Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-09
Local Intelligence.

For the month of May the city police made ninety arrests.
 The city hall is promised to be finish ed by the 20th instant.
 One death from yellow fever has been reported from Brownsville, Texas.
 The electric light rassts have arrived, and will soon be placed in position.
 Tine building improvements ia Tucson the past year have been over S3OU,- 000.
 It is a little Tucson for real warm weather, but Yuma look for iE n few weeks.
 E. L. Wetmore made a ifty-pound silver brick for one of his patrons te" days since.
 The smelting works company IS golng right ahead with their proposed building and perlecting their plans.
 J.W. Davis, of Reddington, has ten dered his resignation to the Board or Supervisors as justice of the peace Of Precinct No l9
 The item in the Phenix Herald on JCue Ist: Present your bills early and often," is doubtless intended as advice to the mosquito
 If the Civil Service Commission sue ceeds in teaching ciyllity tO government employees 1t will deserve the thanks of suffering public.
 Bismarck got mad because he couldn't whistle "Die Yacht am Rhine" through the Yankee Doodle curl ID the tail Of the American hog.
 Recorder Meyer held up his police court guests to the tune of S359, that being the amount of fees he collected for tine May month.
 Prescott papers continue to give glow ing accounts of the new discoveries lU that vicinity. Where there Is so much smoke there must be some fire.
 The City Hall and Engine House are rapidly approaching completion. The public buildings ID that locality begin to show up to good advantage.
 In selecting a name for a San Fran cisco school house. the bad httle boy helped out the trustees Dy suggesting that 1T be called the Lick House.
 The following letters are uncalled foi at the Palace: Col. Reuben Wood, , James M. Hall, J. H. Faweett, 4. Blanc '. D. Nicholson, Prof. E, H. Cook, Chas Ehrenfeld, H. B. Elder.
 Tue following letters remain uncalled for at the Cosmopolitan: c. 4. Moeler David Long, H. 1. Haber, J J. Walsh, E. M. Onion, Dr. F. R. Durrett, W. R Mould, c. $. Sullivan, E Cook.
 The Globe Chronicle learns that Mr W. II. Sutherland, Of Dripping Springs, conlemplates putting on a daily line oI four-horse coaches between Riversidt and Tucson about the first of July.
 Most of ths wheat and barley m the vicinity of Tucson has been harvested, and the crop Is excellent. Much of the barley crop mas been cut for hay, whlch fals ready market of S25 per ton.
 The shipping of ollls from Tucson i. ssid to have become quite a business They ave used mostly on the line of tn, road between here and LOr1sburg. l.. Wetmore made quite large shipment to-. ay.
 Qlits a tra ie n ice is now carried oL b7t9een Tucson and the interior, as far west as Yuma, and east to LOrdsburg. There Is nothing like extending th trade of our manufacturers and dealers even If there IS cOolness in the busi- ness.
 The CITIZEN on Saturday Iaadvertent- ly stated that Hon. J. M. Kirkpatrick ls Superintendent of the Southern ArIzona Mining Company ct Gro BlancO. Mir Il :. Selrle IS the Superintendent oi that company. and Mir. Kirkpatrick l.. managing the Warsaw mill and adjacent mines.
 George Cooler pleaded guilty in the Territorial District Court this afternOoi to the charges against him for all 1wiug prisoners to escape from the Pima coun- ty jail, and was fined 500. As the mau is yenniless. 1t IS difficult to see just how the Territory will collect the fine. No ino oorisonment was included in the sen tence.
 Five car loads of California lumber. unsurpassed m quality, was received ai the Arizona Lumber Yard ihis morning; four more cars are expected tomorrow.
 
 that well-stocaed yard. Now, however. the new stock Is coming In. and by fali i5 IS expected that two million feet wll be in the yard.
 One of the Earp brothers was ID the banking business of Pharoah & Co a Los Angeles, last week. The police des csniel on tue lIttle game Saturday even ing, Elrp made himself su idenly in visible His partner, Brown, was caught, and let go on S2J bail. Earp was indIs erect ID starting opposition and moi standing in with the ring.
 4 Ca ifornia correspondent wishes to know if the GIla and Santa Cruz rivers are navigaDle to Tucson? Yes: the Gila has been navigated to it's junction with the Santa Cruz. There a slight portage is necessary, around which canal could be run. The railroad com- pany, however, killed all opposition boats in the river, except the up steam e7. in the Saline stream this side of Phenix
 The price Of stock cattle is coming down. Last winter stock men became excited over the prospect of turning their cattle into gold, and run prices up beyond all reas n. The consequence was, but few sales were made. The price will soon be back to the old figure, when those who may de- sire to go into the cattle business can do so, and not be compelled to pay ex- horbitant prices, either.
 Lemon squeezsrs from two bits to five dollars each; crockery of all kinds aud qualities, glassware, hardware, lum- Der, doors, windows, window glass, mia ing supplies, blasting powder, Sander son steel. Norway and American iron. miners and mechanics tools. paints. oils. plated ware, flower pots, bar glasses, bar fixtures, lamps, chandeliers, gas fittings, etc, for sale cheap at the mamm 1th store Of \. D. Otis & Co.,, on the corner ot Meyer and Pennington streets.
 The San Francisco Mining and Scien- tifs Press says "Prof. J. c. Lennon and vile expect soon to make theIr sum- mar botanIzing excursions to Arizona. Until July their tune will be spent most ly in the canyons of the north side of the mountain ranges, where the climate ls more comfortable than on the plains. Alter the early rains. which usually pre- vail n July, they will leave their wilder mountain camps for the more prOpitions fields for botany below. The rapiiity 1 which the verdnre aud flora or the plains ] spring up and grow after the rains is l said to be almost marvellous"
 Three or four years ago. it was the l general impression that the bottom 1 lands adyolnlng town would not produce l vegetables; but the Chinese came iu. | and proved that vegetables could bs | grown, and for the past two years most of the vegetables used ID Tucson have been grown on the santa Cruz. But did not do well, until this wear. Now, the "leathen Chinese" have dis covered the secret ot producing potatoes Of q superior quality, equal, and some