Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-12-20
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SANTA FEE, Dec. IO--DenlgnO Qd'h
 tano, a well known Mexican citizen,
 went ont on a Saturday night spree and
 was found dead under the billiard table
 at Bustamente's saloon at 6:3O yester-
 day morning. He had been drinking
 deep draughts of native wine, and in
 stead of leaving the room, as the saloon keeper supposed, he fell under the bil- Hard table and was locked in ths room
 all night and choked to death.
 The case of Orsamus Lamb. of De
 troit, Michigan, ct al. vs. the San Pedro
 and Canon del Agua Land Grant and
 Mining O., asking that the defendants be restrained from working the property, and that receiver be appointed for the same, was argued before Judge Axtell
 this afternoon. The petition was de- nied. In reality the case constituted a bold attack on the validity of a mort gage sale of this valuable property, re- gently made in favor of Geo. Wm. Bal low of New York, and W. E. Morse of Boston.
 s. :. Beatty, the pioneer merchant of this city, formerly of Iowa, was to-day struck with paralysis while alone in his barn, and after his absence created an alarm in his family he was there found Tn an insensiblS cOn&riou. one-half of his body is affected by the stroke. His recovery IS doubtful.
 SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 15.-The Pue- bio, Colorado, conference of coal miners adjourned without result and .he situa- tion along the line of the AtchIson, Topeka and Santa Fe in New Mexico, continues to become more serious. Miners at RatOn threaten to stop work in all the private mines. Consumers m Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Las Vegas are out of coal and the gas works in the latter town are likely to shut down ow- ing to shortage in the supply of neces- sary coal.
 PRESCOTT, A. T., Dec. 15.-Joseph COndron, an old resident of this county was frozen to death in a severe storm, Friday night, while on his way home, thirty miles from Prescott. He was under the influence of liquor at the tune, and wandering from the trial, lost hIs way and perished in the snowstorm. The body was not found until the fol- lowing evening.
 PHESIx. A. T., Dec. l6.-News reachsd here this evening of the drowning of Guss Goldman, of the firm of Goldman S Co. at Hayden's Ferry today. Gold man started from the store at Tempe for Phenix on horse back supposed by some accident was thrown from the horse in fordlng the river. The horse was found riderless at Hay. den's, also his hat on the river bank. A searching party immediately started to find the body. The result is yet un- known.
 CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-The members of the TranscOntinental Railway Associa- ton, who have been in session m New York for several days Tn consultation with the trunk lines on the question of the latter's proportion of through freight between the Atlantic and Pacific, met here to-day ID informal session, and without deciding upon any matter of moment adjourned till tomorrow. A statement will be published tomorrow that 1t has been discovered that on De- cember lst the necessary thirty days notice of withdrawal from the associa- tion was given by the Central Pacific. The cause of this withdrawal is said to be dissatisfaction with the arbitratOrs award of California business, which gives 1t nineteen and one-half per cent, while its feeders, including the Union Pacific, Denver and Rio Grande and Burlington, all of whose freight must pass over its lines between Ogden and San Francisco, are allowed Gn aggregate Of over twenty-five per cent. If this statement proves true the present asso- citation VII end December 3l, and the meeting now being held will have to deal with the formation anew.
 SAN FRANcIsco, Dec. l7.-Judge Saw yer of the United States Circuit Court rendered an important decision today. It was Tn a suit Tn equity brought by the Southern Pacific Railroad company against Il. J. Dull and Ed. Schieiflin to gain possession of one quarter section of | land Tn Los Angeles county to which | the railroad claimed a title under the land grant awarded by Congress in July, l ls66. Judge Sawyer decided the case in 1 favor of the company on the ground l that the defendants did not settle on | the land until July, 1881, whereas the | railroad had prior right under the Congressional act.
 LOUISVILLE, Dec. 1.-The Courier | Journals Horse Cave special says: P. J. | Slocum, a school teacher, incurred the | ill-wIll of some of the community and | received some anonymous letters lately l suggesting that If he didn't leave town I he would be waited on. He dId not I leave. Saturday night mob of twenty | men surrounded his house. He fired | several shots at the crowd and sue ceeded in driving them away. Wayne Grain was killed and Joe Long wounded. Several other men and a number of horses are supposed to be wounded. SlOcum Is being tried at Munfordsville for killing Grain.
 PARIS, Dec. I5.-The Hovas News Agency publishes a letter from a private soldier stating that General Negrier, on defeating ten thausand Chinese regulars handed over two hundred prisoners to the best French ritismen for targets in rifle prac- tice, and that all of them were killed. The newspapers demand prompt and categorical denIal of the statement.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The Mexico Land and Building Company filed a of interpretation to-day, with B capital stock of SjO0,OO0 The pur- pose of the association is to deal in real estate in the City of Mexico.
 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. I5.-Geo. E. Wingate, cashier of the North British Canadian Investment Company of Toronto, was arrested here on the ,harge of embedding S9,4OO.
 NEW YORK, Dec l5.-Patti was given ! dinner last night in ,ecognition or the of her twenty year on he lyric stage.
 SACRANENTo, Cal, Dec. l5.-An at-