Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-20
LOCAL NEWS s.


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 Arizona Lodge No. 1, A. O. U. w
 meet tonight at 7:30.
 The dry grass on court plaza will be burned of ia few days.
 Ten calms,s for the Mammoth Min ing Co.'S mills, are at she station.
 Q-It will soon be time for the lately elected county officials to assume office,
 A dinner party was given by the E zekiels to a number of friends last evening.
 The Juch opera company will play in Phenix this week but Tucson gets the go-by.
 W. l.. Johnson's property on upper Congress street is undergoing extensive repairs.
 Five new men were added to the force at tue Southern Pacific shops this week.
 -Ihe Coed Templars meet tomorrow at 7:3O at tie residence of Prof. Bowman near BaptisJ Church.
 Large consignmsnts of cigars are be- ing received by the various dealers ln that article tnlS week.
 A carload of horses from San Pedro was loaded at the station yesterday for shipment to Los Angeles.
 The funeral of $. H. Johnson took place this morning at 9 o'clock. Rev. Gunpett conducted the services.
 The next theatrical troupe in Tue son will be Patti Rosa, the soubrette, who will appear January 10th in ''Per ."
 Fourteen carloads of freight were unloaded for Tucson yesterday. This is the highest number of cars unloaded here for year in one day.
 OThe wife and 10 year old son of G. W. Russell, of the Star force, have removed here from Cart haze, Mo. They will make Tucson their future home.
 There is DO better advertisement of Arizona as a winter resort than the CITIZEN daily weather reports. Mark them and send the papers east.
 District court will adjourn tomor- tow to enable JuGge Sloan to attend some important cases at Tombstone. Court will reopen here the first of next week.
 -ll6 case Ol U. D. N6. T w. al. set for December 22, has been post poned until February 9. All witnesses in the suit will therefore not appear un- til February 9.
 A l5 year old Mexican boy named Moreno died at his home on lower Pen ington sGreet of typhoid pneumonia yes terday morning. His funeral took place this afternoon at 5.
 -Mid-week service tonight at the Congregational church for Bibla study and prayer, beginning at 70 o'clock. Subject, the ninth chapter of John. The public cordially invited to attend.
 The Postoffice force are very busy in the mailing department. Postmaster Corbett recommends the registering of Christmas packages as in the rush of the season the liability of loss is in creased.
 Henry Mcguire, one of Uncle Sam's | boys was pulled last night by Marshal | Roche for fast riding in the street. He | was drunk at the time and narrowly | missed running over little girl. Judge | Meyer fined him Sl5.
 The Mexican who stole some jewell | " at Crittenden, mention of which was l made Tn last nights CITIZEN, was | brought up for sentence before Judge | Meyer this morning. He will be a | "trusty" around the county jail for the l next four months.
 -C. F. Hoff contemplates putting ID | a telephone exchange in Tucson in the | very near future. He expects to charge | 8 per north rent to business firms, and | S4.50 per month to private dwellings. | The Bell system wiil be used. The funeral of Strachem Jones, of l Toronto, Ontario, who dIed Sunday | morning at his boarding place on Ott | street facing Court plaza, took place this | morning at ten o'clock from the Episco- | pal church. Rev. l.. D. Mansfield con- | ducting tie services. The officers and teachers of the | Copgreffational Sunday School are busy | Arranging for the Christmas concert to take place next Sunday evening, and | for the annual Christmas festival next | week, when the sc 1ool as usual may eX pect grand good time.
 It is the intention of the militia ot the territory to organize in a regiment of three bsttalions after the meeting of the next legislature. The battalisns will | have headquarters at PheniA, Prescott | and Tucson. Tucson battalion wilt comprise the two home companies and that of Tombstone.
 A party from out of town made a complaint to Judge Meyer yesterday that while he was walking down Maiden Lane one ef the colored denizens there drew him within her place by force and robbed him of his money, which was in 8 handkerchief, and then put him out. The angel, whose name IS Mallnda, was fined the costs and let go.
 M annual Brichta was up before Judge Meyer on a complaint brought by Geo. Secocan of assault upon him in his saloon Sunday night. Brichta demand ed,a jury trialiwhich was given hlm. They decided that he was guilty as charged, and Judge Meyer fined him the cost, about S35. Brichta would have saved about S20 had he been content with a trial before Justice.
 Work is progressing rapidly at the territorial university in placing the 15 horse power boiler for pumping pur- poses, aad will completed by early next week. The pumping capacity will then be 5000 gallons per hour instead or lSOO, as at present. which will enable the well drillers 10 go deeper. which they cannot now do on account of the great quantity of water.
 ". II Lucas returned this morning from a business trip through the San Pedro valley and Mammoth. He reports all to be running in full blast at Nam moth; the 10 stamps at the Mammoth mill are working to their fullest capaci- fy. Along the San Pedro farmers are blowing and sowing wheat and barley. The weather of nights was very cold, being quite contrast to that of Tucson. The case of Thos. Hughes arrested