Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-02-28
LOCAL NEW s.

The Tombstone delegation in the
city on jury has left for home.
"A new steel roof is being put on the
postoffice, one of the results of the late
rain.
There is a small washout on the
railroad between Picacho and Casa
Granae.
VIM. Hart is in receipt of three
steam pumps and boiler from Chicago,
to be used for pumping water for lrrlga-
ton purposes at his ranch,
Il. NJ. Harris. the piano tuner who
was in Tucson last fall, and who is at
present Ia Globe will return to Tucson
about the middle of March.
Col. Christy, L. Fowler and Mrs. Ada
IRWIN returned on the late train to Pie
NIX. Col. Christy is one of the able men
of the territory and staunch republican.
The railroad is again open, the brok-
en- bridge being repaired last night about
Il o'clock. Five or SIX freIghts IN ad
dition to passenger trains were delayed
Arizona is to become a poultry
county and the business will be entered
In wholesale by Mr.. John Ittner OF
Oracle, who has just received 200 egg
incubator.
Another party of emigrants from
Meas City going overland to Deming.
" NJ. drove through today. They re-
port expected work from the new rail-
road there.
Owing to fall preparations not hav-
Jag been made for the observance of
Arbor Day at the public schools of the
city today it was decided to postpone 1t
ull Monday next.
The family of w. W. Dickinson in
tend moving tomorrow to a ranch in the
Aqua Caliente country. Mr.. Dickinson,
who is employed at the station, intends
remaining in Tucson.
For two days the Mammoth stage
has had to return on account of high
water in Rillito creek. The water had
gone down so as to allow the crossing TO
be made this morning.
OF. Rouse intends erecting two
brick residences on his lot west OF the
Lexington stable. One will be worth
about $1,000, the other about $500. He
will occupy one of them.
Six tramps, three of them colored
were jailed last night by policemen Stock
ing and johnson. They were brought
before Recorder Meyer this morning and
SET at cleaning the city lawn.
The first suit of U. S. VS.. f. W.
Smith, ct al, was settled yesterday with
out being brought to trial, the bonds,
men, J. II. Forton, III. G. Hooker and NJ
w. Stewart, paying the amount claimed.
$50.
Francisco Castro charged with illic-
il ,listillIng in the Observation-Disclosures
brought before Commissioner Hughes
for examination yesterday, and on mo-
ton of counsel, F. II. Freer, was dis
charged.
-Thos.. Steele of Wilcox is in the city
on Jury, and has received a sample of
ore from an old mine in Mexico, reopen
ed, in which he has = interest. The
sample shows up very rich, being 100
ounces in silver to the ton.
Mr.. Harry Gluckmann, the popular
h ad salesman of the New York Store is
in New York City laying in Spring goods.
The New York store has taken the room
Immediately east of the present quart
ers and are having it elegantly fitted up
for shoe room.
Information comes that in case the
proposed improvements to Tucson, the
sanitarium particularly, realize, other
improvements are to follow, among them
a three story brick block, with stores on
the first floor, offices On the second, and
a hall on the third.
The washout at the Rillito bridge
ten miles west of the city is more serious
than at first anticipated, and has caus-
ed unusual delay of trains. Two bents
of bridge are gone and the work of repair
ing it hos gone forward with all speed.
A transfer of passengers were made
yesterday at = o'clock and again today.
The city was visited by belated
passengers this morning, who took es-
pecial interest in a papago woman and
child, peddllng ollas. One of the visi-
tors offered the child a one cent piece,
which the child refused, the piece prob
ably being the first of that denomination
she had ever seen.
The Tucson smelter will begin work
Monday morning, coke having now ar
rived, upon which the work has been
waiting. The amount of ore is sufficient
to keep the smelter running an indefi-
mite time and no douot whatever is en-
tertained as to the financial success of
the business. Twenty men are to be
employed, 10 on the day shift and 10 on
the night shift. The coke comes from
Eagle Paso, Texas. The CITIZEN will
give information regarding The working
OF the smelter from time to time.
Mr.. r. j. Hartman, chief of accounts
division in the general land Office at
Washington, to whose zeal and efficiency
the success of the late trial against the
bondsmen of ex-Receiver Fred. w.
Smith much is due, left on the delayed
train for Fairview, Or, where he goes
to investigate the land Office in that
place. When interviewed regarding
the late trial he expressed himself as be-
ing satisfied with the verdict as to the
principle involved. Tt was, he said, the
first case in which the government had
endeavored to protect entrymen on
public lands against dishonest officials,
and will be precedent that will 60 far
towards putting an end to such class of
defalcations all over the country. Mr.
IL e. J. n