Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-05-19

nes al debate on the tariff bill shall have closed the house shall adjourn each day until 5 p. m- Adopted.
 The h"use committee oR postoffices to- day ordered a favorable report and Chair man Blouni's bill providing for a gene ral law for the erection of postoffice buildings. Jt provides for the appoint mont ID the postoffice department of Hn architect and 6 superintendent of con ssruotion st a salary of :our thousand per year. The postmaster general Is authorized at his discretion 10 construct buildings st any place where the gross postal receipts for two years s5.il have exceeded three thousand dol.ais Buualiy No building 10 cost more than tseUty- five thousand dollars. An appropriation of two million dollars was made for the current year. It IS estimated that there are fifteen hundred towns entitled to building under the bill
 The house in evening session passed tbirty-seveu pension bills and then sd- journed.
 SAN FRAScIsoo, May II. - Best & Belcher, 6.25: Crocker. LA; Chollsr. 9.2O; Con. VIrsinis, II %; Confidence. 3l co; Gould & Curry. 425; Hale & NOrcross, 36.; Locomotive, 20; Peer, O.95, Peerless. 2.45; POtcsi, 3.SO; Ophir, 63; Savage. f S5 Sierra Nevscs, 395; UnIon Con-. l.45; Yellow Jacket. I15, Con. Va. 50.
 WASHINGTON, May ll.-In the exsmi- patton. Colonel Knight, general mana ger of the Superior Lumber Company, Of WiseI nsin, before the senate commit tee to-day regarding the cutting of logs from the Indian reservation, aststerDent was made that Colonel W. F. vilss, own ed 240 shares of face value of S24,OOO. and he. himself owned 630 shares. He refused to give he amount of stock held by the other members of the company. He denied that the company had cut timber from the reservation lands
 RICK ISLAND, May 1.-The high vs- ter winch hes been running over the -tons wall motive water power tor seye- ral days, this afternoon carried away a large section of the stone bulkhesd zhich was across the south channel of The MissIssippi river between the Rock Island arsenal and the main shore. Five hundred feet Of this wall has disappear ed and 1t is believed thss the rest IS SO badly shattered shat It will need re- bu liiug. The wall cost the govern ment one hundred thousand dollars.
 Trains are abandoned on the St. Paul road between here and Savannah ID conss ouepce of the floods. and on the Proris ou account of long railway em. bsnkmeut which threatens 10 break and flood the loElands. Hundreds of lam illes are moving out of their homes To- night.
 S.S FRAScrsoo May IA destrnc- tive fire occurred at Fourth and Berry ,tree,a near rhe Southsrn Pacific rail- way tui iincs. Is originated ID the California Cigar Box factory operated by Hopper. Hubrnrd < Co. and spread 10 ths pl4nIng mill of Jewett, Hooper & Co. and F lirweather's sash and door factory, and ths factory of Jesse & Drew stair builders All of the buildings are entirely destroyed and q number Of oth' ar smaller buildings occupied as dwell ings were sl-o burned. About one bun- | drsd and fifty men will be thrown out of employment. All the buildings were owned by ex-Judgs s. O. Hastings and | the total loss is between sixty and | seventy-five thousand dollars The in- surauoe is sbou. one fourth that amount
 LcNpoS May l1.-Lord Cameron iI replying to Parnell explslns his ides oi | the proper basis for Irish self-9overn' | ment as follows: The crown md inpe- | rial parliament shall have the suprems' | cy in the ultimate resort and control o' police, and the appointment of a ludlcla " local taxation would be limit to such SD amount as to prevent injustice | The whole to be preceded by some land se ttIrment ADd to this must be added the szparGtion of the legislative snc executive factions. This plan, however he now considers as impossible, Glad stone having destroyed all the chances | nf L. reasonable settlement ou such [ basis.
 ALBUorRRQUE, \. NJ, May ll.-An In sane mPu named Tiburcio Psdills, wal brought in from COris station this after noon. On MOndsy he attacked @ whit woman and she shot him with yih' ,brough the leg, Since being shot hi has roamed through the prairie beinI chased by officers until captured to day.
 WASHINGTON. May 1.-The Sscretsr. of the Interior. in s letter to the Com missioner General of the Land Ofhc holds that the presence of a large groHtl of mesquite three upon lands does no exclude it from entry under the deser
 land sc1 This decision affects lars
 area of land ID the southwest and II the result of a petition signed oy th
 governor snd a large pumb,r of citizen
 of Arizona
 , HELENA. May lI.-Parties who hay
 ;u.t returned from the reservation re
 no,t s considerable smouat of disss'is
 faction ss existing among a crowd c settlers who had been removed fror | the Big Sandy by military authoritie'
 m seems that the act thTowipg open th
 ,sservation to settlement gave to ID President tbe right of reseIvInR suc
 I.nds for the use of military posts might be deemed necessary, and as ? , bas not yet taken auy action in ID
 matter the commanding officer st to ! Assinaboine in endeAvoring to msintal ,be ola boundaries of the military rese
 vation pending a decision from tt
 b;ober authorities ss to what will [
 necessary to supply the wants ot thi
 nost The present boundaries incluC
 sn area of some eight hundred squs
 miles.
 NEW YORK, Msy IA story is cu 2 rent concerning the Atchison compsi leasing the Erie rsilwsy in order to ga an entrance into New York. The on
 foundation for the report IS that u l. ,uo roads are very friendly since q .- purchase of the Erie Express Compai q by Wells. Fargo < Co.
 -- CHICAGO, May l2.-Z'ph Paws, sol' ' rcd was hanged Gt the county Isll IT e morning for the murder of little Msss C 9snghan s few months SEQ. Dsvis V e torennan in factory where the girl vol
 ed and she was fourd in a closet horit 's uutilated. Davis confessed killing 2
 because she refused to obey his orde r. He is the first negro ever hung ID Oo st county.
 'e YuxAA May l2-The Socthe T. Pacific wes,-bound passenger train V
 badly wrecked near Gils Bend, betve .- and 5 o'clock tbis morning, by jumpl 10 inc track while psssing over 6 n ,e trestle bridge. Though the engin' ss stopped the train within it's own lens ,n the emlyrant snd smoking cars, [ |. coach and sleeping cars, were detaef
 from the other part of the train. and is from the tresile to the ground. four ie Ave feet down, turning completely o'