Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-05-05
News Items.

The money order system will be ex- tended to three hundred and thirty-fOur additional postoflices on July 1, prin- cipally in the Western and Northwest eru States.
 L contract has just been Iasle by Q geDticIuuu UI CufI Lake ClIN Nlln ship-5ullding firm of San Francisco for & steam yacht, to ply on the great Salt Lake this season. It is to be completed in June.
 The brick layers of Dallas. Texas, struck for an increase in wages from S4 to S5 per day. The contractors, owing to pressure in work, acceeded to the demands. The carpenters also demand ed au advance from S2.JO to S3 per day, which was agreed to.
 Henry Willard has issued orders for the com muletion of the Oregon Central Railroad from Corvallis % it's junction with the Oregon and California Railroad at Junction City. The length of the completed this year.
 The Sandwich Islands, besides being cursed with leprosy and Chinese im- migration, is afflicted with the Mormon missionary. The "brOtLers' who are aooring in that island vineyard report about a score or baphsms and declare that much interest IS taken by the natives in the doctrine of pOlygamy.
 The Geographical Society has received a telegram from the polar expedition, located at the mouth of the Lena river, stating that the explorers were all well. The lowest temperature recorded during the winter was & degrees below zero, Reaumur So, after all. 1t appears that 1t IS not any colder in Siberia than in our northwestern States.
 Mir. Griffin cashier of the First Ma tional bank of Santa Fe does not credit the report that the Apache Indians mur- dered Prof. Bandaher, of the Archeol- ogIcal Department of the Smithsonian Institute. He saw the professor and bis wife about SIX weeks ago; they were then on their way to the city of Mexico and from his understanding of their route, he did not think they would be near tbe place mentioned in the dispatch, at the time tne professor is said to have been captured.
 The Commercial Advertiser of HonO- iulu is much disgusted with the defense uf the islands recently made by the Rev. S F. Bishop. It plainly iLtimates that rte Kauakas want to be saved from such friend, and It devOtes a long article Co pointing out the misstate- uents in his letter in regard tO leprosy. These, however, do not seem to be grave. He declared there were 800 lepers in NolokaI; 1t appears there are exactly TO in the lazgrett and l60 in the branch hospital Tbs Advertiser asserts that there are not 24O0 lepers, known and suspected, on the islands.
 It appears from an investigation by the cOrOner's jury at Sacramento that ths cauass of the recent disaster of fall lng walls, heard much additional testi- mOny, which shows that an eight-inch wall, fifty feet long and fifteen feet high, built on broad fire wall, was not sn- chored Co the end walls and was held only by the roof, yet 1t served as a wall for public hall, the floor timbers, how ever, resting m the solid fire-wall. The wall was built fourteen years ago and was then known to be unsafe. There are several hOuses in Tucson which are not cons dered safe. It would be a wise act on the part of our Mayor to appoint a competent inspector or inspectors to condemn unsafe buildings before a sin- liar catastrophe happens in Tucson.