Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
NO.
Arizona News.

| DAHuOp odlDOnlte celeOrdteu nutlSs ln | Phenlx yesterday.
 The public schools at Florence have
 closed for the summer. | The first watermelons of the season
 were brought into Tombstone on the 22d
 inst.
 Heavy fires in the mountains near Prescott are destroying much valuable
 timber.
 The baths at Tombstone are greatly appreciated and well patronlzed by the
 people.
 There is now a beaten, travelled road
 between Navajo station on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad and St. Johns. Two 30-ton smelters have been ordered and will shortly be put on the Nscosari properties, recently sold by Cutler. Johnny Roberts, a few days since, while riding at the upper end of Walnut Creek, ran upon an old bruin and her two cubs.
 The Silver King and Florence Tele- graph company will pay their second quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share on the 18th of next month.
 W. A. Smith, the bog IS gold brick fraud, has been sentenced by Judge French, at Prescott, to take up his resi- denee at Yuma for three years. The Phonecians were greatly disap- pointed in not being able to do honor to General Crook. The ''Grey Fox" could not spare the time for that purpose.
 District Attorney A. c. Baker, while attempting to restraln bis dog from pitching on to another dog last evening,
 was quite severely bitten in the arm and calf of the leg.-Phsnls Herald.
 Salt Lake, Utah, says. "We number over 1000 souls in the Gila valley, and there IS room for 25,0G0 industrious citi- zens in this section of the country Orion Era.
 The greatest drawback to this valley, and the want IS felt more and more each year, is the lack of means for quick transportation. Give us railway com municatiOn, and We can compete with California Gazette. SenOr Lopez who was accidently shot in the hip several weeks ago by pocket pistol, died few days since. The wound was a mortal one from the start and all efforts of Dr. Johnson to save the un- fortunate mans life were of no avail Phenlx Herald.
 Quite an exodus from Silver District, in fact desertIon, when We hear the Clip IS the only mill running. Messrs. Sprinkle, Harper, Dougherty, and many familiar faces are adOrning the prone nades of Yuma and helping us to a local. Yuma Advocate.
 Mir. F. E. MasOn's son has just gradu- ated at the Iowa University, and Mir. Mason's family, consisting of his wife. grown son and daughter and some smaller children, will now move to Ari- zona and make their home in this fertile valley.-Florence Enterprise.
 Robert Greeley, famiiarly known as Uncle Bob," died of heart disease at Ramsey's Canyon on the 22d day of last month. He is supposed to have rels- lives living in St. Louis. Deceased was about 70 years of age.-TOmbstOne Epitaph.
 A dispatch was received to-day sn- nOuncing the death of Alexander Blair at Los Angeles. The deceased was one of the oldest residents of Cochise county. For long time he was justice of the peace at Charleston, and was highly respected as a man and citizen Republican.
 The school trustees yesterday turned over to County Treasury Goodrich S15,OOO received from the sale of the school bonds of that district. The bonds had been placed by Col. Clark In the hands of Mir. M. B. Clspp, and by him negotiated with The banking firm or Hudson < Co, TucsOn.-TOmbstOne Re- publican.
 Messrs. Devine and Gabriel went rrraat~ ks,r kna first payment on the Catalonia group of copper mines, located in the Silver Belle district. The property IS bonded to Mir. J. D. Powers, of Tombstone. for S30,000 and he paid down ten per cent. of that amount this week-Florence Enter prise.
 Work on the big canal IS progressing finely. At the present time there are only twenty scrspers at work, but the force will soon be increased. The time for the contract to be finished IS January 1, 1885. and to complete it by that time for the canal will be fifty miles long a considerable force will be necessary Phenix Gazette.
 Hon. M II, Sherman returned to-day from Tonto Basin and other points south of this city. In the Basin be met T. J. Simms and other railrOaders look ing out the best route over which to build a railroad from the Southern Pa cific to the Atlantic and Pacific. Mir. Sherman IS confident that the road will be built at an early day.-Prescott Miner.
 A bold attempt at robbery, which was frustrated by the courage and presence of mind of Miss Jennie Hardin, on whom the attempt was made, occurred at the Occidental hotel on Wednesday night last. She bounced upon him with her fist and drove him from her room, while her companion who remained in the room wondered If the bear chained in the back yard had not broken loose. Tombstone Republican.