Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-08-02
LOCAL NEWS.

R.B Casey, Esq. of Clifton, is in th'
 city.
 Hon. Oakes Murphy, Secretary of Ari
 zona, is in the city, stopping at the Cos
 mopolitan.
 Messrs T. B. Collin, F. O. Mckinney
 and D. E. Huffman, of Mammoth, ars
 in the city.
 Henry Christenot, who had his foot
 injured by the switch engine week ago
 is able to be around on crutches.
 A little battle at the depot between 8 couple Mexicans was hugely enjoyed by the spectators this afternoon.
 Col. NJ. s. Egan, one of the foremost Republicans of Graham county, and 8 prominent attorney of Clifton, is in the city.
 Mrs. Judge Meyer is the champion gardener of southern Arizona. She has a watermelon that IS 27 inches long and 2S inches in diameter.
 MT. s. w. Royce, superintendent of the Yellow Jacket mine, has received a lot of concentrating machinery, which will soon be running
 Nearly all of the booths for the coming
 Fiesta have been rented by the park management, and extsntivs preparations are being made for the event.
 The woman who was up before Judge Meyer yesterday afternoon for stealing s55 was let go, as the complainant could not say that he had not given her the money.
 MT. E. w. Haskin, of the Atlas Min ing O., son of J. w. Haskin of the Red Rock Copper O., came in from Chicago this morning. Mir. Haskin leaves for Red Rock tomorrow morning.
 For tearing down mining notices in the Sisrritas few days ago, the fellow Nendez, who was brought in by Deputy Sheriff Moore yesterday was given 20 days in jail by Judge Scott this morn ing.
 For hourishing huge butcher knife too freely, and threatening to cut the buttons of another fellow with it last night, in Bario Libre, hard case by the name of Ezeto Conalo was given 90 days in jail to day by Judge Meyer, which will carry him over the Fiesta. He is an old jailbird, and has been in his present donicile several times before.
 R. H. Palmer, formerly clerk in the Master Mechanics office of the $. r. Co. at this place, and for the past five years in the Master Mechanics office in Sacra- mento, died of pneumonia at Sacramen to on the 25th inst,, after an illness of only four days, He was a brother in law of H. D. Underwood of this city, and was we'll known here.
 Constable Perrin brought in a man named Bernardo Dias, from near Sabi- no Canon last night, accused of killing somebody else's cattle. He was brought before Judge Scott this afternoon, and proved that he had found the steer m question already deaC, and had merely skinned 1t. He was discharged from custody.
 During the past week, according to the weather report sent from Fort Low ell to-day, the average maximum of heat has been over 103. There is only one thing that makes such heat bearable, and which Arizona can be thankful for, as it is indeed coming to be, and that is the cooling Vichy at pr. Martins foun- tain.
 A glance at every sign in town that hangs over the sidewalks and within | reach, discloses this fact: There are finger prints on them. Whether it is to | be attributed to an eXuberance of feel | ings or the part of pedestrians, or to | mere human perversity, the practice is | an annoying one for the owners of the | signs, and profitable one for the | painters.
 Mr. Brewster Cameron and family left | for California this morning. Mrs. Cam | eron goes to Oakland where she intends | residing in the future. for the education | of the children. Mr. Cameron accom- panied them as far as Yuma. The ab | sence of Mrs. Cameron will make gap in Tucson's society circles that will not | soon be filled, and the CITIZEN wishes her and the little folks all happiness in their new home.
 Col. Martineau left this morning on surveying trip to a few miles beyond Fit. Lowell, to survey the course of ;. projected canal there which if found practicable will when finished, be of i'm mense benefit to Tucson. 1t is intendec to make a water storage, taking the wa ters from the Rillito. To do SO the reser | feet, taking out the gravel on the sur face, to the water tight stratum below. This it is thought will save much water that would otherwise be lost. It is es- timated that this canal will irrigate from 5000 to 12OO0 acres, which means homes for about 800 families.
 What might have been more serious, occurred at the $. F. station yesterday afternoon. A single car of coal near the shops got away, coming down the main track at pretty good speed. A brake man boarded the car and set the brake so tight as to break the chain, making matters worse than before. Another brakeman tried to set a switch for the car to run of from, but the car passed him to soon. An engine was on the main track below the car and when the engineer saw it coming he pulled out at a lively speed and gradually let the:car overtake the engine and stopped it. Had it not been for the engine being there the car could have run to Mari copa.
 MT. A. Goldschmidt returned from a trip through the southern part of the territory this morning, and gives partic- ulars of the cloud burst at BIsbee, on Monday afternoon, which is not the one that flooded Fairbank. Several houses were swept away, and two men and a woman drowned. The body of one of the men has been recovered. Consider able damage was done the Copper Queen Mining O., among other things two feet of water coming in their office, running many valuable papers. Many people there are in need of assistance. The total loss is about Sl0,000. The town being situated as it is between two mountains, made the flood worse than it otherwise would have been.
 A pretty hard character named Josie Buretta was in the Police Court to-day for stealing S55 from man by the name of Sweeny, on Saturday night. The next morning on her way to get some of her clothes out of soak, she told one of the police force that she had lots of money now, that friend had gwen it to har Kryora mn fn rrOuo |