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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Yuma Hens.

The Board of Prison Commissioners met here in regular session .a Monday, thc 9th inst, with full attendance. The session was Ieli ut ;ae new office of the commissioners ou Peuiteutiary Hill. The report of ths superintendent, en- bracing sub-reports O. the physician and turnkey, was received, duly considered and placed on file. Then followed the examination and approval ot accounts; and the sum 0t Sli 5il.l3 for the third quarter, 1885, wgs audited aud ordered paid.
 The report of the treasurer of the board was received, approved and filed, showing balance Iu has hands of SS9S O3, S3lJ In accounts against the United States for collection.
 As some dissausfaction has been ex- pressed with regarded tu tne purchase of contingent supplies, outside of those under contract, Ru order was entered that hereafter bids shall br received by purchasing agents, from all the local business establishments, fir the char acter of supplIe-; and the lowest offer shall be accepted. Orders were entered to place shingle roof over the res- idence of the Superintendent and SUD- plies procured for the manufacture of a sample buggy and wagon.
 That portion of the Superintendent report detailing the circumstances Of jnfractiUn of the rules by certain con victs; and the punishment meted out to them. was duly investigated; and the Board after proper deliberation decided; that no dImuuit1n oi communication time gained iu either ease. should be made, Hs the punishment inflicted Gp- peared to be fdiiy adequate to the of- feuse committed.
 An adjournment sine die was then had.
 One Of the night -Ia-5 .t ,Le prison told me yesterday that the Board Oi Prison Comm s-i1-ar7 had Iss.ed Bn or der that hereafter there should be no cooking or baking iu the prison kitchen aud bakery Tor any fc-seu. And n. he reflected over tLc late order. with how ed head, i!scouragiuCiv -ulIioquizei:
 "Ii, at tho hour 0f low tvelve.' when all nature IS busled in silence, that sweet restorer, balmy sleep, has lullCd the frisky ''con' into silence, aud while l my lonely watch am keepng,' subtle Morpheus without fear or the sergeant of the guard. eudeavo-s to win me to her embrace, if Gt that hour l can't have a cup of hot coii. ont ot that big boiler ID the kitchen, it's @ mighty rough deal.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
IAnseh EraniS.

There is a great deal of trouble in store for purchasers of some tracts of land in Sonora by reason ot their iguor- 6nce of the law regarding certain grants of land, and the neglect of grantees to comply with the conditions imposed. Under the law for the disposal Of public lands in Sonora, adopted in 1863, any person can get grant of 2JOO hectares of land Ia hectare IS equal to ; 41l acres upon the condition that thirty or more men be employed or settled thereon for at least ten years after the grant is made; the grantee has one year follow ing the date of title, tO comply with this condition. Many valuable tracts V gre taken up under this law and Tn some in- stances the lands have passed into second and third hauds without con frmation of the titie upon proof of compliance with the conditions, Im- posed by the law.
 The Governor of Sonora has appor7t- ed an official, Nith an office Tn Mazda lens, to inspect the condition of these grants, and he has issued R proclBma- tion declaring some fifteen hundred Oi them lapsed tO the state and reopen for settlement The improvements made thereon, as well as the land, becomes the property of the state. Originally the purchasers were aware of the re- quirements of the law, but through sub sequent neglect they were not fulfilled, and the law itself remained almost B dead letter. The value of Sonora lands becoming enhanced through the influx ,f ap.arfeaua auI fta natural frrnWtb pf the country, it has led to a careful eX- animation of titles, with the serious re- suit above stated. Some residents of Tucson, who have held stock ranches by purchase are found among the delIn- guents and will suffer the loss Of their valuable lands and improvements.
 The law itself is imperative and the contract between the grantee and the government expresses m explicit terms the penalties for noncompliance with the requirements of tbe law, and no ex- cuse of ignorance is a tensble ground Of defence Even innocent purchasers have acquired no title because Of the laches of the original grantee, and 1t Is very doubtful If they can get any re- dress at all for their losses.
 Parties who hold lands under titles Fl this character granted since 1863. $ best stIr themselves in projecting thA claims, If not too late or arrange throT others to regain their lands and provements. Those who have receI purchased, and those int, nding tO S chase should move with extreme caut snd be sure that all legal conditions clear titles from the government down. is shown.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
The Expense.

