {, -ugply s large rush, and we advise those who want work to not go there yet, s, there is 10 work for miners to do until a supply of water is obtained. We can no, ate how long that will be: it may br sixty days, or i may be twenty days. Bat whenever the slpply of water IS found, the CITIZEN will make 1t public. Of course there will be a demand Tor both grain and -four when the camp starts up. A large amount of work must nee ssarily be done there, and l mea and animals must have food or l they cannot do the work But there | can be r0 doubt as to the point of sup p.s. The Q9iiotoa mlnes are a bout 20 | miles south oi Tucson and about 6S | miles west. The nearest route may fall | a httle below 75 miles, but will not vary l far from that distance The road is an l excellent one, well watered, with plenty | ot grass and wood as above stated, and | cannot ae improved upog or shortened | i-am aay other point. Besides all min ing men find 1t to their advantage in | ,--1g ways to reach important trade l ceu,,-- like tucson. instead Of railroad | stations. which offer no facilities or con v-u,euces for business. Tins is the way | Flood and Mackay regard the question, and they have had experience and are l supposed Co know something about It.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

THE State Department IS taking wise and timely precautions against the in- troduction of the cholera from infected points. It has directed the Consul General in Egypt to cause all rags gathered for export to the United States to be carefully inspected and fumigated before being shipped. The importance of this order is more apparent when II is known that one New York firm alone has six thousand tons of rags in ware houses at Alexandria, awaiting shipment to this country. The germs of the con tagion doubtless exists in great qusnti- ties in these fragments of csst-of gar ments, and their destruction is matter of great importance.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

TIE following IS none the less sppre' ciatiee, coming as it does from the Tombstone Republican, a democratic journal: "The Tucson CITIZEN, although a little of color" in politics, is a first class newspaper. and deserves a hbersl support from the people of Arizona. Its telegraphic report is much more com plete than that of any other paper in the territory. The CITIZEN should i'll tho field now occupied by the San Francisco daIlies in Arizona
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

WHEN s man comes prominently be- fore the public in an official capacity, or as candidate for any great office, there IS but little of his past life that will not find its way into the newspapers. Just nov Mir. Carlisle Is undergoing fire snl a searching inquiry as to his past record. The Washington correspondent of the Providence Journal says:
 There is universal talk over the dis covery of a speech made by Carlisle ID 1876, in Kentucky, when he first ran for Congress, in which he said: T deny that the United States is nation. It Is a vicious system that has destroyed sover- eign states and oppressed nine millions of people in the South. If state has no rights of secession she certainly has the right of revolution"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

4 VERT dangerous counterfeit of the standard dollar Is circulating generally upon the Pacific coast, from Oregon and Washington Territory even to Arizona. Tle spurious coin is made of white meal and has the ring of silver. The only means Of detecting it is by its light weight. Merchants readily accept the com and even expert bankers frequently fan Co recognize if. In a lot Of Sl5,OOO turned into the [. S. Sub-Treasury at San Francisco by local bank few days ago, after having been carefully examined to detect any spurious coins, the treasury official found SIX of them. There is no doubt but large sums of this dangerous counterfeit have been put ID circulation in this Territory and pass current among business people. A little caution should therefore be used in &C., cepting silver dollars, to test their weigat, two Of the counterfeits being but little heavier than one standard dol lar
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

TIE San Francisco Chronicle very gravely says: "A delegation of polyga' mists has started for Salt river, A. T., tc found a colony. This will be good destination for the Mormon lobbyists al the close of the present session of con gress, unless the Bourbons get Tn some solid work for their Utah brethren"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
THE ROBBERS MUST BE SUPPRESSED.

