Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-01


 stitutional. It will not only do away
 with the collection of the tax this year,
 q portion of which has been pad, but
 will make 1t necessary for all the cor
 poratiOns to pay back the amount
 which was collected under the law last
 year, together with interest. It will ! bankrupt nearly all the cities III the
 State, as the levies for the year were made on the supposition that the law
 was constitutional, and bring into the l treasury of the counties and cities a stipulated amount of money. In COlum- bus for example, between S45,0O0 and | SJ0O00 were realized from tax last year
 and none of the amount has been paid | this year. The consequence IS that the departments are behind in the payment l of salaries, two and three mOnths. i Other cities in the State are similarly | situated. The great question with the l municipal and county authorities IS how
 Co secure immediate relief from the em-
 barrassing situation, the legislature not | being m session.
 SAN FRASCIscO, Oct. 28.-Particulars of the recent disastrous storm along the coast of Lower California weie re- ceived at the Merchants Exchange to- day on arrival of the steamer Newborn from Guaymas. She reports that the ! steamer EstadO de Sonora left Mazatlan l September 29th, and on the following day she encO -ntered violent southeast gale, during which the suppositiOn IS that the steamer rolled over carrying all and everything on board to the bottom of the sea. The steamer was Mexican coaster of 7OO tons, owned by Don Joa- quin Redo, and was insured Tn this city for S70.0O0. At the time of her loss she ha } on board partial cargo, nineteen l passengers and a crew of thirty eight slncluding two captains, an American; IC. F. Rode and a Mexican, MarciaI | Campa. During the same storm the | American schooner Dora, hence for Mexican ports September 18th, Is also
 supposed iO have been lost. The New | bern reports that on October 14th she passed a quantity of loose canvas which | is believed to be from the Dora as that | material comprised part of her cargo. | Wreckage known to be part of Dora was | also found on the shore near Cape St. | Lucas. No bodies nor boats from either ! of the above named vessels have been | heard of since the time of the supposed | disaster. Another gale occurred on De- | tUber 7th which continued with un- | abated fury for three days, creating a | tremendous sea and doing great damage
 along the shore in the vicinity of Cape | St. Lucas. At Cape St. Lucas 1t blew
 and washed away twenty houses, also a | large number of live stock and farm ! property. The storm was the most violent ever seen in these parts. Of nine small vessels plying between Mexican ports, which were caught m the gale, only one has been heard Of
 She was a small slOop with five souls on
 board. There were saved from her sailor aud boy, the latter a son of M. Green, manager of Cape St. Lucas. The slliOr whose name Is not known, held tEr boy for sixteen hours Tn bis arms above water before being saved. The name, of five of these vessels including the one from which the above men, toned two persons were saved, could | not be ascertained. The other four are | the scEOOners, San Pablo, San Pedro, | Santa Cruz and San Antonio. Each of | these nine vessels had from three | to five persons on board, none of | whom have been heard from up to this | date.
 USIoSTowN, Pa.. Oct. 2S.-The worst fears touching the fate of the men im-
 
 town, four miles from this place, by the | explosion of fire damp which took place there at four o'clock last evening have been fully confirmed. Six of the miners were taken out last evening, soon after the disaster two of them were dead and two of the other four are SO seriously injured there IS no hope of their recOv- cry. From If to IS more are supposed to be still imp. isoned in the mine, but the exact number IS not certainly known. The work of searching for these men has been continued industriOusly dur ing the whole night, and by this mOrn- ing r. of them had been brought out and delivered to their friends and rela- tlves at the mouth of the pit. This makes l4 dead III all, and together with the four injured accounts for 1S, the number supposed to be in the mlne. Whether there are any more remaining Is yet tO be discovered, but 1t IS believed that all have been found. At this writ ing complete and accurate list of the dead cannot be given. The scene at the mouth of the pit as the disfglIred bod ies Ot the dead were brought to the sur face and given into the hands of wives and relatives was distressing In the ex- trsme.
 SAN FRANCIsCO, October 2S.-The Bulletins New York special says The Herald prynOdnces Joaquin MIller's : latest play, "John Logan, the Silent Man. dismal failure. It is supposed [ t1 be life in the wild west, and there is I a death in the first act, an attempted { lyuchIng in the second and a cOwardiy f in a graveyard in the third l with dialogue of the dullest descrip- | tlCn.
 SALT LAKE. Oct. 2S.-Anderson. who was three times tried at Malad, Idaho, C for pOlygamy, under the Edmunds law, I has Iust been convicted of cohabIting { with more than one woman, in the mar rage relation.
 DENVER, Oct. 2S.-The Tribune-Re. publican special from Good Hope, a New Mexican mining camp, says: "Joe Hickman, well and favOrably known inner, was shot dead here this after b noon. At an ante-mOrtem examination Hickman said that his partners, Frank = Beck and Tom Weich. had determined l To murder and rob another miner of ? SUD, which they knew he possessed. O They insisted upon Hickman joining |. .heD, and upon his refusal both drew their revOlvers and fired. The excite d Eent among the miners runs high. ] Large numbers are in hot pursuit, and f. ynching Is inevitable if they are caught. .
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-The President u .o-day appointed exSecretarT Hugh Mc- Julioeh to be Secretary of the Treasury q nd Secretary Walter Q. Gresham to be b lrcuIt Judge to succeed Judge Thomas e DrUmmond, resigned. n
 NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-Mayor Edson to- O lay appointed General Fitz-John Porter e Police Commissioner in place of Sydney W Nichols, deceased. n DENVER, Oct % The strike among , he coal miners of the State that com al nenced some time ago in a small way is Y. becoming general today. Reports II well the number of strikers to 5000. e aGsing a suspension of operations in h' learly all the principal mines of the state. The supply of coal in tbis citv al