Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-28

E- IL. hetmOre n8e nft66n Bcroe OI land ID gram on his Rillito ranch that Is looking well without irrigation. Many of bis young fruit trees, however, froEe to the ground and will probably have to be replonted, the olive alone westhered 1t through These trees have thus far proven themselves impervious 10 both summer heat and winter cold, This, then, is the tree fof profitable cultivation in Southern Arizona. This winter, d. though unusually cold beyond the reool- lectioLs of the oldest inhabitsnt, is lis- ble Co be duplicated, and when it does come 6 like suffering of the seeding trees IS be expected. but for the olive no danger is to be apprehended.
 The jury in the Pan,sno rslrosd rob bery case announced their readiness 10 report on the opening of court this morning. In their verdict Sydnor and SkIdmore were acquitted and Doc Smart found guilty. Judge Herring on behalf of Smart made a motion for a rehesring, and in case of denial will carry the case to the Supreme Court. The acquitted men were discharged much to the qualification of themselves and friends. George D. Wills, alias Green, made & confession and plead guilty. The date of his sentence hss not been fixed, the length of the period of his incarceration having been taken into consideration by the Judge. The penalty is not less than i've years nor more than ten years.
 Last summer the Sonora railroad management gave notice that two prizes | would be given tO the two conductors who showed the best record for three months of 1887, VIZ October. November and December. The first prize consist- ing of very fine silver plated engraved | train lantern to be given for the best
 record, and the second prize, a very tne nickel plated lantern for the second best
 record. Of course the boysldId their I best. The judges consist of four. Train
 master W. P. Rudd, Auditor R. Elliott, Psymsster w. J. FsrsRut, Rnd c. R. Hudson, 9enI Passenger and Freight | Agent. The prizes have not yet been awarded owing to the fsot of @
 press of business in She various de-
 psrtments closing up the business of 1887. The grand event will probably
 take place during this mOnih.-Record.
 Mir. J. A. Creighton and wife, Of
 Omaha, Prof. J. Schenck and wife, oi
 Dsyto Ohio, are among the visitors now sojourning ib Tucson. Mr. Oreigh- ton is the proprietor of the Omaha Herald and brother of the late Edward Oneghton, the Omshs philsntbropist and founder of the Creighton College,
 which he endowed with nearly hslt 6 million. Prof. Schenck is the composer of the Creighton Grand March and ranks
 as sn artist In mus cal circles Of south ern Ohio, Mrs. Creighton and Mrs. Schenck are sisters. The party gre on their WAY to Southern California, accom-
 panied by Mrs. J, 4. Murphy and sister of Omaha, They will remain uutil B!.er the Mirror of Irelsnd entertainments. Mir. and Mrs. Schenck being old friends
 of Major Russell, and met in Tucson for the first time in eleven years.
 A Chicago telegram of JRu. IT states that Judge Collins this day dissolved the | injunction issded December l5, 1886, in | the case of Edwin F., Palmer sgsInst l Joseph W. HsskIDs, and dIsmissed the uill for want Of equity. The case was one | of considerable importance. 6nd was
 brought by Palmer to compel the de- fendsnt to deliver to hum stock in the Atlas Mining Company Of tho value of
 S240,OO0. HaskIns and others claimed that
 they developed the mines. which are
 thirty-two miles north west from Tucson, A. T., and organized the Atlas Mining Company, the capital stock of which was S8O00, 900 Hsskins wgs the original owner
 of the mines snd agreed to give half the stock to the organizers if they were sue cessful. The decision is regarded as 8 complete refutatIon of the charges made
 against Hsskins when the injunction | was granted,