Governor Tritle, in his annual report
 to the Secretary of the Interior, recom-
 mends that congress establish a border patrol along the line between Arizo-
 na and Sonora, to suppress and
 prevent cattle thieving. This recom-
 mendation is good so far as it goes; but
 the CITIZEN would like to see the duties
 or such patrol extended beyond sup
 pressing thieving. The CITIZEN is of the impression that it wlll be a very diff hcult matter for the civil authorities of Cachise and Graham counties to put down lawless elements ID those counties, and We are satisfied that it would be unjust for those counties to bear all the expense of hunting down the robbers and thieves, for the reason that they have gathered in there from all quarters, have never been residents of the eoun- ties, nor do they intend to become such, even If permitted io do so.
 The CITIZEN again suggests to the civil authorities of Cachise and Graham counties to call upon the govssuG! for aid. If he cannot furnish sufficient and, he can as last resort call upon the President, who in justice to the people of Arizona, could not help but lay the matter before Congress and urge upon upon that body the necessity of granting aid to Arizona and New Mexico, for the purpose of placing border ratrol along the line, of picked men, whose duties it shall be to put down lawlessness of all kinds including Indian depredations. The work of despersdos is doIng great injury to the territory, and all sections should be equally interested Tn restoring law and order. We cannot afford to have It continue. It must be put down at sll hazards by some means or other, and at the very earliest possible mo- ment.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A man of extraordinary honesty turned up in the Central depot at Fonda, \. T., recently. He approached Mir. Fonda, the ticket agent, with the state meut that his name was John Nichol- son. of Gray, Herkimer county, and add. ed that a short time ago he had travelled on the cars from Hudson to Fonda with out paying fare. He now wanted to square up with the company, and asked "What is the price of ticketY Mir. Fonda replied: 'One dollar and fifty cents" which was promptly paid.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

There Is now on exhibition at Oswego, N. r., singular freak of nature to which has been given the name of the Bear Man" It possesses some char acteristics of a human being, but more of the Bruin. The thing is certainly a curiosity, walks on all fours like bear, talks little and is well calculated to excite feelings of disgust in the mind of anyone who sees it, except admirers of monstrosities, and there are many of such.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

The committee on ways and means is considered by far the most important of the committees. It frames all tariff leg islatiOn before being presented for the action of the house, and to it all bills of that nature and all bills relating to the general financial condition of the coun- try are referred. Its duty is, as lndi- csted by the name, to look after the ways and means" of providing the funds for the support of the govern ment. In other words, it assumes the position ordinarily occupied by the bus band in the family, of providing the ~wherewithsl" for the support of the family, while the position of wife is filled by the committee on appropriations. who spends the money.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A LAZY mans machine has been ln- vented by Cincinnati genius. It IS an electric arrangement by which man, by simply touching a little knob set in the head of his bed. can kindle all the morning fires in house sImultsneousF [.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

Mas. SPREcKLEs should be able to put up plenty of preserves and ''sich like, as Claus, her husband, has just laid m supply of sO,OOO.OOO pounds of sugar for the winters use.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

Rats sometimes feather their nests with the material that human beings are wont to use for the same purpose, 1t seems. While repairing storehouse at Weldon, 5. C.. the other day, some car penters found 8 rats bed made of money. Carefully pulling it to pieces, they handed the present occupant of the house S75 in gold and lawful currency, though it is stated that there was more money than this in the bed, one of the carpenters refusing to give up what he had found or to say what the amount of if WAS. The store was built some eighteen years ago.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

4 SWISS statesman has uttered the ominous expression that many black clouds are gathering on the European horizon, and war. long avoided, cannot be escaped after 1884"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A saloon keeper in Miamisburg, O., is circulating his business card with the following on its back: "To whom 1t may concern: Know ye that by the payment of S225 am permitted to retail intoxi- eating liquors at my saloon in this city. To the wife who has a drunkArd for 8 husband, or a friend who Is unfortun- ately dIssipated, say emphstically, give me notice in person of such case or cases in which you are interested, and all such shall be excluded from my place. Let mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers do likewise, and their requests will be kindly regarded. pay a heavy tax for the privilege of selling hquors, and want it distinctly understood that have no desire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the destitute or poor"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

T. Is believed that the lectureo of Matthew Arnold in this country will .0Eer his standing with the American people. The people want facts a-d logic, not hackneyed or trite paragraphs, even fl eleyerly put together. Mir. Arnold evidently underestimates the standard of intelligence in this country.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

THE Grown Prince of Portugal speaks fourteen languages. and has library Of 40,OOO volumes. Had he have learned Indian languages, it would not have been necessary to buy So many books.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A JERSEY man has been vainly trying to sell an American eagle in New York city, but he failed to convince the Gotham people that an eagle could live in so small state. They think 1t IS annrrnu hawk
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

The emigration of Italians for Ame1- ca formerly meant that they were des- tined for Uruguay or Montevideo. By mistake number were taken to New York, and their good fortunes led to the present growing stream of emigrsnts, which is causing much comment now in Italy.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

TIE Prescott Miner of the llth in- stant was received this morning. Where has it been sIl this time? Only one week from Prescott!
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
Robbed of Millions.

