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Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
The BootbIaek's Revenge.


 He sat with his back to carpenter shop in the alley, bootblack's kit beside him. knees drawn up. and as the snow squalls came booming along he had to suspend his reading for the moment and shiver
 He was a lad of l3. and he was reading novel entitled ~Bertha's Secret Some of the words he had to stop and spell out. and others he skipped entirely. but he was deeply interested and even begrudged the time 1t took 10 raise his hand to his red nose and wipe away the tear there oft sus- pended.
 X fou. tn story window in the block on the other side was cautiously raised, and head showed itself over the sill It dodged back to reappear in a moment. followed by an arm and basin of water. All of sudden the boy awoke to real izing sense that every drop of that water had hit him somewhere. He sprang up, rushed this way and that for a moment. and then understanding that he had been made the victim of joke he raised his clenched hand to the open window and exclaimed:
 Beware of my revengel you have a daughter. 1 will win her love. The mar riage eve shall be set and you shall have issued invitations, engaged the preacher and ordered big spread. The bride will be ready and the guests will wait, but ahl they shall wait in vain. I'll skip the gut teri I won't show up. I'll give you the cold shake, and don't you gulp to gurgle that won't"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
MORE TERRITORY.

A New York correspondent of tbe "alVeston News says that an attempt Wiu be made under the next admipistra- 'lon 10 purchase from Mexico all of it's present territory lying north of tbe '"enty-second parallel of latitude. This would embrace the present Mexican fer. ritory or Lower California and tbs states of Chikuahua, CoaLuila. Dp- rango, Sonora, Siaaloa, Zacatecas. New Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas ssv nine etates m ali. Mexico has nov in all tweniy-six states; i; she sells nina she Will still have sixteen left. This purchase would give the United States the entire gulf of California, includinu the Important DOTS oi Quay mas, Mag atian, San Bias and La Paz.
 The above nine states are in territo- rial extent about 75 per cent of the amount acquired by the United States Tn ISIS under Polk. It Is believed that sad mne states cau be acquired by pur- chase at a much less sum in money than was paid for the cession of terrItory in IS4S.
 In ls4S President Polk made the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, by which the United States acquired all the ter rtory iyIng north of tine south line of New Mexico. In consideration of this grant the United States withdrew its victorious armies from the city of Mexico, and paid to Mexico the sum of Sl5,OOO,OOO, and in addition to this pay ment of money the United States ss- snmed all claims If its citizens due from Mexico to citizens Of the United States, and subsequently, paid to Texas SlO,OO0OOO additional for relirquish- ment of her claims to that part of the territory granted by Mexico to lying east of the Rio Grande. By this pur- chase the United States acquired New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, Nevada and a part of Utah, 523,0OO square miles in all.
 In 1858 President Pierce again at- tempted to rectify our boundaries with Mexico, and with this end in view pur- chased from Mexico all its territory lying north of line from the Rio Grande to a point twenty miles below the mouth Of the river Gila, on the Colorado river, more than 1OO miles north of the head of the gulf of Cali fornia, and pad Mexico therefor the sum of Sl0,O000O0, and agreed on the part of the United States that We would never go to war with Mexico, but would leave all matters of difference that might arise to arbitration. This is known as the Gadsden purchase, and embraces about 31,5O0 square miles. This purchase was made to New Mexico, Arizona and California.
 In 1SJS or 1859 President Buchanan made an attempt to purchase Lower California. It came to nothing, because of the late trouble with our associates which resulted in open war in 1860. It is understood that Mexico had agreed to sell and the United States to buy at that time.
 The twenty-sixth parallel is subsian- tially the line advocated by our military authorities, Gems. Scott and Taylor. but they were overruled b. MT. Twist and the Justice Clifford, who were the authorized agents oi President Polk.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
MeekII Mining Report.

