Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-16
WEEKLY CITIZEN. SATURDAY, JUNE 16. 1888
Local Intelligence.

Juh! how soon this cruel war is over.
 The north wing of Fish's flour mill IS receiving an extra story.
 It is not true that policeman have more brass than reportersf
 The postofice building Is receiving a fresh coat of plaster outside.
 Cosmetics will go out of style after the electnc lights are turned on.
 The sight of onions in the local mar kets is enough to make one weep.
 Judge Ferguson IS recovering from the effects of the bite from MT. kstzs dog.
 The new receiver, Mir. De Long, of the Prescott Land Ofiice has arrived in Pres colt.
 Excavation is progressing rapidly on the cellar opposite the Cosmopolitan hotel.
 An Albuquerque paper got Schaben's name Shuqe. That IS good enough for a telegraph operator.
 There Is only one thing bigger than a
 
 pedal extremity of a Pspago Indian.
 Sacramento, Cal, is the boss place; a dry goods merchant has started 8 free lunch counter. Let Tucson follow suit.
 MT. Charles H. Fully is taking the school census for this district, and ex- poets to have his work finished by the last of the month.
 Mir. Horace Moore, the locomotive en- gineer, who had his feet crushed on the Southern Pacific railroad near Los An geles. IS recovering.
 The office of the Calico Print escaped destruction in the recent fire that de- stroyed D4ggstt station, San Bernardo no county, California.
 Coroner Smith has an embalmed body in his undertaking rooms which has been in a perfect state of preservation for over fifteen months.
 Tucson IS said to be Papago Indian word meaning adobe, especially the black clavey soil that IS found in such quantities near the old ruins by the mill
 Several of the postal route agents be- tween San Francisco and DeniDg are dropping of duty because Of the great length of service and the intense heat Of the desert.
 The thermometer in San Jose, Cali fornia. on last Wednesday reached maximum of los degrees. The same point here at that time was l04 degrees. Arizona Is getting to be cool country.
 A Mexican boy named Manuel SRla- gar. aged about sixteen years, was drowned sometime today n ditch about a half mile above the Mission mil. The coroner was searching for the body at p. m.
 Society must be queer in Tombstone, according to the following from the Re - publican: There are said to be three reasons why man goes into society To find a wife; to look after hIs wife, or to look after somebody else's wife
 Some miners from the gold fields are registered at the Russ House. They did not leave Muleje for the interior as they met returning miners from the fields who gave too discouraging &C., counts of the lack of water and the heat, for them to continue.
 The improvements in building in Tue son are numerous. Several new, good l sized blocks, that would be credit 10 | any city, are in process Of erection. l Many new residences are being built. | Many older buildings are getting reno l yated and receiving additional stories.
 The electric light company will erect mlst forty-tour feet above the court | house dome, which will carry lights of | twelve thous md candle power. The | light is promised to be turned on July | Ist. Levin's park will be lighted by | electricity for the first time on the even | ing of July 4th.
 A new star appeared at LevIn's Park | last night. Miss Mabel De Verne, voc | alist. This ID addition to Al King, the | Campbell sisters, the rink, restaurant, | shooting gallery and places of refresh ment, makes the Park the center Of amusements and attraction these cool | summer evenings.
 Mir. L. D. Chillson brought in Sunday from the desert a full tiower-blown specimen of the cactus family. Some cal 1t the Yucca or Spanish bayonet, and others say 1t IS the maguey plant. The flower Is of a snpw-whIte color and q beautiful shape, representing m form tie Canterbury bell
 1t is interesting to compare the heat of Arizona with that of California at present. Wednesday m San Francisco the thermometer was s2 degrees. In Tu sson at the same time it was only 64 degrees. At noon It was 96 degrees m San Francisco and Tn Tucson 1t was 91 degrees. Those who have gone "in- side" to escape the heat Of Arizona have jumped out Of the frying pan into the fire.
 Mir. P. J. Coyne Is in from the mining camp of Greaterville,' some forty-two miles south of Tucson in the Santa Rita mountains. NIT. Coyne Is III town as witness ID the Martinez murder trial. He reports times dull in the camp, that tine "cream has been skinned off, but the miners are holding on with hope. The ore of the camp IS hauled to Ben son or Charleston. Water has to be taken from wells for placer mining, which makes 1t slow work.