Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-01-25
NOVEL LAW POINT.

Pbanix Herald.
 NOVEL LAW POINT.
 A new and somewhat startling point was raised by Judge Hazeldine in his ar gument before the Supreme Court Mon day. The matter in issue was the Mo have tax proceedings of 1887 against the A. &. P. R. R., but the claim made in wolves a course of practice heretofore unquestioned. This is, that, under the organic act of our territory, supreme court judgments during vacationi or when the court is not regularly in ses- sion. Any act of the legislature pur- porting to authorize different proceed ure is,therefore, void as we'll as the iudg- ments entered hereunder. The decision of this point will be received with con siderable interest by the bar and litl- gants generally.
 The Oregon mine, owned by Chas. Pichenbaugh, on the Colorado river, D miles north of Ehrenburg, is being worked and keeps 5-stamp mill running on free gold ore that yields s25 per ton. The pay streak varies in width, measuT- ing in places three feet. The Red Cloud mine. 90 miles north of Yuma, at Nor tons landing, is working several men who are doing well. Col. Hubbard, of the Bonanza mine, owns it.
 Is the Meyer case this morning At Orney-General Churchill was excused from acting, and District attorney Cox, with Goodrich & Street as associates, was appointed to represent the territory. The case may be argued Saturday.
 John Pools examination was conclud- ed before Justice Sherman yesterday afternoon. The latter held him in 5000 bail to await the grand jury, on a charge of assaulting w. E. Collins with deadly weapon.
 The Italians of Phenix recently raised SIS and forwarded it to the S10,- 600 fund with which monument will be erected in New York to the memory of Christopher Columbus, and unveiled during the quadro-eentennial celebra- tioR in 1892.
 Marshal Blankenship has been ap- pointed a deputy sheriff of Marlcopa county.
 Yuma Times.
 ALMOST TRAGEDY.
 John Sevenoaks, of Aztec, arrived in Yuma last Monday, and appearing upon the streets in state of intoxication, dep uty sheriff Frank Burke was instructed by under sheriff Mayes to search him for deadly weapons under the law pass ed by the Fifteenth Legislature, prohib- iting the carrying of the same in towns and villages. MT. Sevenoaks at first +< drawing revolver and leveling it at the deputy, who at the same instant, cover ed MT. Sevenoaks with his own, and f. nally arrested him. Mir. Sevenoaks was brought before Justice Mabbett, charged with assault with the intent to commit murder, and released on giving s200 bail for his appearance in the court house yesterday at 10 o'clock. At the preliminary examination then held he was held over to await the action of the Grand Jury in Si00 bail MT, Sevenoaks states that he drew his weapon only in fun.
 ANOTHER CANAL. From Harry Neahr we learn that the construction of a new canal has been commenced, short distance above the beading of the farmers canal near Agua Caliente. Messrs. Dywer, Bin gham, Harry and Charles Neahr, and others, have formed an association, sim liar to that under which the Farmers proved so successful. The ditch is to be twenty one miles long and the first SIX miles is to be completed within three months Although the heading will be three mics east of the county line, the land to be irrigated is all in Yuma coun- ty. W. Hanselpacker, an unfortunate sufferer from pulmonary pythisis, was lying dead in his bed at the Colorado Lodging House, on the 18th instant, The deceased was native of Great Brit ain, aged about thirty-tive and had come to Yuma from Nevada but short ago At the Coroners inquest a verdict was rendered in accordance with the above.
 Tempe News. The roads are in very bad condition. Maricepa has post office. Peach trees are in bloom. R. H. Paul, of Tucson, Hhss been ap- pointed U. $. M arshall of Arizona. A better man than Mir. Paul could not | have been selected.i Itis reported that rich ledge of galena | has been discovered in the hills just op- | posite Tempe on the north side of the | river. A considerable amount of building | has been done in Mesa City this season. Something over s3O0,OOO of brick have been used already and the demand con- tinues.
 A project is under way to build an opera house Ia Mesa City in order to accommodate the increasing patronage of the local club. The building will be a substantial brick and stone structure 50I60 feet and will be a credit to the city as well as the promoters of the en- terprise.
 Phenix Herald.
 The following officers of Floral en- campment No. ,, l. O. O. F., were in stalled last evening by w. L. Whepley, S. c. L. D.; P. H. Coyle, c. P; Geo. A.