QUIJOToA, Dec. 2S. 1881. Aug. Waterman, Esq, Secretary Peer less Mining Company. San Francisco, California:
 Machinery IS now all ia place and running. The buildings are completed The drills have been put in place m the the yarious tunnels and are working very successfully, better progress will be made in the future.
 South drift, Tn Peerless tunnel No. l, is in 9S feet and will have to be run IU feet further before We reach the point when we shall start an upraise to con- meet with wInze.
 Crocker north drift, is in liS feet. The face is in good ore averaging from f39 to S200.
 Sinking of the we'll in the valley for water will be commenced immedia. ely, Alter having run the power drills for a week We will be able to make a more satisfactory report.
 Yours truly,
 W. II SMITH, Supt.
 Per STEVENS.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
It must be that the old year is weep ing over the Democratic victory.

It must be that the old year is weep ing over the Democratic victory.
 What lucky man Joe Sresovieh Is. He telegraphed for a carload of potatoes, onions and cabbage at the beginning of the present storm, fearing that might be somewhat protracted, and he received them to-day, just in the nick of time, for the heavy storms in California .wlll certainly prevent any further shipments for the next ten days. By that time there will not be potato, onion or cabbage iu the city, outside of the stock of NIT. Sresovich. Luck discounts everything else.
 The present rain has developed the unpleasant fact that mud roofs and strict christian discipline are totally in- ! compatible. One small stream of dirty water upon the bed of an unconscious l sleeper l. productive of more solid and | emphatic profanity upon his awakening | than all the doctors of divinity can cure | in lifetime. It IS safe to say that fully two-thirds of the mud roofs in the city | carried of about as much water ai
 sieves would, while the walls of many
 adobe houses have been weakened anC
 rendered unsafe by the water. A grea
 deal of damage has resulted ID the az gregste, although individual losses hay,
 been light. If water proves SO very de
 structive there is but little hope of Tue
 son ever becoming an ardent supporte of the cause of St. John.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

HE Tucson papers every day build a railroad to Calabasas, but the people do not wake up Ill time to get glimpse of the construction.-Epitaph.
 The Epitaph must remember that Tucson Is now about three hundred years of age and she is liable to be blind even to her own infrmities. She Is too old to think of coquettIng at all with dasbing young Commerce, who has sometimes shown a sort of tenderness for her, and he now approaches on her blind side and glues her toothless jaws together with a little taffy while he gives whole aprons full of peanuts to her flashing granddsughters. But the old lady is pious and respectable, and when cured of her chronic dyspepsia she is liable to exhibit a surprising degree of activity.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
THE DANGER TO SILVER

The Denver Tribune thinks the req danger to the silver interests may be m derstoOd when it is known tha: thc members of the United States Senate are about equally divided On the ques. ton of whether or not the coinage should be continued, and that the House IS so close that it is impossible to say how the majority of its members would vote on blll providing for the suspen. slon of the coinage of silver dollars Senator Hill, who returned to Denver from Washington last week, brings this intelligence. The situation is SD chaotic that he cannot hazard prediction of the outcome. He says that the Eastern money power and the Eastern press are SD bitterly opposed to silver tha. they are seeking in every way to keep the true facts from the public; that their operations are secret, ani that it is impossible to tell what they will do until the question is put to the test Of a vote.
 We are Glad;that the State of Colo. rado IS to soon sound the alarm b. hold ing silver convention. We have no doubt that every Western State and Territory will join heartily iu the effort to resist the selfish attempts of the bond holding classes to demonetize silver. It IS quite natural that the masses of the East, while they favor silver. should be apsthC;ic. The misfortune which sus- pension of the coinage would bring is not so apparent to them, because they view 1t ID the abstract. To the people of the West who have interests at stake the disaster winch would follow the re- peal Of the act of 1878 is doubly appar- ent. They realize that 1t would not only depress the trade of the country at large, but strike direct blow at their home prosperity. By sgsressively nov ing for its rights the West can protect itself, ald at the same time save the en- tire nation from the business depression which would surely come with con- traction Of the currency. The silver men must work with all the power that Is in them.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
MR. MANzANARRs, the New Mexican