In speaking of the expenses incurred Tn placing militia in the field to protect the people from the hostile Indians, the Santa Fe New Mexican says:
 As to who is going to foot all this ex- pense, the governor says he will de- pend upon congress to act by New Mex ico as 1t did iD s similar instance with the states of Minnesota, Iowa and Kan sas' Of course he counts upon the ter ritorial legislature assuming the debt, and says congress will not likely take il up until after we are admitted as a state, but the law clearly makes con gress responsible for all damage done by the Indians, the legally recognized wards of the government, and the con clusion is reached that the national government will eventually not only reimburse the territory but will also pay all damages sustained by settlers by reason ot the Indian outbreaA.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Nogales Notes.
Ogales Fr0nuer.I


 All kinds of business in NOgsles IS commencing Co boom.
 Trains going ucT;h are crowded, while those southward bound, caFTy oply two or three passengers.
 The fe,ta at Magdelens was sue cess. as it is estimated there were pre- sent 10,OO0,People.
 Three carloads of ore from Sonora mines, passed through Nogales during tlfe week enrOute to u PasO and Denver.
 Frank Ruushaw, connected with the railroad at this point has been acung as station agent at Alagdalena, to take the place of Briggs whO lately commit ted suicide.
 Last Friday week about II o'clock m the morning, David II. Briggs, station agent ai Msgdalena. committed suleled ID hIs room by shooting himself directly through the heart. Shortly after the deed was com mitted be vHs found sit- ting on 6 chair near a table stone dead. In his pocket was found a letter, dated the 1lth of April last, addressed to his mother in Vermont and on its cover an instruction or request to the telegraph operator 10 notify his mother .snd also a sister Tn Chicago of the event by wire. The deceased was E young man about 3i years of age, aud stood we'll with the railroad cOmYaIy m whose employ he had been for several years, having pre- yiously been stationed as HermOsll- 0, where he had passed through siege or yellow fever only to meet the death or a suicide. 1t Is thought that gambling led to the rash act.
 The latter part of last month a body was found between MagdRlena and Ymuris by custom house officer, which, owing to its advanced stage Ot decomposition was recognized only by a ring, boots and other articles ss that of GmO Uribe, at one time a shoemaker ID Tucson, but lately engaged in the same business lat Magdalena. Seven shots and stab in the back had caused his death and after receiving which his skull had appar- ently been crushed m with rocks We have heard several stories regarding the affair, but nos knowing the true yer sion ot the murder refrain from giving any account or acting as judge in the matter, but let II suffice for the present to say that the deceased was a lover of l the daughter of Ramon JacOme, a pro. minent Mexican of Msgdslens, and that he together with one EpOmusenO To. ledO are now m prison accused of the crime, and that none are allowed tG communicate with them. Let justice be done and may she throw light upon thi- mysterious murder and punish the per. petratOrs, no matter whom they may be-
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Our Commissioner

Time does not hang heavily on the hands of the Hon. Pat. Hamilton, con- missioner of immigration, whose office IS m Phenix. Ills correspondence is immense, and with answering letters from all parts of the world, and mailing printed matter containing information as to the Territory. he IS fully occupied. Applications for stock ranges are nu- merOus, and come tO the commissioner with regularity. and doubtless ;te re- suit will be that many desirable ranges will ind occupants within the next few months Inquiries for farming lands are also frequent, and parties in Indiana are in communication with the commis- sioner with the view of establishing a colony, and the Pueblo Nieio valley in this county seems to be the locality most ID favor with proposed eOlonists. Many curious inquiries are received at the office of the commissioner, and as he Is facetious aud appreciates the ridiculous, is amused at some questions asked For instance, correspondent from Kentucky wishes Co know what 1t will cost to come to Tucson by steam. boat t"-ClIfton Clarion
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17

Alfred E. Moore, ol Winsted, Con- necticut, made a forty. six-mlle journey iu thirty-five minutes ID a balloon few days ago. The trip was made at an aver age of 6.00O feet above the earth, and from this altitude te could see:the cities of Hartford, N v London, New York. New Haven and Bridgeport, like mere dots, through the glass. In speaking of hIs experience he said: Balloons, m descending, frighten the crows and poultry terribly. Gong over farm houses I never heard such racket in my lie. When you are far mp aud above the clouds the awful silence IS terrible. You can hear the watch tick m your pocket, and the snapping of a straw hat will make you start. I don't wear a straw hat for that reason. The rush ing of blood through your whole body Is sn experience you wouldn't care 10 have lost. There Is no sensation or moving along when perhaps you are going at the rate of mile minute and everything is as still as death
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
DENING.
The Crimes are not all Con mitt ed by In- dIsns-The Growing Stock Interests-A
 New Industry.

