Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-10-12
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 feud is raging in Lincoln county be- Floyd Burgess, a prominent man, mar ried one of the Hall girls and then quarreled with her. They separated and next day Burgess and his wife's brother met and the former was shot dead. Alfred Broomfeld, Burgess, brother-in law. fatally wounded one of the Hall brothers. Ten days afterward Broomfeld and wife were waylaid and Mrs. Broomfield killed and Broomfield terribly wounded. Two days later Pur- wis Broomtield was shot. On Saturday Geo. Burgess, brother of Broomtield's s wife, was shot through his leg in fight with one of the opposing parties.
 WASHINGTON, October 7-The Union Iron Works company of San Francisco will suffer penalty of S30,OO0 for lack of horse power in the construction of the Charleston.
 WASHINGTON, October w. A. Bald win. of Pueblo, Col, has been arrested for using the mails for fraudulent pur poses.
 SAN DIEGO, October 7-The twenty first annual convention of the Southern California Baptist association, convened here tonight. About 200 delegates ar rived by special train from the north to-day.
 ST. PAUL, October "A Pioneer Press special from Helena, says: While the republicans are almost ready to con- cede both governorship and legislature to the democrats, they will net do so until the official count is made. for the result IS close enough to warrant them in claiming at least the legislature. In several county precints no :tally was made of the votes except that made by the judge of election and those are now valid and in the hands of the various county clerks, awaiting official count. According to law the official count must be made sooner, if all returns were in. On the face of the returns to- night the democrats have elected the governor and a majority of the legisla- ture, but by margins so narrow full count may upset either. Individual republican concede the governor to the democrats, and are half convinced that the legislature is democratic, but the republican press and state committee comedies neither. The republicans now claim the legislature by one to two while the democrats claim it by five to seven.
 WASHINGTON, October 7.-Secretary Noble to-day rendered an important de- cisiOn ln the case of Samuel k. Choldr against the $. P. road. Cholds applied to make homestead entry, which was re- jected by the local officers at the Los Angeles land district, on the ground that the track was within primary limits of the grant to the railway of July 27. 1866. The commissioner of the land office affirmed the action. The secretary in his decision today, held that the grants named were ''fioats," undoubtedly within outside limits of larger area. and as such larger area lies within the limit of said land grant, made in aid of the railroad, such land grant would take effect, and the action of the general land office is therefore affirmed.
 DENVER, Colo, October S.-A. c. John son and J. H. Boyn have been arrested here, charged with sending lottery circu- lars and tickets through the mall The men are said to have conducted the business under the name of A. c. Ross & O., and are charged with running an alleged corporation called the Denver State Lottery Company.
 OTTAWA, Ont, October 8.@Senator Sherman, in letter published here says the reason Canada was not invited to participate in the All American Con ference. is that the United States can not hold formal relations with the Cana dian government owing to the depen- dence of Canada on Great Britain. graphic reports from different parts of the state up to late hour tonight, in dicats rain last night, and to-day the rainfall was the heaviest in the northern part of the state. The grape crop has been injured slightly. In general, the rain was not heavy enough in middle California to do any damage.
 SAN DIEGO, October 7-The directors of the California Southern railroad in a meeting this afternoon at National City. agreed to plan for the consolidation of that road with the California Southern and the Redondo Beach road, under the management of the California Southern. The final consummation of the plan is to be made at Los Angeles, Wednesday.
 WASHINGTON, October S-The Presi dent today appointed Charles R. Drake, of Arizona, as Receiver of Public Mon ies at Tucson.
 HALIFAx, N. S., October S-The steamer Alpha" on her way to this port from the West Indies, called at Novasha, at the request of U. $. Consul. at Kingston, Jamaica, for the purpose of taking away the Americans, who wished to leave, owing to the recent dis turbance between natives and American laborers, in which number of persons were killed. The Alpha lay to some time, but no signal was displayed from shore, and as everything appeared quiet, she proceeded.
 BUFFALO, N. r., October S.-This morning Charles F. Orris, who lived with his mother Mrs. Mary King, shot and killed her while sleeping, and then committed suicide by cutting his throat.
 Orris left note saying he was tired of living, and as his mother could not get along without him, he decided to end her sufferings also. After cutting his throat, Orris sat down and smoked a cigarette while he bled to death.
 WASHINGTON, October 8.-A beauti- full day for the Grand Knights of Tenn plar's parade. The city is in gala dress. The Tempiars formed early at their var ious headquarters, and with bands play ing, marcked through crowded streets to the place of starting. Pennsylvania Avenue was roped off to give full room for maneuvers.
 Visitors are estimated at fifty thous- and. The number of Knights in the city is estimated at fifteen to twenty thousand, comprising over 200 com manderies from all sections of the country. It was nearly noon when twelve divisions of the procession began their long march up Pennsylvania Avenue.
 The last commandery passed the presi- dential reviewing stand at 2:30 o'clock. Procession disbanded about an hour later.
 Procession marched past reviewing stand where the president stood doffinp