Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-17
SMALL TALK.

Work on the ArIZona Mutual M. and M. Co.'s mill at Arivaca has been sus- pended, but work on the mine is being pushed vigorously forward.
 The amount of dirt hauled from the lands south of town and used on the roofs of adobe houses within the past two weeks can safely be estimated at thousands of tons.
 Lieut.. Benson, of the Fourth Cavalry stationed at Fort Huachuca, was n the city to-day. It was hIs first visit to Tucson. He is engaged on the court martial now sitting at Fort Lowell.
 The Scotia under the irrepressible From" has since he assumed its manage ment sprung into deserving and sudden
 popularity. In all Tucson there is noth- ing ike it. Call and liquor up.
 The CITIZEN acknowledges with thanks the receipt Of an invitation to the K oi P. ball to be given in Benson the l6th instant and regrets its inability to be present. It wishes, however, that the occasion may be one Of long remem-
 brance for its pleasure.
 Emanuel King, said to be one of the oldest miners and prospectors in the 1errItCry, having been here since the Mexican war, dled m the county hOspi- tai at Tombstone yesterday, of dropsy
 of the heart. He was about 70 years of
 age.
 Mrs. Henry, in view of the high price of water at ihe QuIIOtOa, Is having built large brick cIstern capable of holding sufficient water to serve for domestic purposes from one rainy season to an other. 1t will be cement lined, and Is expected to pay for itself in the course of few months.
 The ore elevator invented by MT Hartt, a Santa Rita miner, is working successfully on one of his mines. When recently III Denver he arranged for the manufacture of his patent, which Is said to be of great practical value and com paratively inexpensive. He IS, it is re- ported, to soon put one on the Ray mine near Riverside.
 The contested election case of Shaw vs Paul, over the Shrievalty of Pima | county, was, on last Saturday, decided | in favor of the latter, thus giving Pima | county a Republican Sheriff and one Of | the ablest and b.avest officers that ever served iu ArizJua.-Mincr.
 The Virginia Enterprise is responsi- | ble for the statement that John w. | Mackay writes from Paris to erect a mill | at the Quii0tOa without delay, as there | is now positive need Of It. Accordingly | the officers of the comDanies will go | about il at once. Mir. Macksy expects to retdrn lu March.
 Joe Phys water carts, for the past six years familiar figures on the streets of | Tucson, are about to be withdrawn, the business having failed to pay. Mir. Phy states that for the past several months he has made no money, but carried on his work at financial loss to himself, ia the hope of better times. but instead Of coming they have been rapidly growing worse. He, therefore, has concluded to abandon the business entirely.
 The amount of money stated in the Citizen of yesterday at having been collected by sheriff Paul for the year 1884, viz: Sllj IT was for property taxes and licences issued for that year and did not include the twenty odd thousand dolais delinquent taxes for the year 1885 which he also collected, turned in and holds receipts therefor.
 Mr. E. D. Sanger, one of the en- ployes of the Southern Pacific Railroad. , has recently been promoted from con- dGc.or on freight to that same honora- , 5le position on an express running be- tween here and Deming. The promo , ton IS quite a compliment to Mir. Sang , CT, who began at the brakes and by gen , tlemanly conduct and practical eff 1, ciency has worked himself to his pres ent place. Chef of Police Buttner wears his official badge with accustomed dignity. | l NO years since he laid 1t snugly away for safe keeping and quietly bided his time when 1t would be again worn to designate his authority. II Is of solld ! gold n the shape of a shield aud was present to him from admirIng friends. He values 1t much because of that fact 2 The Prescott Courier says that it has been decided that R mine upon which q assessment work has not been done Rs specified by law cannot be relocated, or \ lumOed as some people term 1t, on a Is- | gal holiday. January Ist is such day. and as many of the relocations were : then made there is, if such decision be vald, llaole tO be more than one dis f puted clam. i; The Quiggle well in Logan has a depth of over 600 feet and furnishes an q abundance of water for all present de- including the steam drills of the l Bonanza company, but should the camp boom and there be rush of settlers m U hat direction the supply, 1t Is said, will :, De inadequate. In that event, however, U second well, or third If necessary, Elll bs put down as occasion may de- nand.
 A report was somewhat extensively 'irculsted on the streets yesterday to he effect that orders had been issued or the abandonment of the Camp Low III reservation and the removal of the military headquarters to Huachuca. e The rumor, however. on being inyesti- C -ated, was found 10 be without fouDda- f, lon m fact whatever. The rdmor as n tarted by soldier, and when the bail V 'as once in mOtian 1t was industriously = ept going. ar The effort to get the parties indicted '' )r participation in the Huachuca mas 70 acres, and now Tn jail in Tombstone, th ut on writ Of habeas corpus has o' roven abortIve. Commissioner Drum SC eclded that he had no power to grant th le application, for the reason that the ca " says when the proof or presumption 10 murder Is strong against a prisoner as 0 shall not be admitted to bail, and an a idIctment Is considered strong proof or e accordingly remanded the prisoners m the custody of the sheriff. ad
 in There was bad boy" excitement in H' hlnatown this morning. white boy, SO -esumably of about ten or twelve tn sars, deliberately struck a Chinaman az the face with a rock thrown from inl ,ober sling. The blow was an ugly ba ie, and according to the Chinaman's of ory was wilfully given. Young Peck roi ldeavored to escape, but was gathered fai by the angered ChInaman, who restenei to take him to the calaboose. the this part of the programme young ch, Peck, however, objected, and getting for arms around a telegraph pole be as He'd his promises to do SD no more car ost lustily. He WAS, with the loss of as X NHHaTv .raNN Ill MWWu