Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-01-09

and v men. Very little difficulty vai expeilenced ID controlling them. Tn, entir- fire department was sun mOned to the scene, but cuul1 tender little service, owing to tn, scarcity of water. The t4mes spread rapidly to the third floor and the entire lengtl of the wInR in both directions Al ths west end II wEs stopped by q blan. .'Tall = inches thick, which pre- veIte. it's spread to the center and other wings of the InstitutIon. By hard work the treucn kept tue flames to the two floors. although Gli tue floors yer, badly damaged by water. The loss i. probably S75.O00, fully insured. The ppti, l,s were sent temporarily to the City Hospital, but were this evening rs. turuei io the asylum, where arrange. menis Hrc made for their acc mmOda- tion. !he cause of the fire is ua 1nOWu, but is supposed to have originated from steam pirss which surround the chute !n .Le basement which, like all the res: ot thu interior fittings, was of the most iuiiaC nsble material. The asylum ls a new hGI'iing and wss erected at cost cf S3J LOO. It was first occupied last sprIn, and has nearly 6OO inmates.
 San Francisco, Jan. At is learned todav tat certificates empowering hold CTS t.s. l in the United States are be- -aS !, ~. ;c'Cninese by the Chinese e nsu, at Yokohama, Japan. The Chi naman who arrived on the steamer Oce- anic, December l9, was landed on one of these certificates. They are counter signed by Warren Green, U. $. consul general to Japan.
 San Francisco, Jan. 4.-The Chroni- cle's Washington special says Nobody believed the story telegraphed from Pittsturg about the party of Pinkerton detectives passing through that city en route 70 Washington, to investigate an allegei conspiracy against the Presi- dents lie; but it was true, nevertheless, that hey were on duty at the White House on New Years day, some ot them in the Farlors, others in the vestibule and still others in the crowd outside on
 
 usual thing. Formerly local detectives have be5E employed, but the prerence 0f Pinkerton's force shows that the pres ldert either has no confidence in Wash ing;on detectives, or thought they were or both. The president re- ceives q good many threatening letters, ls all his predecessors did, and perhaps his lie Is in danger at times from ,ranks, but the White House was never SO closely under police surveillance as now. Gen. McCOoE, secretary Of the senate. speaking of the president, says: Il don't believe, however, he has any 'ear iE Lis composition"
 San Francisco, Jan. 4.-George ". Tyler, leading counsel for Sarah Althea 5i,l iI uer divorce cass against the late ,x- x-Senator Sharon, wss indicted today by the county grand jury for felony. Inc cgme with which he IS charged is being party to a prepared affidavit in which me oi the witnesses, Mrs. Clark, 8 made to say that Sharon had said to ger tLa Miss Hill was his wife. Two other parsOns, James c. Brown and Mrs. Teile, were recently co. icted of the .ams OIfense and are EOS serving five years in San Quentin. Tyler was yrante, week to file bond.
 San .s.-anc;soo, JA1. 4.-Ths city ,ouuci N,s,rArvisor Farvell, author 0i rIe work Chinese at Home ana Abroad making 1t n misdemeanor, with heavy penalty attached, to continue holding he sandlot meetings which lave done 90 much to create a false impression ID he east. by making it appear that the lnly persons opposed to the Chinese were the sandlotters. Mir Farwell made an address to the board in which he ex- plaiued that tue order was meant to ap- ply more particularly to Coroner O'Don- nel and his associates who constantly audiences on the ground To show inc necessity of some action on the part of the board to suppress such agi- tation, Mir. Farwell read letter from W. W. Morrow to hIm, m which the writer mentions having had interviews with President Cleveland, Bqyard and many congress men. who expressed themselves strongly in favor of restricting Chinese immigra- tion, but deprecated the violent and law less measures to accomplish that pur- pose. Congressman Morrow goes on to say tha. s reply to these statements WAS that le substantial sentiment of the Pacific coast now engaged in efforts to settle this question Is not incendlary or violent. The letter concludes with the assurance that an effort will be made to get anti Chinese bills before the house at an early day.
 San Francisco, Jan. IA special tc the Examiner from Washington says The following committee chairmanshiP' are semi officially announced to be prac tically settled, though Speaker Carhsl l' is still far from the end of his task Ways and means, Morrison, District o Colnmbia, Barbour of Virginia; privat' land claims, Halsett of Kentucky; appro pria;ions. Randall; privileges and cleo lions. Turner of GeOrgia; judiciary Tucker of Virginia; commerce, Reagan of Texas; rivers and hsrbors, Willis O
 Kentucky; coInage, weights and meas
 ures. Bland of Missouri; naval affairs
 Hewitt of New York; public lands, Cob
 of Indiana; public buildings and land:
 Dlbblee of South Carolina; labor, ONel
 of Missouri; education, Aiken of Sout
 Carolina; patents, Mitchell of Connectl
 cut: postollice and post roads, Townsen
 of Illinois; accounts, Dockery of Ms
 souri: printing, Barksdale of Misslssi !
 pi Wilkins of Ohio will probably t chairman of the committee on bankin
 and currency
 Washington, Jan. An reply to n
 ouest from Senator Merrill, chairman
 tbe senate committee on territories, Go Znlick of Arizona has furnished stat
 ment of the territorial debt and how Il
 cured. The statement shows the terr
 tory has outstanding warrants amour
 ing to sI2O,94S upon which 1t pays Il
 terest at the rate of 10 per cent. per a
 mum. In the tabulsted statement Of u
 bonded indebtedness appear the follo'
 ing items: Insane asylum, lOO,OOO dc
 lars; Gila river bridge. l5,OOO dollar
 Apache wagon road. l2,OOO dollars te
 ritorial university, 25,0OO. The e1Pens
 of the last legislative assembly m exec