The Crimes are not all Cor-mitt ed by In
 dIsns-Ehe Growing Stock Interests-A
 New Industry.
 ED CITIZEN: Many reports have been published regarding the Indian troubles in this section; one in particular, print ed by an Fl Paso paper, stating that l6 people had been killed near Deming, was simply absurd. While We have been annoyed ard stock men put to some expense and trouble moving their herds out of a possible tralI of the h. dians, We have not been in the least alarmed nor have we suffered by their depredstIons only in the matter of driv- ing timid capital away and postponing investments m New Mexico stock ranches and mining schemes. Several killings which at the time were laid to the Indians have been traced almost di- rectly to other parties, who had taken advantage of the Indian trouble to ad- just their own difficulties or run of stock. IL has been asserted and IS no doubt true that a band of Mexicsns have all summer been stealing stock on the line and in Mexico, disguised as Indians and have made profitable seasons clean up.
 This fall will witness very large lm- portation of Texas cattle in this and Arizona territory, One stock man with whom I talked recently, and who had been in Texas buying cattle, estimated the number toibe moved at from ninety to one hundred and fifteen thousand head. In this section the stock business has lOomed up wonderfully within the past year. Ranges that went begging | for buyer are now sought after and | liberal prices are paid.
 Our new industry-meat canning is being developed on 8 large scale The cans are put up in nice and attract. ! i've style and the article IS claimed to be equal to any Tn the market. At the Al buquerque fair it took the medal and blue ribbon. O.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17

A report comes, well authenticated, that band of twelve Apaches passed to the nOrthward along the Santa Rita foot hills this slde of those mountains, about a week ago. There were seen by parties who are familiar with the appearance of the ApRches and who maintain that they are not mistaken in the identity of the band. They travelled by night, and avoided even struggling individuals. ap- parently seeking to get to the San Pedro very quietly and unobserved, probably for supply of smmu- nition. The fact that the old ra cal Els kim-in-zin was in town about ten days ago gives the appearance of a precon- certed plan for them tO obtain ammu- nItion through him. There IS scarcely a doubt but the reformed old murderer keeps an arsenal for the hOstiles and receives Tn exchange for his supplies a very generous quantity of the plunder the hOstiles have taken from their vic tins. The movements of the Indians about the San Pedro will bear very close watching.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Sheriff $ Sale
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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Tho Pedestal.

Welearn from the American Committee of the Statue of Liberty that the Granite Pedestal IS nearly completed, and me work Of erecting BartkOldi's great statue will soon commence, and for this purpose a considerable amount of money IS still reouired. The New York World Fund of SIOO.OOO completes the Pedestal, but 1t is estimated that S40.OOO Is yet needed to pay for the iron fsstenings and the erection of the Statue, and for this they rely upon the subscriptions for the min isture Statuettes, which are being re- ceived from all sections of the country, the Committee promptly filling all orders.
 The No. 1, or one Dollar Siatuettes, has found place in thOusan6s ot homes; the No. ?, or Five Dollar size is fast gam ing ID popularity, and justly too, for It is a work Of art and well worth the mon ey.
 To supply demand for something still finer, the COmmittse have just com pleted Q No. 3 Ststuette, finely chased by hand, and by patent process heav- ily plated with silver which will not tar nish or discOlor, mounted upon besu- tiful plush base. and furnished to sub scribers at Ten Dollars each.
 These souvenirs are now being dellv- cred to all parts of the United States on receipt of subscription price.
 All remlttances should te addressed to Richard Butler, Secretary; S3 Mercer Street, New York.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
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4 number of petriied human eyes col iecled in Peru were taken to New York some time ago by MT. William F. Curtis, Secretary Of the South American Com mission at Washington, and were taken to Tiffany IS Co.'S tO be polished and made into a necklace. The complete eyeball, which IS soft as an onion ard re- sembles iridescent glass, wss cut into four or five layers, which were subjected to a powerful friction tO obtain the de- sired finish. On the first few days all went well and the samples Of the work were declared quite satisfactory. Some days later, however, one of the men com plained of bitter metallic taste Tn hls mouth, accompanied by a burning lever. Ills illness was SO severe mat he was con- fined tO his house for week. Both the other men were also attacked with the same symtOms, although the disease was much less severe. The work was immediately stopped. The disease was thought 70 be caused by the acids and poisous used in emba!ming the bodies Of the Incbs, from whom the curious col lection Is supposed 10 have come.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
Reservoirs for Water Storage.

