Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-21
Tarritorial News.

n for Globe, to open the Gila county Dis trict Court.
 JIG. Martin, editor of the Prescott Democrat, has returned from hls Vlslt to California.
 The frost on Friday night did consid- erable damage to the grape crop ID the Salt River valley.
 Teams are at Naricopa loading with machinery for the Indiana mining com pany on Castle Creek
 The Old Dominion copper shipments for the week were lS2 bars, 5S,6fO lbs; total shipments, 2,IO9,2oO.
 The Phenix Herald has been awarded the c unty printing by the board of supervisors of MaricoPa county.
 Ike Isaacs, a keno celebrity of Tomb stone, mas gone East to vist St. Louis, Chicago. New York and Albany
 Chief Justice c. G. W. French has disposed of the Mohave county court calendar and returned to Prescott
 On Sunday night Mexican lion was shot and killed by Frank Leslie and Frank Emmal, on Joyce's ranch in the Swlsshelms.
 Dick HeItchew has returned to Tomb stone from Albuquerque, bringing with hun his charming young wife, formerly Miss Clara Edwards.
 John Packer, of Phenix, received lot of maple and butternut trees few days ago from his old home ID the East, and proposes to see how they will grow there.
 The Takoma Company ran B large bars of copper bullion one day this week in an eIght hour shift. Each bar had more or less of matte on 1t be- sides.
 Eight head of valuable horses belong ing to J. O. Dunbar are missing from the ranch of Thomas Dunbar, aud 1t IS supposed they have been rounded up by the Indians.
 Phenix Gazette: Henry Gartas, our efficient City Marshal, was married last Sunday at Yuma, to SenOrita Helena RedoudO. sister of our fellow tOwnsman Joe Redondo.
 The report from Tombstone giving an account of the killing of teamster and the woundiug of another by Apaches, on Saturday evening, in the Santa Rtas, Is cOntradicted as untrue.
 Miner: Work mas been commenced on the railroad bridge crossing the Cobra do river at the Needles, and Is OeIng pushed rapidly forward. The Atlantic k Pacific railroad now ships its tIes from California, finding 1t cheaper to do so than to obtain them from along the line of their road.
 Captain T. J. Jeffords, the post trader at Guachuca, has built the finest suttler store ln the United States. The building Is adobe, large and convenient, the lumber alone in the building having cost SIO,0O0. The Captain IS an old timer ID Arizona and has host of friends who will rejoice ID hls success.
 Phenix Gazette: We were told yester- day that the teamster, Harry Gibbons, who died of smallpox near Prescott short time ago, was cremated before burial The story goes shat the author itIes sent a man to bury Gibbons and burn the house, but sad lucIfer bearer set fire to the house without moving the corpse.
 Epitaph: Wash Underwood, the whi- lOm ranger, who was presented by hls admIring constituents of Char ieston with a gas pipe made in the shape of gun and elabOrately Ornamented, 1t appears did not leave the rangers of hls own will, but was politely requested by Joyce to vamOus, but upon what grounds we were unable to learn.
 The Board of Supervisors of Mari copa county have purchased ten acres of land from Dave Balsz, for hospital and poOr-house use, one half mile north of Phenix. for Sl ,25O. They nave adopted plans furnished by 5. l.. Patton, for one story brick building, 3l feet inches by A feet, walls to be l4 feet high, with rock foundation.
 Gazette: The people of Phenix can not be surpassed for generosity when for a worthy cause. A subscription for Mrs W. S. Mcdonald who recently lost her husband and two children, netted S22O, which was given her to-day, aud will enable her to straigbten financial matters and return to her home Tn Eureka, Nevada.
 COuuer: Jonn Pemberton, who re- gently wenI to New Mexico, on a nlis- sion of cuarity, contracted smallpox there and dIed of It in Apache county. The sad news came to his father short time ago. Deceased was well known and highly esteemed m this vicinity. He was m the prime of life; stout as one of our oak trees; honest and in- dustrious.
 Courier: The illuminated Sherman House is bIg thing for Prescott Yes terday was opening day. Scores of peO- p.e entered the fine building, praised its founder, NJ II. Sherman, wished MT. and Mrs. Hughes and their clerk, NIT. Mackenzie, good run of customers; DartOOk of their hospItalitles and came away mentally praying for the success of Prescott's best hotel.
 Captain J. A. Mellon, of Yuma, will take a small boat and continue up the Colorado river to Devils Gate and Black Canyon. He Is instructed ;o plant in the solid rock in the above canyons six rIng-bOlts. four feet long, of inch and three-quarters Iron, the rings of winch are eight inches In diameter. These -iug-bOlts are for the purpose Of secur- ing lines for the steamers whilst passing over the dangerous rapids that are encountered in the Black and Devils Gate Canyons. The c. 5. N Co. during nigh water run their boats to the Virgin River, and consequently wish to have all the safety possible.
 Enterprise: MT NJ. P. Trout, of Casa Graute came mp to Florence Monday, and left for Yuma Tuesday, with Col. James Moore. The latter preferred to stop there instead of going to the sisters hOspIt at Los Angeles, for the reason that he has old time friends at the for mer place who will care for him kindly until ms health shall nave bsen restored. Nr. Trout k an old friend of the sufferer and although man of limited means, will do all he can n hIs power to satisfy the latter's wants. The generous miners and citizens of Silver King who are friends of Col. Moore, sent him S250 and his host of friends at Plnal will probably raise liberal sun of money for h.m-
 Yuma Sentinel: The scenery On the Colorado river, from Fort MOhave to the Virgin river IS the grandest and most picturesque of any on thls cln- tlnent. In places the river Is scarcely wide enough for t-e steamer to pass be- tween the massive and grim sentInels uf trap and b8saltIc rock. At other points the rlver wIlens out like a vast sea. and Ou either side the dark and gloomy mountains stand like the guardians of holy trust, fOrbitding the unhallOved footsteps of man to desecrate the sacred precincts beyond. All who can should take trip up the river during alzh water, and thereby learn how small figure man cuts in this grand creation of Nature
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