MR' MAszASARRs, the New Mexican ueiegate m congress introduced a bill in that body last week to provide for taxing testimony upon and settling the 'ltie to the private land claims in the State of Colorado, and she territories or New Mexico and Arizona. The bill was read first and second time and referred to the committee on private iahd claims. It provides for a commis. sion to consist of three persons, one of whom shall be conversant with the spanish and English languages. They are to be appointed by the president. are to hold their office for term of Tour years, and to be provided with a competent attorney to attend their ses- sions. They are also to have a secretary vao Is to be versed in the English and spanish language. The commission are to hold their sessions at such time and place as the president shall di. rect for the purpose of receiving and acting upon claims, notice of which meetings are to be published in the land district where the meeting is to be held, Tn both English and Spanish, and also by posters printed in both languages. The commission are to have judicial powers, and after passing upon the validity of claim, are to certify it to the clerk of the United States dis trict court Provision is made for re- moving any case, after decision by the commission, to the United States district court for review by either the United States or the adverse party. From the district court it may go to the Supreme Court Of the United States. If no appeal it take n from the decision of the commission within sixty days its action becomes final.
 Failure to file claim within three years from the passage of the act is con strued as waiver of all right and the lands thereby affected become part of the public domain. For all lands con firmed by the commission or the courts. upon review, a patent will issue to the claimant A very important and quite just provision of the proposed law, and cue that will be of vital interest to very many, Is the fact that continuous pos session and occupancy the claimant or his ancestors or grantors for period of fifty years, next preceding the approval of the act, if not within the limits of any valid grant, will upon proof of such fact entitle the claimant to patent for his pOssessory rights not exceeding eighty acres.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
Not Encouraging 10 Sorghum.
rChicagO JOurnaLl

I-IlIIli-1V VI7III II-II.I
 The report of the chemist of the national department of agriculture in ref erence to the sugar industry of the United States says:
 The total sale of sorghum for the year will not exceed 1. 500. 000 pounds, and the manufacturers will barely make expenses Owing to the low price of sugar and molasses. there is no immediate prospect of sorghum sugar becoming an important factor in the markets of the country. The outlook for beet sugar is more hopeful; the efforts to develop cane sugar in Louis iana are hamPered by the crisis in the sugar market, and that industry in the United States will languish unless new methods of manufacture are introduced.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

IKE evidence in the Paul-Shaw con- test, particularly the recount of the ballots, is somewhat bewildering to those who kept the tally lists and were certain no mistakes had been made Contests always bring to light some oi the worst features of our present cleo ton system, and their frequent recur' renee would suggest that further sale guards be thrown about the ballot and its results. It now looks as though the system is farce; it IS certainly very loose and imperfect one.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

TIE rains during the present month have no precedent in Arizona. In place of the usual dry and healthtul at- mosphere, we have been flooded with the waters of many rains, until people have grown weary of such bountIful blessings. The dampness has produced considerable sickness of a light char acter. such as colds and ephemeral levers. and in many other ways has the unexpected deluge proven unpleasant The stockmen and farmers rejoice, how ever. for it means millions in thelr coffsre
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

IT'S growing to be such a usual Oc- currence that the people of Tucson now begin to look regularly for mail by the western train that should have arrived by the eastern, and vice versa. There is and has been for long time, some thing radically wrong in the postal car service over the Southern Pacific rail road, and it causes great annoyance to the people. At one time this was at tributed to the postal clerks being over worked, but it seems that where stations are so far apart and the mail matter of such slight volume, an approximate &C., curacy in the distribution might be at- tained.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
Names Not Much Duplicated.
Isan Francisco Argonaut ]

When the New York legislature. fifty years ago. laid out the 200 townships through the middle of New York state, they made it the duty of the attorney gen. srai 10 name them He got down an old atlas and a copy of Rollins Ancient His tory, and sat up all one night tO do the job. He named them Troy. Homer, Ulysses, Hector. Virgil. Seneca, Livy, Cicero. Syracuse, Rome. Greece, Athens. Utica. Sweden. Pompey. Hannibal, France. London, Italy. Spain. Vienna, Russia, Denmark, and everything he could think of. besides immortalizfng his sisters and his cousins and hisauntS The names have not been much duplicated through
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

