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Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
Aluminium and Us AIInr.-

The accounts m thc late English | Journals of the newly discovered process ! ot making cheaper alumiuium leave it- tie doubt that thls metal VIII have. as the engineer suggests. "a vastly eN- tended use It ls true the new process
 does not cheapen aluminium SO as to
 bring It's price anywhere near that os iron or steel But the discovery by Mr
 Webster that alUmiuium. hitherto ranr-
 Ing almost as one of the precious metals. may be deposited on several other
 metals and may be sClderei and welded
 adds very greatly to the value .of hIs discovery of tie cheaper
 and quicker method of profuciur
 the metal itself. By the new process
 aluminium k obtained at a cost os about
 five hundred dollars per ton reduc-
 tion of about eighty per cent. on the old
 price. These figures bring it, when used
 as an alloy, within the possibility of
 econom!c employment il mhny mann
 factures for which it is preferable Co an,
 metal now known. Its c1uductrvItv Ia the galvanic current k set down as eight times better than that of iron. and as 1t does not rust 1t may be highly use. ful for telegraphic purposes Already samples of wire made from Mr Wab- ster's aluminium bronze have been sent to Glasgow and London. a.I a-a being tested it is said. in fine latter city for electric purposes. Put the great tensiiity and lightaess of aIr- as well as its being rust-n-oos indicate, perhaps, a large demand for if for ship fittings, and especially for steamship pTOpellers. This alloy Will l bear a strain, # IS said, O, fortv-tvo tons to the square inch. or fourteen toms more ] than cunme.al and twelve more tbr- | Bessemer steel IT its cost can he srf- ! iciently reduced to make if ava,rabIa | Tor propeilers one of the weakest points ID steamship machinery couli be strengthened and the safety Of ocean lavlgatlon greatly increased.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

A WELL managed Bureau of Immigra- ton will cure the dull times complained of n some parts of the Territory. The tide of immigration IS seeking our shores and constantly moving westward. The other States and Territories are presenting to them their advantages and offering them facilities and as result are gaining an intelligent and enterpris- ing population. Arisona wants to ini- tate their example and secure its share of the westward tide of immigration
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

tle session and the diversified interest,"
 lh me D'!l that it would fail. Ben,
 asEeu ii 1e would call an extra sessig-'
 1T the bili dld iall Ee said that is 71
 emer ency that I will not consider u-.ii
 It arises. ''-''4
 NAsHINGToN, Jan. 20. The Treasr--
 department has sent to ColIecto-s
 Customs the regulations recently fra,,.f
 m accordance with the ouluso1 n T
 Attorney General to regulate tbe ,-
 sage Of Chinese labOrrrs across fine i'.
 tment en route from foreign come.
 Senator Mile says he has made .-..'',-'
 inquiry into thls subject and he fG.-
 not thlnk any apprehension need n. far.
 that the law regulating Chinese ar,,
 grafton VIII toe UCiated. Miller -s..s-,5.
 inc granting Of permission Co CbTr.-.
 laborers tO enter be cOuutIJ CrIv fr-,t. purpose of tTavellnE hu.-eaard as ....,
 trary to the letter Cf law. but grant. ft.. lt may not be opposed to the Stat. 1- pariment's interpretation of the sDi-,, ~. the treaty. In conversation with ,ov. correspondent Miller sad do not .t5,.L there are SO many Chinese in Cuba tr, day as k commonly reported 4I..r. ten thousand Chinese laborers orirlpalI, went there, but the number ofthem v,r'. emlgrated under 0lI contracts has. returned to their homes OF have ..--' to the U. S- The agitation for pe.ni>,-T- to allow th SC tO enter th,. country vs- begun by the railroad cumuauI-s va..I. expected tO make profitable t-t7sr..-. ton contracts. So far as l can l-.--, r.. contracts for sending those hs,-.-. through the UElevd States have t..... made. l am informed that the CH.-s-- can be taken n sailing vessels ar11-5 Cape Horn Co China f1r thirty do.Ia-, apiece. lt would cost in the neiybl,- hood of one hundred dollars apieca t, bring them from Cuba to New Ys-t send them tO San sFranciSco ard -.L- them hence tO Hong Kong. Po~.;fl, the rase mignt +e little less via N.v Orleans or Galveston. but not -r.r,.,r Go compete with direct water routa. Tb- railroads were led to believe that ,hav could get business by letters wri...r them by agents m Cuba, asklur fern. Tor transportation. IT any attew--. should be made Co evade the law ia,s.. ton would be certain. The Trs4s--, has informed me tha- ls any number of Chinese ar. landed here that an inspector wlI l.. sent with them Co see that The lar not violated. CT couse upon first tectlon the question of validity of e.. Attorney Generals opinion vir Ia. raised and cited iu the courts.
 WAsHISGToN. Jan. 21-Nue os tt. the defense m the Starr r5uf- eases informs the Post that the expense 'i Brady. Dorsey and Nall's recent s-T standing trials will be fully S-Uuur... which Brady and Dorsey are rspu-t-.it. nave spent S7f,G0O each.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
Description of the Tehaehepi Pass

