Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-05
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PACIFIC COAST.

TOMBSTONE, Jan. 2-The municipal
 election yesterday was the hottest con- test ever had iu Tombstone. The prin-
 cipal fight was on mayor, council and
 chief of police. Other otIices there was
 no, much interest taken. The result
 was a. follows: Mayor John Carr, re-
 elected; Chief Of Police James Coyle; Recorder James Reilly; Attorney W. q. Savage; Treasurer Frank Hatch; Asses sor T. II. Enpsy; Council First Ward
 R. [. Knigh-; Second Ward David
 Cohen; Third Ward X. Schmieding;
 Fourth Ward J. P. Raferty. For tax
 collector the vote is very close between
 D. 5. Gage and E. James and n official count $ necessary to determine the result.
 PnEscoTr, Jan. 2.-P. McAteer, who
 stabbed James Moore about month
 ggo, in the court house, died this after
 noon.
 SAN FBANCIsCO, Jan. IA Chronicle Chicago special says: Huntington has
 made politicians very indignant. A member oE one of the COmmitties which ! Huntington iuCmaied be fixed in the | 44th Congress, said to-day: That mans | talk IS an internal outrage and his insin-
 nations ara criminal. Another thing Is very clear in this Huntington business, and that IS he has cooked his goose m | his attempt to get the Texas Pacific Land GraEt. | should like now to see | the representative or senator who will | have the assurance Co manifest any enthusiasm iu behalf of any measure | which Hun .ingtoa or the Southern Pa | citic ls even suspected of having any in- | terest in
 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2.-The organiZs- ton of the new postal telegraph and | cable company, was perfected by the | election 0l John ". Mackay, president; | George J. C0e, vice president; Henry | Cummi-cs, second vice-president and | General Manager; II L. Horton, treasur- | er; George W. Williams, secretay and | Nm. II. Eair5anz, upe-Intendent of the | construction company has completed i,s | pole lines to Washington by way of | Philadelphia and Baltimore. and from | Chicago tO St. Louis; from Buffalo to | Pittsburg through tho oil regions and | from Fust0rlo tO Toledo. The wires on | these lines are now being strung and | the viii be opened for business about the middle of February.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.-The Calls l eastern special says: Frederick Billings ! called upCu Willard yesterday and had a | long frank talk. Willard was depressed | in spirits and told Billings he was ! wrecked financially. The latter cougTat- | ulated him on the fact -hst thIs would ! deprive his enemies of their strongest veupou against him. Willard advised | Billings uo5 to take the presidency, and | there is some doubts as tO whether he | will or not.
 ] JACKSONVILLE. Oregon, Jan. 3.-A
 fire broke out here yesterday afternoon, ! and m less than half an hour sixty ! thousand dollars worth os property was | destroyed on which there was insurance ! to the amount Ci SIT0G0. Among the | buildings destroyed vas the postofiice. ! SAN FRASCIsco, Jan. 3.-Co-operative ! stores under the auspices of the Knights | Of Labor will be tlished ID tbis city. ! The success which the co operative I system met with in England prompted
 the movement. Ouly Knights of Labor | ID good standing are eligible for mem | bership. The cap tai stock Is S1O0,OO0 ! ln 10000 shares. The plan of Organiza- | tiOn and mode of operation are similar to thos of Zion's cooperative mer- cattle institution, long established in | Utah.
 PORTLAND, Org. Jan. 3.-Henry Bur | bridge, aged one hundred years and four
 months, died last night at the Mariners | Home He vss native Of Southamp-
 ton, England, and for the past seven years has been janitor of the Mariners church.
 SAN FEANCIsCo, Jan. 3.-The Chron- icie's New York special says: It is stated by those who take the most generous WOW of Vii ard's acts, that the fortune he created iu SO short time has crum- bled to dust; that he does not even own
 the house in which he lives, and that the Sj100)O be settled on his wife has dis appeared also. Willard, they say, is an honest man and has not created the for
 tun5 oGt of his friends; that his great losses, compiled with the great fall he has hl1 i1 pub!ic estimation, have complete ly shattered him. He Is actually dazed
 at hts position. Willard, they say. in an
 explanation of his fall, Is visionary
 man and his enthusiasm ran away with
 his judgment.
 SAN ERANCIsCo. Jan. 4-Fifteen mem-
 beTs Oi the San Francesca Grain Ex-
 change, have petitioned the Board os
 Directors Jn consider the Gdvisability of declaring a cash dividend of j0 dollars seat and dlssOlving the exchange Among the grounds urged for such
 action are that the exchange steadily re- fused Co assume responsibility for the correctness Of certificates of its own grain inspectors: that lt does not assure payment when due of crg,4 sold.
 John Ziegeubeiu & Co. produce com mission merchants of thls clty have failed; liabilities S500CO, assets about 1 S25,UO0.
 The announcement of the release from 1 San Quiutin o' John Best, inte cniei 1 clerk of Colonel Williamson light house | service was premature. Efforts are be- | tug made to obtain his pardon, but so | fur without success.
 WALLA WALLA, w. T., Jan. 4.-Elfus | and Oweu5y. two escaped murderers, | were captured at Milton. on "Wednesday | evening and are again m jail. Owenhy | WIS in bad condition, having had | nothing t0 eat since he left, Chris mas | day. lis feet are badly frozen. He stayed in Q barn the whole time, and | had only what milk he could get from a | COW. El,us is not injured by the trIp, and will Le on hand for the ceremony | on the fifteenth cf January.
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