Some very good news comes from New Mexico that is to demonstrate q practical solution of the water question for the use of cattle and irrigation pur- poses. The Santa Fe New Mexican says: that "Col. Holt, of Denver. of the Holt Cattle Company. Capt. Lee, of Missouri, head Of the mammoth Lee Cattle Company, and two or three other extensive stock raIsers in Lincoln cOun- ty, have constructed immense reservoirs by damming up ravines and thus hold ing the water ID a body while the cattle are allowed to puddle" 1t and render the bottom water proof, and the pre- dictiOn is made that every ranch m that sectlon will in the future be supplied with one or more of these water holes. so easily constructed and so sure of success fl only the rancherOs have patience to await the coming of the rainy seasons and are prepared for them when they do come.
 Another admirable euterprIse IS that of the Fl Cspitan Cattle Company. at the head Of which is NIT. H. K. Thur Der, of New York. They are prepar- ing to run a system of pipes from Capi- tan mountain out iEto the plain some twenty miles or more, there storing the water from the mouu tain in large reser- voirs. For pipes they will use tfe great pine logs so plentiful on the mountain. A machine has been ordered which resembles n great sugur. It trims off the outside of a log twenty feet m length and puts through the cen ter of if "A great Rugur hole. at the same time cutting joint so that the log comes from the machine perfect pipe and ready for use The same general plan of water storage is equally applica- ole to many portions of Arizona, and the cooperation of few cattle men or cap italIsts can transform many excellent grazing valleys now devoid of water, in- to pastures for great herds of cattle.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17

If some enterprising individual or company would pUrcLase some ot tue Idle smelters in Gila county and move them down to the GIl1 river opposite Mineral Hill. Le or they could make a good profit on tue reduction of ores from Mineral Hill district. There are thousands of tons of fine smelling ore now in sight Tn that camp, to say noth- Ing of the dry ores which c0uld be work ed in with the smelling rock. Reduct- ion works honestly managed would ex- perience no difficulty m obtaining all the ore they could reduce. MT. c. w.. Sharp of this place. is making an effort to iuagurate such au enterprise, and We hope be will take hold Oi the matter in earnest. We know Of DO undertaking that could be earned thrruEh more sue cessfully and with mare certainty of yielding handsome profit on the invest mem This fact can be demonstrated by figures, if any one will take ;he pains to investigate it.-Floreuce Enterprise.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
TUosox, 4. T., Oct. 8. 1885.

TUCSOS, \. T., Oct. o. lSoJ.
 The Board met at 10 o'clock a. 10. Oct s, 1885, pursuant to adjournment.
 Present-J. $. Mansfield, Chairman; J. c. Handy, Member; Geo. W. Teits- worth, Member; ChRs. R. Drake, Dep uty EI-Oficio Clerk.
 The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.
 Judge John Haynes appeared and stated that the firm of Haynes < Stiles would act as special attorney for the Board in the case of mRndsmus for 8 warrant on the general fund for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars. On motion the firm was so employed at the above sum.
 Petition of citizens of Logan City to have c. IL BeckWi;h appointed a consts- ble ct that precinct. On motion all mem bers vo.in, aye c. H. Beckwith WAS duly appointed constable of QuiIotos pre- cinct, and the clerk was ordered to notify him to file good and sufficient bond in Sl.OOO.
 Petition of citizens of Crittenden ask to have c. c. Watkins appointed 8 constable. On motion all members vot- ing aye, he was so appointed snd the clerk ordered to notify MT. C. C. Wat kins to file bis bond iD the sum Sl,0O0, Es required by law.
 Report of J. McC. Elliot, rosd over seer. for past quarter of work done on roads, was read and ordered on file.
 On motion the clerk was instructed to ascertain from the account rendered what IS the cost per diem of keeping of the team used by the road overseer.
 Report of Morgan S Sorrington in re- gard to repairs on Mountain Spring
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-10-17
TUcsoS, Oct. 10th, 1885.

TUcsoN, Oct. 10th, 1885. The Board met pursuant to adjourn ment at 10 a. ID. this day.
 Present-J. 5. Mansfield, Chairman; J. c. Handy, Member; Geo. w. TeIts- worth, Member; ChRs. R. Drake, Deputy Ex-Officio Clerk.
 The reading of the minutes of form CT meeting were dispensed with.
 It appearing thst the bill of J. $. Mansfield, for stationery, was illegally audited from the fact that the Probate Judge was not summoned to act there in. On motion warrant No. 2S for S75 4j in favor of J $. Mansfield IS here by cancelled. Chairman J. 5. Mans'eld then retired from the Board and Judge J. $. Wood was summoned to oiiclate m auditing said account. The demand of J. 5. Mansfield for S7i45 for station cry for county officers for third quarter was then audited On contingent fund fer S74 45 by warrant No. 3l.
 The minutes of previous meeting were read and approved.
 In the matter of repairs in the county jail, after mature consideration Of rhe matter by the board, on motion 1t was agreed to defer action until the next regular meeting ,n January and ascer- tain the fiDancIsl status of the county, before any change be made, and ID the meantime the clerk was instructed to communicate with Pauly Bros, and as certain what wonld be the lowest price for winch the repairs could be made. On notion the Board adjourned tn meet at 10 o'clock a. m, Oct. 18th, 1885.
 J. $. MANSFIELD,
 Chairman.
 ATTEST:
 W. B. HORTON, Ex-Ofiicio Clerk. Per Chas. R. Drake, Deputy.