Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-09
LOCAL NEWS.
Governor Wolfey is in town.


 M. M. Derrig, Esq, of Mammoth is in
 the city.
 Deputy Marshal Neustater, left on the
 delayed train for Phoenix.
 Naomi lodge, Sisters of Re5ecca, meet
 to-night at 7:30 o'clock.
 The paths in court house lawn are be- ing given some needed mending.
 MT. H. Doyle, prominent mining
 man of Olive, is in the city purchasing supplies.
 A yoang wildcat has been on the mar
 ket for the last three days, changing owner several times a day.
 The old grand jury room adjoining
 Marshal Paul's office is being fitted up as a private office for the marshal, a door having been cut through.
 For carrying around chickens to sell at l o'clock this morning, man was picked up by officer Zimmerman. He
 was let go by Judge Meyer.
 District court will convene on Sept, 3. several parties having requested that 1t
 .u. et then, in order that that may take OEN AALuA papers AlIo ANSAoeCA"
 The flood has so far subsided that travel can be resumed. The stages left as usual this morning, and although much damage IS done, more general ben eft will be derived from the rains.
 There are at present 31 guests in P Pellon's hotel. Ten are awaiting the ac tion of the grand jury, two are held for examination, one for the action of the Supreme Court, and the balance for petty crimes.
 Some boys while looking for rubies in | Rillito creek near the railroad bridge. l yesterday afternoon, found nugget of | pure gold. Now Tucson wIll suddenly | develop as a gold mining camp, and the | old Pueblo will not know itself in year | from now.
 Four teams, three eight horse and one ten horse, and eight wagons left this | morning for Red Rock, for copper ore for the smelter there. This is the first | instalment on contract for year, taken | by NIT. B. H. Igo. The teams go out | one day and return the next.
 That tired feeling, so subtle and yet | so overpowering, is entirely overcome by l Hoods Sarsaparilla, which tones and | strengthens the system and gives good appetite. Be sure to get Hoods Sarsa- parilla. "100 Doses One Dollar" is true only of this peculiar medicine.
 A term in the jail here is no very great punishment to the average Mexi can. About half the time the prison CTS are out on the lawns, the pleasantest spot in town, lying on their backs -.n toying life, the work they do there, be- ing hardly enough for exercise.
 An attempt was made to get out to the hospital yesterday at 3 o'clock, Dr. Handy being desirous of seeing his pa tients. When they got to the bed of the stream the wagon started down stream. dumping out the occupants, and wreck ing the wagon. Ben, the driver, is go- ing to put a rudder on it.
 MT. Geo. E. Brown, L. S. Deputy Mar shal for the northern District of Ariz0 l ma is in the city, stopping of on his re turn home from Yuma, where he has been taking some prisoners. MT. Brown is an old Arizonian well-known and de servedly popular, and IS visiting his many friends here.
 This mOrnlng'about.1l Il, an Indian came down town, and told in half Spanish | half Indian, about four fellows trying tS kill another Indian in a store up town The officers on their way there, found | the Indian in question hiding behind fence peeping through at the store. Or investigation it proved to be nothing but little dispute about bow and ar rows.
 It was reported today that the cause of the unusual rise of the Santa Cruz. i was several large AERMOTOR wind mills playing to the gulf breeze" on the upper Santa Cruz. Chas. F. Hoff, the ! agent for this wonderful machine. was requested to have some shut of, anG l Obedient to the request at once dis , patched a special courier to the scene of trouble. a23t
 This morning at 1:3O a switchmar named Joseph Brown, met with an ac- cident at the <. F. Station He was coupling a caboose to the train, when his hand was caught between the draw heads, crushing his thumb and three fingers, so that it was necessary to am putate them, which Dr. Handy did this morning. Accidents always come hy d threes and this is the third one on the switch engine lately, SpoffOrd being the a first and ChristenOt the second. The unusually heavy rains, which U have visited the southern part of Ari zona during the last two days, have done considerable damage as well as vast amount of good. The N. M. & A. rail read between Benson and Nogales, is badly wrecked. A considerable DOT ion h of the road bed between Fairbank and Crittenden and near Contention has been I entirely swept away, and it is hardly probable that any trains will be run on .1 that road farther than Fairbank for week or ten days The telegraph wires aie badly down, and all communication n Vi ith Nogales has been suspended. Itis exrected that telegraphic communica- u tion will be resumed by Monday.
 About o'clock yesterday afternoon tc Mir. Chas Stevens, the milkman. had a close call. He was very anxious to reach | fl his ranch, flood or no flood, and started through the water. Beng warned by Il some Mexicans that he hadn't better try q it, he said, My name isn't Handy. and i'm a going" Dr. Handy had just turn ed back and go he did. He went along o until he came to where a bridge had ought to be but wasn't, and into the flood he went, over and over. q milk cans sailing down the torrent, the IT horse tangled up, and Mir. Stevens in danger of drowning, as he indeed would | sl had it not been for the Mexicans seeing l tf and rescueing him. The report was a. " round town that he was drowned. but he came around a short time after and n gave the surprising information that he h was not drowned at all. Hon. l. x. Town returned from a brief IL | he had at the request of Supt. Rich U ards of the Arizona and Sonora rail u road. accompanied a number of Sonora | ft merchants. These merchants were taken oi to Kansas City, Chicago and St Louis &E by the Topeka, Atchison and Santa Fe u railroad company, in a palace car, free of cost to themselYes This WAS done m