The New York Tribune says: Careful investigation of the department of re- cords by Tribune reporters rsVesls the
 existence in the city of ring of con-
 tractors whose methods were similar 70 those of the canal ring which was broken up eIght years ago, but no effort has yet been made To break up the corrupt combination which Is defrsudIBs the taxpayers Of New Nofk. A system of unbalanced buds, by which the public treasury suffers heavily, has growB to startling proportions in the department of public works under the aye of Com missioner Thompson. Misleading esti- mates of work to be done are the rule rather than the exception in that depart ment, and certain favored contractors succeed n obtaining secret information as to the real nature of the work which these misleading estimates cover. They are thus enabled to put in unbalanced bids at figures which result in large gains to them and serious losses to the city. The extraordinary nature of these bids may be imagined when 1t IS known that the department of public works is now paying on contracts still m force all the way from one cent to B per cubic yard for exactly the same kind of eX- cavatiOn. Honest contractors arc driven out of the field by the ring men who put in unbalanced bids. These out rageOus street contracts result in the vacation of assessments on Rn extensive scale, throwing the whole burden of ex- penditure on the citv
 By the vacation of assessments result jug from these abuses, the municipal treasury has suffered to the ex'ent of millions of dollars in the last ..,'v yesrs
 opening or a sewer, for an example, will require excavatiOn-sC much n rock and so much in earth. The engineer states approximately the amount of each, and bids are invited. An outside contractor makes a straightforward bld, allowing him fair profit on each. An inside contractor makes a bid consid- erably higher on one and very much lower on the other, resulting in the lower average. He thus gets the con tract. Then it mysterlOusly turns out that the work ou which he made Rn un- reasonably high bid IS far more; the en- gIneer's deceptive estimate and the con- tractors secret knowledge of the real facts work together, and the unbslanced bid becomes as thorough piece of bur glary as if the city treasury had been pried open with jimmy.
 The Tribune gives details oi several contracts in which the city was sviudled she following being fair illustration: Bids were invited for regulating and grading Ninety-ffth street, fir, m Tenth avenue to Riverside drive, and setting curbstones and haggiDg sidewalks there On. The department called for bids on l,930 cubic yards of earth excavation and 2I, $40 cubic yards of rock ezcavs- tion. J. Brady bid SS Der cubic yard for earth excavation and quarter of a cen. per cubic yard for rock excavatiou. His aggregate was Sl5,676. IL being the lowest, he received the contract. It is estimated that be will receive S1l20O0.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

South America is destined to be the next great beef-producing region of the world. It's estimated that two years from now the number of cattle in the Argentine Confederation will number 2SOO0,OOO, against 13,0O0,0O0in 1877. The enormous increase in the number of cattle has brought down the price so that good fat steers are selling at s6 to SS
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

IT is said that s. Sullivan Cox IS not go humorous since his defeat for speak er. The little joker should not take 1t so seriously. Lightn ng sometimes strikes very small bodies
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A recent addition Co the treasures at the National museum at Washington consists of technological collection of Sevres porcelain, the gift of t.e French government. This collection Represents the manufacture of Sevres porcelain from the raw material to the spmpleted object, the various pieces which show every phase of the prot1ction of
 thls famous French ceramic art. l. numbers seventy-five lots. Eighteen of these lots consist of samples of raw material in every stage of preparation.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A rich strike has been made in the Green mine, Miller's canyon, Hauchuca mountains. The ledge IS about ten feet in width, of white quartz, and has hith-
 erto been supposed to be barren. as there are many such lodges outcropping in the Huachucas. While doing the as- sessmeut work, at a depth of three feet, a ten-inch streak of highly sulphuretted ore WAS struck which assayed S25l16 in gold and S1.56 in silver Republican.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

