Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-05-12
Territorial NeMs.
Prescott will erect city hall. Yuma is free from the smallpox.

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 Tip Top stock is quoted at 80 cents per share.
 Lordsburg has had three cases of small pOx, and all were fatal
 AL. Henshaw, of Phenix, is suffer- ing with severe attack of erysipelas.
 Prescott IS full of strange in ttend- | anee of the special term of the District Curt.
 Theodore Maxwell, of Verde, will re move to Gallup, New MexIGS, and work his coal mines.
 Joseph Howe, father of Mrs. Geo. F Coats, of Phenix, died in Los Angeles, Cal, on May 3d.
 The territorial license imposed on commercial travellers, commencing May lst, IS S2O0 per sunum-
 There is a war between the soda man. ufacturers and saloon men ID Prescott and out little soda water is used. J.Y. T. Smith will tear down the old adobe walls of hIs mill at Phoenix and replace them with solid stone walls.
 John Agard, wiih Hooper < Co, PhenIX, Aas received intelligence of the death of his father in San Francisco.
 Mr. J. M. D1senbury, who accom- panied Secreta@ Van AIman to Pres colt, has returned 10 hIs home ID Oak lana.
 By the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, Prescott nerc ants will Oe able to obtain lower freight rates from California
 gfs,.. L.. L-., h1Taha1 at Purly, Graham cOanty, half way be- tween YorK's and Richmond G. G. Batchelder Is postmaster.
 50 soon as c. C. Bean, of Prescott, perfects the tide to his great copper properties now bonded, hs will receive the sum agreed upon, S3,JOO,OC0
 PhenIx merchants have signed an agreement to receive Mexican money onl. at the following rates: dollars, oJ cents; halves, 40 cents, quarters, zU cents.
 The Sentinel says that Mr. Weaver. Of the Southern Pacific hotel at Yuma, has added an alligator to hIs Geological gar den, and MT. Weaver does not deny the allegation.
 Courier: Mr. Hamilton, of Peoples valley, Is ID town and tells of the re- appearance of grasshoppers on some ranches iu the valley. They are Of course, young h0ppers.
 Express matter, from Mineral Park, MOhave county, reaches PheDIx m SIX days If sent by way of San Francisco, but by the direct route overland, II re- quires about fifteen days.
 g-,r, Xrrrv,a for the month of AprIl was as follows: sil- Yer bullion, S7,9DO; silver coin, S2,13Ji gold bullion, S2,3jO; gold coin, s5,3lO; currency, Sj,535.I2. Total s23,b5O.i2'
 Miner: The Callen party have their mill machinery all on the ground at A-astra Greek, and are low only await ing for lumber with which to put 1t up, and commence operations ID the bullion product.
 The Blackberry mIll, Iohave county. IS running ID full blast and turning out a steady stream of bullion. Mart Abornethy, the energetic, has taken Otf his white shirt, and IS making things hum ID and about the mill.
 Tombstone Republican: The Contact mlne, located near Ajax hill, has re- gently struck ore bodies that show as- says running from S693 tO S16O per ton. In addition 10 this they now have on the dump fully ten tons of S2DO ore.
 The A. < F. railroad company has about I5,0OO,O00 acres of land to be dis posed of, and will sell 1t at about Gov ernment prices. This company, unlike many other similar corporations, wlll deal in liberal live and let live manner with the people.
 Tombstone Republican: In conversa- tiOn with prominent merchant last evening, he inf rmed a Republican representative that business IS better now than for the past ninety days and the business outlook much better than at any time for the past year
 Miner: Hon. Murat Masterson, who has been a good and true man to Pres co and Yavapai county for many years, has changed residence tl San Francisco, where he mas already become connected with important business enterprises. Iu Prescott's loss San Francisco gains.
 Prescott Journal: Mrs. Governor Tritle will next week leave for visit Co her friends ID California. Sle expects tO be absent probably for a month, and on her return will bring her. elder chll- dren, who have been attending school ID Oakland, with her to Prescott to spend their vacation.
 4 large ditch Is about to be taken out of Salt river to cover 10000 acres of fine land near PhenlK, north of the Grand canal The mouth 0f the ditch will be several miles ab)ve PnRnIX, and when c mpleted will equal the nam moth canals used by the Aztecs when they inhabited the valley of the Salinas.
 Pheni1 Herald: Dr. iregg to-day re- ports Mrs. Sears as still lnsenslble from the stroke of a club or the head ID the hands of one of the Pima Indians on the day of the fight, tue 2jtn of April Her symptoms are growing alarming and 1t Is not probable hat she can sur vive in her present condition much longer.
 Florence Enterprise: Mir. Fred Adams ca ne ID from the PapazO country Tues l day, and returned to that district Thurs | day. Fred, Dan CrOcker and Ar. Vel 1 don are at work on the copper and -ll | Yer discoveries they made m that section ] last fall. They have taken out their | copper claim about l5O tons of carbonate l ore of very high grade and are confident ] that they have at last struck lt rich. The ore body Is large as well as rlcb and 1 the ore will smelt we'll
 PhenIx Gazette: The examination of l the Indians charged with cruelty beat l ing Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Sears, last | week, closed last evening. Justice l Richards binding four of them over in l the sum of S5,OOO each and the remain l ing seven, sl,0O0 each, to answer before l the grand jury. The four principal ones, l admitted in their testimony to the as ult, and the others were held ss ac- c, ssories and abettOrs. Up To last even l ing Mrs. Sears was still very low, and l there are but little hopes of her recovery. | Inc club used by the Indians was a cot tonwood stick, about five feet long, and the butt four inches thick, and 1t wonder that a blow from cnis weapon dld not instantly kill her. MT. Jackson. the agent, who has done all in his power Co brlng the guilty ones to the bar of justice. will leave for the reservation to- morrow.
 Death of Hon. Jos WassOn.