Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-29
Here and There.

The Yuma Republican, which was
 owned by a ioint-stock company ano edited and published by J. 5. Bancroft, has changed hands having been pur-
 chased by George A. McCsrter, formerly of the Apache Chief, St. Johns. Apache county. Mr. MeCsrter will take charge of the Republican next week and con- duet it us Republican paper. We welcome INT. McCarier tO the news paper fraternity of Yuma, and hope that that our relations may always be pleas
 ant, and that there will never be a cause for coffee and pistols before breakfast. sentinel.
 Judge J. D. heymert returned to Pinal yesterday. his presence being Rb- solutely necessary there to superintend his mining operations. Judge Key inert says the offer of the bonanza com
 pany of Sl5O, ,OO0 in cash for his African property was an offer of only ten cents on the dollar Of what IS already m
 sight. He does not want to sell at all; the business of mining suits him, and he
 knows the value of the property and Is ID condition to work it hmself-a
 most desirable condition of indepeDd- ence, surely.
 T of Agua Caliente rancho sends 1t the following item of news, dated August II. 1885: Mail from Centennial was de- Isyed twelve hours today. Horse of the msil carrier died thirty miles from here from being over-he4ted. Mir. Or tega, mail rider, was found fifteen miles from here under PalOyerde. dying. Mir. Neahr sent rider to brIng the mail bag The bag was found four miles off from the road; it was dragged by the coyotes"
 Some of the tenderfoot residents have expressed their surprise at the light fall of rain this season in Tucson. Any weather clerk who would be SO prUfli- gate as to waste good wet water upon a community SO utterly oblivious to its commonest purposes of use, would be regarded as an offensive partisan, totally lacking in discriminatiDgab.lit and not qualified to reign any longer.
 Hon. NJ. w. Stewart, of Wilcox, Tn a letter to Hon. $ muel Purdy of Yuma, comme nding his Oration at the Grant memorial services held in Yuma, makes use of the following expression: "I can honestly gay that 1t is the finest of Its kind that has vet come under my obser- vation. Asa citizen of Arizona, feel proud that she sent forth such a trib- ute 10 the grand old man."-Sentinel.
 Poppy Johnson, one of the most reli- able among practical mining men, is in this cIty from his home at Quiiotoa. One of these days, when mining matters boom around Mount Ben Nevis, Poppy will adjust his financial drapery about him and shed a perpetual halo of hos pitsble greetings upon all his thousands of sincere friends.
 A woman aad child decendsnts Ca very long distance) of Montezuma, were arrested ln he attractive precincts of Bar rio Libre yesterday, charged with selling hquor to Indians. There was suffici- sold to knock out the jim jams n two rounds.
 The Arctic Ice Company, under Major 1 T.. Fechei's able management, has be- | come a very necessary institution to the | people of Tucson. The quality of the l ice Is superior to the best efforts of na- | ture and the people appreciate the sd- vantagss given them by this home en- terprise.
 The still email Voice Of Arizona, comes up promptly from Casa Grande | like tue sgce; tones of an R0lIan harp. | It IS growing stronger and louder, and | one Ol these bright days its vibrations vii. rouse up the people of the entire | Territory.
 The Star boasts of it's fresh telegrspio news and in tho same issue-that of | Sunday mOrning-it dates B New Or leans dispatch oD August 22d, that ap- peared m the CITIZEN on August 18th. The reliability Cf the Stars news is to brag about, sure.
 The humor in the post office bloods broke out on its bulletin board this It stated the time a San Francisco mail was expected on account of the Yuma washout, and added: Yuma get out of Yuma, but We can't help it."
 Frank Dillon, n teamster was pros rated by the heat in Phenix on Tues lay afternoon. Up to 9 o'clock Wednes- lay morning he had not acquired con- ieiOusness.
 The Fronterizo says Father Bloise of Florence is meeting with success in 'aising money for building a church at Globe and Catholic school.
 It is rumored that the Star has been made into stock company, and divid- ,d among the employees and others- trictly on the CO operative plar.
 The Florence Enterprise says that Iere Fryer, of Casa Grande, is just re- covering from the effects of kick from ! horse.
 Father Gallagher, a Catholic priest, ormerly stationed at Tombstone. is re- ported to have recently died in New dexico.
 The mail from Fairbank to Charles on, Cochise county, has been increased O SIX times a week.