To carry the Southern Pacific track out Of the San Joaquin valley and across t. the MOhave plains requiI e an engineerin. venture second to none on the continent The route finally chosen was the other wise well known Tehachepi Pass. Com south the trains mount immediately uI from Calieute station, where serles ol curves termIuat1, as # were. ID a "lOOp," the track crossing itself in the st-uggl, to scale the summit. From thence on 1t Is comparatively plain sailing through a nigh valley until the grade leading to NOhaye station k reached. This Hoop" ss ton has resulted in a multitude of mInor accidents. mostly to freight trains
 It Is a, thIs point where the accident occurred. The wIud blows like mad al .ines, especially at Mohave, and any one icqualnted with the country will not be su prlsed tO hear of accidents of various kinds from yarlOus causes
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

THE people of Kansas and Iowa re- gently adopted constitutional amend ments prohibiting the manufacture or sale ID those States of liquor, wine or beer. The Iowa Supreme Court has inst declared the amendment in that State invalid. Of the Kansas amend ment the Topeka Commonwealth says that there has been free whisky in nearly every town of the State" since i,s adoption. Sensible citizens of these States ought to see by this time that wise regulation of the liqour business Is better than an absurd law Of absolut. prohibition.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

DURING 'he year 1882, according to the record kept by the underwriters, s9O,25O.OOo Of property was destroyed by fire m the United States and Canada. During the year. 1909 fires are recorded where the loss was from Sl0,0OO to S5hOOO; 244 when the loss was from $50,0O0 to S1O0,OOO; IO1 fir m sl00,0Ol to S20O,0OO; 5 from s2Ol,OOO to SjOO-OOO and 16 where property t0 the value of S500,OO0 and upward was destroyed. This is large amount of property to be wiped out by fire ID a single year in which there was no one extensive and disastrous confagration. In view Of the tens Of thousands of fires and the large destruction of insured property, no wonder that the year 1882 was disastrous one for fir insurance com panies, and that several reliable com panies have closed up their business. There gre years in winch the losses by fire ars unusually large; still it must be apparent that the loss of average years Is manly due to carelessness either in the occupants or the contractors of buildings. Accidents will happen and losses by fire will continue. but there can be no doubt that the losses would amount to but 6 fraction Of the present astounding aggregate, if com mon watchfulness were exercised.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

THE newspapers are calling upon some inventive genius to devise some substitute for coal for heating cars. At every railroad wreck in the winter tune fire always adds to horrors of the acci- dent. and many are burned alive who might be rescued and live but for the flames. The suggestion IS a good one and the child of genIus who solves the problem of heating without the risk of fire in cars will be 8 benetactor of his race and entitled to their everlasting gratitude.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

CONGRESS should pass law giving to the bona tide occupants and im- provers of land embraced in any of these Eo-cslled Mexican grants a counter claim for taxes and improvements. with com pound interest at the current local rate which iB this Territory would be from two to three per cent a month. Not on ly that but provide that the occupants of lands covered by these resuuected grants after taking the land in part pay ment of these counter claims have the privilege of suing and obtaining iudg ment for any balance due and enforcing the collection. We think this would have a wholesome effect to prevent the further floating of old Mexican grants and give quIet and peaceful possession to those whose title has been unquss- tionsd for years.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
NaM> iirm,.

