Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-12-25
LOCAL NEWS.


 base bali weS played between a Sunday School nine snd a public school nine. The good little Sunday School boys got away with the wicked pupils.
 Miss Agnes l.. Paul, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. +. u. Paul, Is spending her Va cation m Los Angeles. Al the closing exsmInatiOn Rt the Notre Dame seminary st San Jose, Miss Paul took the first prize for the advancement mSde.
 MT. l.. 5 Williams has introduced his glant powder unto almost eEery mining camp ID Southern Arizona and New Mexico. ss well as in Sonora. Every where ii meets with favor among the miners and his orders are continually in creSsing.
 Mir. Jno. E. Roberts. of Utice, New York, is in the city and will spend few days here visiting bis brother in-law, Mr. Geo. O. HsDd, whom be has not met for thirty-tVo years. Mir. Roberts is On his way to Cslifornfs,
 All the employees of the Southern Pacific railroad are 10 be uniformed. The color will be navy blue, brass but tons snd the name and occupation of the person engraved on 6 metal plate at ssched to the front of the cap.
 Mir. William Griffith, of the Dripping Springs ranch, v6s here Wednesday on his way home from ATkanssB. He brought with him pack of blooded fox hounds and anticipates some fine sport
 Us soon us the dogs recover from the fa-
 tigue of theR long tourney. He Is still improving his ranch and has now one of ths most beautiful homes m the noun tains of Arizona. If IS surrounded by orchard, vineyard, shrubbeTy and Orna- mental tfees.-kloreDce Enterprise,
 Ia response to the telegram of the citizens meeting on department head quarters, held last night, the secretary of war wired the chairman today that the matter would be held in RbeysUce until athdavits reached him that every zesident of Tucson smokes Sam Drach- msL's cigars.
 Mr. Charles Bsine, who has been pros- peetinR gold mIne near Grass Valley. bEs Hstruck II rich" Report says he has struck decOmpOsed spot in the ledge and Is banning out the di:t. ID some of the pans be finds very large nuggets of gold He found one worth 44O. Charlie will De s blosted bond hold er the first thing anyone BnOEs.-Flor- ence Enterprise.
 We learn that the English expert, whom John W. Cochran. of St. Louis, sent out to examine his Vulture prop srty, now being operatei by Fillmore & OO., hes left for t5e east, well pleased and ready tO report In favor an expendi- ture of slU0.O0J for She fuller develop ment of the mines. We are assured that Mr. Cochran wIll advance this sum | and that old Nulture will boom as never betore.-Phenix Gazette.
 William Reid has been given his cer- tiicste of election of councilman st I large. The law says the Recorder shall | issue certificates of eletIOn to the per sons whom the council, sitting as 6 board | of oanvBsseTs, declares having received | the highest vote. Therefore any order of the council in conflict with the law, IS void, and the recorder had no dis cretion ID the matter.
 On the Blue Lode claim near CerbBt. Mess-s, Raymond and Murphy have four men al work. During the past two or three months tLey have sunk 8 shaft T feet deep and are now running drift on Che 7C-fOOt level which Is Tn some 9 or 80 feet. From wall to wall this ledge measures II feet. nearly all ID pay ore. 4 streak ID the centre, some two feet wide, assay 50 per cent Iced. with from 2O to 8 ounces in silver and about s 10 gold. The fortunate owners of this bO DaDZa have three or four carloads Of ere now on the dump but are ID DO hurry to ship uutil silver goes up or rates go down--MohBve Miner.
 cI,y and Ei1 remain for -'se seTsrsr q 1s1=. th He reports matters very quiet about Ar fYsca; few miners gre shipping ore aud some assessment work is being done I alr, <, <. Arnold will probably cause q | ( line group If mines to be developed , shortly. through company he is now ( organlzrng. Mr. Parsons, Of Tombstone, ( is having some wosk done on the Mon , faDa and other properties. They have C Q 60 foot ledge or ore that will run 30 E ounces ID silver, with some lead, and ( one man can quarry out ten tons of It a e day. it IS a bonanza, Mir. Stewart has I B lease on the McOsfferty mill and runs c It whenever a supply of custom ores ' 2 The library of the 5. F. +. +, employes T lOs only contains about l200 volumes, ' but receives newspapers end periodicals 6 rom all parts oi the United States for [ is reading room. MT. J. l.. Bonner, [ master mechanic, bBs had charge of it Tor the past year and has raised from various sources about Sl200 for its sup { port. He wants Co double the number 8 Of volumes by early spring and Is push c ing every honorable method of benefit [ ing the railroad employees and the pub o ic m 8ddIng % its funds and liters- b lure. It IS not generally known that e 1ersons not in the employ of the rail ti oBd can become members of the library il }. a monthly expense of fifty cents. s which entities them to all the privi- fl eges of the library and rooms, and to a ake books to their homes not exceeding n Eo weeks for each book It Is val al able hbrsry for the public ss well ss d OT She employees a,