PEOPLE who have been ioundering 10 the slough of proverty and despair will take courage at the sage prophecy Of Jay Gould, that "the year 1885 will be a money-making year." Before cutting the speculative cloth to this measur, , however. it is well to remember that "all that elitters is not Gould"
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
A Reporters Ability.
TBroOklyn Eagle

It is upon the ability to throw good circle of questions around the work of any department, SO that if the person being questioned answers truthfully no item can e,cape, that the success of q reporter very largely depends
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

THE Arctic Ice Company has an abundance of power beyond the necessi- ties of the works. They have also the requisite room and conditions necessary for the erection of good reduction works. Mir. J. NJ. Wilkins intends, If he does not arrange with parties possessing sufficient capital to do it this season, to erect ten-stamp mill n.xt winter, to- gether with a roaster and the paraphe7- nalia ot good reduction works. It will not require more than ten thousand dol lars to put such a mill in shape, and t would prove most profitable invest ment and retain in this city many thou sands of dollars that are now sent abroad.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
Nook. for NoxeIi.t..

All over the United States, if a man but search diligently and intelligently, are lit- tie hooks and corners where humanity has a color of it's own, and has not yet got itself flattened into the usual gray of the nineteenth century
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03
Awful Lonesome.
Ip.troit Fire Prs l

The Chinese got along very well for ,. OOO years without the use of metals, but it was awful lonesome for an old man darin to hold down a dry goods box with out the company of jack-knife and shingle.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

NEXT Sunday is the day fixed by the Second AdventIsts for uncorking eter- nIty. A stay of proceedings has been asked until the Bsrtholdi statue Pedes- tsl is erected.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

TIE rain Is having very dampeniag effect on the ardor cf thJse who were preparing to relocate mining claims. It now looks as though very few will be able to reach the hills in time to re- locate at midnight on the first of January.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

TIE newspapers are responsible Tor making Grant Oury delegate to Con- gress, and now that the newspapers have dropped him he seems to be of DO conseouence whatever.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-03

Tag resent storm clouds in Arizona f-rs .i..-ally silver lining. They bring tta.a land and coin to the cofTers.
The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-26
County ( Os!rf.

lloN. WTH-TrE sT"EEr,...-. County Judge A. c. WALIACE............ Clerk
 MONDAY, Oct 2G, 1885.
 Minutes oi last session read and ap- proved.
 Territory of Arizona V. W. l.. Gas ton. The trial oi this case was rc- srmcd and C. Y. Thomas was recalled and testified for the prosecution. The Territory then rested WhcreUpon counsel for the defense moved the Court to direct an acGuittal oi the de icndant for want of sufficient evidence. The Court denied the motion and counsel for the defense excepted No testimony being offered by the dcicnd- ant the case Was then argued before the jury.
The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-26
Q. l.. HA>IiFOED.
,Ssc3slin:. Oyer ti,c Border.

