Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-10-12
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Nations, was well received here. Com
 ments heard on the streets to-day plac n it as the strongest utteranco of it's clas
 ever enunciatod by Americans. . CITY OF MEXICO, October A wrecl ' occurred on the Merida & Soluta Rail ' road. Several passengers were killed. s EL PAso, October 3-To-night Chas Fleming, of Tucson, was s3nd-bagget g and robbed or about S500, while goin!
 through one of the public parks. : ALBERT LEA, Minn, October 3.-i | great peat fire Is burning near Geneva : this county. It is estimated that 5,5G acres of land have been burned owe and 6,000 tons of hay destroyed. Th'
 estimated value of the despoiled land i : sl000OO; damage by burning of hay S3O,000.
 5 CHICAGO, October 3-The coroner : jury to-day found Engineer Twombley and Fireman Leclocke responsible fo the death of Michael O'COnner, the sev enth victim of the accident on the Chi } cago Alton & Pacific. and the men were , returned to jail, being unable to furnish bonds to the amount of S15,000 each. HELENA, MoNT., October 3-Returns from the counties in which the result if disputed have not come in to-day. The republicans now estimate their majori F ty for governor at 10000, while the dem
 ocrats claim Toole's election by 4,000
 The returns from Silver Bow county which elects eleven members of the leg , islature, are still incomplete. The dem
 ocrats claim nine sure, and perhaps eleven, while the republicans only con
 cede six. The republicans now only
 claim three majority on joint ballo5 in
 the legislature, while the democrats
 claim that Silver Bow county's returns,
 which will probably be complete before
 morning, and will take the legislature,
 and probably governor out of doubt. | WASHINGTON, October g. Commission
 CT Groff, of the general land office, ren-
 dered his first decision to-day in the case of Frederic Hansline, who appealed from
 decision cancelling his homestead en- try because he had not an established
 actual residence upon the land within
 six months, only digging cellar and i building the foundation for a house. | The commissioner, in overruling this de-
 cision, says the facts show Hansl;ne to | be poor man, who was complying | with the terms of the law as promptly
 as possible. The commissioner says the
 six months rule is not now insisted up-
 on where entry shows good faith toward | the government and is sufficiently pro- | ven.
 | SEATTLE, w. T. October 3.-Returns | from every county in the state indicate | that the republicans elected John l.. Wilson to Elisha H. Ferry for governor | by over 5000 majority. About the same | majority for the remainder of the re- publican ticket, including the candidate l for supreme judge, Theodore l.. Stiles, | who is under indictment in Tucson, | Arizona, for embezzlement. The repub- | licans will probably elect go out of 105 | members of the legislature. It was thought the democrats had carried this | (Kings) but later returns indicate an in- | creased republican majority. The con- stitution is carried, and prohibition and | woman suffrage defeated. Olympia has plurality for capital, but another !, election will have to decide this point The legislature will probably elect John
 Ballin delegate to congress and eX-Gov- ernor Watson senator.
 SAN FRANCISCO, October 2.-Senator Stewart, of Nevada, arrived here this | morning. The senate committee on ir- | closed its investigations, and it's members have gone to their respective homes.
 In an interview to-day Senator Stewart stated that the committee has been on the road fifty days and has taken the testimony of 400 witnesses distributed through Minnesota, North and South | Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, | Idaho. Utah, Nevada, California, Ariz- Ta,yoC ado and Nebraska. The principal irri-
 gation systems in the United States have been visited and careful observa-
 tion made of the development and prac- | tical results of their irrigation canals.
 The great artesian wells of the north west, some of them 2OO0 feet deep. have
 been examined and their working noted. | The committee also examined a number of sites for the storage of water. Great
 natural basins, which need but little eff fort to constitute them gigantic reser- voirs making it possible to irrigate mil | lions of acres of land, and numbers of lakes were also located. The committee
 made journey of some 12,00O miles and
 and has gathered vast amounts of use
 ful information upon all phases of the | irrigation problem. Upon one point it |
 farmers and fruit growers who have re-
 sorted to irrigation-that is, that crops
 are rendered not only more certain, but
 much more abundant, by the use of water just when they need it, rather | than when by accident a rainfall sup | plies it. Many estimates adduced as to | the advantages afforded in this respect | by irrigation, the lowest of which is that | by irrigation the crop is twice as abun- | dant as when dependent on rainfall | alone. Other estimates grade crops pro- | duced by irrigation all the way from | three up to five-fold in quantity The
 results of the investigation will be em-
 bodied in report to be made to the
 senate during the approaching session
 of congress, Senator Stewart speaks
 with enthusiasm concerning the com
 mittee's work.
 1 SAN BERNARDINo, Cal, October 3-The
 city trustees called an election to vote
 for issuing bonds to the amount of Sl60
 GOO to furnish the city with better water
 system.
 1 WASHINGTON, October 4.-Regular
 meetings of the cabinet were resu med
 this morning. All present except Sec
 retary Proctor. It is understood the
 vacancy Tn the pension office was one of the subjects considered.
 ALBANY, October 4-Timothy Sulli-
 van, sub-contractor, was arrested this
 morning and subsequently, released on
 S40,000 bail.
 ALBUQUERQUE, N M. October Eff
 teen thousand people attended the terri
 torial fair to-day. The dry test race be- A r
 horse teams, 200 yards, was won by the
 Las Vegas team. Time 2415 seconds
 In the trotting race between Miss Ruby
 of Albuquerque, and Roan Dick, of
 Santa Fe the former took the three
 first heats.
 CHICAGO, October 4-The Journal
 says: ''The convention of District Is,
 Clan-na-Gael, comprising the states of
 Illinois and Michigan, will be held here
 Sunday. A resolution denouncing the | (E l. TA