The Marquis of Lo-ne .Is..s! F.-. ! Sumter tuesday.
 The Senatorial contest lu Nebraska ! Minnesota and Colorado remain uuGr. cided.
 The OpeliLa. Ala. riots have been r.- l renewed and the Montgomery -II-.-y
 are under orders.
 The Greeubgck member, Uf Con--e-- will issue an address tuuuclat.uc the principles of ;heir party. Mace and SIade arrived ard gave qu exlbltlon at Omaha last evening. winch was largely attended.
 Judge Qugriss of tue Nashville C-Ia.- nal Court has fixed eX-Ir,asgrer Fok'. appearance bond at SlUJ,oOl
 Major George Coolblugh, form,r.y connected with the Mexican RaIu.t. died at San Antonio, Iexes. under my tt rIOus circumstances.
 John F. NcPEerSou was uomiuatedfo for United States Senator by the Democrat lc caucus of She New Jersey LeEislatu-t Tuesday.
 The Gloucester fishing schooner Jam,. X. Garfield lost sIx men m a snow storm which came up while they were haulla. their travis.
 Mrs. Langiry has gone to Memphis. tTebhardt t0 New York. Most T the St. LOuIs Club men sustain Gebhardt m us refusal tO fight Cunningham.
 Saturday night McEae 6- Cos store a; HalIy, Union county, Ark, was blown open and robbed of considerable none, and SiH.NuU iu government bon is.
 The Western Union Telegraph C.u- pany, after long consideration. has ta- ken au important step iu tue direction of pIitIng all It~ wires in New York uu der ground.
 The revolutionary party is tr,umpLin. in Ecuador. The port of Esmeralda nas been captured, and the Dictator troops defeated after eighteen hours fighting.
 The East Side school building at Ir- dependence, Iowa. took fire Tuesday with three hundred children within itI walls. lt was tota ly destroyed. No Ives lost.
 At Niagara Falls, Thomas Hil5ou cf Philadelphia, expressed his t,uuk and -aluables 70 Edwin Salwege, New York. Tuesday, and then jumped from the lrldge and was carried over the falls.
 The Agricultural Committee arreei 70 report favoraoly AudersOn's bill cr-a- lng an aCrcultural commission to iu- .mre into the subJert of transportation .ad other matters pertaining C. agricuI- 1ral products.
 A boiler Iu the Eagle Houring mill ev- 'loded ai Portland, Omo, Tuesday. kill -g Herman Lewis, aged lj. and wouu- ing Ellsworth Lewis seriously. The II ply pipe va, frozen, and 1t is sup osed thIs caused the disaster.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

TIE new catalogue Of the German Postofice for lSS3, just published, showr a total of SAP newspapers, any of which the Department is ready to supply to subscribers at any office throughout the Empire. or thls total, j,5JJ are in the German language; the rest include jour nals in English, Danish, Swedish, Ital- ian, Dutch, Polish, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, ROumaniaD, Hungarian, Czech, modern Greek. Portuguese, Hebrew, Fin nIsh, Servian, Bothnian, Croatian, Bull gsrian, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, Ro- manic, Sloyackiau and Latin, Weudish, Lithvanian.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

Masterson's bill, for the organization pf Superior Courts, only provides fol 5he creation of sad Courts, ID counties having "a population of ten thousanI md over" Yavapai and Pima-and ike the salary of each of the Superior Court Judges st S3,60O per annum. For the other counties the following provision- Ire made in section of the act nov
 ending: "In counties having pOpu
 atlon of less than ten thousand inhabi ant, upon the petition of the Board supervisors to the Governor, for the
 ppOlutment of a Judge of said county tle Governor shall appoint such Judge. vino shall hold said office until sue -essor shall be elected and qualified; bat the successor of such Judge shall uoi take office until the first Monday of Jan usry next succeeding his election. Tn, Board of Supervisors shall also fix the salaries of the Judges in those counties mentioned in this section"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

ARIZONA Is attracting more attention than any other mineral region in the
 United States. There are many people from the East now visiting the various mining camp in quest of properties. They all speak well of the prospects of the country. The great drawback to our mining interest Is the want of development. Most parties desire 70 find mines possessing measurable value, not mere prospects, and these are diff cult to find. IT prospeetors instead of trying to hold onto great number of claims would select few Of the more promising and bend their energies to developing them they would find il more to their profit and much more to the advantage of the Territory. One good mine will bring more than forty prospects and it will cost no more to make it than to keep ap the annual assessment work on the number claims held by the ordinary prospector. We See almost every day some mluins man in quest of developed property They all like the prospects but that Is not what they are after. Let us have more mines.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SUNDAY. JANUARY 2s. 1883.
THE TRUNPED UP CLAM ON A PORTION or
 TrCSOG

