Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-06
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rlYed here JhIs forenoon and says that l he arrested two men on suspicion of be- ing Hensley and an accomplice at Pi- escho yesterday, but the men were rec ognized as being other parties by man employed by the railroad company, and they were turned loose again.
 YUMA. Oct. At the evening session oftle board of Prison Commissioners the quarterly business WAS finished and an order was given for the purchase of new machinery and authorizing the appoint ment Of three additional guards.
 DENYING. \. M., Oct. 3.-Leroy and Wilson who went to Casas Grandes September 10, in the hppe of securing Charley McCOmas, have just returned They report that the boy Is undoubtedly all-e and well within 20 miles of Casas Grandes. They had three interviews with Geronimo and would have secured the boy but for Mexican interference and iealou-y existing between the Juh and Geronimo factions. The boy was being held by Juh's widow. Juh was accident ally killed September 2l by falling from his horse into the Casas Grandes river while drunk. Leroy says there are 300 Indians in the vicinity of Casas Grandes, and that he counted D warriors. They are very short of ammunition.
 TOMBSTONE. Oct. A ghastly double tragedy occurred about 12:3O ?. m. re- sultiDg iu the death of John Staudiford and a Mexican womaa of tEs town named Marie. At the time mentioned parties in a saloon on Allen street saw the woman approach @ side window Of the saloon, holding Q towel to her throat, and blood squirting in jets from severed
 blood vessels. Almost at the same ln- stant the woman, who was recognized as an occupant of the MalEOn Dore ldjoin- ing, fell to tie ground. The occupants | of the saloon immediately rushed 10 she ! scene, the first one being the barkeeper. l Just before reaching the woman the | crowd was horror-strlcken to see Stand ford stagger from the rear door of the | house, from which the woman had come, with a bloody razor in his hand. Before | he could be reached he raised his razor and gave one quick, sharp cut across his ] throat and then handed the razor to the foremost man in the crowd, who by that | time had reached him, and fell face ! downward to the ground, the life-blood ! flowing n stream from the wound, and formed a pool beside him. An examin- ! atiou showed that both the carotid ar ! tery and jugul6r vein were cut. Passing l StandifOrd, the crowd proceeded to ! where the body of the woman was lying, and found her dead, the fatal razor hay ing nearly severed the head from the body The spectacle was sickening GI d ! str ng men were uunerved, and n few women, who had been tempted to ap- | pToach the scene, fainted dead away. l The causes lending to the double killing are rum and jealousy. Sandiford, who ] has been driving the Contention stage for about six months, not long since be- came enamored of Marie and l puid her such assiduous attentions us to neglect his work, which resulted in his discharge last week. With the los Of his situ tion came the loss Of tine af- fectIons of Marie, and the driving of 1 Standiford to hard drinking. Several efforts were made by him to regain his lost place in Marie's bnudoir, and af- Tections but without avail. 4 stormy | interview between them occurred at her i house the day before resulting in | StRndiford being eJected from the house. He then declared that he would ! kill her, and also himself, but his threat was considered idle. About dark last evening before Sandy Bob, his former | employer, found him in the stage barn hunting for something. In reply to a question as to what be wanted, he answered that he was looking for his razor; that he intended killing himself After finding the article, 1t, with pistol he had on. was taken from him, and he went away. Nothing more was seen Of | him until the time of the murder.
 Staudiiord was well known through California, Idaho and Montana, as a stage driver He WAS a native of Georgia, or North Carolina, and aged about 40 years. The woman has been resident of this camp a long time, and is about 20 years of ago. Her relatives live on the San Pedro river in this county.
 TOMBSTONE, Oct. 4-The election for chief engineer yesterday re-ulted ID the choice of Ike Isaacs, he beating Dan McCaun by SIX vo'es. Tho contest was a hot one, but passed off quietly. Isaacs is an old member Of the Virginia City Department and well known on the Coast.
 GCAYMAs, Oct. 4.-Con rary to all e1- peciations the steamer Sonora takes freight and passengers from this port to southern Mexico. It is understood she wlll not touch La Paz as she left there before bel oudered into quarar- tine. Through the officers of the road I learn Of the death near Atchisou, Kansas, of the able and gentlemanly manager of the road here, NIT. Thos. J. Seely. 4 severe loss to the company and q severe loss Co this community irrespective Of natl nality. 4 tel,- gram from above show that many of the refugees along the road are being attacked and several o, them quite seriously.
 By some mistake the engine house at Hermosillo was partly demolishei by the pile driver train, but will soon be repaired. The blame seems to be on two Mexican brakemen.
 Twenty-tvo are reported as the mortality for the last tweuty-four hours at HermosiIlo, but the cool weather Is reducing the number ot new cases, and improving the convalescants. No deaths nor new cases have occurred in Guay- mas for the last day The rain which fell last night has cooled the atmos- phere. Unless some bad change takes place we may be said to be rec Of fever. Many are preparing 10 return. The com pany's office is trapped in mourning in respect to their manager.
 GUAYNAs, Mexico, October 4.-In- formation has been received here of the |