Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-03-15

male relICIous euJuusgust ID tis- -.,....- of Maria Jesus of Agr-da. She wes a pure hloOded Castilhan. of blue eyes, a1d very
 ight complexion. She vent out among
 he Indians on the Colorado river. preaching The gospel Cf ! sus Christ /! ia supposed she was murdered by them. Ihis Was over ty years before Ell-' translated the Bible for the MlS1actu- setis Indians.
 Affairs remained Quief at Tp;son for ov sr half cei-tUry. wien the ml=rloI of St, DOmInick Vas established Il l6Ja
 Tn 1894 garrison was piacet al Tue son for the protection of the mIssiorgr- les interests at San Xavier. \ mem Der Of the Urea family was commaa- der at Tucson about this time. accorl- ing tO the family records. The military post. already existing was thus strenStb- enei by the addition of a garrison, from tlre fact that in 1880 the Apaches had arisen in New Mexico ani ma ie @ gen eral massacre of all the Spannrlz. and destroyed al therecords.
 All the missions on tue San Pedro river were established before li9z. The San Pedro valley then had mauy tb1u- sands more head ot cattle than it has had since. Tucson enjoyed all their trade. and the commerce in gold and sil-
 yer. copTsr, mescal, hides, 5n5 bo-uz was extensive.
 In 1894 the famous Rev Father Eusj- bius Francis KinO visited Tucson. He | had been professor in a German uni
 versIty. While much depressed by sick ness he vowed that if God would mlrac-
 ulously restore him to health he woui thereafter devote his life 70 che spread of the gospel among the he9then. "IIe ! landed in California from the i-lanl Of Sumatra and passed into New Mexico | Tnow Arizona without crossing any other | water than Rio Azul. OF the 8lue river. | about north latitude 3j,' says Bowen iu l 174L Kino has left a minute descrir- | ton of the Cass Grand ruins, and say | it was then four stories high. He labor | ed at San Xavier. and was man of very | great learning. His manuscript k nos | at Zacatecss, and affords some very ln- | teresting reading about ancient Arizona | Klno was the first man to discover tl1' Lower California was a peninsula and not an island, as people had always s1p- posed it to be. He died at San Xavier | in l7l0, and was succeeded by Augustine | of Campos.
 The year 1733 marks a1 Impor;au. | epoch iu the agricultural history Of Tue l son. Previous to that date the Santa | Cruz river was allowed to pursue its l natural course. That year, however, IT, | rigating ditches were constructei and | the entire waters of the river turned in- ! to them. Since then the old river ! bed in the vicinity of Tuc-on has been | plowed SO many times that It has been entirely obliierated.
 Rev. Father Jacob Keller. in f7f2
 started to Cibola, and got as far as Tue
 son. He could get no further on ac-
 count of the Apsches.
 In 1759 the mission of St. Augustine
 was established at Tucson, and vet ra-
 mains It was done by the order of the | Marquis Of Croix. then viceroy os Mex
 icO.
 In 1774 CsptaIn Bautis4a Ainsa passed l through Tucson in company with Rev.
 Fathers Pedro Font and F. Garcia. eu
 route to San Gabriel, Caliioruia. They
 explored the Yavapai country and the Gila to the Colorado. Ainsa returned
 m l116, while Font and Garcia went to
 Santa Fe, and broke the irst ground for the famous Santa Fe trail. which follow
 ed the north aide of the Colorado md
 entered Santa Fe from the north. During all this period of two and a ] half centuries Tucson had not grown any. In 1919 1t numbered one hundred
 and forty-one novels.
 In 1895 a remarable climatic change
 was noticed in the first late frosts.
 In 1850 the town mum Dered but four hundred inhabitants.
 In lc56 Solomon Warner, yet resi- dent here, came from Yuma, and opened the nrst American store. At the same time the Mexican army. which had been l garrlsoned here for nearly three hun l dre1 years. evacuated the place. The town then had a population of three hun | dred Mexlcans and thirty Americans. |