N. ]. Jordan, who recently made the trip from Tombstone. \. T., to San Diego, Gal. and who is now n this city, states that the Chinese are pour img into Arizona and Lower California in squad, of from ten to thirty. com ing over the Mexican border on foot and in wagons daily The Chinese are supposed to have been landed at some port in Mexico, and are shipped over the border in violation of the rc-tric- tion act. tS tine border towns are ,crcn,y-iivc miles aui in many places stiI! further apart, the invading ra@,,ms are unrr,traincd. ii being next to i'm possible to maintain guard; in fact
 attempt M> h-.u M",. ,H Io -u. There i- much complaint on the part ui white !ajor,r> tli"t they are being ,upllantcd l'y thc Chinese, who work at d reduced rate of wages. While the California southern RaiIroad was in course of construction from Water man to san Diego, the Chinese were employed in it's building, but now that line .is approaching completion, they have invaded ether branches of labor, and may be seen loading and unload- ing ships at San Diego dock, which has hcrctcicr, been done exclusively by white men. Many oi the white ! laborcr- who went to Arizona and the southern part oi California in search oi employment found the place, filled by Chincso, and the disappointed Cau- ca.iaI are now slowly vending their way Cn foot back to San Franci-co.- @ F. Gall.
The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-26
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EpTroG DAILY ToNBsToSE :-In re- ply to tine card of one ]. Nj. Cuia;u.uc. had nothing whatever to do with the article headed "Howling Hostiles" in the Recorl-Epitaph of the 2lth inst. but the following items regarding In- dians l glcaned on my last visit to sonora.
 John Hlndley, William Noonan and myself started from Tombstone on the 18th inst At Chinapa. close 10 tine edge of town, We hcard that two Ncl- jeans were shot by band of thirty eight Apachcs. and that one of Jim Hicks men (Thomlsnn) had been run into his camp hy Indians. We went down hclow Arizpc, and on our return at Bacuachi we met Bony Ryan. who told Us aS inc came down, the Apachcs were killing a lot ci stock at the head oi the San Pedro; he was close enough to hear them talk and went around by Oj" q" Agun to give them wide birth during the night. This side oi Banuachi We met General Aur,lio koSkcvli',hy, who informed u, that hc Was on his way from Magdalcna to Balispc. with a large escort to have d conference with General Crook with regard to Indian troubles, with whom he haI been in communication from Arizona, that Crook had told him that thc only good the Mexican troop, had done, mad been to scatter the Indians that hi, policy was to let them go into winter quarters and make a clean sweep of them. Tn" General said hc would never agree to lgt Crook bring back any prisoners from sonora. not with-tmding any number of confer ourc~.
 The above will amply answer tlii. man Cumming, and il my credit and standing were no Letter than lis, would mu. hesitate to leave town with in two days. His character for islander and ial>,hood are too well known n i this town to require any comment ol further notice from me. am, Yours truly,
The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-26
Ib-. S. 9. Bridge Fire.

Last Saturday morning about three o'clock the citizens of Yuma were awakened hy the alarm of fire, to find the southern Pacific Railroad bridge in flames, amp in spit" ol the efforts of the local employees, who did all in their power with the means available, the entire bridge, excepting the draw. was burned to the water. The draw, ho- tel, and other building, were saved by lhc prompt action of tn" fire engine, under th" management ci Mir Lew Martin, foreman oi the round house, who had a stream of water on the bridge twelve minutes after receiving the alarm Thc loss of the briigc is far more serious than is generally sup posed, not particularly the value of the bridge. hlt the delay in time ircight-. lu,s of business, etc, cunSti sutcS tine principal loss, aud will amount to over a million of dollars
 In August, 1881, the first bridge constructed over the river here by the | <. F. Company Was washed ont by the 1 ilood<, and the building of the bridge ] just burned caused much trouble and ] heavy expenditures on account of the high water, and wa~ probably the fin est structure of tnc kind in the United . states.
 Immediately after the fire, all day Saturday. men were busy clearing away the debris aud getting ready for the construction oi temporary bridge, th" steamer Mujavc was fired up and the transfer commenced on sunday morning, on the arrival of 9upt Muicr from Tucson. Mr. Muicr, with his accustomed push and energy, commenced work at once on the Cal iioruil -i.'- I",-l, were llid tp the rivers edge and Iut little delay has occurred tp passengers, mails, perish
 ,Il, ircight@, rtc
 Material for the temporary bridge commenced arriving Saturday night, also experienced bridge men, being sent out by the superintendent of bridge, and buildings, Mir. Arthur Brown, who arrived in person Tues day morning, accompanied by Chief oi Detectives Burke and other of iicils-Iuma Scnsincl
The Daily Tombstone., 1885-10-26
SeGIic : D.

Our readers will remember tEa. about year ago a Mrs. Johnston, who earned livelihood for herself and
 little daughter, by taking in washing, died and her effects wggc sold and rallied o.i and quite sum ot iuoaey ra;,c to send Katie, w'.o ~as bright iit,lc nii,. of alou; r years O. age, to friends i'll California. This money vas entrusted to one W. II. Savage for the.