Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-06-14
LOCAL NEWS.

4 fine new store to be occupied by s. E3er as a dry goods establishment, on Aeyer street, is nearly completed.
 H. .. Howe, surveyor of Cochise county has come over from Tombstone, on business at the surveyor generals office.
 Rev. Rev. H. Hammond Cole will hold hls last service before vacation tO-mor- TOW night at the Congregational church.
 At last the old smelter IS running again. Every thing is in good shape, every man at his post, and 1t IS going full blast.
 About six carloads of stores from Fit. Lowell, are being packed at the depot. The soldiers will leave here Monday or Tuesday.
 Seven trains of soldiers for Low ell, are due here tomorrow. The saloons in the upper part of town will then have lively time of it.
 Juan Castro was bound over to-day by Judge Meyer to answer the charge of grand larceny, in stealing S5l from Fran cisco Alverez.
 Mr. Chas. J. Wimple returned this morning from Chicago where he has been staying for some time. His trip will likely result in 8 large mining sale.
 Look out for a boom in Tucson if affairs continue as it at present indicates. There was great activity and many changes in real estate to day-in the air.
 The band boys complain that they had to furnish their own lights at the Con cert on Court Plaza Thursday evening and that they wish the city would do so in the future.
 Mr. 4. Gerwein is in from Benson, and reports that meeting was held last night, to consider the question of water works for the town. Water works they will have, and before very long.
 4. J. Davidson is actively pushing work on the Santa Catalina Canal, and it is now evident that there is a large underground current, sufficient to irri- gate all the land covered by the canal.
 The genial George H. Kelley, editor of the Valley Bulletin, has taken a run over to the old Pueblo from Solomon vile. George is keeping the Bulletin ln the front rank of first class journals.
 The city council met last night in spe- cial meeting, and appointed Judge Lowell to defend the suit enjoining the city from removing the fence in front of W. E. Stevens residence, back to the line of the street.
 The railing on the old school building on upper Congress street is getting rather dilapidated. If it WAS only broken down at both ends, so that pedestrains could walk the the shade, nobody would be sorry.
 The s. F. R. R. are distributing a very we'll gotten UP book, advertising the va rious points on its line, Tucson coming in for its share. Several buildings of the town, and the old church are illus trated in 1t.
 Mir. E. l.. Wetmore was this morning showing his friends very natural speci- men of a stuffed roadrunner in his win dow. Upon close examination, however, the bird was seen to wink once in while, a queer performance for dead bird.
 Lieut.. Hardiman, who has been out after the hostile Apaches, returned here this morning, without having seen them. Lieut.. Neil is still after them. 1t is supposed that the Indians went by the way of the Rincon and Martinees Pass, and are now making for the reseI- yation.
 D. Hunorker, Esq., editor of the South western Stockman, of Wilcox, gave the ,,la q ing. He conducts one the best papers in the territory, and is wide awake in advancing the interests of his immediate section, as well as the whole South west"
 Assayer Wetmore this morning re- celved some gold from China to assay. A company is to be formed in the United States for the purpose of developing the mines, with a capital of s5,OO0,0O0. They know nothing of mining there, working 1t only in 8 crude way, idigging out the ore with axes.
 Bitter complaints are being made of the scarcity of water. The dam is run ming over, and the pipes are in first class conditions; all that is the matter is that at the lower end of town the water is being pumped out so fast for irrigating purposes, etc, that the pipes cannot be filled. Once they get filled, the trouble will be over.
 The agent at San Simon told man who came into Bowie last night that a man had been killed by Indians in Skel- eton Canyon, about forty miles south of San Simon, in the vicinity of Rucker Canyon, where Hardie was recently mur- dered. Indians were also seen on Cave Creek on Wednesday.
 The Baptist church was full last night, and filled, too, with an apprsciRtIve audience. The programme was good one, and was very well delivered. It is really difficult to say which was best, as all was very good, but perhaps special mention should be made made of Rev. Buchanan's rendition of Bones to Crack, and Blood to Drink. Hearty applause was freely given by the auid- ence.
 General Miles has instructed the com manding officers at Forts Lowell, Grant, Huachuca, Bowie and Bayard, to keep a sharp lookout for Indians. The Liberal Is informed that sentinel has been placed at the top of the flagstaff on the parade ground at each of the above forts. He is supplied with smoked glass and heliograpb and is instructed to report the minute he discovers an In dian. The country is still safe.-Lords burg Liberal.
 The Pioneers met last evening, Presi- dent Davis in the chair. w. c. Dunn was elected a member. 4 vote of thanks was rendered Pioneer Cooler for his services on Decoration day. Messrs. w. c. Davis, c. T. Etchells and ". 4. McOermott were appointed q com mittee to draft petition to the Presi- dent and Secretary of War 10 have the Apaches on the San Carlos Reservation dIsarmed and not granted passes to leave the reservation, and to report at an ad- iourned meeting to be held Monday evening June 9th.
 Chas. Crowley, a cowman, lost his life yesterday, four miles south of Dragoon