Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-14
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colt took place today, between SEQ and s45 o'clock, ranging north of Campbelrs brick building. burning to Gurty street i destroying the following ten buildings Ellis & Whitney, saloon keepers. Bones S Spencer, fruit and candy store
 Mckenzie X Doverney, saloon keep
 CTS.
 J. L. Fisher. dry goods and groceries. Dan Thorn saloon keeper.
 Thomas Mulligan, barber shop.
 Fred Hubbard, ci(ar store. Larry Davis, saloon keeper.
 The losses have not been ascertained ct present
 PHENIx, July 1.-Two masked men
 entered the store of Ben Goldman at
 Tempe last night about 9 o'clock, with
 drawn revOlvers, and ordered the pro- prietor, a clerk, and one or two persons
 in the store to throw up their hands. The clerk was then ordered to open the safe, which he did, and the contents,
 amounting to about forty dollars, was
 taken by the robbers Three hundred
 dollars had been sent up from here Tn
 the afternoon, but fortunately It had not
 been put in the safe and was not found. A third robber remained on the outside
 and stopped three or four persons who
 came along going into the store, and made them stand with hands up until
 his comrades were through with the job. One of the robbers was recognized by
 MT. Goldman as stranger who had
 been to the store in the morning and | purchased cheese, crackers, etc. Dep uty Sherif1s Edwards, Rogers and Nor gan are in pursuit, but have not been | heard from
 WILCOX, 4. T., June 9.-A Mexican
 woman named Juana, living in the can yon near the Golden Rule mine, near Dragoon station. was brutally outraged by gang of ruffans few nights ago. She died yesterday from the effects of her injuries. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the deed.
 A young man named William Rice, of Tombstone, was instantly killed last night by being run over by the east bound emgrant train, one mile west of here. He was on his way to Wilcox, and is supposed to have accidentally fallen from the train.
 Los ANGELES, Cal, July Civilian Smith, Ed. Commings, Geo. F. Smith, and Warner, four men engaged in a shooting afTray near San GabrIel, were brought into the city last night and gave S1,OOO bail each, for examination. Wm. Kimball IS the man who fired the shot that killed Avise. who Is held for examination at Fl Monte. Wm. Smith, the man on whose place the shooting took place, says Avise and wife came to the place about six o'clock last evening, 1 armed with double barreled shot gun | and three revolvers, and ordered them off In the dispute that followed Mrs. Avise took gun and fired it at Wm. Kimball who knocked the gun aside. | Avise, then drew a revolver to shoot | Kimball, when the latter fired shot, ] gun charge, lodging the contents ln Avise's head killing him instantly. | Smith claims the killing was done in self defence. The whole difficulty grew | out of tine fact that Avise who has been | tenant on the place before 1t was Pur- chase by Smith, who claimed part of the crop. All parties are well known in that section of country.
 OAKLAND, Cal, July 9.-At about s | o'clock on Saturday night two bullets l crashed into the ticket office of the Oak land ferry. One passed through the side ! of the window and one through the weather-boarding, both in close prox- imity to the agent at the window. IL is not known who did the shooting.
 SAN FRANCIsco, July 9-The first case of the kind under the new law regulat- ing the entrance of Chinese to American | ports, Is a Chinaman who came down | from Victoria on the last steamer. The | law provides that Chinamen who left l this country between the signing of the I treaty and the passage of the Restric- ton Act, co1ld return upon simply | Identifying themselves on arriving at an American port. The Chinaman in ques- ton attempted to show that he has been here before, but upon being asked when he left San Francisco. he replied in 1880, which places his departure some months prior to the signing of the treaty. He will be sent back to Victoria
 SAN FRANCIsCo, July 9.-The body of an unknown man was found in the bay off Pacific street wharf last night. The body, which was recovered by Officer Dalton, is that of a man about 45 years of age, five feet seven inches ID height, sandy hair and chin whiskers, mixed with gray, flOrid complexion, light blue eyes, hands and face freckled. and vas dressed in black diagonal suit. His body was sent to the morgue.
 PORTLAND, July 9.-Great destruction of timber and other property is reported along the lower Columbia river and tributaries by heavy fires raging furi- ously. Logging camps, lumber, fences and houses have been destroyed; also thousands of cords of wood. It IS the greatest fire ever experienced in this country. Seven miles of railroad and one locomotive. below Oak Point, have been burned, together with a large log ging camp belonging to G. W. Weidler. It is reported that Weidler has lost sl0.O0O by fire in logs and standing timber, and probably s2OO.OOO worth of l property has been destroyed.
 SAN FRANCIsco, July 10.-In the Uni ted States Circuit Court Justice Field, of : the United States Supreme Court, stated l that out of sixty tax cases against rail [ roads three would probably be tried as { tests, one against each Central, Southern { and Northern Pacific railroads. They 1 must be tried before August 18th, in ! case Ellen M. Cclton vs. StanfOrd's stip- | ulation is filed in the Superior Court, the trial will be continued to the 17th day of September, and no fur her continuance is to be allowed after , that date. !
 John McGreary and John NJ. Ward, ! charged with manslsughter, for havIpg, a it was alleged, caused the death of J. i