Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-04-05
LOCAL NEWS.

ClIy buyers
 Billy Reid, of the opera house return ed from trip through the central DOT tion of the territory, where he accom- panied the Cora Van Tassel theatre company.
 MT. Jullus B. Grunert, who has been visiting in Tucson for some weeks past, left last night for Phenix. From there he will go to the Black Canon on plea sure trip.
 A couple of young boys were brought before Judge Meyer this morning, charged with breaking into car ana stealing oranges.
 Active preparations are being made for full Easter services, next Sunday both morning and evening, at the Con gregational church, in observance of the greatest of the church festivals.
 The ice cream saloon which has been started in Dr. Fenners's old office, pre- sents very neat appearance, but the spell of chilly weather which IS upon us, is little against it. .
 MT. Sabino Otero began to load 800 steers on the cars yesterday, but the storm prevented him from completing.
  will leave for Kansas and Missouri.
 The rain made a sad mess on Main street yesterday. People who claim to know, however, say that when the caliche gets well trampled down it will make a ,hard fine drive in any kind of weather.
 The Building and Loan Association of this place is continually gaining strength, and its prestige among our citizens is daily increasing. Last night the shares sold at higher premium than ever before.
 MT. Charles Holmes, well known in Tucson. where he has lived for several years. is about to embark in business for himself He will open dry goods house on Congress St, opposite the office of Manning and Oury.
 Everything seems to be about two weeks behind time this year. Mir. Wet more's records show that bees last year began to swarm on the 20th of March, whilst this year they did not begin un- til the 1st of April. The crops too, will be two weeks later this year than last.
 Hon. Morgan R. Wise is in Tucson on court matters. He has just returned from trip to Washington City, where he has been engaged in negotiating for the sale of some mining property in Northern Sonora, which he owns.
 A great lot of testimony is being ac- cumulated in the water case Of Super visor Geo. Atkinson against the Salero Land and Live Stock Company. The court has been busy with this case now for two days, and it will probably be several more before the matter Is set tied.
 George NJ Bowers, the superinten- dent of the Black Hawk mine, spent several days in Kingman this week, and reports the mine in good shape aud look ing as we'll as ever. A new strike has been made in one of the upper levels, but the extent is not known.
 Manager M. D. Howell has closed down the c. O. D. mine for the present. There is too much water for the present hoisting machinery to handle. When operations are again resumed the mine will be sunk 100 feet deeper. and a good deal of prospect work done.
 MT. John H. Paul. who has for three years past been Well, Fargo < Co.'S. e1- press agent at Nogales, has resigned his position with that company, to accept the office of chief deputy under the United States Marshals of this territory The many friends of Mr. Paul in this city will be glad to have hinI in their midst again.
 TLe fact that the public schools will have to close their doors this month, If financial aid is not reserved. Is worrying our public financials. Mr. Geo. W. Cheney, our new superintendent of public schools Is making an effort to ob 1 tain enough money from the territorial l school fund to make the schools of this | county to keep open two months longer. | The CITIZEN local inadvertently stated | yesterday, that Mir. Cole Saunders Supt l of the Mammoth mine had gore to the | Mohawk rance, etc. It was through | Nr. Saunders efforts the present oWBers | of the mine purchased the property, but | Captain Johnson is superintendent, and | it is under his able management that | the present developments in the mine | are being made.
 The following land patents were re- ceived by the land office this morning: Samuel B. Chase, Cook Co. Illinois: Il
 
 E. D. Futile, Solomonvi!le, A. T.; Seth | c. Jones, Graham O., 4. T. Lucinda F. Adams, Pima county; Frand l. Criswell, Herbert H. Logan, Wm. John White, John King, Oscar l.. Mahoney, Geo. W. Churchill. Hannah P Adams, David F. Wright, Virginia Mahoney, Samuel 4. Murphy, Robert Kern, all of Mariccpa County. Upon surrenGering the final cash certificate issued by this office, the patents will be forwarded to the parties owning them.
 Mir. Geo. Roskruge is still hard at work on his map of Pima county, and when he has completed it, it will be the most extensive and accurate map of this territory yet made, and will compare more than favorably with that of any other county in this territory. In view of the inaccuracies which occur in even the latest map of this territory, it l kruge suggests, for every CoIGtv, sur veyor to make map of hIs county and from these to compile accurate map of the territory.
 There will be $500 available to the schools of this county from the terri torial school fund. Out of this amount the public schools of Tucson will re- ceive nearly S400. Treasurer Heney and Collector Snyder are uniting efforts to collect enough funds from the present years tax to enable the schools of this city to continue their work through this month. Longer than that they have n. hopes. Mir. Snyder Is pressing the poll tax and personal property tax for this year which are now due. Aside from these, the collector will report to the treasurer the amount collected on last years delinquent taxes next Monday, as will also the sheriff with funds re- ceived from city licenses Mir. Heney estimates that with S3.o0O collected for school purposes, the schools will be able to keep open through this month. He feels certain that this amount will be collected by the end of this month, and