Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-11
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 The large number of reserved seats
 taken indicate full house.
 The willow and some other trees will
 grow If planted upside down, and many
 trees will grow with the south side turn
 ed to the north; but with She trees diff cult to transplant at best, It is 6 mistake
 very apt to be fatal to .urn the south
 side north, and the older the tree the
 greater the damage from changing sides
 in transplaniing.-ScientIfic American.
 Mir. O. E. Hoff is agent for the Far
 rington nursery, of Pheni1. All those
 intending to plant trees, shrubs, etc., should not fail to consult Mir. HOff and
 get his prices before ordering elsewhere.
 Another important point to be consider
 ed, IS getting something perfectly adapt
 ed to thls climate. Mir. Hoff can be
 seen at all times at the store of c. Selig-
 mann q Co.
 4 party of Missouri and Texas emi-
 grants passed through Tucson to-day,
 en route to the Salt River valley. They
 had seven tesms ID addition to some
 loose stock. All seemed to be hsrd
 working and industrious people and will
 doubtless make good citizens, locate
 where they may. They intend to first
 go to Phenix and will settle in thht
 neighborhood, should they think it ad
 vantsgeous to do SC.
 The citIZens meeting at ihe City Hall
 has resulted in some good already. Iu
 two days MT. Grosetta has secured or
 ders for 52 trees on his end of Penning-
 ton street; Dr. N. H. Matas took orders rfaln lnuynR
 B. M. Jacobs succeeded in getting l20
 for Alameda street. The other com
 mittees should get their orders in as
 soon as possible, combine them and
 send them oil together
 Mir. J. s. Mansfield, one Of ths prime
 movers n the tree planting scheme, is
 suIting the action 10 the word. In front
 of his residence, corner of Camp street
 and Stone avenue, hs has had twenty
 evergreeDs of large size planted, which
 when properly boxed, will cost on an
 aggregate $lOO. The boxing alone,
 which will be of 8 most substantial ns-
 ture. will cost S30.
 The Paris Figaro published the fol-
 lowing enlightened article descriptive of
 Los Angeles: "Los Angeles is one big
 Rshen desert, AnEons desert. In that
 town there are few FrenchmRn who, of course are civilized. The population is very strange medley, composed of MeIicsns, Mslsys, EsquimRux. Csrri- bean blacks and Indians. IL Is hot, very hot, and most of the people wear breech- clouts. They have one horse railroad, and the car IS moved by one hRlt-breed ass.
 This afternoon Drs. Handy, Adler and Spencer smpus8ted the leg of Chas. Neal, now In the Sisters Hospital Mir. Neal is the eagInecr whose leg WAS smashed In the railroad accident west of Deming, about week since. From the first there was hardly any prospect of saving the crushsd limb, for in addi- tion to the broken knee 1t ngd also sus- tRined compouai fracture above the ankle. As the shock to the system was so severe Mr. NeRls life WAS despGired of and ampuistion of the injured limb was deferred till such time as he could. with safety. undergo the operation.
 Mir. Phil Schrieber. Rn old Tucs0nite. but Tor the past six mouths B resident of San Diego, Is again here. The stero- | typed reason for returning that Tucson | is good enough" for him Is given. and in | his opinion many more will, before the | next SIX months are over, be back with | the same old story, and still more would | be If they can only get away. Tucson, | to say the worst of II, Is much better | than many places Iu California, and If | its present prospects mRteriRlize 1t will | before long be Rs good If not better than | many of the best places ID that much | favored state.
 Over I50 head of cattle died on the | Empire ranch during the recent cold | snap. As the thermometer never fell | more than fifteen degrees below freezing point, IL is generally believed that these deaths must be attributed to some other cause, more especially SO, as they were m far condition, the range being un- usually good on account of the fall rams. IL has been supposed that the cause Is to be found in the cattle drinking from the overflow of the Total Wreck mIll tail lngs, which were impregnated with quicksilver.
 Mir. Alexander Rothenstien of San Francisco is in the city in the interest of the United Order of Honor, the grand lodge of which he is president. In this order the sexes are admitted on equal footing. The first lodge was organized at Indianapolis, Ind, on April 26, 1881. with but fifty charter members, since which tune lodges have been organized m twenty-four states and territories of the Union (excluding the yellow fever also Canada and British Col umbla, and has membership of nearly 3O,OO0. It possesses many merits worthy of consideration and Mr. Rothenstein Is said to be meeting with muoh encour- sgement
 Thursday night thirteen trsmps took possession of a coach near the Southern Pacific rosdhouse, and when invited to ERcste Friday morning, by the railroad men, refused and showed fight There were but three of the railroad boys, and thirteen of the tramps, but the tramps were routed, surrounded aud seven or eight of them captured. One of the va- grant brntes struck A, P. Sanders with ! link, and in return, Russ Corydell dealt he fellow several blows with a pick axe lelve that would have scattered his brains If be had any. The wounded ramp was locked up and would prob ibly have served 8 term in the New Mexico pen, had not his chums assisted Jim to escape Friday nIght.-Deming Headlight.
 The mystery that SO long enveloped he ruined cities in Arizons and the Gila Talley. IS about to be cleared up The , .uins of nineteen buried cities, one of Las Muertss, city of the dead, have been discovered and traced in Salt River Val z ey, Tn Arizona, and recent excavations , evesl a number of human skeletons in attitudes which show that they met a lolent and sudden death. They are be- leyed to have perished in 8 great earth Iuake which, centuries ago, shook that eglon, oyerthrowfng the cIties, burying 'sst numbers of the Tolteo population the ruins. and forcing the rest to seek Iomes m Southern Mexico. This theory : not incredible nor improbable, when ne recalls toe fate of Historic Pompeii. I