TUCSON
 In yesterdays CITIZEN Surveyor Gen eral Robbins gave notice to the people of Tucson that document purportlng to be Spanish or Mexican grant covering portion of this city had been filed in bis office and inviting their inspection. Upon the genuineness of this grant the Surveyor General will be called upon to pass, also if pronounced genuine to determine from the imper- feet description the land it covers. The CITIZEN elsewhere in this issue pub fishes the document in Spanish also a translation made by Mr. Hopkins, the erudite translator of the Surveyors of- fse, together with the laws authorizing the commandants of presidios 10 make grants. We have sought to lay before our readers all the obtainable data ID relation to this claim trumped up as we believe to cloud the title to portion of our city and extort money from the rightful owners, the present occupants. The grounds upon which this claim Isust be met are that 1t Is not genuine and that the description to the land IS soimperfect that it is impossible to es- tablish the boundaries of the claim at this late date.
 The presumption must be against the validity oi the grant. The manufacture of these ancient grants has become quite common and the policy should bs against recognizing those winch are brought for ward to cloud the title of property which has been held undisputed for years.
 Congress has shown no great haste in confirming grants even when their valid ity has been certified to by the Survey or General. Several in this Territory have been examined and approved, but none have as yet been confirmed by Congress. In fact, the ablest lawyer in the Senate, Mr. Edmunds, has intro duced bill to refer all these matters to the courts. So 1t is doubtful If any of the grants now pending before Con- gress will be acted on.
 Congress should, however, provide some limitation to the presentation of claims of thls character. As the years pass, the opportunity for frauds with out detection increases. When every thlng depends upon documentary evil l dence, 1t IS more easily manufactured l than where there is living testimony at hand to dIsprove them.
 This IS undoubtedly put ont as feel CT to test the question of whether they can make the grant hold or not. If sue cessful 1t will undoubtedly be followed by others of similar nature, covering the entire four square leagues ofii land within which the commandants Of pro sidios were privileged to make grants. So it becomes the interest of our whole people to see that this sttemp: to rob them Of their property meets with de- feat.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
News Tteul,

James R. keene has mcrtgaeed Els Newport property for SIj.UU
 The thermometer was from zero to Sf deg below at Chicago Saturday.
 The Greenback-r Is il Congress have determined Co keep up the organization.
 NorOs and NIHderman of the lll-sta.- red Jealnette wal be gwen a reception in New York on the Z4Ih.
 The steamship Wisconsin, from Liver pool, while coming up the bay a- New York, Saturday, Tau aground of West Bank.
 Bradley l. Johnson has been elected President cf the Mary land Society Ofthe Army and Navy oi She Confederate States.
 A gif, Of S2j,OU0 !, reported from citi- zenS of Cambridge Go Harvard College for new dOrEltUr-es, the rent ct each not to exceed SsJ a year.
 AIss Auce Livingston. who recently was awarded S,j,OUJ for breach Of prom lsv, has purchased Bon Haven, Ion Pa clie's old home gi Toms E.yer, \. J.
 A conference was he'd by the Citizens Committee anu the D.ssrc5 Attorney at Washington, Sa.urda,, booking Go the Indictment Ut some Or tEe crooked Wash .ng Ju detectives.
 \ morning journal started iu New York two months since by Western iJur- uailsts has, much c. the ast1uIsnmeut of newspaper men. alrrad, attained a circulation of nearly jJ,UOJ Galy.
 The NOrkIngmvl In mas. meeting at Baltimore expressed syml l-tuy with the members of the Glass blowers Union. who are on astuhe, and been indicted for couspirac! b. tue Grand Jury.
 he FseDcl-Au--.cau Claims Com mission, oatuiday, Had uHurg cOusidera- tioa tue ciGlL- ,f DeUec ys. The ULitei States, for Jge destruction yf ILewsyaper IU San raucIsco during tle excItem eur following tu- Assassination 0t Pr-sIurut Lincoln.
 \ fire lu lyg story marble building cn Barclay street, adjoining tue Astor llOusc, New York, Saturday night, gave the impression that It Was the hotel building oI fire, creating much excIte- meni, lu view O. che prosel- epidemic oi hotel fires.
 The motion of Oliver Ames, Receiver of tue Credit Momutr, for leave Co make & settlement vl-h Thomas C. Du-aut. formerly President of the C1mpaav, Was denied IH the UuIted States Circuit Courtat Philadelphia Satur.ay. Duraut held certain lands Iu Iowa and Ncbr..s- Aa, which the (. MpGLy claimed
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

