Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-11-10
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PACIFIC COAST.

PRESCOTT, November 5-A fire broke
 ont in the kitchen of the band quarters
 at Whipple Barracks last night aboui
 II o'olock and consumed the row of
 buildings used for company quarters
 and small house in the rear. The sol
 diers saved their blankets and personal
 property. Considerable government
 goods were destroyed Less $500.
 SAN FRASc1sco, Nov. 6.-Mrs. Leavist temperance lecturer, at meeting ot the International Lodge of Good Templars,
 last night, declared that most of the
 present incumbents of offices of trust
 were either heavy drinkers or enemies of
 prohibition. She dwelt severely on Gov.
 Butler, stiling him an fowl eyed black
 guard and the enemy of temperance.'
 "President Arthur" Mrs. Legvltt sad,
 is heavy drinker; many night befnre he was nominated Vice President, he
 would sleep the sleep Of tue drunken in low grog shops in New York. Even now when he complains Of afternoon head aches, it is whiskey that is the trouble Mrs. Leavitt closed her remarks by ad
 
 taining of them would have the effect of producing total abstinence ic the land
 Counsel for Leroy, the strangler and murderer of Nicholas Skenett, has filed bill of exceptions in the Superior Court. The case IS to be carried to the Supreme Court
 Portland, Or, Nov. G.-An Albany Oregon special says: this afternoon the city was startled by the announcement that the wife Of J. J. Findlays0n had been murdered. E. R. Skipworth. jus tice of the peace, and Young, coroner, were summoned, empanelling a jury, and ellcted lhe following facts:
 Last Saturday Mir. Findlayson went | tn Brownsville and returning to day. about noon and found that his wife had been murdered during his absence. De ceased had been killed by an axe and a | pocket knife. The examination showed | that she had been stabbed 9 times: | her skull had been mashed III | with the back of dn axe sinking its entire length into her head. | After hearing the evidence the jury re- turned verdict that the woman had been murdered in their opinion, by her | N T He l5 years. The boy left on Saturday | evening Inst and has not since been heard s' His shirt with blood on the sleeve was found Tn the room. Also a bloody knife was found near the de- ceased, with which she was murdered, was identified as belonging to him.
 SAN FRASC1sCo, Nov. 5-A meeting of American shipping merchants will be held tomorrow at the Chamber of Com. nerce, for the purpose of pres nting a to the coming Congress advo- eating the passage of laws that will en- able Amercans to sail ships in cOmpe- .Ition with foreigners.
 Captain We, of the whaling bark | Fleetwind. arrived last night from the Arctic. He says the present season has been the poorest for the last twelve or fifteen years. He reports that on Sep .ember 22d the bark Louisa. Captain Koon, was stove in by a piece of ice and ,unk in fifteen minutes. One boat from he wreck, containing SIX men, was cap sized and all were drowned.
 CONTRA COSTA, Cal. Nov. 5-A fire destroyed the greater part of .he b3usiness. portion of thus town and ! he stock and 1000 sacks of wheat. Two ships, the Allonby and Lord Barnes, had a close call to get out of the stream without damage. The total loss is esti- mated at Sl00 900: insurance not known. No accidents as far as known occurred. Homeless sufferers have been provided with shelter in warehouses and some sent to Benicia and Martinez.
 SAN FRANCIsCO, November 3-The Sonora and Milton stage was halted and robbed at o'clock this morning, three miles east of Copperropnlis. Calaveras county, by a single highwavman, who secured Sl.7l3 in retort gold shipped at. Sonora and which was en route to this city.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, Nov. 3-Quarantine | officer Dr. McAllister this morning al lowed the passengers from San Bias, | who have been kept in quarantine on | the China, Co land. They are all well l and hearty, and as sixteen days have | elapsed since the disease first broke out, 1 they were allowed to come ashore.