IT is announced that three prominent statesmen have buried the hstchet- It is presumed that they occasionally tell a lie, now.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

A young man who claimed to be son of rx-Attoruey General Hamilton and a rallrosd surveyor. has been svindling the people of St. Helens, Naps county, California.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

The Wells, Fargo S Go. have a new frank, which is very esthetic in design but not so simple and plain, and there fore not SO acceptable as the old one. The new one has a pony expressman on the left enclosed in circle On the right within similar circle IS a Concord coach. Between the two circles IS a train of cars. The dates 1852 and 1883 are inclnded. Ii announces that 1t is "Wells, Fargo < Co.'S Express domestic frank, paid over all our lines within tue United States"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

IT takes an average oyster five years to attain its full growth ard only one hour to digest.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22

DAMON, Wisconsin tailor, has failed Where's Pythias? Why does he not fly "to the rescue"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
Horrors Told Tn Blood.

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 The Paris correspondent of the Times forwards a second letter, which was written in blood by NihiIist, confined in the Troubletskoi Bastion, at St. Petersburg. It describes the narrowing treatment received by the prisoners and says their food IS often mouldy and sometimes putrid; tha, dyseltery and scurvy are prevalent and that the doctor IS afraid to touch the patients. Few medicines are prescribed and when ordered they are generally counter manded. The prisoners rot away and exhale the odors of dead bo lies before life IS extinct.
 The number of those who go mad m consequence of their sufferlngs is daily increasing. Mad men are strapped down and whipped with the knout by the keepers. Fierce yells resound through out the night. Many prisoners have committed suicide. It IS said that one woman was assaulted and then poisoned, but no inquiries into the affair were instituted by the authorities. Rats are the worst enemies of the prisoners. A woman with a babe was obliged to be constantly on the watch and to fight night and day to prevent the rats from devouring her child. The use of combs and soap Is forbidden, and the prisoners, especially the women, whose hair is allowed to grow, are liter ally devoured by lice. The jailers are only kind to those having money Prisoners who refuse to reply to ques- tions are tortured, and cases of assaults on women are frequent.
 The writer especially appeals to the civilized world In behalf of the women in the prison, whose situation, he says, Is far worse than tbsi oi the me-
 AIexanuer l.. Orr, President Of the New York Produce Exchange, said: "The question of the tariff is the burn ing one. The last tariff commission had s paralyzing influence upon commerce, while it pretended 10 be doing the coun- try good. The present tariff is not sat isfactory. am not free trader by any means, nor an 1 protectIonist. flavor tariff that will produce moderate rev enue and insure the fair remuneration and elevation of American labor. The heavy duties on iron and woOlen goods are burdens upon the country which should not be tolerated. Though look with distrust upon all tariff tinkering, suppose We must from necessity endure some more of it. No change in the tar if should be made without timely mo- tice. If you intend to destroy the fruits of mans industry that may have GOV cred the best years of life time, in the name of American common sense give him at least two or three years in witch to stand from under. If we are satisfied that the protection he is receiving from the tariff is working a larger share of mischief than the people can stand, give him notice that at the end of a specified period the injurious protection will be cut of. Of course some one will be badly squeezed, but in that way the minimum harm will be done our indus trlal system. Nothing can be conceived more demorslIzlDg to trade than the chronic uncertainty from day to day of what the morrow will bring forth on the tariff question:
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-22
CHA COUNTY.

The stamps at the Stonewau mill gro still pounding away. There has been over S10,000 worth of bullion shipped from the present run. There is but little ore being extracted at present. as the entire force are at work opening the winzes to restore the circulation of ar in the lower levels. It has been 6 tedious and expensive jOb.-Chroniele.
 The GOwan mill Is steadily running. furnishing employment for large nun- Der of men Mir. O'Dougherty. of San Francisco, lately arrived Co supsrintend the expending of sum Cf money on their, seemingly. rich mIneB. The Gowan company have lately bought the Brown Bros. mine, and are negotiating for the purchase of other valuable pro spects in this yicinIty.-Silver Belt.