Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-05-08

PTrrsBURG, May 3.-Strikes were in-
 augurated this morning by the stone
 masoDs, carpenters and plasterers, for a
 reduction from ten to nine hours work a
 day. About eighteen hundred men quit
 work.
 ST LOUIS, May 3.-Chairman Curtin,
 of the congressional labor investigation
 committee, busted himself during the
 greater part of yesterday in an attemp;
 to end the Gould southwest system
 strike. He had conference which
 lasted from noon until late hour in
 the afternoon with members of the ex-
 ecutlve committe of the Knights of La-
 bOr, and afterwards called upon Vice
 President Hoxie of the NJ. P He then re-
 turned to his hotel and conferred q sec
 ond time with the Knights The result
 of this conference cannot be positively
 known, but it is confidently expected
 that the outcome will be the end of the
 strike Wltbin the next thIrty-six hours.
 SAN FRANCIsco, May 3.-The Chroni- cle's Washington special says: The
 house has passed the bill abollshing all county courts io Arizona established by
 act of the territorial legislature in 1885.
 The jurisdiction conferred upon the county courts embraced all matters now cogniZable in the district courts of the
 territory except capital criminal cases. The bill that passed the house increases
 the jurisdiction of the probate court as specified by the following section of the bIll:
 That ID addition to jurisdiction of all matters of probate courts ID all the diff ferent counties in the territory of Ari- shall have appellate jurisdiction over all appeals from justices of the peace. Trial on appeal to be de noyo. and also original jurisdiction in all cases in which action of assumpsit would be at com mon law when amount involved does not exceed $500"
 Section ?. "That appeals may be taken to the district court in all matters of probate, and all other cases to the supreme court of the territory as IS or may be prescribed by law"
 At the last session of the territory of Montana bill wss passed providing for the establishment and maintenance of aC insane asylum. The asylum was built and a number of insane persons admit ted to 1t. It was Rfterward discovered that the legislature had no right to take such action. Congress was memorial ized to approve the action of the Iegisla- ture, and bill to that effect was report ed to the house by NIT. Hermann of Oregon and has been passed.
 Bills were introduced and referred by NIT. Bean of Arizona. authorizing the president to offer S25, ,00O for the killing or capture of Geronimo.
 q Mir. Anderson of Kansas moved t0 sus- pend rules and pass the bill providing for the adjustment of land grants made by congress to aid m the construction of railroads in kansas and Texas. and the of uuearned lands. Agreed Co by vote of 2i5 ayes to 9 nays.
 Adjourned.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, May $-Jas MuCau was arrested to. day by Detectives Bohen and Colby, who took him en route from Arizona tO Lincoln, Neb, on a charge of grand larceny. The arrest was made m a dispatch and letter from Sheriff Paul of Tucson. The complainant is Mir. King, who keeps faDdanco house at QuiiotOs. The larceny was committed about six weeks ago. and Mugan says that when he left all be took was Sl2j. and that it was his own money. He will be detained in jail until Sheriff Paul ar rives,
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 3-The Posts special says: It cun be stated positively that Secretary Man ning's resignation js now m the hands of the president. The president has sev- eral names before hIm in connection with this position, but has Rs yet reach ed no decision m relation 10 any oftnem. The general impression here Is that the next secretary of the treasury will hail from New York.
 LOUISVILLE, May3-One hundred and fifty wOrkmen at Davis furniture manu- factory struck this morning because the employers would not accede to their demands for the eight hour system by agreement. All the furniture manu- acturers will close down tomorrow ather than put the eight hour system in operation. Martin Irons arrived this from the west and was asked what truth there was in the statement 10 the effect that he (lronsl had been ex- pelled from.the knIghts of Labor. He replied there WAS absolutely no truth III .he report.
 SAN FRANCIsCo, May 3.-Ths nitro ylycerine house of the California Pow Ter Works, containing 1900 pounds of exploded thIs after noon killing one white man, Ambrose Anderson, and three ChInHmeD. This was on the opposite eide of the i'll which separated the powder house rom the rest of the works. Not a frag- nent was left of the building in which he explosion took place, tiLIber and ,srts of the machinery being thrown lalf mile distant. The roof of the mixing house situated about twenty-five ards distant was crushed in and two nen in the building narrowly escaped. n this building there was about 4,OOU 'Ounds of nitro-gly cerIne and in the magazine few yards further on was 5,OOO pounds of powder. Had this ex- ilOded, not house would have been eft standing on the works. The em- ilOyes of the works refuse Co speak on he probable cause of the explosion. ls 3 believed that two Chinamen became ngaged n a quarrel. and one of them Topping a bucket of glycerine which be Tas carrying, caused the explosion.
 MILWAUKEE, May 3--A repor. Las cen received from the west Milwaukee ailroad shops that body of lJOO stTIE- rs visited there this afternoon, swarm d into the different chops and fo-ced 900 men employe ed there to abandon heir work.
 SACRAMENTO, May Ex-Governor Stone nan has decided to declare Nay n a le- al holiday on petition of the fecerat- | trades unloE, V ho Vill hold a grand sbor parade that dsy in San Fran lscO.
 CHEYENNE. Wyoming, May 8. .- The rakemeD of the Union Pacific, Nebras- a division, between Sidney and Largm- ?, struck to-day against the now sched- le of mileage and pay. The brakemen laim the new schedule to be q reduc- On. The company denies this. reight trains are being tied up here as lst ss they arrive. Passenger trains re sent out without brakemen. Gerer- Superintendent Dickenson arrived Om Denver at noon and will be inter ewed by committee. Ths brake len demanded the old schedule of pay, 5 per month.
 SAN FEASCIsco, May 3.-The eight our system, with eight hours pay, ent into effect here to-day m num-