Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-16
LOCAL BRIEFS.

N,ne tenths of an inch of rain fell last night.
 Ben Fairbanks has new home under way on Alameda street.
 H. Daley. a rancher of San Pedro, lost four fine horses in the late floods.
 A fine electrical display could be seen in the southern sky last evening.
 Estrella Lodge, R. R. Brakemen, No. 107, tonight, at 7:30 o'clock.
 Drunks are in demand now, for work on the roads.
 The Quijotoa stage came in last night after an eventful trip.
 The county central committee meets to morrow Republican.
 Tucson can thank her old adobe houses for the damage being no greater than 1t was.
 Tine firemen met last night, and ad- journed till next Thursday night, when installation of officers will take place.
 There is no travel to speak of, and from the country, no account of the condition of the roads.
 Five different meetings were held last | nirht: the railroad meeting, A. o. U. w., tiremen's meeting, band concert and the baseball asSoclatlon.
 If the waters of Silver Lake are clear | now the flood must have washed out all | To iiy, ill- smelling water that has been | thece, replacing 1t with ''clean, fresh | Water. I'M TnIianc r1ln n last night fer being drunk and disturb | ing the peace. Judge Meyer gave them | five days each to work for the county on | the damaged roads. Rev. R. c. Long, after spending s years as d missionary Tn Japan, IS ID the city l on his way home and will preach at the | NJ. E.. church to- morrow evening, at I:3O. i Sunday school at 6 p. m. The first passage by wagon made for | several days to the Silver Lake Hotel l was made by Mir. Mike Sullivan, yester- day afternoon, who came pretty near be- | ing washed down stream. ELI. Wetmore furnishes us with the ! following weather report for to-day: Minimum temperature 72; Maximum 94; Mean S3: wind and clouds south; rain .U3 of an inch Prospects for more rain. T. D. Vanderlip has 400 headof cattle here waiting shipment to Muller x Lux, Bakersfield California. This makes something over a thousand head MT. Vanderlip has shipped from this point. The philharmonic band gave their us ual Thursday-nigh ght open air concert last evening. In addition to the usual congregation large contingent of de- layed passengers enjoyed the entrancing strains. The Republican County Central Com mittee meets tonight to apportion dele gates to the territorial convention and transact such other business as may properly come before that body. The hour is 1:30. The Tucson baseball club goes out to Fort Lowell to morrow, to play match game with the soldiers in the afternoon. The boys take dinner out there. They expect hard battle as the soldiers have strengthened their team.
 Mir. Wickham, the naturalist from tke Iowa state university, was busily engag ed in bug harvesting about our lamp post last evening. We have some raris avis in the way of mosquitOs and the professor is welcome to the whole tribe.
 4 CITIZEN reporter gathered a number of interviews from leading business men this afternoon, on the railroad question but owning to an extra large budget of telegraphic news, they are crowded out tlll Monday, They make interesting reading.
 A walk down Meyer street late at night discloses some interesting sights. Cots can be seen drawn out on the sidewalks, and men, women and children asleep all along the street, privacy being a thlng apparently uncared for.
 4 Chinamen with a wagon load of slops undertook to cross the Santa Cruz yesterday afternoon, when tile horse refused to go, and laid down. Tie Chinaman threw out his load to tn amazement of the bystanders, and aftei considerable trouble got the horse to 70
 Messrs. Henderson, Steinfeld and Hughes, the committee appointed to ll terview Supt Richards at Benson on the railroad proposition were unable to reach that person by telegraph owing to the wires being down, A letter however has been sent asking for an appointment be made.
 Mosquitos are much more plentiful here than in former years. A not un likely theory given in explanation Of It, is this: Then bats were plentiful and could be seen dotiug the sky in all di- rections; these, it is said, devoured the mcsouitos Now the bats have left, hence the swarms of the insect pest.
 There was something peculiar about fast nights storm. At 10 o'clock heavy clouds could be seen east of town. These soon drifted to the northwest and south west, and again met west of the city. The storm there was appalling. The lightning was one binding glare, and the roar rlvaled that of the Santa Cruz.
 Ed. Sueman, of Oakland, Cal, former ir night yardmaster here, had hl6 spine ba lly injured yesterday. He was letting some cars into side track, when he was caught by the door of a car on an other track, and badly wrenched. Ills injuries are severe and he is now para lyZed in the lower limbs, with little pros le t of recovery.
 The lecture at the M. E. Church last night on Japan, by Rev. Long, the re- turned missionary. was well attended and ~ery instructive. A picture brought from Japan F feet square and 35O pears old was exhibited, which was very interesting, as work of art. It repre- sented the death of Buddah, and was an expensive and elaborate affair. Rev. Long was detained here by the wash outs on the railroad.
 The storm of night before last was at its height here at l:l5 a. m. H. w. Kelly, fireman of engine 94, reports that it struck Casa Grande at 2:l5. AS Ga a Grande IS 65 miles distant, in an air line, the storm therefore travelled at the rate of about @ miles an hour. The pas sengers on the delayed train got out of the cars, fearing that they would be blown over.
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