TIE report oi the Mint shows that the colnsge of subsidiary silver coin since 1853 and the amount outstanding on December 3l, 1882, IS as follows; From 1853 to November 3O, 1882, there were coined SlO7, ,S25, ,297; in the Treas ury, s26,54,543; outstanding, Ssl, ,2s0,- 753. Since the passage of the Coinage act of 1873 there have ben coined QS4 42l in the Treasury, 9 #, ,Si5 ,. |. sage of the Resumption act of lS7j there have been coined S52,999, ,4a1: in the Treasury, S26,544.544; outstanding, slG,- 454,s57. Since the passage of the joint resolution of 1876 there have been coined $27,o36,52l; in the Treasury s2G,- 544, 4,544; outstanding. Sl9l,977.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
TELEGRAPH.
PACIFIC COAST.

olfcIlI TO n. IIIIltN-
 TOMBSTONE, January 26.-M. J. Joyce, ex-Chairman of the Board of Supervis- ors, and John O. Dunbar, ex-County Treasurer, were arrested yesterday af- ternoon by Sheriff Ward, the former for forgery, and the latter for not turning over money due the county from him. In the Joyce case 1t Is clear that county warrant No. 2S6 has been duplicated and raised several th usand dollars. Both were released on bail. and will have L hearing this afternoon.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
BreVitieS.

The first fault is the child of smplic Ity, but every other the offspring of guilt Where should be days as we'll as Knights ot Honor, remark the pugent PicsyEne.
 Any girl will tell you that gold ban gles are warmer than worsted vristlets. N. o. Picayune.
 The man who bangs his hair haan't sense enough to blow out his brains even If he possessed any. Ex.
 A Lafayette, Ind. infant weighs only q pound anb hall It takes its daily bath m sngar bowl.-N. I. Com. Adv. China and Japan buy large quantities of American dried apples. Those bar hariaus are bound to become swell peo- pie.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

A FORMER page of the Senate, now Senator Arthur German, of Maryland presided over that body recently during the absence of Vice President Dav1s. There are old employees Of the Senate who knew German when he was one Of their number. Luck, pluck and ability accomplish wonders in this country.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

IF the editor of the Phenix Gazette will read the minutes Of the proceedings of the Assembly as they appear in the Prescott Courie-, he will find that ne IS in error as to the author of the resolu- tion on price of newspapers which he attributes to the senior proprietor Of this paper, who was elected to the Legislature from Pima county, where he has resided for the last decade and Is well known, by a creditable majority. We are satisfied from the courteous treatment We have always received at the hands of the Gazette that its attack was the result Of mislpprehension and the personalities indulged in will be regretted
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

People continue to laud the Holmes mine, in 1avapsI county, which k, with out doubt, the largest and richest gold mine yet opened.
 Mr Tom Trainor, superintendent Of a group of Turkey Creek mines, was in Prescott yesterday. Every thing Is live iy ID hIs district.
 4 great deal of silver bullion IS being -hIpped from the IIp Top company mIii, which k making d successful run.
 Henry Wickenburg's lconOclast mine, In Black Canon district, Is steadily i'm proving. he Is workin0 't hv arastra
 MT. Skinner and two prospectors from l.e Uper GIia having h, ard of the late strikes n the Lone Star district have, gone over to locate claims. The boom will soOu commence.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28


 IRE inquest III the Tehachepi case
 holds the Conductor NIT. Reed and brakeman John Patton responsible for the accident. Reed went into the sta ton house to register, while the prske- man WAS Rallantly escorting a young lady. In the operstion the brakemau's lantern went ont and he went into the station house to relight it. When they returned the train was on its way t. ruin, with its load of precious human lives. The absence of the conductor. 1T seems to us, was proper, but the expla- nation given of the brakeman's absence is far from satisfactory, and if it be true the hand brakes icould have held the train or retarded its movement so that the descent would have been safe, then he Is the man upon whom the responsi- hIlity of this terrible accident must rest.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

THE railroad commission Of Califor- ma Is doing what it can Co curtsil rail road extension in that State. After a Few years of stagnation in railroad e.,- terprises there will be a reaction. Some are urging the Legislature Of Arizona to follow the same suIcidal policy.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

IS yesterdays issue of the CITIZEN We published Hon. Move Wicks' Memorial on the Indian Question, which being 8 true and graphic picture oi the question Es We see it on the frontier, possesses great literary merit. We think that NIT Wicks, if he gives attention to 1t, will make his mark in the world of letters
Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28

SOUTHERN Arizona wants the Legis- lature to ignore sectional lines and make wise and iudicious legislation for the benefit of the whole Territory. The time of the session Is too short to be wasted in hopeless sectional and po- lItical struggles.